Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 118 Combo Punch!
"What did you say?"

"problem occurs?"

"Oh Julis—don't you scare me—"

Ethan pursed his lips and looked at the executive director of his company with a look of fear.

It's nothing more than that he would do this, mainly because the actions of these people before have scared him.

Earlier, at the factory, the fired workers had already caused trouble, but my subordinates said that there was no problem. In this case, when they felt that there was a problem...

Isn't that the sky is falling?
Julis Noble, on the other hand, didn't mean to be joking. She pressed the office door directly and said to Ethan, "Boss! Come and take a look! Something really happened!"

The eager words made Ethan get up quickly, and followed the other party to the company's lounge. At this moment, the place was already full of people.Different from the usual naps in twos and threes, now they all turned their attention to the Sharp TV in the center of the rest room. At the same time, an advertisement was flashing on the black and white screen.

Since the ad was already on the air when Ethan came, he didn't see the previous synopsis, but it didn't matter, because the content shown now already allowed him to understand the whole picture of the matter.

"It's a great pleasure to be here to introduce our new products of Mirov..."

A young man in a suit and leather shoes held a boxy machine and said to the camera:
"The home game console we are about to launch in Mirov is called Mirov Apollo. The reason for this name is because this product is more powerful than the previous Odyssey..."

"The previous Odyssey was just the simplest circuit board home computer. A single machine can only carry up to eight electronic games. When switching games, players need to manually replace the game motherboard in the machine, and the process of playing is also very troublesome. Because the signal source and the TV cannot be automatically matched, many players need to manually find the signal source of Odyssey on the TV..."

"but……"

“All these inconveniences are a thing of the past!”

"Because the Apollo uses the Intel 8080, it can now be connected to TVs of all specifications!"

"When switching games, you can use the joystick to directly operate!"

"The most important thing is that this Apollo is equipped with a total of twelve video games!"

"Also, none of these twelve games is a simple ball game in the Odyssey machine!"

"In addition to the most classic video game "Ping Pong" that we are all familiar with, the Apollo game console also has the well-known space adventure game "Space Race"..."

"The popular maze game "Tanks"..."

"The shooting game "Gunfight" that can imitate western cowboys for revolver duels..."

"Submarine simulation game "Sea Wolf"..."

"The racing game "Wheels"..."

"And our newly developed car racing game..."Death Race"!"

As the young man narrated, the pictures on the TV kept flashing.

The trial screens of the games carried by Apollo are presented on the screen one after another.

First, fiddle with the ping-pong ball on the joystick;

Then there is the speed racing car that shakes the joystick;
Then it showed the maze battle under the double joystick;

Finally, the violent speeding car under the single joystick is presented!
When the dazzling practical effects appear...

The staff in the fate game suddenly exclaimed!
Because they have never seen the scene in front of them!

And that sudden call was more like a heavy hammer, which made Ethan's eyes stare and his head dizzy!
That's right!

Ethan was shocked!

Although he and Mi Luohua are enemies, and he is a traverser who has seen technological development, but at this moment, the new machine released by Mi Luohua still shocked him.

There is no other reason, that is the effect presented by Apollo, which can be described as cross-age!
Before the appearance of Apollo, the game consoles on the market were rough and simple.Not to mention that compared with the PS and XBox of later generations, people in this era just find it troublesome.

As for the reason, it is that the TV industry is developing too fast, resulting in inconsistent standards.

In 30, the FCC had established the standard for analog television, using interlaced scanning, 525 frames per second, and [-] lines per frame to form black and white images. This is the technology of RCA.

In [-], the FCC approved the standard for color television, using the NTSC format, which uses a combination of chrominance and luminance signals to transmit color images.

Although this is also RCA technology, it is also compatible with black and white TV signals in actual use, but it is very unfriendly for game consoles, because they have to manually set compatibility without CPU, and this kind of thing is for Ordinary people who don't understand signal science are already very difficult, but if they are a little stupid... many people actually don't understand it with an instruction manual.

When these troublesome problems appeared, it was normal that the original version of the Odyssey, that is, the circuit board game console, could not be sold, but now?
Under the demonstration of young people, this product of Apollo can play normally only by plugging in the cable!Turn on the power to see the game home page!Flick the joystick to choose the game!Press OK to switch at will!
Even if Ethan is a human being!

Even if Ethan and Mi Luohua have enmity!

He also has to applaud this product!

Because Apollo is doing really well with this product.

