Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 139 False alarm?trap?
'COLOR TV GAME 6? '

'What is this special thing? '

Ethan Jones frowned, his bright eyes filled with endless surprise.

Because he couldn't search his brain for past life memories related to this machine!
In his impression, isn't the first-generation game console released by Nintendo the red and white machine?
And when did that happen?
After the Atari crash, the mid-80s, right?
They used "Mario Brothers" as the escort masterpiece, and they beat all the game manufacturers in this book as soon as they came out!Then, they swept the entire world with a destructive force!

Because Nintendo was too strong at that time, it was the first company in the game industry to step on other game manufacturers, so as a game player, Ethan Jones knew this history by heart, but now...Nintendo Before the Famicom came out, there were other host products?
He doesn't seem to have heard of this thing!
Was this thing blown out by his butterfly wings?It still exists in history itself!
Ethan Jones was a little confused, and now he really couldn't tell the situation clearly.

And when he forcibly suppressed the surprise and anxiety in his heart, picked up the newspaper and cleaned the content on it, the black and gray report made his eyelids jump even more!
Because the report says so——

[When Destiny Games' "Star Wars" detonated the American game market and attracted countless people to stop and play wildly in the streets and alleys, the editor of this newspaper also became curious about the historical achievements of the game producer Ethan Jones, because in In our memory, every time Ethan Jones launches a game, it will detonate the entire North American continent. His creativity and imagination make us amazed...]

[And when we were collecting data, planning and summarizing, trying to obtain Ethan Jones' real achievements since his debut, we found that the two games he launched before "Star Wars" have been successfully sold overseas, and in the East's book Sprout.And in order to ensure the completeness of the data, we specially contacted the media of the book, and then we learned an amazing news...]

[Two months ago, "Snake" was the best-selling game of this book, ruling the game market of this book like a giant, and the little green snake can be seen on the streets of almost all cities, but since the beginning of last month, That is, since June 6st, its limelight has been completely overwhelmed by the new products launched by Nintendo, COLOR TV GAME 15 and COLOR TV GAME [-]...]

[Because the names of these two products are too straightforward, we will not introduce what they are, and the numbers after the names represent the number of games that are equipped with the current machine...]

[Because these two products are currently only on sale in this book, we did not get their prototypes before the article was published, but according to the media of this book, these two products were sold out as soon as they were launched. Both performance and game content have been widely praised...]

[And the price that is most popular among book users is actually their price. Among them, COLOR TV GAME 6 with six games is priced at 15 yen, while COLOR TV GAME [-] with [-] games is priced at [-] yen. It's [-] yen...]

[Only talking about these two figures, many people may not understand how cheap they are, so at the same time we want to tell everyone that the per capita annual income of this book was 150 million yen last year, and they bought a COLOR TV GAME 15 pieces It needs to spend one percent of the annual income, and as it should be, their current sales may break through [-] within a month, right? 】

[However, even if they sell well, we are not worried that Nintendo will enter our country like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, because we have Ethan Jones and the game of destiny. When "Star Wars" came to the book, I I think everyone there will surrender to it. 】

Although the entire press release is written from the perspective of admiring the game of destiny, and although a lot of praise words are used to praise Ethan Jones throughout the press release, when "it's sold out when it goes public", "sales are early." Breaking a hundred thousand' words appeared in front of Ethan, he still felt that there was a heavy hammer in the void, and it hit him hard on the back of the head!
It is true that the sales of [-] game consoles is not enough for future generations, because the magic machines on the sales rankings are all sold by [-] million, but the current year is [-]!
Before the advent of the Internet era, information dissemination still takes a certain amount of time, and when game delivery cannot be separated from the disk carrier, a home console sold [-] units?
This Nima can already be regarded as detonating the market!
"What's the situation?"

"Who can tell me what's going on here?"

Ten minutes later, in the meeting room of the game of fate.

