Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 89 Conspiracy?

Three hours later, at home in Palo Alto.

Wearing an apron, Ethan, who was busy in the kitchen, took out four eggs and cracked them into a bowl, then poured in some fresh milk.

After stirring evenly, use a strainer to filter out the foam and egg tendons that cannot be mixed, and then turn on the stove to melt a tablespoon of butter.

Pour the egg liquid into it, stir-fry slowly over a low heat, and turn off the heat and stop the stove when it is about half cooked.

Sprinkle white pepper on the fluffy, tender, milky scrambled eggs, then, take it out of the pan, put it on a plate, and bring it to the restaurant.

When Ethan pushed the last scrambled eggs onto the table, a sumptuous dinner with steak, salad, clear soup, and scrambled eggs was ready!
If it was in his previous life, after cooking this fragrant dinner, Ethan would definitely take out his mobile phone and take a picture and send it to Moments. He would let all his friends know that his cooking skills are still very good~
But now, without the Internet and social platforms, we can only entertain ourselves and appreciate ourselves.

Oh no!
There is obviously someone next to me!
Why is there no feedback at all!

"Hei~hei~hei~ give me some feedback! Dinner is done!"

Looking at the figure who was holding the document and looking hard at it, Ethan snapped his fingers.

Such a call made Evelyn at the dining table suddenly look up.

She first looked at Ethan with a blank face, then lowered her eyes, and instinctively glanced at the table. When the beautifully arranged dishes appeared on the plate, she suddenly woke up and praised him belatedly. : "Oh Ethan, have you finished your work? This is really hard work for you~"

'...'

'It's so perfunctory. '

Ethan pouted, and directly wrote his unhappiness on his face.

This performance also made Evelyn understand and quickly change her words, put her hands together in front of her body, and opened her eyes wide to pretend to be sincere.

"Oh my god - what a great dinner - and it's all my favorites -"

"Oh Ethan - did you do this just for me? Oh that's a real thank you -"

'...'

The hypocritical appearance made Ethan a little suffocated.

And the purposely manipulated voice made Ethan smell a bit of tea.

"Okay, okay, okay."

Somewhat unbearable, he raised his hand and surrendered, "Evelyn, please let me go, I don't need your praise, let's eat."

Ethan put the sterilized knife, fork and spoon on the dinner plate and pushed it in front of Evelyn.

Evelyn who looked helplessly looked at it and laughed.

Get up and move your chair.

The girl snapped and sat beside Ethan.

Then he shook the document in his hand, and explained with a smile on his face: "Oh Ethan~ don't be angry~ It's not that I want to ignore you~ The main reason is that the intentional proposals in the two cooperation agreements really surprised me~ "

"Really!" She emphasized: "The terms of the agreement in these two proposals are exaggerated! Fifteen million dollars? A $500 million contract will be given as you please? Wow! Are they rich? Or are they rich in the world? Do other countries in China really have such a big game market?"

Yes, after Evelyn came back from school, Ethan handed her the letter of intent for cooperation between Sega and Nintendo.

After all, "Snake Game" is not his game alone. If it is really released overseas, then Evelyn must know about it.

And his prudence earned Evelyn's seriousness, but wait for the girl to open the file and read it carefully...

The sluggish appearance just now appeared.

It was precisely because he knew the whole process that Ethan didn't care about it.

Moving Evelyn's dinner plate back in front of her, Ethan raised the knife and fork and cut the steak.

At the same time, he also said: "Of course other countries also have huge game markets."

"After all, businessmen are all about profit. If the business is not profitable, then why would they come to me?"

"Give us money for nothing?"

"Isn't this a brain disease?"

"That's right." Evelyn felt that what Ethan said was reasonable.

"Then what do you think about this?" the girl asked.

At the same time, she also added, "I think, in this matter, you should have no intention of self-employment, right?"

"At least at this stage, you shouldn't have one?"

Evelyn was right!

Regarding the overseas distribution rights of "Snake Game", Ethan really plans to sell it.

It's not that he doesn't want to do it himself, but that they don't have such strength for the time being.

"Of course!"

