Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 151 Disney's Attention
Ethan admitted that his mind is actually very small, and he is very vengeful.If someone bullies him, he will record the corresponding time according to the degree.

For example, those like Nolan Bushnell and Don Valentine who took the initiative to snatch the copyright, he will definitely remember it for a lifetime, and the possible potential promoters like Disney...

He will also make an assessment of the behavior of these people based on their participation in the matter.

If it's malicious like the previous two, then I'm sorry, these people are on Ethan Jones' blacklist, but if it's just for commercial reasons like MCA, then Ethan also It will no longer extend what is wrong with people.

After all, there is too much coveting in business, right?
If you want to buy other people's achievements, it is also a sin...

Then there are no innocent people in this world.

Of course, Ethan is not stupid, he won't take the initiative to ask, and Roy Disney didn't mean to talk about the previous incident.When he led Ethan and Evelyn to the upstairs living room of the hotel hosting the "Star Wars" celebration banquet, he showed the way of the host and started talking with a smile.

"Mr. Jones, Ms. Johnson, although we met for the first time, I have known you before that, because in the past few years, various media have often reported on your games, and from time to time mentioned your new creations. Record, when "Snake", "Pac-Man", and "Star Wars" played successful movements on the North American continent time and time again, your names will ring in my ears, it may be people's surprise , but more like people's joy..."

Roy Disney took out a pack of Marlboro from his T-shirt pocket, and gave Ethan a cigarette very naturally. After finding that Ethan refused with a smile, he put it away decisively, and turned to the living room. Next to the wine cabinet, he took out a bottle of brandy as if he was familiar with it, and poured two glasses for the two of them.

When the amber liquid exuding the apple fragrance appeared, Ethan, who took a few sniffs, felt a little outrageous, while Roy Disney returned to his seat with a smile, and said, "This is apple brandy from Calvados. The Normandy period has come to our country."

"I heard that the computer company Mr. Jones invested in is called Apple?"

"So when I saw you at the banquet, I sent people back to get the wine."

"And I hope you like it."

"Oh—thank you—" Ethan raised his eyebrows and took a simple sip.

Well, this slightly sweet taste should be the type that Xiao Qiao likes.

Ethan didn't want to extend the topic, so Roy Disney didn't force it either. After a few simple words, he also talked about the purpose of today's meeting, which is to seek cooperation.

"Perhaps you should have heard that we, Disney, had contacted Atari as early as [-]. At that time, we, or I, wanted to acquire Atari, because I felt that the game industry It will be a new channel for the development of film and television images, and if some classic animation characters are made into games, it will bring us huge benefits for Disney.”

"But it's a pity that I didn't negotiate a cooperation with Nolan Bushnell and Don Valentine at that time, and with the development of several years, the current "Star Wars" has thoroughly proved my original intention. The point of view is correct. When I got the arcade machine produced by your company, I already knew that the game full of fun will attract countless players to the theater. After I finished watching the movie, I knew better. Afterwards, people want to be Luke Skywalker with lightsaber and defeat the evil Darth Vader with their own hands, and the Star Wars game is the best channel.”

Roy Disney, holding a glass of wine, said with a smile: "Now, the whole Hollywood is very envious of George Lucas, because he not only made a successful movie, but also invited the most computer-savvy movie on the planet." The game guy did a huge promotion for his movie. When the movie box office and the game revenue doubled, everyone, including me, was eager to replicate their success."

"so……"

"I'm here."

Roy Disney expressed his thoughts frankly, and Ethan quietly praised him for his behavior of not wasting time, but for what he proposed...

Ethan wasn't really that interested.

There is no other reason, it is simply that Disney's cartoon image is too special.

Take the most classic Mickey as an example. When Mickey’s stickers were pasted on the outside of the bomber by American soldiers during WW2, it is no longer a simple mouse!After Walt Disney took Mickey as the model and personally drew the promotional posters in which the other party participated, Mickey has become an indelible symbol integrated into the spiritual life of American people!
When the image becomes a symbol...

Everyone knows that what this thing represents is endless money!

And cooperate with brands that have already gained success?
Isn't that the head kicked by a donkey?
The cooperation proposed by Roy Disney is different from the commission of George Lucas. The former is relying on his own brand, Niubi, to make money in the game industry, while the latter is fighting with his back. Trying to take his Ethan Jones heat.

When the demands of both parties are different, the distribution of benefits becomes a problem.