At the same time, he was also very puzzled——

Although he has always been clear that even if Mi Luohua was beaten up by himself, they will continue to work hard in the field of video games. They have purchased 10,000+ 8080s from Intel, and have continuously acquired some game production companies. That is the best proof.

But he never imagined, how could Mi Luohua's new machine come out so fast!
Ah no——

How can they come out so fast and so well?
If the Odyssey product is a primary school math problem that one plus one equals how many, then the Milova Apollo product is definitely an essay question that proves why one plus one equals two!

'What the hell is this special code? '

Ethan was stunned.

'If I remember correctly, Mi Luohua only bought the chips in July and August last year, right? '

'It's only been half a year, how did they come up with such a machine? '

Ethan couldn't figure it out.

'No, this machine is aimed at me, right? '

'A home machine is equipped with twelve games, five or six of which are original blockbuster arcade games. This looks like it wants to attract arcade players to buy it! '

Thinking of this, Ethan's pupils shrank suddenly.

'MFxxk! '

At this moment, he has already felt that Mi Luohua is violently punching him!

But in front of many employees, he did not show any panic in his heart.

After watching for a while with a smile, he said "pretentiously relaxed": "The machine did a good job."

"But the game is still far from Pac-Man."

"Mi Luohua has not yet realized that content is the key to the game industry."

"No matter how good the machine is, if the game is not fun, it is useless."

"More importantly, they brought a lot of arcade games to home consoles."

"Players have already played once, how can they spend money again because of them?"

When these words appeared, all the employees of the company who were watching the advertisement breathed a sigh of relief.

Yes.

After discovering that Mi Luohua's game console has an anti-sky appearance, the employees in the company are very nervous.

No way, who made the fate game better?
Once the year-end bonus is issued, it is half a year's salary for normal people. Where can I find this kind of company?
But even though Ethan showed complete calm in front of the employees, he still didn't hold back when he returned to the office, and shouted at Julis Noble:

"Hurry up, hurry up! Go and collect information about Mirova Apollo for me!"

"I want all the data on it! All the data!"

At the same time, he did not let Damio Dean go.Looking at the young man who was running around with him, he also shouted: "What are you still doing standing here? Help her!"

He knew that the guy wanted to make a game, but in the current situation, why not make a Der game!

The house is going to be stolen!
Perhaps it was because the product had been officially released, so it was quite easy to find news related to Mirowa Apollo. After a while, the two came back with a bunch of newspapers in their hands.

'...'

Although it is strange to read the enemy's information by reading the newspaper, but now Ethan can't stand it anymore, and he picks up the newspaper and flips it directly regardless of whether the news is right or wrong.

If it is said that TV advertisements use the shortest time to sell their products to the general public as much as possible, then newspaper publications use detailed narratives to introduce their own things to the public who are willing to read.

And under Ethan's reading, he found that Mirova Apollo is not as simple as it was advertised on TV.

Those twelve games are just selling points that the public can see.

There are many more in-depth content.

For example-

Although Mirov has integrated twelve electronic games in one product, in fact, this machine can play more video games because Mirov Apollo has a ROM tape interface.

As long as the user purchases Mirohua's external box, and then purchases Mirohua's game cartridges, more video games can be switched freely.

Although this function is very common in later generations, but now...

Mi Luohua used to sell in-flight games.

For example-

The shooting games mentioned by Mi Luohua are not simulated operations with joysticks like electronic arcade machines, but realize the free combination of light guns and screens.

If nothing else, it's a Nintendo patent.

What Ethan couldn't understand the most was that Mirova Apollo also had a disc interface.

In the words of media reports, the true vision of the company Mirov is to bring happiness to more people. Video games are just one of the means of entertainment, and home video is also a difficulty they want to overcome. For this reason, they We are actively communicating with Hollywood companies, striving to produce more disc content before the disc equipment goes on the market...

When this description appeared, Ethan only felt that his teeth hurt!

Now he didn't understand at all what Mi Luohua was doing!

'Can you play games and watch videos? '

'If you have peripherals, can you still receive disks? '

'Isn't this stupid XBox! '

That's right!

At this moment, he only felt that the guy who broke his head with him was not a consumer electronics company at all, but a giant!Because this new game console called Apollo is too special like XBox!
Or rather...

The difference between it and XBox, maybe there is no Internet?

