Chapter 0460 1982 The Year of the Personal Computer
Tang Huan was about to ask what was going on, but the door of the ward suddenly opened, and a little girl ran out staggeringly, falling to the ground when she hit him.
"Does it hurt to fall?" Tang Huan quickly bent down to ask, and at the same time noticed that the other party was so thin that he looked even bigger and bigger.
The little girl, who was a little timid, shook her head without saying a word.
Deng Lijun, who was moving quickly, gently helped the little girl up, helped her to sort out the hospital gown, and wiped the tears from the little face with a handkerchief.
"This child is so thin." Deng Lijun whispered pity.
"Thank you." The little girl's mother chased after her and explained apologetically, "Betty ran out while I wasn't paying attention."
"It's okay." Tang Huan waved his hand, squatted down and looked straight at Betty, and asked gently: "Your name is Betty, how old is this year?"
"Five years old." With mother beside him, Betty became much more courageous. While answering, he looked at Tang Huan curiously.
"Can you tell me why you didn't listen to your mother?" Tang Huan continued to ask with a smile.
"I don't want my mother to cut my hair." Betty fiddled with a strand of her hair, her little face full of stubbornness. "If you don't have hair, you won't be pretty."
Tang Huan looked at Betty's mother inquiry, but the other party shook his head with tears in his eyes.
The accompanying hospital director whispered: "Betty has leukemia..."
Tang Huan nodded suddenly, and the heart, who was busy with various calculations all day, was suddenly touched. Although he had been a human being for two lifetimes and had his own unique understanding of life, he was still unable to achieve complete transcendence.
"Betty. I don't listen to my mother's words. It's not right." Tang Huan gently touched Betty's hair, "Actually, it won't look ugly without hair. If you don't believe it, I'll cut your hair with you."
"Really?" Betty reached out and touched Tang Huan's head.
"Of course." Tang Huan nodded seriously, "Now I'll cut my hair to show you."
There were two beds in the ward. Like the little adult Betty, he pointed to one of them and introduced: "This bed is mine, and the eldest sister of that bed has been discharged."
"As long as you listen to your mother and the doctor, you will be discharged from the hospital soon." Tang Huan took Hasbro's latest toy from his subordinates and handed it to Betty, "I'll give you Christmas gifts to see if you like it."
Betty opened the box excitedly and immediately cheered.
Tang Huan smiled with relief, sat on the chair brought by the nurse, and started cutting his hair.
Betty put down the toy and stared at Tang Huan without blinking, witnessing the birth of a bald head.
"There's nothing to be afraid of." Tang Huan lowered his head and asked Betty to touch it a few times. "The other brothers also want such a hairstyle."
So Tang Huan's assistants also removed three thousand worries in front of Betty one by one.
Seeing so many people accompanying him, Betty was no longer in resistance and was quickly cut off her hair by the nurse.
Before leaving, Tang Huan held Betty's little hand and said, "If the doctor allows it, let's have Christmas together, okay?"
"Are these brothers together?" Betty looked at Tang Huan's bald assistant one by one.
"No problem." Tang Huan nodded with a smile.
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After getting in the car, Deng Lijun touched Tang Huan's bright scalp and smiled sweetly, "Your image has changed a lot, it will not affect the next various activities."
"Just change your hairstyle, what's the big fuss?" Tang Huan also touched his bare scalp and sighed with emotion, "People always have to be in awe. In the face of life and death, everyone is equally powerless, and we are no different from Betty."
Deng Lijun, who agreed with her deeply, took Tang Huan's hand and said softly: "So, I am particularly content with everything I have now."
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Tang Huan's bald image is still very shocking. After Christmas, Tripp Hawkins, who came to report on his work, was surprised for a long time.
"I heard that Atari's electronic game "e.t. Alien" has good sales?" Tang Huan touched his bald head calmly and asked casually.
"Atari has launched the video game "e.t. Alien" before Christmas, and has chosen a good opportunity. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and has sold tens of millions of dollars. Judging from this momentum, it is only a matter of time before more than 1 million copies."
Tripp Hawkins nodded with a complicated expression, "On the surface, the market sales are very popular, but most of the reviews about this game are negative, but Atari did not respond much, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a disaster for this company."
Steve Rose spent more than 30 million US dollars to get the exclusive authorization for the development of the movie "E.T. Alien" arcade and home game. After receiving the exclusive authorization of the movie "E.T. Alien", he invited howardscottwarshaw - Howard Scott Warsaw to be responsible for the level design and programming of video games for $200,000 and a free Hawaiian holiday.