More importantly, the whole cooperation was thankless for Ethan.

If the cooperation is successful, it must be the brand that makes the big money.

If the cooperation fails, the producer must be scolded.

In this case, he, Ethan Jones, would only cooperate with Disney if he criticized it like crazy!

Of course, it was impossible for Ethan to say such words directly.

After Roy Disney finished speaking and Ethan Jones fell silent, the huge living room suddenly fell into a strange silence.Roy Disney looked at Ethan with a smile on his face, waiting patiently for his answer. Evelyn, who knew her brother had no idea, took the topic——

"Sorry, Mr. Roy Disney, the cooperation you proposed is a bit difficult for us, and we may not be able to come up with a positive answer for the time being."

Evelyn smiled and said, "Because we don't know much about animation."

"At present, I have only been exposed to a little science fiction."

"We were also new to how Hollywood works."

"After hearing my words, you may be very confused. You may think that whether it is animation or science fiction, it is just an element of the game."

"But what I want to say is that there is a huge gap between the two. The latter is like drawing on white paper and only needs to use imagination, while the former has factual reference. When your company's animation image When it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the creation of games must be cautious..."

Ethan smiled and nodded at his sister's words.

"It's true, Mr. Roy Disney, game production is actually very troublesome."

"It's not something that can be produced just by setting up a project."

"Especially the kind of cooperation you mentioned, it needs long-term demonstration."

"Oh—is it—" Roy Disney nodded slightly.

"I understand, I understand."

He seemed to have been persuaded by the two, but then got up and walked to the door of the living room.

Opening the door, he waved to the assistant who was guarding the door.

Soon, a black briefcase appeared in his hand.

After sitting down again, he also showed the situation inside the bag to the siblings. In the briefcase that can hold a lot of documents, there is only a transparent file bag at the moment, and there are two postcards in it. From the outside, Nothing special, but if you look closely, there are green snakes and ghosts painted on them.

And that...

It was a present for the children on their last trip to Washington.

This display made Ethan laugh and raised his legs.

Evelyn, on the other hand, leaned back and folded her arms.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be your company's "Snake" and "Pac-Man", right?" Roy Disney opened the file bag with a smile, and took the two not-so-exquisite postcards. came out, "And as far as I know, this is Miss Johnson's masterpiece?"

He cast a curious look at Evelyn.

"Yeah." Evelyn admitted directly, nodding slightly.

"The painting is not bad." Roy Disney gave his own evaluation.

Then, he changed the topic, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be the long-term argument that you two said, right? I didn't expect you to be interested in Hollywood?"

"But this is normal. You are friends with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. With them, it is definitely a very easy thing to enter Hollywood, isn't it?"

On the surface, Roy Disney was asking the two if their guess was correct.

But that indisputable tone is a manifestation of inner affirmation.

Ethan didn't like Roy Disney's superior attitude very much, and when he saw the wrinkled cheeks blooming with a sure-win smile, he stopped listening passively, but asked actively: "Roy Disney Disney, I don't think I understand what you mean."

"Oh—Mr. Jones—" seemed to capture Ethan's displeasure, but it was more like knowing that his behavior was a bit too much, so after Ethan expressed his attitude, Roy Disney shook his head and said: "Please Believe me, I have no ill intentions towards you two."

"These two postcards are just my accident."

“You know, my dad and my uncle made Disney a company so big that we wake up every day with a million problems, big and small. And those problems can touch Amerika up and down. Departments large and small."

"Because there are so many things to deal with, there are a lot of manpower to deal with them, and with more people to deal with, naturally more news will be heard. For example, you should know that Disney previously lobbied Congress to amend the copyright protection law. Regulations? These things have allowed us to have a longer contact with the department where your Professor Barbara is, so seeing these gifts..."

"That's really a very natural thing to do, isn't it?"

Roy Disney raised an eyebrow at Ethan and Evelyn.

Although he was just talking about the accident, there is a kind of power in every line.

The law is against me?

Then change the law!
If its existence cannot protect my interests, what is the point of its existence?
Moreover, there is a more important point here...

That is, he seems to know that their destiny game has exploited loopholes in copyright protection?
Although this is not a big deal, it's too special to pretend to beep!
Well, that's how Ethan feels right now.

Adore it!

"Oh, Mr. Roy Disney, this is just a small gift from us to the children." Before Ethan could speak, Evelyn handed the empty cup in her hand to Ethan.

