45. Two new games

The pressure on Warner on Atari was so great that they had to find a way to turn things around.

Especially now that Warner's stock price has plummeted, it is entirely because of Atari, and the key is that it is still falling and there is no end in sight.

If Atari has been unable to reverse the situation, no one knows how far Warner's stock price can fall, and it is reasonable for Warner to be anxious.

Historically, Warner's stock price plummeted from $60 to $20 because of this incident.

Now Warner's stock price has reached the $40 mark, and there is still a drop of $20.

In such a situation, it is only natural that Atari is eyeing the only popular game on the market now.

And because of the absolute advantage in size, Atari did not put Tsingshan Company in its eyes.

After Ray Caesar's side was settled, Atari's top brass began to discuss this as well.

"With the brand effect of our Atari sales channel, this game should be able to sell better in our hands." Someone is confident.

"Yes, we still have overseas channels, and this game is a waste in their hands."

"So how much should we pay? Buy it? I'm worried that there will be less and there will be no reluctance to sell. ”

"As far as I know, the sales of Super Mario Bros. are almost three million copies now, and they are about to exceed four million units, which is a low price, which is really not easy to talk about."

Ray Kaiser thought for a moment and said, "Now their sales must have dropped sharply, our bottom line is 50 million US dollars, and I believe they will not refuse this price." ”

Now that time is tight, they are in a hurry to make some results, and there is no time to waste.

The price of 50 million dollars, in their opinion, is already full of sincerity.

To be honest, if an ordinary company made such a popular game, when it had already made so much money, Atari might really sell it at this price.

With 50 million US dollars, coupled with the previous profits, Li Hua is about to touch the threshold of a billionaire.

To be honest, at this time, most of the people in the conference room showed envious and jealous eyes.

A lucky boy who made so much money so quickly must have made them very jealous.

You know, apart from Ray Kaisa, basically no one has reached the level of a billionaire.

Ray Kaiser is also worth this because of such outstanding results, otherwise he would not have it.

How is it possible to say that you are not jealous?

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Li Hua didn't know that Atari had already started the idea of playing his own game, and he was now concentrating on arranging new game development.

In fact, Li Hua is also hesitating which game to develop the best, there are too many classic games in his mind.

For example, the most classic game "Contra" is a very good choice.

"Contra" and "Super Mario Bros. are arguably two of the most classic games", and they are hits in any country.

Although "Contra" needs to spend a lot of money to buy the copyright of "Alien" because of copyright reasons, Li Hua can afford it now.

Just after thinking about it, Li Hua still abandoned this idea, mainly because he wanted to leave "Contra" for their own home game console to release together.

In this way, it is completely possible to let the game drive the sales of the console.

So Li Hua temporarily pressed the idea of developing "Contra".

In the end, Li Hua chose the two games "Bomberman" and "Adventure Island".

This time, Li Hua had capital, so he was not stingy, and set up two projects at once.

THESE TWO GAMES ARE BOTH GAMES DEVELOPED BY HUDSON, THE DEVELOPER OF THIS GAME.

It's all classic games too.

However, the interesting thing is that at the beginning, the game "Bomberman" did not sell well in the original book, and it can even be said that it encountered a lot of resistance.

The reason is that at this time, Yuben is still immersed in memories wrapped in nuclear warmth, and just such a small game stung their poor, fragile, and sensitive self-esteem.

However, the game sold well in other places, and sales in the United States were good.

Although this game only entered the US market in 1985, along with Nintendo's red and white consoles.

The other game is "Bomberman", which was only released in July of this year.

And Li Hua also checked it in the past two days, and the copyright has not been registered, so Li Hua is also relieved to develop boldly, and at the same time, the copyright or something has been registered.

As for MapleStory is also a classic among the classics, the game has been selling very well.

HOWEVER, THE GAME "MAPLESTORY" IS NOT A GAME DEVELOPED BY HUDSON HIMSELF, AND IT IS ALSO A PURCHASED COPYRIGHT.

This point is not difficult for Li Hua now, after all, he is not short of money now, and he will soon get these things done.

Through these two games, Li Hua is confident that the name of Tsingshan Company will be completely launched.

At the same time, it paves the way for the next home game console of your own company.

He gave Sandy the planning of the two games and asked him to hurry up and develop them.

"Do you have any comments after reading it?" Li Hua asked Sandy.

Sandy's eyes lit up and said, "No, boss, you're simply a genius in the game world, a real genius, I don't have anything to add, it's very perfect." ”

Now Sandy has a complete sense of belonging to the new company.

This sense of belonging is not a question of how much salary is given, but of conceptual recognition.

Even if Tsingshan does not have a real company culture now, judging from what Tsingshan is doing now, he already has a sense of identity.

Sandy isn't a very talented, creative game creator, but he loves games no less than anyone else.

Now that these two games are in front of him, his first feeling is that he is not in the wrong place.

I didn't jump into the wrong job, my choice was right!

This is a company that really wants to make games, not just to make money, like Atari.

"Since there is nothing I want to ask, let's start developing, and the other is the problem of manpower on the side of the planning department, which will be solved as soon as possible." Li Hua said.

Sandy immediately said: "There is really not enough manpower in the planning department right now, especially now that the two games are being developed together, but I believe that many people will be willing to join our company soon." ”

Li Hua said: "No matter what, our company is now rather lacking than indiscriminate, some people whose technical level is not up to par, we don't want it, you need to take care of it for me in this regard." ”

Now the game industry is so miserable, many people are unemployed, and now the planning department of Tsingshan Company, all of whom were from Atari before, came with Sandy, and the technical level is very high.

Otherwise, he would not have been left by Atari to this day, and he would have been driven away by Atari long ago without a little level.