Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 88 Gameboy
"I need to set up the "Calabash Brothers" game development team. Anyone of you who wants to sign up voluntarily!" Zhao Ye looked around and said.

Many people are very interested in "Calabash Brothers" and want to replicate the sales miracle of "Super Mario".

All of a sudden, people who wanted to participate in this project raised their hands and signed up.

Zhao Ye took a look and found that the "Pokemon" project team raised their hands the most, almost one-third of the project team.

Damn, are you people so disapproving of "Pokemon"?

Zhao Ye's head was full of black lines, and he was speechless.

There was no such type of game as "Pokemon" before.

Because these elves are so cute, even Nintendo in the previous life was not optimistic about it. At the beginning of the game's release, it didn't spend much resources on promotion.

However, "Pokemon" became popular all over RB with lightning speed, which exceeded everyone's expectations.

"It's all decided?" Zhao Ye asked.

"It's all decided!" The people who raised their hands responded one after another.

Zhao Ye nodded: "Okay, then you can join the "Calabash Brothers" game development team! As for the original game development team, if there is a shortage of people, we can recruit people from the society!"

Afterwards, Zhao Ye designated the RB game developer Yuki Inoue who had spoken just now as the team leader of the "Calabash Brothers" development team.

After making arrangements, Zhao Ye turned to the hardware department.

Wang Jizhi had already returned from the Netherlands, and Philips was too stubborn to lower the price.

Therefore, Zhao Ye simply asked Wang Jizhi to come back first.

Wujiang Group is currently not so eager to develop CD game consoles.

Besides, CD is only a kind of game storage medium. Whether the game console is powerful or not depends on the CPU.

16-bit consoles are naturally more powerful than 8-bit consoles.

And Godson Design Company has not yet designed a 16-bit Kirin 2 chip, so there is no need to develop a new generation of game consoles.

However, Zhao Ye approached Wang Jizhi to develop a new game hardware.

After Zhao Ye came to Wang Jizhi's office, he exchanged a few pleasantries with him, and then got straight to the point: "Now I need you to develop a palm-sized game console as soon as possible—a handheld game console Gameboy!"

Wang Jizhi was taken aback when he heard the words, paused for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Boss, you are so good, you can move the game console to the palm of your hand, if this kind of game console can be carried around, it will definitely become popular all over the world!! !"

Zhao Ye asked with a smile, "Are you sure you can develop it?"

Wang Jizhi thought about it carefully. It is no longer easy to develop a game console. Now it is necessary to shrink the game console to the size of a palm. The difficulty has suddenly increased a lot.

Wang Jizhi gritted his teeth and said, "Although the technology is difficult, it can be developed in theory. So, as long as we give our team a little time, we can definitely make it!!"

Zhao Ye patted Wang Jizhi on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will also participate in the development this time!"

The boss is also involved in the development?
Wang Jizhi was stunned for a moment, but was immediately overjoyed.

A technical master like the boss is also involved in the development, so what am I afraid of!

"Boss, as soon as you joined the project, I became very confident. At this moment, I can't wait!" Wang Jizhi laughed.

Seeing this, Zhao Ye couldn't help laughing.

"By the way, Mr. Wang, before you develop a handheld game console, you should go to Europe and buy back the game "Tetris". I want all the copyrights! This game can not only be played on the computer, but also Transplanted to multiple platforms such as TV game consoles, handheld game consoles, and arcade machines."

Wang Jizhi was stunned, he was going on a business trip again...

"Boss, can I not go? I'm not material for negotiation." Wang Jizhi said bitterly.

"Well, it seems that you don't need someone who is proficient in technology to buy "Tetris". I just asked Lu Maoshi, the director of Wujiang Investment Department, to send someone to go."

At this moment, Zhao Ye was wondering whether the company should form a professional negotiating team, and would send negotiators for the technology patents or companies it wanted to buy in the future.

"Mr. Wang, you are starting to form a handheld game console development team now. Our handheld game console, Gameboy, must be launched on Children's Day on June 6st next year!" Zhao Ye was about to get up and leave when he suddenly thought of something and immediately reminded him.

"Okay, no problem!!!" Wang Jizhi nodded solemnly.

……

Investment.

"Mr. Lu, there is something that your investment department must complete as soon as possible!"

"Boss, please order!"

"Alexey Pajitnov, a mathematician working at the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, invented a casual game called "Tetris". The basic rules of the game are to move, rotate and arrange various cubes, line them up in one or more complete rows and eliminate points. You send someone to Europe as soon as possible to buy all the rights to Tetris from Alexei Pajitnov!"

Zhao Ye paused, and said with a serious expression, "This game is related to whether our company's products can become popular, it is very important, we must win the copyright!"

Lu Maoshi was shocked when he heard the words, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, boss, I will go this time in person, and I promise to complete the task!"

"Well, I'll wait for your good news!" Zhao Ye nodded and smiled.

In 1985, "Tetris" was only ported to the personal computer, and now it is not well known.

If Zhao Ye hadn't known that this game was a masterpiece, he wouldn't have bought it.

Speaking of which, Zhao Ye was actually quite annoyed.

When he was reborn, he forgot to develop "Tetris". Instead, he let the Russians take the lead. This game was only developed in June 1984. Zhao Ye had every chance to kill this game before then. apply for patent.

Pity!
However, Alexey Pajitnov may not know the value of Tetris, and Wujiang Group may take the opportunity to buy the copyright of the game.

Zhao Ye didn't know at this time that it was not easy for Lu Maoshi to go to Europe to negotiate. Pajitnov had authorized the copyright of "Tetris" to the Computer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lu Maoshi went to talk about "Tetris" The copyright is tantamount to negotiating with the Soviet Union.

……

Computing company.

Liu Chuanzhi excitedly said: "The domestic newspapers should soon report that our computing company has obtained the Motorola digital BB machine. I don't know if Zhao Ye will be furious after getting this news! Haha, there is our computing company. As an agent of Motorola's digital BB machines, Wujiang Group will no longer be able to make money so comfortably!"

For some reason, as long as Zhao Ye and Wujiang Group can be hit, Liu Chuanzhi will feel very happy.

Otherwise, he always felt that he was living in Zhao Ye's shadow.

Now, although he has led the computing company to develop very well, compared with Wujiang Group, it is simply a world of difference.

Also from the Computing Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, others only remember Zhao Ye, but they don't know Liu Chuanzhi.

Liu Chuanzhi was extremely upset.

I'm a lot older, but I can't compare to a young man?

The next day, major domestic newspapers reported that the Computing Institute had become the sole agent of Motorola's digital BB machines in China.

Zhao Ye read the newspaper, but only showed a faint smile, and there was no trace of fury at all. Yanagawa and Computing Company were completely ignored. A company with no technical content is not worthy of being an enemy of Wujiang Group.

(End of this chapter)