Li Zetian knew the purpose of Nolan Bushnell's coming to Sunbird Company, but he still asked knowingly: "Mr. Nolan Bushnell, may I ask why you came to Sunbird?"
Nolan Bushnell answered straight to the point: "I hope that four of Sunbird's games can be ported to the Home-Pong home console."
Li Zetian smiled lightly and did not speak, he knew that Nolan Bushnell would continue to speak.
"Currently, Sunbird's games can only run on Apple-ll personal computers. However, the price of Apple-ll is so expensive that many ordinary families are discouraged. But Home-Pong is different, its price is only 299 US dollars, which is absolutely in the United States. Most families can afford it. And so far, Home-Pong has sold 125,000 units, while Apple-ll sales totaled just over 10,000. If Sunbird can port games to Home-Pong, it will definitely be possible Get a lot more sales than on the Apple-ll platform! And as Home-Pong sales increase, so will Sunbird's games!!!"
Nolan Bushnell looked at Li Zetian with a smile and confidence, "Chronos, this is a complete win-win for our two companies! What do you think?"
Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, it sounds very tempting! But..."
Nolan Bushnell frowned upon hearing "but".
"I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan Bushnell, Sunbird has signed an exclusive game supply contract with Apple, so it can't cooperate with Atari!" Li Zetian said with a regretful look, in fact, completely Open your eyes and talk nonsense!
There are no limits to Sunbird's games!
But Nolan Bushnell didn't know that. Hearing this, he also showed a regretful expression.
"What a pity!!!" Nolan Bushnell shook his head, thinking that Li Zetian was still too-young, too-simple, how could he sign such a contract? ! !
Li Zetian said that if Atari is not suppressed, how can it be acquired in the future
"Chronos, does Sunbird have any other games in development? Maybe you should consider porting it to Atari's home console!"
Li Zetian shook his head and said, "Not yet. We think that China Cube, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Super Arkanoid still have potential to be tapped, so we plan to improve and perfect them."
"Okay, then I'll take my leave and leave you alone!" said Nolan Bushnell, standing up from his chair.
Li Zetian smiled and watched him leave.
Afterwards, Li Zetian called the employees of Sunbird Company together for a meeting.
"The four games of Sunbird have achieved great success. Next, we will pursue the victory!!!"
Li Zetian paused and said, "First of all, these four games need to develop sequels!"
One of the tricks to cheat money in the game industry, develop a sequel! ! !
"Secondly, we will also make a large-scale role-playing game - "Legend of Journey to the West"!"
"Mr.li, is this "Legend of Journey to the West" related to "Journey to the West"?" a Chinese employee asked.
Li Zetian nodded with a smile: "Yes, it does have something to do with it. The Legend of Journey to the West was adapted from Journey to the West. There is an ancient country called 'Huaxia' in the far east, where people live happily, well and peacefully. , But suddenly one day, the gate of time and space opened, and the demons invaded. In order to save the Huaxia Kingdom, the warriors of the Huaxia Kingdom went all the way west according to the prophet's guidance, overcame thorns and thorns, improved their battles, and finally came to the distant Holy Land to take out the Demon Sword. !"
"There will be all kinds of enemies along the way, players can take any three of them as their combat partners! "Journey to the West" is Tang Sanzang taking three apprentices to fight monsters and learn scriptures, while "Journey to the West" In the game, players can choose any three enemies on the road as their combat partners, which makes the gameplay more colorful. These enemies can be knights, priests, wizards, magicians, or some monsters, etc. The identity of the game player must reach at least 200. Of course, due to the limited storage capacity of the game cartridge, it is necessary to write a special algorithm to make game characters by modular random synthesis, that is, each character can be composed of one by one. The small modules are assembled together. These small modules include eyes, hair, ears, mouths, clothes, shoes, colors, weapons, skills, etc. Therefore, the game cassette does not need to save the data of each character, just have a module library, so Save a lot of storage space. Similarly, the map can also use the same method to save storage space. With the storage space freed up, we can make each module into high-definition pixels, making the game screen more beautiful!"
When everyone heard this, they were very surprised. They didn't expect to be able to develop games like this! ! !
Immediately, one by one looked at Li Zetian with admiration and admiration!
At this time, Li Zetian continued: "When the game is running, characters and maps will be generated according to a special algorithm. If the player does not accept this character, then after the battle, the character data will be deleted! When entering the next map, the previous map will be automatically deleted. Lose!"
"As for the battle mode of the game? Then use a relatively simple turn-based system! As for what is a turn-based system? In short, that is when one side has finished attacking, and then it is the other side's turn to attack, and the cycle continues until the battle is over!"
After listening to Li Zetian's words, everyone was shocked, as if the great god of the game world was giving them a lecture.
If the game is developed according to Li Zetian's intention, this game must be a huge production! ! !
Before everyone could return to their senses, Li Zetian stretched out three fingers and said indifferently: "Three years, I will give you three years to complete this game! Art, designing storylines, writing codes, etc., presumably 3 years. That's enough! Guangguang, you are of Chinese descent, and you are familiar with Journey to the West, so you will be responsible for this game!!!" At the end, Li Zetian looked at a twenty-five- or six-year-old Chinese youth.
"Yes, the task is guaranteed to be completed!" Wu Guangguang didn't expect that he would be entrusted with an important task, and he was immediately excited and nodded quickly in response.
Li Zetian nodded, then glanced at everyone, and said, "Finally, let me tell you some news. Next, the company will further expand and recruit some hardware engineers. Soon, Sunbird will enter the arcade and home machine market!"
clap clap clap!
When everyone heard the words, they applauded.
The better the company develops, the more people who are veterans of the company will naturally make huge profits, because they all have a part of the options.
Li Zetian said: "Okay, let's break up!!!"
The four games "China Square", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" have made Sunbird a lot of money, but there are some real players like Nolan, the CEO of Atari Company. Bushnell said that the Apple-ll platform was too small, and Sunbird could actually make more money.
So, after Sunbird earned its first money on the Apple-ll platform, it immediately decided to start a hardware project.
Home game consoles are a bit difficult to develop. Atari has spent 100 million US dollars to develop the second-generation home game console 2600. Sunbird has not yet used that much money to develop home game consoles.
So, arcade is a good choice.
Atari started out by developing arcade machines!
In addition, Li Zetian has a secret weapon! ! !
"I'm sorry, Nintendo, brother's secret weapon is copied from you again..."
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