Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 167
"Boss, in the past two months, I have designed a scrolling racing game. The reason why it is called scrolling is that the racing car controlled by the player can only move horizontally. The so-called extreme speed forward is achieved by reversing the scene. The gameplay of this game is very simple. The player will control the racing car in the game to keep moving forward. During this process, they need to avoid obstacles that randomly appear on the road. As the game progresses, the road will appear faster and faster. When the player hits an obstacle, the entire game will end..."

"Boss, the game I designed is a collection game. The gameplay is that every once in a while, some stones will fall from the top of the screen. Players can move the bag below to collect the stones. It has two modes. In the single player mode, the player is faced with the challenge of clearing the level, that is, to collect stones continuously until the speed of the stones is getting faster and faster. If the player fails to collect all the stones, he will fail. In the multiplayer mode, we will set a fixed number of levels and let two players compete with each other..."

"Boss, the game I designed is a shooting game..."

Two weeks later, when the topic of the handover of the canal became less and less popular and the voice of public opinion gradually became weaker, Ethan Jones finally came out of the cave and came to the game of destiny that he loved so much.Since he had been away from the company for a month, the first thing he did after he came back was to gather the employees of the department to inspect the work results.

The game research and development department led by Damio Dean was the first object of his patronage. Following the narrations of former Activision founders Larry Kaplan, David Crane, and EA founder Trip Hawkins, pixel games were also presented in front of him.

"You guys have great ideas."

After listening to these people's explanations, Ethan gave his own evaluation.

"Racing games can be made directly, and I personally think there is no problem... Collecting games need to be slightly modified, and the gameplay does not need to be changed, but the idea of ​​using bags to pick up stones is too boring. In this way, changing the stones to gold coins and changing the name of the game to Tianxiang Fengcai will make players feel much better? After all, who doesn't love money in this world? As for shooting... Do it..."

"Yeah!!!"

"Wow!!!"

"Long live the boss!!!"

The final establishment of each project made everyone in the conference room smile.The reason why these people will gather again is for game development. Now Ethan is willing to delegate power and let them be his own inspiration. For anyone who is engaged in creation, it is a very wonderful thing.

Those excited faces also made Ethan smile and nod.

After his employees left one after another with the project reports, Ethan turned his attention to his head of the game development department, "Damio, where is your project?"

Unlike those guys with dreams, Damio Dean, the veteran of the company, came here today empty-handed. Facing the boss's question, this guy who was not much older than Ethan smiled shyly, "Boss, I don't have any good ideas for now. If I get some interesting inspiration in the future, I will definitely tell you, and..."

He changed the subject and said: "These newcomers all intend to show their strengths, so they basically study their own inspirations alone. But because some people can't program, such as that Trip Hawkins, so they need programmers to cooperate with them when they conceive projects. In order to let them be on the same starting line, I helped them..."

Hearing this little story, Ethan smiled all over his face, "The newly formed department turned out to be a mess?"

"Oh—these people really don't know how to win-win cooperation." He sighed.

Damio Dean didn't think it was a big problem, "Boss, this is just the beginning. After their first game is launched, there will be a clear distinction in the status of the office. At that time, I think they will naturally choose to cooperate."

"Hahaha——" Ethan laughed out loud.

"Damio, you are so interesting! They are obviously competing for their own talents, how come it turns into a street story told with fists from your mouth?"

"Almost." Damio Dean replied naturally with a smile on his cheeks.

But Ethan is not interested in such trivial matters.

"Since you don't have your own project for the time being, shall I arrange two jobs for you?"

"No problem boss!" Damio Dean replied quickly.

Ethan smiled and said, "Then let me briefly tell you about the project concept. First, it is to develop a female-oriented "Pac-Man". I have already named the game, and it is called "Ms. Pac-Man"..."

"Second, it's the sequel of "Snake", "Battle". Two players control different snakes on the same screen for a feeding competition. Whoever gets the most points wins. Among them, one snake is green and the other is pink. Then you name them respectively..."

Since Barbara is a full-fledged feminist, and her junior is that murderous Lang Mie, the project of maintaining the arcade market will naturally be put on the agenda by Ethan.

