Rebirth of America, this is my time

‘COLOR TV GAME 6? ’

‘What is this special code? ’

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

Because he couldn't search for past life memories related to this machine in his brain!

In his mind, wasn't the first-generation game console released by Nintendo the Famicom?

And when did that all happen?

After the Atari collapse, in the mid-1980s, right?

Using Mario Brothers as their flagship masterpiece, they defeated all game manufacturers as soon as it came out! Then, they swept the entire world with overwhelming force!

Because Nintendo was so powerful at that time and was the first company in the gaming industry to outdo other game manufacturers, so as a gamer, Ethan Jones knew this history by heart, but now... Nintendo Before the Famicom came out, were there other console products?

He seems to have never heard of this and this!

Was this thing blown out by his butterfly wings? Or does it exist in history itself?

Ethan Jones is a little confused, and now he really can't understand the situation.

And when he suppressed the surprise and uneasiness in his heart, picked up the newspaper and scanned the contents, the report with black characters on a gray background made his eyelids jump!

Because the report says this -

[When Destiny Game's Star Wars detonated the game market in America and attracted countless people to stop and play in the streets and alleys, the editor of this newspaper also became curious about the historical achievements of game producer Ethan Jones, because in In our memory, every game Ethan Jones releases will detonate the entire North American continent. His creativity and imagination amaze us...]

[While we were collecting information, planning and summarizing, in an attempt to obtain Ethan Jones's real achievements since his debut, we found that the two games he launched before Star Wars have been successfully sold overseas. Sprout. In order to ensure the completeness of the data, we specially contacted the media on this book, and then we learned a surprising news...]

[Two months ago, Snake was Benzi's best-selling game, dominating the Benzi game market like a giant. The little green snake could be seen on the streets of almost all cities. But since the beginning of last month, That is to say, starting from June 1st, its limelight has been completely overtaken by the new products launched by Nintendo, COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15...]

[Because the names of these two products are too straightforward, we will not introduce what they are. The number after the name represents the number of games installed on the machine...]

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

[The most popular thing among readers is actually their prices. Among them, COLOR TV GAME 6 equipped with six games is priced at 9,800 yen, while COLOR TV GAME 15 equipped with 15 games is priced at 9,800 yen. It’s fifteen thousand yen...]

[Many people may not be able to understand how cheap they are just by talking about these two figures, so at the same time we want to tell everyone that the per capita annual income last year was 1.52 million yen, and they bought a COLOR TV GAME 15 only costs one percent of annual income. As such, their current sales may exceed 100,000 within a month, right? 】

[However, no matter how well they sell, we are not worried that Nintendo will enter our country like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, because we have Ethan Jones and Destiny Games. When Star Wars comes to the book, I I think everyone there will surrender to it. 】

Although the entire press release was written from the perspective of advocating the game of Destiny, and although the whole press release used a lot of nice words to praise Ethan Jones, when it was launched, it was already sold out. When the words Breaking 100,000 appeared in front of Ethan, he still felt like there was a heavy hammer in the void, hitting him hard on the back of the head!

It is true that the sales of 100,000 game consoles are not enough for future generations, because the magic machines on the sales rankings are all shipped in 100 million, but this is 1977!

The Internet era has not yet arrived, information dissemination still takes a certain amount of time, and games cannot be delivered without disk carriers. How can a home console sell 100,000 units after it is launched?

This damn thing has already detonated the market, right?

What's going on?

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Ten minutes later, in the conference room of Destiny Game.

Ethan Jones waved the newspaper in his hand and asked angrily at the company's financial director: Aaron Massey! Don't Nintendo's statements come on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis?

They have already used MOS 6502 chips on such a large scale. Why don't we know about it? Is it because you didn't report it to me, or because they didn't reflect it on the report at all?

ah?!!!

Ethan Jones roars with rage!

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

After such a big abnormality occurred, why didn't you remind me?

Ethan Jones was so angry that he couldn't even speak.

So far, Ethan Jones and Nintendo have a total of 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 legal rights 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 was their personal income and did not need to be accounted for by the company.

Later, when Professor Barbara Babcock told them that Disney had become so successful that registering copyrights in the name of the company could provide better legal protection, Ethan Jones asked Julis Noble to register the copyright in the name of the company. The copyright was registered in the name of Snake.

But even if the owner of the power has changed, due to the chronological relationship, the nature of the previously signed contract will not change, not to mention that the company is their own, so Snake is in the arcade of this book. Business income still belongs to Ethan Jones and Evelyn Johnson's personal income, and it is actually difficult for the company to handle this aspect of accounts.