At this moment, Ethan almost bald the hair on his forehead!
Because he couldn't understand, he just gave Mi Luohua two slaps, why they were able to become enlightened like Monkey King overnight, and rubbed out this kind of perverted product——

"This is too unscientific, isn't it?"

Ethan only felt that he had time-traveled again.

Because in his memory, this kind of thing shouldn't exist in the current world!
At the same time, he also has a sense of crisis.

If the home computer made by Mirov is still electronic waste like Odyssey, he, Ethan Jones, has ten thousand ways to make those rags die violently.

But now, when people seriously start making machines...

This kind of product is still not to be underestimated?
But unfortunately, the sense of crisis in Ethan's heart only existed for a few hours.

Because that afternoon, he was stunned by an even more explosive news.

"The latest news our reporter got is that Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, a former video game industry giant and a subsidiary of the Hollywood studio Warner Bros., publicly announced that Atari's home console products have been developed. Done, now in beta phase..."

"If all goes well, the product will be officially released at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago on April [-] this year, and will be officially sold on June [-] this year..."

"This product uses the Intel 8080 micro CPU as the core and is equipped with 2KB of built-in storage. It is estimated that it can carry up to nine games at the same time..."

"According to Nolan Bushnell, this unnamed product will be equipped with the most famous "Pong" in the history of video games, and the remaining eight games will be brand new products, including their elegant Dali completed the research and development last year, but due to the company's strategic planning, the arcade version of "Brickbreaker" was canceled..."

"In the words of Nolan Bushnell, he has deeply realized the harm of electronic arcade products to consumers. Although the price of 25 cents a time can allow countless people to try the beauty of video games, but the continuous Land coin, in fact, will bring huge economic pressure to people..."

"He said that in the early days of video game promotion, it was no problem to use electronic arcade machines to let people know about this product, but now, when people have accepted this form of entertainment, as a responsible player, A responsible entrepreneur must take the lead and bring more benefits to the people..."

"From today, Atari will officially withdraw from the electronic arcade market and focus on the research and development of home game consoles. He is eager to bring cheaper and more fun video games to fans who support Atari and people who love video games. And in an interview, he even claimed that Atari is not the kind of unscrupulous company that only cares about its own interests and abandons user experience..."

When Ethan finished listening to the ABC news broadcast, he almost flipped the table in front of him!
He is not a fool, of course he can clearly hear that Nolan Bushnell is scolding him!

What is the 25-cent electronic arcade opportunity that brings huge economic pressure to the people?
What does it mean that a responsible entrepreneur must bring more benefits to the people?
'I bother--'

'Didn't you run away because you couldn't beat me? '

Ethan was pissed off!
At the same time, he also felt that something was wrong.

If he remembered correctly, didn't Atari purchase several thousand MOS 6502s from Chuck Paddle last year?Didn't they just purchase ten Apple 1s from Apple?
How did it become Intel 8080 in a blink of an eye?
more importantly……

"When did they start developing home consoles?"

Although in Ethan's previous life, Atari did make a home console, but that was after Atari ruled the world, and in this time and space, Atari has been beaten by him for two years. Eight classics made a profit, but they also created a home console?
What the hell is this?

Ethan can't figure it out!
But there is one thing he can confirm.

That's Atari punching him too!

If this was not a premeditated production, how could Atari suddenly come up with home game console products?
If this is not a premeditated operation, how could Atari choose to launch its new console at this year's Summer Consumer Electronics Show?

"Fuck!"

"You guys are really acting for me, aren't you?"

The more Ethan thought about it, the more something went wrong!

Since his "Pac-Man" launched last year has swept across North America with overwhelming momentum, the North American video game market has been silent.

At that time, he thought that all those people were frightened by him.

Because many companies are frantically ordering MOS 6502 and APPLE 1.

This situation made Ethan think that these companies were engaged in an arms race.

In this way, when he heard about the acquisition of other game companies by Mirov and Atari at the bicentennial celebration, he only thought they were taking advantage of the fire.

And the orders they placed with Apple and Chuck Pedro later made Ethan realize this idea.

But now let's see...

What does it mean to be scared!
These two guys are obviously smart!

Know that before the matter is done, you can't expose it at will!
"Fuck! I was actually shown by two natives?"

Thinking of this, Ethan became even angrier.

Not for anything else, just feel a little ashamed.

"It's a good thing no one knows about these things." He murmured to himself.

At the same time, he was also thinking about how to get the place back.

　night is gone

　　
　
(End of this chapter)