Ethan Jones waved the newspaper in his hand and asked angrily at the company's chief financial officer: "Alan Macy! Isn't Nintendo's report sent monthly, quarterly, and yearly?"

"They have already used MOS 6502 chips on such a large scale, why don't we know! Did you not report it to me, or did they not reflect it on the report at all?"

"what?!!!"

Ethan Jones roars in anger!

After a pause for a few seconds, he continued: "I know this is my private business! But I also paid you a separate salary for the agency of this part of the business, right?"

"After such a big abnormality appeared, didn't you guys remind me?"

Ethan Jones was so angry that he could barely speak.

So far, Ethan Jones and Nintendo have three cooperations in two aspects, namely the agency of "Snake" and "Pac-Man" in terms of content, and the production of MOS 6502 in terms of hardware.

Among them, the agency of "Snake" belongs to the cooperation between Ethan Jones and Nintendo, because when the contract was signed, "Snake" did not register the copyright, but applied for a legal patent in the form of a temporary patent. For protection, the applicants at the time were two independent individuals, Ethan Jones and Evelyn Johnson, so the income in this area belonged to their personal income and did not need to go to the company's account.

Later, when Professor Barbara Babcock told them that Disney had been a big success and that registering the copyright in the name of the company would give them better legal protection, Ethan Jones asked Julis Noble to use the company's Registered the copyright in the name of "Snake".

But even if the owner of the rights has changed, because of the chronological order, the nature of the previously signed contract will not change. Not to mention, the company is their own, so "Snake" in the arcade of this book Business income still belongs to the personal income of Ethan Jones and Evelyn Johnson, and the accounts in this area are actually not easy for the company to manage.

But because Ethan Jones thinks it is troublesome to hire an accountant again, and the current copyright of "Snake" is in the game of fate, letting an independent accountant manage his personal income will inevitably require multiple docking and communication with the company. How do you think about this process? It's all troublesome.Therefore, after learning that California's employment regulations do not prohibit the company's finances from acting for the boss in other businesses, he continued to hand over these matters to Alan Massey, and offered him another salary separately. After that, MOS 6502, that is the same.

In Ethan Jones' view, this kind of grasping process allows him to understand everything effectively, without having to keep summarizing reports from various parties because of fragmented information, and it is precisely because under his operation, information is It has already been summarized at a high level, so when he found out that Nintendo had released a home console, his instinctive reaction was to pursue responsibility and ask Alan Macy how he read the report.

But when the angry questioning sound appeared, Alan Macy was very aggrieved.

"Boss, this matter has nothing to do with me!"

"The agency contracts of "Pac-Man" and MOS 6502 were both signed in August last year!"

"And in the report I got for the past ten months, they have not been formally produced at all! As for the reason...you told me that they said that it would take time to build the factory, and they knew that "Pac-Man The launch of "Man" will definitely affect the income of "Snake", so I decided to officially launch the arcade version of this game after August this year..."

Alan Massey spread his hands.

Although his father had worked for Thomas Johnson, Ethan's uncle and Evelyn's father, for many years, it didn't mean that he was willing to take this inexplicable scapegoat.

And his words also stunned Ethan for a moment.

Then he slapped his forehead and sat down.

Yup!

When discussing cooperation last year, Hiroshi Yamauchi did tell him that he wanted to 'squeeze out' the full value of the game "Snake", and he would not launch "Pac-Man" when "Snake" was popular in the book For arcade machines, he will launch a new game after the daily sales of "Snake" have declined.

And this time should be a year.

The specific node is August 1977.

More importantly, the production of notebooks on the CPU does not have its own advantages. The reason why MOS can lower the production cost of the chip is because they use the new machine developed by PerkinElmer instead of the old Kodak. The equipment to project the circuit diagram onto the wafer body is easy to source in America, but if you want to ship it to the book, you have to go through a series of approvals. They Nintendo and MOS can handle it all, but it will take time, and wait It will take at least half a year for those machines to be shipped to the notebook, so the specific production should also start this year.

