On December 20th, Nintendo began to release the "Dune 2" game in the world, and dealers around the country put out the ready-to-prepare haode game cartridges on the counter, and posted huge posters in the most conspicuous places, strongly recommending this "world's first real-time strategy game on the video game platform".

However, the next day, a court summons was issued, which was sent to West Wood in Las Vegas, asking them to stop selling them worldwide until the infringement issue was resolved.

Seeing that the plaintiffs were several military factories in Russia and Ukraine, Nishiki felt a chill in the vest, and immediately called Yamauchi urgently to suspend the sale of "Dune 2".

At that time, in the office of the president of Nintendo of Japan, Yamauchi Pu was also stunned when he looked at the original court summons in his hand, and Nintendo also became the second defendant and also received a copy.

The company organized two groups of people, the company's president Bright flew directly to Moscow, vice president Terry came to Tokyo to discuss with Yamauchi, and the company activated an emergency public relations team, as if facing a great enemy.

After listening to Terry's explanation after the meeting, Yamauchi knew that something big had happened, and he had a strong sense of crisis.

If you toss around it before Christmas, you won't know until after Christmas until you know what's going on, but then it's the Japanese New Year, and it's a few more days until mid-January.

The sales season that lasted nearly 1 month is gone, how can Nintendo not be aggrieved?

Terry was even more aggrieved, and a month before Christmas, the company promoted and advertised in various professional game magazines, and finally created enough suspense. Mass-produce game cartridges and distribute them around the world. The Deluxe Edition gift package has been carefully prepared, and a variety of game peripheral goods have been designed. Successfully whetted the appetite of the players.

After washing the body, spraying perfume, putting on erotic underwear, the ambiguous lights came on, the sultry music sounded, and after waiting for a few months, I was looking forward to thousands of players with their breasts half exposed, lying on the bed in a variety of styles, just waiting for Ximu to turn over and get on the horse. Then enjoy the thrill of the game.

Before I started, he was over.

Nintendo fans who came over with money and lined up to buy game cards were forced to remove Dune 2, which had been on the shelves for less than 24 hours......

I'll you Mahler!

"The court summons was issued in less than 24 hours......" Terry's words were full of grief and indignation: "It must have been done by Sega, they have been staring at us!" ”

Yamauchi Pu became alert: "What do you mean? ”

Terry suddenly realizes that he has said the wrong thing, and when he switched to the Nintendo camp, he only mentioned that the Sega store was a bully and deliberately made things difficult for Nishiki. And the thing about the authorization of weapons was not said.

Yamauchi Pu was completely unaware of the content of Nishiki's application for SGL1, and under Nishimu's deliberate concealment, Yamauchi Pu only thought that Yang Yun was preparing to do the same type of game by himself, so he deliberately made things difficult for Nishiki.

He didn't know that there was an infringement of the T-26 tank!

Although Nintendo after seeing the Dune game. The issue of weapon authorization was also taken into account, but President Bbright and Vice President Terry patted their chests and assured that the various tank models in "Dune 2" were not exactly the same as the real Shijie. After seeing that the enlarged model of the game is indeed different from the real tank, Nintendo is also relieved.

But here's the problem. How much performance is a 16-bit SFC? The graphics processing is sparse, and the enlarged model really differs from the real T-26. But once placed on the TV screen, the small pattern does not make any difference, which has become one of the reasons for the military factory to sue Ximu for infringement.

"What does Moscow say?" Yamauchi Pu has nothing to do here, he is in Japan, and he is the publisher of the game, Nishiki is the first defendant, and Nintendo is the second defendant who is implicated.

Terry was depressed: "Bright said that the military factories were tough and demanded that we pay $30 million in royalties. ”

"30 million!" Yamauchi Pu wailed in his heart, this is difficult for the strongman, their sales expectation is 1 million boxes, and the total sales price does not exceed 30 million US dollars, these weapon manufacturers are completely vampire locusts!

Yamauchi's brow furrowed after making a few calls.

Surprisingly, Sega was particularly strict, and other games were released and sold step by step, and nothing special was found, and Nintendo's hypothetical "Dune 2" game of the same genre did not appear.

Could it be that Yang Yun is really not optimistic about real-time strategy games?

But Wang Zhe, the president of Weishenme, would release cruel words and say provocative words such as "Nintendo and ready to accept the test of the market, there are countless companies that make real-time strategy games on Shijie"?

Nintendo's team of lawyers finally came up with a solution after discussion.