But because Ethan Jones feels that it would be troublesome to hire an accountant again, and the current copyright of Snake is in Destiny Game, letting an independent accountant take care of his personal income will inevitably require multiple contacts and communications with the company. What do you think of this process? All very troublesome. Therefore, after learning that California's employment regulations did not prohibit the company's finance from acting for the boss on other businesses, he continued to hand over these matters to Aaron Massey and gave him another salary alone. Later, MOS 6502, the same is true.

In Ethan Jones's view, this kind of grasping process allows him to effectively understand everything, without having to constantly summarize reports from all parties because of the fragmented information. It is precisely because under his operation, the information is It was already being summarized at a high level, so when he discovered that Nintendo had actually released a home console, his instinctive reaction was to hold him accountable and ask Allen Massey how he read the report.

But when the angry questioning appeared, Allen Massey acted very aggrieved.

Boss, this matter has nothing to do with me!

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

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

Aaron Massey spread his hands.

Although his father had worked for Thomas Johnson, Ethan's uncle and Evelyn's father, for many years, this did not mean that he was willing to take the blame for this inexplicable crime.

And his words also stunned Ethan for a moment.

Then he patted his forehead and sat down.

yes!

When discussing cooperation last year, Hiroshi Yamauchi indeed told him that he wanted to squeeze out all the value of the game Snake and that he would not launch Pac-Man when Snake was popular in Japan. Arcade, he would release a new game after Snake's regular sales slumped.

And this time should be one year.

The specific node is August 1977.

More importantly, the production of notebooks on CPUs does not have its own advantages. The reason why MOS was able to reduce the production cost of chips was because they used new machines developed by PerkinElmer instead of the old ones from Kodak. The equipment for projecting the circuit diagram onto the wafer is easy to purchase in America, but if you want to ship the notebook, you must go through a series of approvals. Nintendo and MOS can handle all this, but it will take time, and wait It will take at least half a year for those machines to be shipped to the book, so the specific production should also start this year.

At first, when he heard about these arrangements, Ethan had no objections.

Because Hiroshi Yamauchi patted his chest at that time and told him that even if the Pac-Man arcade machine was not sold, when they settled the revenue for last year's half-year period this year, they would pre-print him based on the shipment volume of 10,000 units. A sales commission to show their great sincerity from Nintendo.

But now...

Sincerity is gone?

Did Nintendo create its own home console behind his back?

But this doesn’t make sense!

How did Nintendo come up with COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 when they couldn't even get MOS 6502?

Ethan Jones couldn't figure it out.

He felt that no matter how bad Yamauchi Hiroshi was, he would not be able to purchase other people's chip production home machines without obtaining the right to produce chips, right?

Sorry, Alan, I was too angry.

Thinking of this, Ethan Jones immediately apologized to Aaron Massey.

Oh boss...it doesn't matter...I'm actually surprised too... Aaron Massey shook his head and waved his hands, saying: The appearance of Nintendo's machine is too weird.

As Aaron Massey said, at this moment, Ethan Jones only thinks that the people at Nintendo are like ghosts. Why did they launch two home consoles inexplicably?

Since those two consoles are currently only sold in Japan, and their products are not available in North America, almost no one knows their true status, so Ethan Jones asked Julis Noble to immediately contact the newspaper that published the news. Want to get more information.

Soon, she invited the editor of the San Francisco Daily News to play the game of destiny.

But unfortunately, their information did not satisfy Ethan——

Mr. Jones, this special report we did is just to introduce to the public how awesome you are. Our original intention was not to investigate what other game products appeared in this book, and what does the game products that come out in this book have to do with us? No matter how well sold these machines are in Japan, there is no way they can cross the ocean and come to our market because you are here to support them! Therefore, we don’t know what Nintendo’s machines are like.”

We only know how much their machines sell for and how many units they sold. As for the rest? That is, the number at the end of the machine represents the number of games loaded in the machine...

Ethan Jones was speechless after hearing these words.

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

Where has your professionalism gone?

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

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

Because he found that the whole thing seemed to have reached a dead end.

He wanted to know the information in the book, but he had no channel.

‘What to do? ’

‘Is it possible that I can make a trip on my own? ’

‘Go and buy these two machines? ’

The idea popped into Ethan Jones's head.