The girl also saw that Roy Disney was hiding a knife in his smile, so she motioned for Ethan to pour her wine, and then...shut up...don't be angry for now.

"When Mrs. Barbara told me that her colleagues liked our games very much, and the children at home also liked our works, we had a sudden idea and wanted to give them some game-related gifts. "Evelyn said with a smile: "As you said, it was all an accident, because it happened naturally, and as for your interest in Hollywood..."

"I don't think the money we earned from the Destiny game in a year is probably not enough to pay for a movie, right?"

"Hahahahaha——" Roy Disney laughed loudly before Evelyn finished speaking. He waved his hand and said, "Oh Miss Johnson, your words are a little too much."

"Although we all know that the film industry is a big gamble. No one knows whether a film will be a real success until it is officially released. But if you say you can't play this game? Others may think that what you said Makes sense, but..."

Roy Disney raised the goblet on the table and drank the amber liquid in one gulp.

The more than 40-degree alcohol made his facial features tense, but he returned to normal in an instant.

"But I think you are being too modest." Roy Disney dropped the cup, crossed his fingers in front of him, and said, "I have been paying attention to the video game industry since [-]. Five years have given me a deep understanding of the industry."

"I even dare to say that in this world, no one understands video games better than me!"

'? ? ? '

'WTF? '

As soon as these words came out, Ethan almost didn't hold back.

Because a red tie popped into his head.

Fortunately, he didn't laugh directly, because next, Roy Disney showed them a beautiful picture that might exist in the future——

"The world's first truly profitable video game was Atari's Pong."

"In three years, they sold [-] units."

"The price of a single unit is $800, and the revenue here is [-] million."

"However, according to incomplete statistics, the shipment volume of the arcade machine "Pong" in our country should be around 1 to [-] units, because when Atari's plagiarism succeeded, other companies also This product has been imitated one after another, and this game has generated a total of [-] million US dollars in revenue in our country, and the revenue brought by a single machine should exceed [-] US dollars!"

"That number looks scary, doesn't it?"

"For those merchants who bought the machine, the input-output ratio is thirteen times!"

"In the words of a certain European thinker, this profit can kill a man four times!"

"But from [-] onwards, the numbers related to video games got even scarier!"

Roy Disney patted his thigh and said with a smile, "The best-selling video game in [-] was your "Snake."

"Atari said that a total of [-] units were shipped, and there were still many circuit boards, but is this number true or false? I am skeptical anyway."

"Because when "Snake" was the craziest, in the summer of 1975, the passenger flow of our Disneyland in California shrank! Both adults and children went to play your game. This behavior made I was very surprised! I bought dozens of them and put them in the park!"

"And in that year, the actual revenue generated by "Snake" should have been [-] million."

"[-] machines, [-] million in revenue, what does this mean? This means that the gold-absorbing capacity of a single machine has doubled from the previous [-] US dollars!"

"Last year, it was even more terrifying. Your "Pac-Man" leveraged a market of [-] million yuan!"

"This year, Star Wars..."

"It will definitely be higher!"

Roy Disney looked at the two with straight eyes.

Those cloudy pupils were filled with envy.

Seeing that the two of them didn't intend to say anything, he said to himself: "I don't know if you have a feeling that the video game market is booming. Maybe in a few years, the output value of the video game industry It will surpass all of Hollywood!"

"Or—"

"Traditional film and television entertainment will tremble in front of video games!"

"Because no matter how hard we do film and television entertainment, we can't catch up with the money-making pace of video games! You are not making money at all, but stealing money!"

Roy Disney went on to pour himself a glass of wine.

Then he raised his glass to Ethan and Evelyn.

Seeing Ethan shaking his head and refusing to drink, Evelyn took a sip politely, then raised his neck and drank it down again, and continued: "I have a basis for what I said."

"Mr. Jones, you just said on stage that the box office of "Star Wars" can reach [-] million? Although I don't know what your basis is, but I now assume that this prediction will become a reality."

"How long will it take 'Star Wars' to hit half a billion at the box office?"

"One year, two years, three years?"

"Five years, eight years, ten years?"

"It must be a long-term screening process, even going through several rounds of re-screening."

"Otherwise, it would be impossible to get this box office amount!"

"But what about you?"

""Pac-Man" earns [-] million a year!"

"That's a year!"

Roy Disney's voice trembled a little.