Eh--

He Ethan Jones didn't mean to lick!

The main thing is that it happened by coincidence!
Before, Ethan decided to make "Ms. Pac-Man", but due to Nintendo's sudden betrayal, "Alien" suddenly appeared, and Warner's sudden attack, he had no time to plan specific projects.

And now, when these feminists want to win him over, responding with their own business game, that is the right kind of support that can no longer be right.After "Ms. Pac-Man" is released, they will definitely believe that Destiny Games attaches great importance to women's rights.

Of course, this is actually a fact, right?
Since the establishment of Destiny Games, the chairman and CEO of the company have been Evelyn. He, Ethan, a 22-year-old child who has not received higher education, can barely be the president.

When corporate structures are ahead of the trend of history, who can say they are not right?
(laughs~
Alright, alright, no kidding, since the donkey and elephant parties have already targeted them, then there must be normal contact. The donkey side is maintained by Evelyn, while the elephant side is maintained by Thomas.

In the past few days, Ethan has communicated with Thomas. Since the former governor of California has already approached him, it is no problem to make a proper donation in the name of an agricultural company. What's more, Thomas is a well-established farmer, so there is no pressure on him to do this kind of thing.

As for whether there is a problem with two parties in a family?
There may be problems in other countries, but there will be absolutely no problems on the continent of America, because America is such a magical country, and personal party identities can be switched at will.

In his previous life, when Ethan was in New York, he witnessed the founder of Bloomberg, the boss Michael Bloomberg jumping repeatedly.He was the leader of the Donkey Party at the beginning. In order to serve as the mayor of New York, he resolutely gave up his identity as the Donkey Party and joined the Elephant Party to seek support. Shortly after he was disarmed and returned to the field, he re-registered as the Donkey Party in order to run for the general.

Perhaps for ordinary people, only by standing firmly on the side can they reap the benefits they want, but for capitalists, I will support whoever is obedient. If not, how can the word "financial master" be spread?If the candidates really have the guts, they will use their own money to campaign!
"The matter of the console is coming soon, because there are reference objects in reality, so I know what functions a home game console needs to have, and I have almost drawn the internal circuit board."

"Next, I will ask them to purchase parts and assemble a prototype, to see if there is any problem with the design idea and actual operation, and then to see the effect of each chip and 6502."

"For example, Texas Instruments' image chips, although they are cheap, may not be compatible with 6502. If so, we may have to use Motorola's chips. After all, their chips and 6502 come from the same source, right?"

"Oh, by the way, what about the project book for the shooting game you told me about last time?"

"You've been staying at home for the past few days. You should finish painting, right?"

After setting up the arcade game development work, Ethan went into his sister's office and asked her about consoles and console game development.

As for Evelyn's big language, Ethan both understood and didn't understand it.

If he understands it, he knows that the development of the mainframe is going well. The only tangled point may be the choice of chips. If he doesn’t understand it, he doesn’t understand. Is there a problem of incompatibility between the image processor and the central processing unit?Isn't the development environment in the early days of computing too bad?

But Ethan didn't ask about this point. It's not whether Evelyn will answer him, but once Evelyn starts to answer, she will try to make Ethan understand her words as if she were in class. Ethan is usually very resistant to knowledge that doesn't belong to him.

Therefore, after getting the answer that the development was fast, he immediately pulled out the "Contra" level legend designed in the past few days from behind his back, pushed it in front of his sister, and then started to walk away.

Just as he was about to sprint out of the office, Evelyn spoke again.

"Aren't you going out today?"

"no."

"That's good. Later, there will be an optical expert to talk about optical storage. Although I have decided to cooperate with him, you'd better meet him. After all... This is a project with a guaranteed R&D budget of more than 100 million yuan. I can sign it directly, but you'd better know."

During the time when Ethan was hiding from the limelight, Evelyn had finalized the optical storage project cooperation he proposed. The person was not a professor at Stanford, but a boss who worked for Caltech and General Electric recommended by the dean of Stanford's Department of Physics.

This boss is named Robert Hall, born in [-], worked for Lockheed, later worked for General Electric, and is currently a member of the American Academy of Engineering.