Then, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Although this idea is not reliable at all, because he does not understand Japanese, and according to people in the San Francisco Times, Nintendo machines have been sold out, and even if he makes a trip, he may come back empty-handed, but ...He can ask others for help!

Aren’t Hollywood blockbusters often released in this book?

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

They should be able to ask for news, right?

Thinking of this, Ethan directly called Spielberg and decided to continue to pick up the international director's wool. 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 his cooperation with Star Wars immediately said——

You want to know about Nintendo's new machine?

no problem!

We at Universal have a distribution company in this book! I'll have someone go investigate for you now!

Spielberg answered quickly, but his movements were actually faster.

Four days later, Spielberg’s driver, who had met Ethan before, came to Destiny Game and delivered a package the size of a suitcase to Ethan.

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

This fact made Ethan overjoyed, thanked him profusely, and couldn't wait to open the box.

Then, he saw three small boxes.

Among them, two cartons are orange-yellow, with the Nintendo logo and the two logos of COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 printed on them respectively.

The other box is the size of a book and has no packaging on it.

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

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

Like all TV commercials, Nintendo's new product promotion ads are just to introduce its products to the public. Although Ethan can't understand Japanese, he can understand the images, and when the new product display link appears, his locked eyes The brows finally relaxed.

Because he discovered that no matter whether it is COLOR TV GAME 6 or COLOR TV GAME 15, it is not a CPU game console like the Famicom, but the most original circuit board game console!

This fact relieved him.

And when he took apart the game console that Spielberg got, connected it to a Sony TV, and plugged in the power adapter, the Squash, Tennis, Football, and Table Tennis contained in the game console, The presentation of various ball games made him feel relieved, which had been hanging on him for several days.

He's riding a horse! It's a false alarm!

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

I thought Nintendo had released FC in advance! But it turned out to be Odyssey?

Hey! What rubbish!

That's right!

The reason why Ethan is nervous is because he is scared of Atari's New Generation and Mirova's Apollo!

He thought that with the flapping of his butterfly wings, Nintendo had created FC in advance!

If COLOR TV GAME 6 and COLOR TV GAME 15 are really early versions of FC, then he will definitely be anxious now!

Because during his trip to the island country last year, he witnessed with his own eyes the birth of the Big Four of Nintendo!

In his previous life, those people were able to dominate an era even though they started late, bringing Nintendo to the top of the game. Now, under his stimulation, the game market around the world has shown its endless potential in advance, and Nintendo What if we mount the horse on time at this time?

What will be the consequences?

He didn't even dare to think about it!

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 eliminated Atari and Milowa. From a certain perspective, he was still 'way ahead' throughout the entire campaign.

Okay, okay, it's not a big deal...

This special code almost scared me to death...

And just when Ethan was sighing, Nintendo may be really awesome, but it can't be more awesome than this idiot himself, because after all, he has a world in his head...

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

Wait a moment!

After waking up, he sat upright again.

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

And all the loads are ball games?

Ethan muttered.

At this moment, he seemed to have discovered Hua Dian's blind monk, staring at the display screen on the TV. The game display that was almost the same as Milova Odyssey made his breathing quicken again!

MFxxk!

Where is the COLOR TV GAME in this special code!

This is obviously Milohua Odyssey!

Nintendo released a subtitled version of Milova Odyssey?

Fuck!

“I’m afraid there’s something wrong with this product!”

Ethan Jones's pupils shrank suddenly.

he thinks……

It seems like someone has cheated me with my special code!

Moreover, they were ganged up on and tricked together!

Because he remembered!

The Milova Odyssey machine is equipped with Nintendo's light gun!

Grass!

Note: ①In reality, Nintendo did release the COLOR TV GAME product on June 1, 1977. This series was Nintendo’s first game console series and was also a very successful series. The entire series sold 3 million units. sets, while the sales volume of COLOR TV GAME 6 is 300,000 sets. This number seems small now, but it was very impressive at the time. It took Milova Odyssey three years to sell 350,000 units. Nintendo did start its chip and circuit board projects at the same time. ② Regarding the machine that improves the CPU yield rate, America did not ban the sale to outsiders. Ricoh of this book directly purchased the projection mask recording machine after getting the authorization from MOS. There is no embargoed bug here. ③Universal’s distribution company is called CIC (Cinema International Corporation), which was jointly established by Universal and Paramount and was born in 1970. This is the global distribution company of Universal and Paramount in Hollywood. It still exists, but it is called United International Pictures.