Because this is a number that all Hollywood companies can't imagine!
But Ethan had something to say.

However, before he could open his mouth, Evelyn laughed and said: "Oh, Mr. Roy Disney, your basis is a bit biased. Although our "Pac-Man" created five The value of hundreds of millions, but most of the income has nothing to do with us."

"They were paid off by the owners of the arcade machines."

"Or, they were earned by local manufacturers."

"So, we are actually working for local manufacturers, right?"

"Yeah~Yeah~Yeah~" Roy Disney couldn't help nodding at Evelyn's words, "You're right, Miss Johnson." He agreed.But in the next second, he smiled and said, "But that's only temporary, right? Your current profit sharing is just to cultivate the market."

"In the future, maybe these few years, you will earn more."

"I don't understand what you mean." Evelyn turned her head and glanced at Ethan.

Ethan also showed his confusion very well.

Roy Disney noticed the stupid expressions of the two of them, and at the same time he said with a smile: "Oh, you two, as I said, I must be the person who knows the most about video games in the world right now. "

"I said you can earn more because Mirov and Atari are going in the right direction."

"Household video game consoles are the real way for game companies to make money!"

"After you mature the market, you will definitely launch your own home console!"

"Next-"

"That's making money."

"Games like "Pac-Man" and "Star Wars" are priced at 19 yuan, isn't it expensive?"

"You sell 100 million copies, that's a profit of 90 million!"

"You sold 1000 million copies, that's 900 million!"

"And I think your game can sell at least 2000 million copies in our country!"

"As for the reason..."

Roy Disney stretched out two fingers, "First, it's because you already have a group of fans, who in Quanmi doesn't know that your game is fun?"

"second……"

"It's because you have no enemies anymore! Atari and Mirov have already been defeated by you! When the top management has been replaced, it will take a certain amount of time to restore the previous state! As for continuing to fight against you? If it's not broken, they can't be doing this kind of thing!"

"If you have to compare it, after the home console is launched, your machine is like a mobile Disneyland, which can continuously grab profits from big friends and children!"

"Wow——" Roy Disney's words made Evelyn exclaim.

The girl looked at Ethan with a smile, and said, "So we are so powerful now?"

"How come I don't know?"

"I do not know either."

Ethan shrugged, "Maybe it's because we don't have Disneyland?"

Having said that, Ethan was secretly surprised. Roy Disney might have really seen the essence of the matter.The reason why he couldn't wait to kill Atari and Mirov's new machines was because he wanted to seize the new high ground of home consoles.

That's indeed a market bigger than Hollywood, or...

There are not many legitimate trillion-level markets in themselves.

And the quick money grab...

even less.

"Mr. Roy Disney, I think I understand what you mean." Ethan said: "You are very optimistic about the video game market, so you want to join it, don't you?"

"Yes, but no."

Now that Ethan was willing to talk, Roy Disney directly stated the deal he wanted to do, "We want to join it, but we don't know how to make games ourselves, and we don't want to ask others to make games, because we know , you are the best people we could find."

"So entrusting cooperation, that's what we want to do now."

"And the remuneration...we also want to pay in another form."

He picked up the postcard on the table and said, "Snake and Pac-Man are indeed two good characters. If you give them to Disney, we can make you more money."

“We can create a story for them, animate them, and elevate their impact.”

"After all, in the eyes of the public, they are just a character manipulated by others. We have to put a friendly coat on him, so that the characters on paper can become three-dimensional."

"After that, whether it's making toys or dolls or selling clothes and accessories, it's a very natural thing. For example, your family runs an orchard and grows navel oranges? Then don't export them to the outside world. Alright, just process it on the spot, whether it’s orange juice or soda, and then label it as the little orange in "Pac-Man" and sell it..."

"This derivative is very profitable!"

"Or, isn't the little green snake in "Snake" eating apples?"

"You can also make apple-flavored juice or soda, or apple pie, and other apple-related products, and then put the snake logo on the outer packaging."

"With a complete story, I guarantee your product will sell!"

"If you are still worried, I can even sign a contract with you on behalf of Disney!"

"All your derivative products can be sold in Disneyland!"

"Our Disney only charges ten points for the venue fee, and the rest is yours!"

"As long as you are willing to accept our game orders!"

"How about it--"

"Do or not?"

Having said that, Roy Disney sat up straight.

As if he was sober, he looked at the two with burning eyes.

And his face...

Full of money!
(End of this chapter)