Ethan nodded while forking the cut steak into Evelyn's dinner plate and said, "Now we are not qualified to talk about self-employment overseas. I already knew about it when I was working in Mirov, Sega It took 50 years and more than 2000 million yuan to build a well-equipped arcade production line in Liben and Southeast Asia. This kind of time and money consumption is beyond our affordability.”

"As for setting up a factory without worrying about it?"

"That's even more impossible."

"After all, the last Atari who rashly opened a branch..."

"They've blown up."

After the success of Pong, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell felt like he was destined.

Ever since, he came up with the idea of ​​exporting the game, hoping to capture global interests.

The first stop is aimed at the foundation of the national economy, which is performing very well.

However, after they established a branch in Liben with great confidence and invested millions in it, they realized that Liben is a very closed market and strangers are not welcome to invest at all.

Their rash actions violated the business principles there, and then encountered strong sanctions and boycotts.

then……

Atari can only admit the loss and leave.

When millions of dollars have not been exchanged for a corresponding market, it is naturally impossible for Ethan, who has no money in his pocket, to think about overseas distribution.

Ethan had told Evelyn about this story before.

So when he mentioned it again, Evelyn, who recalled all this, immediately laughed.

"Yeah~Yeah~Yeah~"

"I understand."

"So you want to touch Atari's body to cross the river?"

"Why not?" Ethan said nonsense in a serious tone: "Our peers have given wrong examples. What we can do is to pay high respect to their dedication, and then express our gratitude to their failures." Sincere regrets."

Having said that, Ethan winked at his sister.

"Goose goose..." Evelyn couldn't be happier with the hurtful words.

Throwing away the documents, he picked up the knife and fork and ate the steak.

When the almost-rare taste appeared, her brows furrowed instinctively.

Glancing at the cross-section of the steak, and then at the delicious Ethan, she shook her head helplessly, and put the remaining half on the fork into her mouth.

"So, which one do you want to work with?" She asked vaguely.

This question was asked of Ethan.

After swallowing the steak in his mouth, Ethan froze there, with a tangled expression on his face.

"To be honest, it's really hard to choose between these two."

"If you look at the breadth of the market, then I will give priority to Sega. Because they not only have branches in Liben and Southeast Asia, but also have their own marketing points in Europe. Their global shipments are definitely greater than Nintendo. .”

"But if we look at the depth of a single market, then I would choose Nintendo. Because Liben is the second largest video game consumer goods market in the world, second only to our North American market. Deep exploration in this market can give us Bring greater profits, and Nintendo is such a company that has the ability to deeply explore Liben's market, because this company has been operating in Liben for almost 100 years."

"What?" Evelyn was a little surprised by Ethan's words.

"Is Nintendo so powerful?"

"I thought it was just an ordinary Liben Company!"

That's right, Americans in this era don't actually know about Nintendo, or in other words, before Mario set off the trend of repairing toilets, few people in the entire America had heard of Nintendo's name at all.

But this is normal.

After all, Nintendo in this era is still focusing on the development of the Liben market, and has not officially extended its tentacles to America.

But... The fact that the natives don't understand doesn't mean that Ethan, a traveler, will ignore it. While sorting out his memory, he introduced to his sister the awesomeness of the Nintendo company——

"Nintendo was born in the last century. At the beginning, it operated the unique card business of Liben. When it was the largest, it could even be said to have monopolized the entire card market of Liben."

"When the single field reached its peak, they tried to expand new businesses and introduced our country's poker into Liben. Before that, there was no company in Liben that did poker business, so their introduction was natural. It has gained an innate monopoly advantage."

"Not only that, but they have also reached a cooperation with Disney, obtained image authorization from Disney, and printed Disney's classic cartoon characters on playing cards. In this way, they have achieved great success in the field of playing cards."

"Then, they focused on the research in the field of toys and tried to develop toys. There was an engineer in their company named Junpei Yokoi who invented several toys with sales exceeding one million in a single year. For example, Mirowa Odyssey The light gun configured was invented by him, and this product alone can bring Nintendo tens of millions of dollars in operating income a year."

"WTF? They made Mirov's light gun?" Evelyn was very surprised by this news.

Ethan nodded with a smile, and said, "Yes, they made that light gun."

The light guns in the mouths of the two people are actually the light gun peripherals in shooting video games.