At first, when he heard about these arrangements, Ethan didn't have any objections.

Because Hiroshi Yamauchi patted his chest and told him at that time that even if the "Pac-Man" arcade machine was not sold, when they settled last year's half-year income this year, they would give him a pre-order based on the shipment of [-] units. A sales commission to show their great sincerity from Nintendo.

But now...

Sincerity is gone?
Nintendo created its own home console behind his back?
But it doesn't make sense!
How did Nintendo come up with COLOR TV GAME 6502 and COLOR TV GAME 6 when they couldn't get MOS 15?
Ethan Jones couldn't figure it out.

He felt that even if Hiroshi Yamauchi had a bad mind, it would be impossible to purchase other people's chip production home computers while obtaining the chip production rights, right?

"Sorry, Aaron, I was so angry."

Thinking of this, Ethan Jones immediately apologized to Alan Macy.

"Oh boss...it's okay...I'm actually surprised too..." Alan Macy shook his head and waved his hands, and said, "It's too weird for Nintendo and the others to appear on this machine."

Just like Alan Macy said, at this moment, Ethan Jones only thinks that those people in Nintendo are like ghosts. Why did they launch two home consoles inexplicably?
Since the two mainframes are currently only sold in notebooks, North America does not have their products at all, so now almost no one knows their real situation, so Ethan Jones asked Julis Noble to contact the newspaper that published the news immediately, Want to get more information.

Soon, the editor of the "San Francisco Daily" was invited by her to the game of fate.

But unfortunately, their information did not satisfy Ethan——

"Mr. Jones, this special report we made is just to introduce how powerful you are to the public. Our original intention was not to investigate what game products appeared in this book, and what does it matter to us what game products appear in this book? No matter how well those machines sell in the book, it is impossible for them to cross the ocean and come to our market, because we have you here to support us! Therefore, we don’t know what Nintendo’s machines are like.”

"We only know the price of their machines and how many units they sold. As for the others? That is, the number at the end of the machine represents the number of games installed in the machine..."

Hearing these words, Ethan Jones was speechless.

As a media, you started reporting without knowing the specifics of the matter?

Where is your professionalism?

But Ethan Jones also knows that now is not the time to vent his anger.He smiled and nodded at the other party to express his gratitude, and then asked Julis Noble to give him some transportation expenses.

After sending the other party away, Ethan Jones scratched his head again.

Because he found that the whole thing seems to have entered a dead end.

He wants to know the information from the book, but he has no channels.

'What should I do? '

'Could it be possible for me to make a trip by myself? '

'Go and buy these two machines back? '

The thought popped into Ethan Jones' mind.

Then, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Although this idea is unreliable, because he doesn't understand Japanese, and according to the "San Francisco Times", Nintendo's machines are sold out in the book, even if he goes there, he may return empty-handed, but ...He can ask others for help!
Aren't Hollywood blockbusters often released in notebooks?

Didn't Spielberg's "Jaws" cause a sensation in the book?

They should be able to ask the news, right?

Thinking of this, Ethan directly called Spielberg and decided to continue to pluck the wool of this international leader, but when the other party learned that Ethan seemed to be stabbed in the back by his partner, this was because of "" The guy who was grateful to Ethan for the cooperation of "Star Wars" immediately said——

"You want to know something about the new Nintendo machine?"

"no problem!"

"Universal has a publishing company in this book! I'll send someone to investigate for you now!"

Spielberg answered quickly, but his actions were actually faster.

Four days later, Spielberg's driver, who had met Ethan, came to the Destiny game and delivered a suitcase-sized package to Ethan.

"Mr. Jones, Mr. Spielberg asked me to give this to you. He said that everything you want is here, and he asked Universal's staff in the book to recite it directly."

This fact made Ethan overjoyed, thanked him repeatedly, and opened the box impatiently.

Immediately afterwards, he saw three small boxes.