His greatest invention was the development of a magnetron during WW2, which can emit continuous wave magnetic interference to enemy radars. This magnetron was later eliminated by the military and entered the civilian field, becoming the choice of most microwave oven heating tubes.

In addition, he also invented the world's first laser diode, which made the telecommunications industry, the medical industry, and the chip industry run wild all the way out of control.

Therefore, when the dean of the Stanford Physics Department came back from vacation and learned that Ethan and Evelyn wanted to study optical storage, he directly recommended this industry leader to them.

The process of poaching was also very smooth, because during WW2, President Fred Terman led the radar project research of the US military at Harvard, and the two were originally "colleagues".

Ask him to open a project to study optical storage, that is simply simple!

No wonder——

"Fred is really killing me!"

"He called me one after another, saying that I rejected them at Stanford and returned to my alma mater, Caltech. That would not give him face!"

"He said that I didn't give him face back then, so I have to give him face now, otherwise he will be talking there before he dies. He has done everything, but he just didn't invite me!"

"I'm really convinced!"

"Extremely serious scientific research in his mouth is like a treat for dinner!"

"He's killing me! I can't help it, I have to come here!"

"What kind of product do you want?"

"You say, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you!"

When Ethan saw the old man in his 50s and almost 60 recommended by Stanford in the company's living room, his complaining tone filled the air with a sour smell.

The eloquent words vented his inner dissatisfaction.

His dancing gestures spoke of his inner anger.

But even so, the old man didn't leave, but welded his butt on the seat, and kept patting the table, so that Ethan and Evelyn could quickly put forward their demands.

It was the first time Ethan saw this dissatisfied cooperation method.

And after he turned his head and looked at Evelyn...

He saw a certainty in his sister's eyes.

Such a clear statement made Ethan's eyelids twitch. At this moment, he finally understood the status of Principal Fred Terman in the American scientific community.

That's simply disgusting!
Ah bah bah!

It's to save me!

Shaking his head, regardless of these, he raised a smile and said, "Uh...Professor Hall..."

"You can just call me Robert. I know Ralph. He said you are a nice young man. I also know Arnold. We worked together at GE before." The thin old man with glasses waved his hand: "If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't bother to talk to Fred!"

"He's so annoying!"

'Oh--'

Ethan got it.

'It turned out to be an acquaintance of an acquaintance!Isn't that an old acquaintance? '

When Robert Hall mentioned the names of Ralph Bell and Arnold Spielberg, Ethan was immediately relieved, and directly stated his needs.

"Uh... What I want is a CD player that can play the sound and images stored in the CD... Different from the ones released by Philips and MCA, what I want is a large-capacity CD that can hold games on a single disk... Then, it is best that this player is small enough to be held in the hand... Oh yes! It would be even better if the data in the CD can be easily erased and then re-burned... These... Shouldn't be difficult?"

Ethan tried his best to tell what the future CD would look like.

But after listening to his description, Robert Hall touched his cheek.

He looked at Evelyn with puzzled eyes, and said with a toothache: "Uh Evelyn, this is how you usually communicate? He doesn't know any professional terms?"

"Yes..." Evelyn nodded with a smile.

"Oh! My! God!"

Robert Hall shook his head, "It's amazing that you can continue to do this."

As soon as the words fell, he got up to say goodbye.

As the old man walked away quickly, Ethan, who was looking at his back, was a little bewildered.

"Did he agree?"

"of course."

"But he didn't say anything!"

"Maybe it's related to your description?"

"Am I that unprofessional?"

"Guess? Hahahahaha——"

As Evelyn left with a big laugh, Ethan twisted his mouth and snorted.

Although he doesn't understand technology, what technology he knows will lead to development!
For this alone, these scientists can't catch up!

After winning the spiritual victory in the way of Ah Q, Ethan went back to the office.

With the finalization of the main business, the establishment of future products, and the collection of scientific patents, he can finally lean on the boss's chair and listen to financial and other reports.

Alan Massey, the company's financial director, said that in the past few months, the arcade shipments of "Star Wars" hit a new high. In addition to the [-] units ordered by Fox, additional purchases from other small merchants also pushed the total arcade shipments to [-] units. If nothing else, the sales volume of this game will create an astonishing history.

