giants of the era

Chapter 76 The Legend of Journey to the West
Li Zetian knew the purpose of Nolan Bushnell's coming to Sunbird, but he still asked knowingly: "Mr. Nolan Bushnell, may I ask why you came to Sunbird?"

Nolan Bushnell replied straight to the point: "I hope that the four games of Sunbird will be ported to the Home-Pong home console."

Li Zetian smiled lightly and did not speak, he knew that Nolan Bushnell would continue to talk.

"Currently, Sunbird's games can only run on Apple-ll personal computers. However, the price of Apple-ll is too expensive, causing many ordinary families to be discouraged. But Home-Pong is different, its price is only 299 US dollars, and the United States absolutely cannot Most families can afford it. And as of now, Home-Pong has sold 12.5 units, while Apple-ll's sales are only more than 1. If Sunbird company transplants the game to Home-Pong, it will definitely be able to Get much more sales than on the Apple-ll platform! And with the increase in Home-Pong sales, Sunbird's games will sell more!!!"

Nolan Bushnell looked at Li Zetian with a smile and confidence, "Chronos, this is a win-win situation for our two companies! What do you think?"

Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, it sounds very tempting! But..."

Upon hearing "but", Nolan Bushnell couldn't help frowning.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan Bushnell, Sunbird has signed an exclusive game supply contract with Apple, so it can't cooperate with Atari!" Li Zetian said with a regretful look. You are talking nonsense with your eyes open!

There are no limits to Sunbird's games!

But Nolan Bushnell didn't know, and when he heard this, he also showed a regretful expression.

"What a pity!!!" Nolan Bushnell shook his head, thinking that Li Zetian was still too-young, too-simple, how could he sign such a contract? ! !
Li Zetian thought, if you don't suppress Atari, how can you buy it in the future?
"Chronos, does Sunbird have any other games in development? Maybe you should consider porting it to Atari's home console!"

Li Zetian shook his head and said, "Not yet. We believe that "Chinese Tetris", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" still have potential to be tapped, so we plan to improve and perfect them."

"Okay, then I'll take my leave and I won't bother you!" Nolan Bushnell stood up from his chair and said.

Li Zetian smiled and watched him leave.

Subsequently, Li Zetian called the employees of Sunbird Company to hold a meeting.

"Sunbird's four games have achieved great success. Next, we will pursue the victory!!!"

Li Zetian paused, and said, "First of all, these four games need to develop sequels!"

One of the tricks to cheat money in the game industry, develop a sequel! ! !
"Secondly, we will also make a large-scale role-playing game-"Journey to the West"!"

"Mr.li, is this "Legend of Journey to the West" related to "Journey to the West?" A Chinese employee asked.

Li Zetian smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, it does have something to do with it. "Journey to the West" is based on "Journey to the West". In the far east, there is an ancient country called "Huaxia", where people live happily and peacefully. However, suddenly one day, the gate of time and space opened, and the demons invaded. In order to save Huaxia, the warriors of Huaxia followed the guidance of the prophet all the way to the west, overcame thorns and thorns, improved their fighting skills, and finally came to the remote holy land to take out the sword of killing demons. !"

"There will be various enemies along the way, and players can take any three of them as their combat partners! "Journey to the West" is Tang Sanzang leading three apprentices to fight monsters to learn from the scriptures, and "Legend of Journey to the West" In the game, players can arbitrarily choose three enemies as their combat partners on the road, which makes the gameplay more colorful. These enemies can be knights, priests, wizards, magicians, or some monsters, etc. identities, and at least two hundred characters. Of course, due to the limited storage capacity of the game cartridge, it is necessary to write a special algorithm and use modular random synthesis to make game characters, that is, each character can be composed of one by one. These small modules include eyes, hair, ears, mouth, clothes, shoes, colors, weapons, skills, etc. Therefore, the game cassette does not need to save the data of each character, only the module library is enough. It saves a lot of storage space. Similarly, the map can also use the same method to save storage space. With the storage space freed, we can make each module into high-definition pixels, making the game screen more beautiful!"

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, they never thought they could develop games like this! ! !
Immediately, everyone looked at Li Zetian full of admiration and admiration!
Li Zetian then continued: "When the game is running, the character and the map will be generated according to a special algorithm. If the player does not subdue the character, the data of the character will be deleted after the battle! When entering the next map, the previous map will be automatically deleted Lose!"

"As for the battle mode of the game? Then adopt a relatively simple turn-based system! As for what is a turn-based system? In short, that is, after one side attacks, it is the other's turn to attack, and the cycle continues until the battle is over!"

After listening to Li Zetian's words, everyone was shocked, as if a master in the game world was giving them a lecture.

If the game is developed according to Li Zetian's intention, this game must be an extremely magnificent production! ! !
Before everyone recovered, Li Zetian stretched out three fingers and said calmly: "Three years, I will give you three years to complete this game! Artwork, storyline design, code writing, etc., it must take three years. Enough! Guangguang, you are of Chinese origin and know a lot about Journey to the West, so I will leave this game to you!!!" At the end, Li Zetian looked at a 3-year-old Chinese youth.

"Yes, I promise to complete the task!" Wu Guangguang didn't expect that he would be entrusted with an important task, and he was so excited that he nodded quickly in response.

Li Zetian nodded, then glanced at everyone, and said: "Finally, I want to tell everyone that the company will further expand and recruit some hardware engineers. Soon, Sunbird will enter the arcade and home machine markets!"

clap clap clap!
When everyone heard the words, they applauded one after another.

The better the company develops, the group of people who are the company's elders will naturally make huge profits, because they all own part of the options.

Li Zetian said: "Okay, the meeting is over!!!"

The four games "Chinese Tetris", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Brick Breaker" have made Sunbird a lot of money, but there is indeed Nolan, the boss of Atari Corporation. According to Bushnell, the Apple-ll platform is too small, and Sunbird can actually make more money.

Therefore, after Sunbird earned its first capital on the Apple-ll platform, it immediately decided to start a hardware project.

Home game consoles are a bit difficult to develop. Atari spent 2600 million US dollars to develop the second-generation home game console [-]. Sunbird has not yet spent so much money on the development of home game consoles.

Therefore, arcade is a good choice.

Atari started from the development of arcades!

In addition, Li Zetian has a secret weapon! ! !

"I'm sorry, Nintendo, my brother's secret weapon is plagiarized from you again..."

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