"Continue to negotiate with the Moscow side, and produce evidence, settle privately with them as soon as possible, and drop the charges. If you really can't do it, you can bargain with them and send them away with a few million dollars! Yamauchi Pu was very vigilant, he was sure that there must be something greasy in this, but Sega didn't make a move, and he couldn't see the real means clearly.

"The Christmas sale can't be missed, our multiple ticket jumps will displease players, and this year's Sega Carnival, there will definitely be something big!" Every year the Sega Carnival is the most difficult day for Nintendo, especially in the past few years, since Longteng joined the Sega camp, Yamauchi Pu has not had a happy New Year, he feels that Yang Yun is like his nemesis.

But Nintendo and West Wood are negligent, Russia is only Christmas on December 25th, their Orthodox Easter is in March and April every year, and the traditional Russian festival of Thanksgiving is also in February, these military factories do not have the term Christmas holiday, so they do not forgive, pestering Nintendo all day long, no day off, do not accept reconciliation.

But the most important thing of the year in Western countries is the Christmas holiday, and it is difficult to find someone even if Ximu Company wants to find a lawyer, coupled with the bloated and complicated legal procedures, the acceptance area spans half the world, and the entire company is tired and exhausted, and Christmas is ruined.

All shijie players are scolded, especially war game lovers, saying too much, saying less is not too much, especially in the North American market, as well as those players of the victorious countries of World War II, have long seen the promotional advertisements of "Dune 2" from various channels, and are full of great expectations for this game that is dressed in science fiction and is actually full of World War II content!

The West Wood Company is indeed like this, and the dunes are science fiction, but those tanks are all models of German and Soviet tanks from World War II.

They vaguely hinted to the players that this was a real-time strategy game, or a World War II game, and that you could play tank battles, and then they wrote a disclaimer on the release box of the game, hoping that the German and Soviet military factories would not sue them.

If you really start a lawsuit, open the source code, and look at the tank models, these military factories are very likely to lose.

But it is clear that the military factory under the command is trying to beat this time gap, deliberately sabotage the Christmas sales season, and deliberately disgust Nintendo and West Wood.

Ximu is lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot!

Angry military fans came to the door of Nintendo's sales office in droves and launched a huge denunciation, demanding that Nintendo sell "Dune 2" as scheduled and give players an explanation.

But knowing that this was a trap, no one knew whether any of these protesters were from Sega, whether there were unannounced journalists, or whether there were those fierce representatives of the plaintiffs who were collecting evidence.

So Nintendo doesn't dare to sell, they are law-abiding enterprises, they don't want to force sales against the wind after receiving a summons, they can't afford to gamble.

On December 28, the exhausted president of Bright spent a lot of money to befriend the representatives of the plaintiffs, and finally got the news, a representative of a military factory in St. Petersburg revealed the details: "It's a pity that our Russian 1C game company has been licensed, and you are not Russian!" ”

Bright almost fainted, what do you say? If there are local Russian companies that make World War II games, are European and American companies not allowed to make similar games?

But to whom is authorized the freedom of the military factory, Nishiki cannot blame, and has no right to blame.

When asked about the specific details of 1C Games, the representative refused to say anything, but after receiving the $2,000 bill, he still squeezed out a little dry goods: "I heard that their war games are all Soviet tanks, and there are no German things, of course our factory director will be more inclined to them!" ”

Fighting the urge to vomit blood, knowing that he couldn't ask anything more, Bright spread the news to Tokyo, and the blood was spat out by Terry.

Conspiracy, a conspiracy that has been withheld for more than half a year!

When the SGL1 license was applied for for the first time, it was indeed a problem of Nishimu's laziness, the Tiger tanks of Nazi Germany, and the T-26 of the Soviet Union, because they completely followed the "Dune" novel and were used in those three fictional families, and there was no sense of substitution at all if they were not written like this!

Then Sega was picky in every way, and Zuihou also said the reason for the infringement, forcing Nishiki to switch to Nintendo, and also released cruel words, looking for someone to make a similar game on Shijie!

Now I finally see a competitor, the Russian 1C game company, and the tanks are all Soviet models, which completely avoids the accusations of the German military factory, and by the way, give full play to the appeal of local enterprises and hit West Wood hard!

Terry looked up to the sky and sighed, wanting to cry without tears, he finally understood the meaning of Wang Zhe's words, this shijie is not the only company in Ximu that can make real-time strategy games......

Russian 1C game company, Yamauchi Pu muttered a few words and arranged to check below.

But the results of the investigation made Terry and Yamauchi Pu strangely angry, this is Longteng's own game department! (To be continued......)