When the target appears on the TV screen, the player holding the light gun takes aim and pulls the trigger, then the target on the TV can be shot directly.

This technology looks advanced, but it has been around since the 60s.

And the inventor is Junpei Yokoi.

"Wow... this is really... too unbelievable..." Evelyn felt a little emotional.

She didn't expect that Nintendo was so powerful.

And following Ethan's narration, curiosity emerged in her heart, "Ethan, how do you know so many things?"

Although it was a question, she also gave her own guess, "Could you have followed them when Mi Luohua was working?"

"That's right." Ethan smiled at his sister.

"So you mean choose Nintendo?" Evelyn continued.

The next second, she had a new question.

"No, don't you find it strange that Sega and Nintendo appear?"

"Why did they appear at the same time? Buy the publishing rights of "Snake Game" from us at the same time?"

"I don't know why Sega appeared at this time, but I think... Could the appearance of Nintendo have something to do with Mirov?"

"After all... you're the one who disgusted them?"

Evelyn frowned slightly, guessing carefully.

Such words made Ethan laugh, "Oh sister, I think you are worrying too much."

"Mirov doesn't have that ability, they don't have the ability to control Nintendo as you said."

In fact, the successive appearances of Nintendo and Sega made Ethan very puzzled.

He didn't know why these two companies appeared at the same time so coincidentally, and bought the game agency rights from him at the same time.

But after he cleaned up the memory of his previous life, he felt that this was probably a coincidence.

Because in his previous life, he had learned about Nintendo in class.

If he remembered correctly, it was a course about financial investment. During the class, the teacher introduced to them the blue-chip stocks held by the government pension funds of various countries for a long time. When talking about Liben, the teacher specifically mentioned Nintendo .

Because for many years, Nintendo has been a money-making machine in Liben, second only to Toyota.

When exaggerated price-earnings ratios have appeared for more than ten years, analyzing their development history has naturally become what financial people like to do.

No way, who made finance try its best to find laws in an irregular industry?
In the teacher's analysis, Ethan also understood why Nintendo was successful.

Even this kind of success can be summed up in one sentence——

Hug a good thigh.

Because the Yamauchi family who created Nintendo started with the Mitsui Zaibatsu!
Afterwards, when they were selling flower tickets, they immediately hugged the thighs of Liben Tobacco King Yoshihei Murai!
When this fact was recalled by Ethan, he knew that he was worrying too much.

Mi Luohua is in the bull beep, and he is dissatisfied with him, so it is impossible to move Nintendo!

Because Nintendo does not make games, it is also a monopoly of Liben!

Mi Luohua wants to order it?
It's better to match the key!
Does it match?
As for Sega...

He was sued by Mi Luohua just now, how could the two parties cooperate in such a friendly manner?
Of course, it's not easy for Ethan to tell Evelyn about this kind of thing.

He can only say that the probability of the whole thing being controlled by Mi Luohua is very low.

And Evelyn...

Nor is she interested in this kind of corporate gossip.

After Ethan had already paid attention to these matters, she stopped worrying about other things. She just nodded slightly to express her understanding, and then said directly: "Since you think it's okay, then you can decide this matter yourself. When you want to sign Just talk to me directly."

"Are you sure?" Ethan expected such a simple response.

Because he knew that Evelyn hated this kind of business negotiation.

But at the same time, he still half-jokingly said: "Are you not afraid that I will sell you?"

"Do you dare?" Evelyn rolled her eyes, and at the same time stretched out her left hand and clenched her fist.

"I can not."

"Hmph~" Evelyn snorted twice, as if celebrating a victory.

And as Ethan backed down, he also put away his playful thoughts and revealed his plan——

"Evelyn, I actually think so."

"Give the Liben agency of "Snake Game" to Nintendo, and hand over the agents other than North America and Liben to Sega."

"If they accept, that's the best news, and if Sega doesn't..."

"Then we can only strategically abandon markets in other countries and regions."

"After all, the combined North America and Liben already account for more than 80.00% of the global video game market share. It's not worthwhile to choose Sega for the remaining sporadic markets."

Evelyn has no objection to Ethan's choice.

Ever since, after going to work the next day, Ethan called Sega founder David Rosen.

