Chapter 94 Industry news, invitation list, angrily criticize the Oscar!

Author: Fortunately I didn't go

Chapter 94 Industry news, invitation list, angrily criticize the Oscar!

Thursday, April 1, 1976.

On that day, Steve Wozniak was pulled away by Steve Jobs. As for the reason, Ethan also knew, that was to start Apple.

Ethan has no intention of paying attention to this kind of thing for the time being, because after half a year, he went online again and arrived at his loyal company.

To be honest, Ethan feels that his company is running very poorly. He has been operating for half a year. Not to mention no business, he has to pay the whole class salary to two administrators and one financial officer. This kind of failure to work is in vain.

Why can't he encounter a good thing about money in his previous life?

In a trance, he even thought he was Boss Jia.

The person disappeared, and the wages were paid, which perfectly explained what a company needs to be fired the boss...

Because it's the same as he or she!

But this thought didn't last long before it disappeared.

Because when he appeared at the company in Thomas' Ford pickup and carrying the freshly released "Pac-Man" arcade, the male executive Damio Dean, who received the news, greeted the financial officer with great eyesight.

, moved the machine on the car and sent it to the company.

This behavior of the leader shitting and handing the paper made Ethan feel very comfortable.

What made him feel more comfortable was that after entering the office, another administrator, Yuris Noble, gave a tea report.

Although Ethan has not arranged any jobs for them in the past six months, the girl in professional attire holds a stack of documents and reports to Ethan their recent work results - "Mr. Jones, although in the past six months,

Our company does not conduct any business, but we are not idle either. We have been collecting news about the industry."

'Um?'

This topic was very interesting to Ethan, asking: "What's the news in the industry?"

In the non-Internet era, I was in seclusion for half a year, and it was no different from being isolated from the world. Ethan really didn't know what happened to the outside world.

Faced with his inquiry, Yuris Noble immediately opened the documents in his hand and said, "Mr. Jones, after sorting and identifying them, we feel that there are three messages you should be interested in."

"The first news was released by the Wall Street Journal, last year's video game sales ranking."

"In this list, our company's "Snake Game" ranks first in North America with an installed capacity of 12,000 units."

‘Yeah…yeah!’

Ethan was very satisfied with the result.

Although the game "Snake" has caused him a lot of trouble, it also has also gained countless money and praises.

When choosing it, Ethan's starting point was that it was simple to make and easy to make money, but after experiencing these twists and turns, he hoped that "Snake" would receive some positive and positive reviews.

This is not his pursuit of profit and fame, but his desire to let those who covet "The Snake" know...

You guys read that right!

"Greedy Snake" is a timid game!

It won the U.S. sales championship in 75 years!

Alas!

The point is that the copyright is still in my hands!

Are you angry or not!

Ha ha ha ha……

Ethan smiled in his heart, and showed a little pride on his face. At the same time, he became interested in the entire content of the list.

"So, what about the few behind?" he asked.

Yulis Noble immediately replied: "The second place is the game invented by Liben Games, Taidong, and the name is "Speed ​​Race", which is distributed by Midway Games, and the accumulation of the first and second generations.

Sales volume is 8,000 units.”

Ethan has heard of this game. It is a racing racing game with two different versions, single and double. Although it cannot be compared with later racing games, the quality of the game is still very good in this era.

Not bad.

"The third place is "Tank" released by Kee Games, with sales of 5,000 units."

Ethan also knows that it is a two-player confrontation game, where two players control different tanks to attack opponents in order to defeat the opponent, which sounds familiar, right? Because it is the classic FC game "Tank War"

The true predecessor.

"The fourth place is the table tennis game released by Meadows Games, with sales of 3,000 units. The fifth place is the game released by Atari before reaching a settlement with Mirova, called "Gran Trak 10", with sales of 2

Thousands of units.”

"And the sales of the game in six to ten are all 500 estimated by the Wall Street Journal, and there is no reference value..."

With Yuris Noble's report, Ethan also had a simple understanding of the North American game industry in 1975.

Although it seems that the current game industry is full of flowers and a hundred schools of thought, because the games on the sales rankings come from different companies, these companies will disappear in a few years. This is not only because Ethan's past life memory did not have them, but also

Because these companies cannot pay high patent fees to Mirohua while making great strides to move their products from the circuit board era to the CPU era.

And this... is a good thing for Ethan!

As a player, he naturally hopes that the more games there are on the market, the better.

As a businessman, what he wants to do the most is to strangle his friend’s business to death!

"What about the other two news?" Ethan asked, "Isn't it the ranking list?"

List of things like changing soups and not changing medicines, just listen to them once.

After he asked, Yuris Noble shook his head decisively and said:

"No, Mr. Jones, the other two news has nothing to do with the rankings."

"The first news came from Mirohua. At the end of November last year, Mirohua officially announced that the first-generation home phone of Odyssey will be officially discontinued at the beginning of this year, and at the same time, they will release new products this year."

"And a month ago, they announced that the new machine Mirova Odyssey 300 will meet the public this summer. According to them, there will be three built-in games in this game console, namely "Tennis" and "Hockey"

And "Squash", at the same time, they also designed three different difficulties for the game, namely novice, intermediate and expert. In their words, their design was a revolution in the game industry, because before that

No game can divide the difficulty level."

"Not only that, they also said that this difficulty division is more friendly than our Snake, because it gives players real choices and brings the game back to the essence of play rather than the pain of abuse."

‘WTF?’

This news stunned Ethan for a moment.

Is Mirohua going to launch a new machine?

And also adjusting the difficulty of the game is the focus of publicity?

I also stepped on him?

this……

Ethan didn't know what to say.

And the third news surprised Ethan even more...

"The third news is related to Atari. Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell announced that they will launch their new game "Bracks" in two months, in June.

Bushnell said that this game is the best work since Atari was born. It is a truly infinite stream game, which is much more fun than our "Snake"..."

Speaking of this, Yuris Noble looked at Ethan anxiously.

Because she felt that Ethan would be angry after hearing Nolan Bushnell's stomping words.

But when she turned her eyes to Ethan, what she saw was the boss who suddenly laughed.

That's right!

After hearing that Mirohua is about to release a new machine and Atari is about to release "Bracking", what Ethan wants to do the most is laughing!

Let’s join the three families with grudges and grudges again?

Ethan admits that "Bracks" is an excellent game, and the difficulty adjustment of Mirova Odyssey 300 is a milestone creativity in the history of the game, but no matter how awesome they are, they cannot have "Pac-Man"

》's anthropomorphic AI is awesome!

He just finished "Pac Man" and found out that two rivals were going to release new products?

hiss……

This situation...

Didn’t that force him to be a good person?

"Okay, I understand."

Thinking of this, Ethan smiled and nodded, saying, "Yulis, you have done a good job. I will give you bonuses at the end of this year."

"Then, the company came back and wanted to tell you that the company's new products have been developed. Next, our company needs to apply for a temporary patent for the new products and then hold a press conference."
To be continued...