giants of the era

Chapter 62 Sunbird Corporation

Compared with software development, the cost of hardware development is huge. Therefore, in a short period of time, the game company Li Zetian founded is purely for game software.

Li Zetian worked for Atari for a period of time, and has been following the development of Atari since then.

In 1973, Atari Corporation developed the next-generation video game system and acquired the intelligent tank program that was still being designed by Qinglan Engineering, and it used to run on "Stella".And Stella is Atari's internal test machine, which belongs to the second generation of home game consoles under development!It specifically integrates an original television adapter (TIA) processing chip, random access memory (RAM) and input/output (I/O) chips.In order to save costs, standard CMOS and logic cache ICs are used to reduce the price to a more reasonable level.

Of course, only Li Zetian knew about these things, and those who didn't know were even worse.

In August 1976, when Stella was not ready for public testing, Fairchild Semiconductor invented the exclusive CPU data system and TV entertainment system.Since then, the market has been flooded with a large number of similar products.Atari knew it needed to release it as soon as possible, but it didn't have enough money to speed up the development. In 8, in order to ensure that Stella could be released as soon as possible, Nolan Bushnell sold the company to Warner Films for $1976 million.

As of the official launch in 1977, the development of Atari's second-generation home console cost a total of $1 million.After that, Atari quickly occupied the US and even the global market with this game console, and became the well-deserved overlord of the game industry! ! !

Li Zetian has sold Apple now and doesn't have so much money to develop home game consoles.

What he can do now is to develop Apple-ll games first, and then port them to other personal computers to earn some money and accumulate strength.

Of course, Li Zetian has a lot of ideas in his mind. If he were to lead a team to develop a home game console, the development amount would definitely be far less than US$1 million.

A week later, Li Zetian registered a subsidiary overseas in the name of Umbrella Company - Sun God Bird Company, referred to as Sun Bird Company.

The reason why it was named "Sun God Bird Company" was because Li Zetian once saw a piece of gold leaf from the Jinsha site of SCCD, that is, the "Sun God Bird" gold ornament.Li Zetian was very impressed with it, and used it as the company's LOGO, which is very beautiful!

The entire gold ornament is in the shape of a ring with complex hollow patterns, which are divided into inner and outer layers. The inner layer has twelve rotating tooth-like rays of light distributed equidistantly around it; the outer layer pattern surrounds the inner layer pattern, composed of Composed of four identical birds flying counterclockwise.The four birds are headed back and forth, flying in the same direction, which is opposite to the rotation direction of the inner vortex.Its composition analysis shows that its gold content is as high as 94.2%.The gold ornament may be an artifact used by the ancient Shu people for sacrifice.It is now stored in the Jinsha Site Museum in CD City, SC Province.

The registered capital of the company is US$25. Originally, Li Zetian planned to buy a house and a car for himself with this money, but now all of it is contributed to Sunbird Company!In the future, they may have to inject capital into it!

At present, the scale of the company is small, with only one person, and that is Li Zetian himself.

First game development project: Tetris.

No, it should be called "Chinese Tetris"! ! !
How can we continue to call it "Tetris" when it was developed by the Chinese?

Therefore, the name "Chinese Tetris" was so happily decided by Li Zetian!

"Chinese Tetris" is very easy to develop. It is generally a hand-made work for programming rookies, and the code is only more than 100 lines. Li Zetian wrote the program with three strokes.After finishing, he hurried to the patent office to apply for a patent!

After leaving the patent office, Li Zetian then went to a newspaper to place a job advertisement.

"

Recruiting 3 artists!
Recruit 10 game program development engineers!

"

Li Zetian is not good at art.

There are a lot of codes for large-scale games, and Li Zetian doesn't have so much time to write them by himself, so he assigns them to other people.

Li Zetian is responsible for the overall design and management of the game project.

There is no doubt that Li Zetian is going to develop a large-scale computer game from this recruiting posture! ! !
Li Zetian can handle small games such as "Chinese Tetris", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong", and "Super Breakout" by himself!

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Zetian alone covers half the sky in the gaming world! ! !

Since Sunbird Company is a start-up company with low salaries, employees from other companies will not jump in.

So Li Zetian could only recruit fresh graduates!

However, although they have just stepped out of school and are inferior to the old employees of other companies in terms of technology and experience, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and under the leadership of Li Zetian, they will all grow up rapidly!In addition, what Li Zetian values ​​most is that they are full of vigor and vigor, which is what game developers should have most!
After 10 days, Sunbird had a total of 14 employees, including Li Zetian.The company's office is located near Apple and Microsoft, which is convenient for Li Zetian to manage the three companies!

Before recruiting everyone into the company, Li Zetian stayed up late and worked overtime. He had already written the system framework and rules of "Chinese Tetris", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid", and applied for patent.Of course, the game is very simple, the picture is rough, and there is only the first level.

Li Zetian intends to let the artists polish or improve it, and let the game program development engineers develop the follow-up levels of the game!After these four games are completed, everyone's level will be improved, and the cooperation will be more tacit. At this time, we will make a big move and develop a large-scale role-playing game!
If large-scale games were developed from the beginning, Li Zetian was worried that they would not be able to do it, so he first let them practice with these four games.

Newcomers, they always need to be cultivated!

Of course, no boss of any company can provide these four super popular games for employees to practice. In today's world, there is no one else except Li Zetian! ! !
"Sunbird Company lacks everything, except good projects!!!"

"Working in Sunbird Company, you will become famous!!!"

"Today you can only be an ordinary programmer at Sunbird Company, but tomorrow you will be the project director of another company!!!"

Li Zetian said this to every employee who came in.

Of course, he does not encourage job hopping, and no one will want to change jobs after coming to Sunbird Company. The comfortable working environment, no pressure, but the salary is a little less, but the company has an equity incentive mechanism, so stay in the company and work hard. The better the efficiency of the company, the more you will earn.Li Zetian's brain is filled with countless classic games, which will bring huge wealth to Sunbird Company, and the person who wants to quit is S·B.Presumably they will understand in the future that they have a few catties and a few taels, just an ordinary code farmer, and the core figure of the company is Li Zetian.

Both Apple and Sunbird are industries under the name of Li Zetian, so there is no problem at all for the two companies to cooperate.

Li Zetian can predict that when Apple-ll is released, it will be even more shocking and popular than in the previous life, and the sales will increase sharply. Maybe the CEO of IBM will be shocked and sleepless nights!

At the same time, I am afraid that the boss of Atari can't sit still...

Think about it, the more advanced Apple-ll than the previous life, the more powerful Excel spreadsheet office software, and the four classic games provided by Sunbird Company, it makes no sense if Apple-ll is not popular! ! !
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