When he said his proposal, David Rosen was very unhappy, and he rejected the leftovers Ethan gave with a firm tone.

Moreover, he also said that other terms are negotiable, except for the global agency, because this is their bottom line.

Such a result made Ethan very regretful.

Since they couldn't reach an agreement, everyone had no choice but to break up, and when Ethan dialed the number left by Hiroshi Yamauchi, they arrived at the Stanford industrial area within half an hour after learning that they had been selected.

"Oh Mr. Jones, glad you chose us Nintendo!"

Hiroshi Yamauchi expresses his excitement to Ethan.

"I hope everyone can cooperate happily in the future."

Ethan held out his hand and shook it.

Although Ethan has reached a consensus on cooperation with Nintendo, it will be three days after they sign the contract.

The reason is actually very simple, because when Liben signed the contract, he liked to pick out words very much.

For unclear terms, they always like to make some written statements.

Therefore, contracts that can be resolved with dozens of pages of paper can often be made into hundreds of pages by them, but for this kind of craftsman spirit...

Ethan was actually very helpless.

However, this kind of pulling does not require him to play in person, there are external lawyers to provide professional services, and he only needs to wait for the contract to be drafted and browse it.

This kind of relaxation in waiting can be regarded as the good news among the bad news.

Of course, during the three days waiting for the signing, Ethan was not idle.

Nested in the office, he wrote out all the ideas for the game "Pac-Man".

From the gameplay of the game to the design of the monsters, not only that, but he also drew the corresponding game map on the draft paper so that Evelyn could make the game more easily.

And when he finished all this and handed over the project he thought was perfect to Evelyn.

Evelyn's eyes widened after scanning a few pages.

"Oh Ethan - is this your new idea?"

"Yeah~ Isn't it amazing?" Ethan asked with a smile.

"How powerful is this special code? This is very powerful!"

Evelyn exclaimed, "Oh—my God—how could you come up with such an idea?"

"Eat all the props in the maze while avoiding the enemy's pursuit in the maze? Wow-how does this idea feel more interesting than "Snake Game"?"

"You're such a genius!"

This kind of praise made Ethan happy.

However, just when he thought that the plan was completed and the game production was about to start, Evelyn, who turned over a few pages, suddenly changed her expression.

"Evelyn, what's the matter? Is there a problem?" Ethan didn't understand.

Evelyn looked up again, looked at Ethan with surprised eyes, and said, "Ethan, are you sure you can make this game?"

"What?" Ethan was a little puzzled, he didn't understand why Evelyn would say that.

Pac-Man was the game of this era, and of course he was sure it could be made.

His doubts made Evelyn scratch her head, thought for a moment, and then said: "Ethan, there is a problem with the game you designed."

"Or, the game you designed has a big bug from a technical point of view."

"If you have to describe it, it doesn't conform to the law of binary."

"?" Ethan didn't understand.

　Note: ① Atari entered the book in 73. In 74, they admitted their losses and sold the company to Namco for US$500 million. That's why Namco later became Ya Dali's agent in Benzi.This story is from the book A History of Silicon Valley. ②Nintendo has a successful gene when it was founded.The great-grandfather of the Yamauchi family was already a lime seller in Kyoto during the Edo period, and he was backed by the Mitsui Zaibatsu, who was rich enough to find a husband for his daughter.The founder of Nintendo, Fujiro Yamauchi, is the son-in-law. His original name was Fukui. Their lime shop was already the exclusive distributor in Kyoto designated by Mitsui during the time of Fujiro.More than half of the cement orders of Lake Biwa are eaten by their family.And this lime shop is still there, its name is Huixiao, and they are responsible for many infrastructure projects of the government, including the affiliated hospital of Kyoto University and the Kyoto Aquarium. ③Murai Yoshihei is known as the King of Meiji Tobacco. It is said that he made the first standard cigarette of Liben. He has a close relationship with Fusajiro Yamauchi. ④The light gun patent is indeed owned by Nintendo. Based on this alone, they earned 70 million US dollars a year in 3000 years.

　　Ps, today should also be a chapter. When I wrote Pac-Man production, I reversed the Pac-Man bug and the Space Invaders bug, which is equivalent to writing for nothing.

　　
　
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