You have to hurry up to make money. Steve Rose’s wishful thinking from the beginning was to take advantage of the current movie “e.t. Alien” that swept North America, allowing the video game of the same name to be launched during the Christmas period, making a lot of money.
Therefore, the development time for the "e.t.Alien" video game is quite tight.
You should know that Howard Warsaw's famous work "Raiders of the Lost Ark" video game took seven months to develop, while the development time for the "E.t. Alien" video game was only about two months.
What's even more exaggerated is that the arcade version of "e.t. Alien" game was also put on the agenda at the same time.
In this case, Howard Warsaw could only work hard, and it was already very good to be able to produce the finished product within the specified time. As a result, the game creativity and programming implementation he took for granted were not recognized by players, and Atari turned a blind eye to these reactions and did not take any public relations measures to remedy them.
This is not unrelated to Warner's internal operating mechanism.
It was the boss Steve Rose's idea to buy the arcade and home computer electronic game license for the movie "E.t. Alien" at a high price, and Atari CEO Ray Cassa did not agree.
But this guy, before the financial report that caused Warner's stock price to fall, sold his shares, which attracted the investigation of the Securities and Exchange Commission suspected of internal transactions and had to resign, so Atari's operation was not so smooth.
After taking a sip of tea, Tang Huan slowly spoke, "The production plan for the electronic game cartridge of "e.t. Alien" is 5 million sets, is it true? How many Atari 2600 are there in the market? Don't the Atari executives know it?"
"They're still secretly looking at our Little Ba Wang game console platform." Tripp Hawkins snorted disdainfully, "The Atari 2600 version of the "e.t. Alien" video game has obvious traces of work, and the Little Ba Wang game console platform version is even more terrible."
"It seems that the decline in stock prices has made Warner start to take a gamble, and he has put all his treasures on the electronic game "e.t. Alien", hoping that it can bring considerable financial data." Tang Huan analyzed with a frown.
"It should be." Tripp Hawkins nodded, "After Ray Casar stepped down, Warner had not had time to choose a successor. Now Atari is the head of the assistant CEO. These people are so radical and intriguing in the operation of the "E.T. Alien" video game. It is likely that they are desperate to please Warner headquarters to get promotion."
"If Atari keeps walking along this road, it will be in danger." Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows, "Dad, my mother, get married, everyone cares about everyone, let it go. Ea's stock price is also falling. My position as the richest man in the United States is unstable."
"The Fangyuan Computer is about to ipo. The number one throne cannot escape, you must be." Tripp Hawkins complimented and said with some concern: "The land matter has finally been negotiated, but the market situation is so uncertain, do we still need to continue to operate?"
"Of course I continue." Tang Huan laughed, "You said that Fangyuan Computer is about to ipo, and I can still lose the funds to support ea."
At present, Zheru, Fangyuan Computer, ea, and an Apple company are all settled in the small Cupertino, which inevitably seems a bit crowded. In addition, Tang Huan hopes that his industry can go out and grow, so he has been planning to move companies such as ea, Fangyuan Computer.
Because he was impressed by the vast territory of Google's headquarters in the original time and space, Tang Huan asked EA to find a new headquarters in Silicon Valley or the San Francisco Bay Area to have a large territory to adapt to his next plan for EA.
But the large territory occupied means that there are also many taxes to be paid. Tang Huan hopes that ea can get care like Google.
There are so many factors that need to be considered, which makes it difficult to move the house, and it is only because of the busyness that it will result.
"redwoodcity - Redwood City meets all our requirements." Tripp Hawkins took out several maps and pointed it to Tang Huan. "This place is next to King's Avenue and has the only deep-water port south of San Francisco in San Francisco Bay."
"This is a good location." Tang Huan nodded repeatedly when he saw it.
As we were chatting, my subordinates reported that Michael Moritz, the editor-in-chief of Time magazine's San Francisco branch, came to visit.
Michael Moritz is an old friend. When Tang Huan was selected as the Times' Year's Episode last year, he was the interview he was responsible for.
Tang Huan stood up to greet him and quipped: "Michael, aren't you here to tell me that I was also selected as the storm of the year by Time magazine this year?"
"Of course it's impossible." Michael Moritz pointed at Tang Huan's bald head and almost knocked over the coffee with a smile. "But it's almost done. We chose our personal computer as the storm of the year this year."
Chapter completed!