Although the shipment volume of a single arcade machine in the North American arcade market is not comparable to that of the notebook, Ethan is not surprised by the current results, because the game he sells is called "Star Wars"!If this name can't make history and break the record of "Donkey Kong" launched by Nintendo in his previous life, then George Lucas won't earn billions with a single IP.

If the No. [-] IP in North America can’t play, then there’s nothing America can do.

In addition, Nintendo's payment has also arrived, and they have settled the amount of the statement brought in the previous period. At the same time, they also hope that Ethan can fulfill his promise as soon as possible.

"What?" Ethan didn't understand what Nintendo meant.

He looked at Alan Macy with a confused face and said, "What promise?"

He doesn't remember promising anything to Nintendo.

"Supervisor," Alan Macy reminded.

"Oh—" Ethan remembered.

Then his face darkened, "Why are they urging this matter again?"

Regarding the issue of dispatching supervisors to the chip factory, Ethan has been unable to make up his mind, because there are not many people around him who he can trust.

He was troubled by this matter before, but now, Nintendo is urging him?

Pooh!
These people are really cheap!

There was no reaction when he was doing things before, but now he behaves immediately when he is hammered.

And when Ethan was thinking about how to solve his own problem, Alan Macy said again: "Ethan, if you don't have a suitable person, then let Julis go."

'? '

This proposal surprised Ethan.

"Julis?" This is the executive director of their company!

"Yes." Allen Macy nodded and said, "She actually has the same idea."

'! '

A big exclamation mark suddenly appeared on Ethan's head.

'What the hell? '

'Julys wants to go to the book herself? '

He hurriedly asked Alan Macy to call the girl.

And after Julis Noble sat down on the chair across from the boss's desk, she finally expressed her inner thoughts, "Boss, I wonder if you still remember our initial conversation?"

"It was our conversation when the company was first established and when it was recruiting."

"At that time, I told you that the purpose of my coming to the company was to find answers."

"I want to know whether man is free, whether man has absolute freedom."

"I think I have already found the answer, the day you scolded Mino Arakawa."

"That day, I was guarding outside the living room. I heard you say that we don't need evidence to settle the case. As long as we think you have it, you have it."

"At that moment, I seemed to understand the meaning of freedom. As long as I can decide what other people think, or in other words, as long as I can make others accept my will, whether they want to or not, and whether the process is forced or not, then we are free."

"This kind of thing may not happen in our country, but in this book, it seems to be very easy to achieve."

"So I wanted to try it."

"Go and taste the taste of freedom."

Julis Noble looked at Ethan with a smile.

The face under the blond hair was full of longing.

'...'

Ethan blinked his eyes, and his right hand, which was turning the pen, slowed down.

After looking at Julis seriously and confirming that she wasn't joking... Ethan immediately complained in his heart, "Damn it, why do the women I come into contact with want to succeed more than one?" '

'Are intellectual women in America in the 70s really that scary? '

Although he was puzzled, Ethan would not ask all this out.

Instead, he changed the subject and said, "Do you speak Japanese?"

"They definitely know English."

"Did you know that the way of life over there might be different from ours?"

"They're going to help me become the same."

"Then do you know what you're going to do over there?"

"Stare at Nintendo, stare at them from the game business to the chip business, and then collect news about the home game console cooperation they said before to confirm the authenticity of the news we got before. Although the truth is not important, it is important for Nintendo to be honest."

"Hiss..." Ethan was interested in the girl's work direction.

"Are you sure you can do it?" He also wanted to know Nintendo's every move.

"Of course!" Julis Noble replied affirmatively, "After that time, I have been learning Japanese and Japanese by myself. As long as the company arranges an interpreter for me this time, I am confident that I can master their language and characters within a year..."

Well, Ethan took it.

"I have one last question, does your family agree?"

He stared at Julis Noble for an answer.

The girl smiled sweetly, "My dad wants me to go back and get married, but I don't like that guy."

"Snapped!"

Ethan's eyes darkened, and he raised his hand to his forehead.

Got it!

He finally knew why Julis Noble took the initiative to apply for an assignment!

This guy originally wanted to escape from marriage!
(End of this chapter)