Among them, there are two cartons that are orange, with Nintendo's logo and two logos of COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 printed on them.

The other box is the size of a book, without any packaging on it.

After opening it, a black video tape appeared in front of Ethan.

Without hesitation, Ethan first inserted the video tape into the projector, and after a while of snowflakes, Nintendo's new product promotion advertisement appeared on the TV screen.

Like all TV commercials, Nintendo's new product promotion is just to introduce its products to the public. Although Ethan can't understand Japanese, he can understand the images. The brow finally stretched.

Because he discovered that, regardless of whether it is COLOR TV GAME 6 or COLOR TV GAME 15, they are not CPU game consoles like red and white machines, but the most primitive circuit board game consoles!
This fact made him feel relieved.

And after he disassembled the game console that Spielberg got, connected it to the Sony TV, and plugged in the power adapter, "Squash", "Tennis", "Football" and "Table Tennis" on the game console, The presentation of various ball games made him relieve the heart that had been hanging for several days.

"A horse-riding man! A false alarm!"

Ethan threw the game console away, and leaned back on the seat.

"I thought Nintendo made FC in advance! It turned out to be an Odyssey?"

"Hey! What rubbish!"

That's right!

The reason why Ethan was nervous was because he was scared by Atari's new generation and Mirov's Apollo!

He thought that under the flapping of his butterfly wings, Nintendo made FC in advance!

If COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 are really the pre-release versions of FC, then he will be jumping in a hurry now!

Because during his trip to the island country last year, he witnessed the birth of the Nintendo Big Four!
In his previous life, those people were able to rule an era even when they started late, sending Nintendo to the top of the game. Now, under his stimulation, the game market around the world has shown its infinite potential in advance. Nintendo What if you got on the horse on time at this time?

What will the consequences be?

He didn't even dare to think about it!
But fortunately, everything was a false alarm. Nintendo did not develop their "home computer" in advance, and Ethan Jones still had time to develop his own console after he stepped on Atari and Mirov. From a certain point of view, in the whole battle, he was still 'far ahead'.

"It's okay, it's not a big deal..."

"This special one almost scared me to death..."

And just when Ethan was feeling, Nintendo may be really awesome, but it is impossible to be more awesome than himself, because he has a world in his head...

Leaning on the seat, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Wait a moment!"

When he came to his senses, he sat upright again.

"COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 are circuit board game consoles?"

"And it's loaded with ball games?"

Ethan muttered to himself.

At this moment, he seems to be a blind monk who has discovered Huadian, staring at the display screen on the TV, and the game display that is almost the same as Mirov Odyssey makes his breath short again!

"MFxxk!"

"Where is this special code, what is COLOR TV GAME!"

"This is obviously Mirov Odyssey!"

"Nintendo released the book version of Mirov Odyssey?"

"Fuck!"

"I'm afraid there is a big problem with this product!"

Ethan Jones' pupils shrank suddenly.

he thinks……

It seems that I have been tricked by someone!
Moreover, they were ganged up and cheated together!
Because he remembered!
The Mirov Odyssey machine is equipped with a Nintendo light gun!
"Grass!"

　Note: ①In reality, Nintendo did release the COLOR TV GAME product on June 1977, 6. This series is Nintendo’s first game console series, and it is also a very successful series. The entire series has sold 1 million units. sets, while the sales volume of COLOR TV GAME 300 is 6 sets.This number seems small now, but it was very impressive back then, and it took three years for Mirowa Odyssey to sell 30 sets.Nintendo did start simultaneously with the chip and circuit board projects. ②America did not ban the sale of machines to increase CPU yields. Ricoh in this book directly purchased recording machines for projection masks after obtaining the authorization from MOS. There is no embargo bug here. ③ Universal's distribution company is called CIC (Cinema International Corporation), which was jointly established by Universal and Paramount and was born in 35.This is the global distribution company of Universal and Paramount in Hollywood, which still exists today, but it is called United International Pictures.

　　
　
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