Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 35 Get Rich~
"Three years ago, if I asked everyone what a video game is, many people might not know it, because the vast majority of people had never seen this kind of thing, but now three years later, I think everyone can understand this question." Answer. Those big guys that are placed at the entrance of bars, dance halls, and billiard rooms, playing strange music, contain video games."

"Speaking of video games, we have to talk about Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, who used the wisdom of engineers to bring video games that originally existed in the laboratories of major universities to each of us, giving Our daily life has added a lot of color. But at the same time, I believe most people have also heard of the lawsuit against Atari by Mirov. Although Nolan Bushnell changed the world, he did use despicable by means of plagiarizing Mi Luohua's game."

"We thought that the out-of-court settlement two months ago would put Atari in trouble, because they would not be able to launch their own creative games in the next year. We even had a guess that Atari and Mi Luo Hua's reconciliation will be the beginning of their decline. But no one expected that within half a month after the lawsuit ended, Atari would release a new game—"Snake Game" as an agent."

"When we first heard the name of the game, our entire Los Angeles Times editorial team was confused because the name was so abstract that we couldn't even guess what the game was about."

"So, after the game was launched, we were curious and went to the game console to experience it."

“To be honest, we found this game very boring when we watched other people play it. Because it’s not a battle game, it’s a single-player game where the player plays a snake, a snake that can move on its own. All the player can do is to manipulate the joystick, change the snake's forward direction, let it eat the things on the screen, and watch it grow and grow little by little because of eating."

"This kind of game where you can't interact with friends, and there is no fierce confrontation, makes us feel meaningless."

"But after we got our hands on it, we realized that this is a fascinating game!"

"Although the snake in the game will move by itself, at the same time, it will die after touching the boundary and itself."

"Although the snake in the game can grow longer by eating, at the same time, after eating a certain amount of food, its moving speed will also become faster."

"This discovery shocked us!"

"And after we kept trying, an illusion even appeared in our minds, that is, what we are playing is not a game, but what we are manipulating is actually a life!"

"The little snake we play seems to have wisdom! After discovering that food can help us grow, we can't wait to speed up and look for more!"

"The little snake we played seems to have a soul! Because it knows that no matter what it eats, it can't eat itself!"

"To be honest, we don't know where the inspiration for this game came from! But we do know that this may be the best video game this year! Or, it may be the best video game since the birth of the game. Electronic games!"

"Because it portrays the greed in human nature perfectly!"

"The game design that is in line with human nature is full of fun! The difficulty increase that makes people want to succeed attracts people to challenge 'Win' again and again!"

"Perhaps it is because the design of "Snake Game" is so charming. Since the game was launched, it has occupied the entire west coast in just one month! If the previous "Pong" almost occupied all karaoke halls, dance halls, billiard halls, etc. Hall door, then "Snake Game" is to completely rule it all!"

"We don't know how many copies of "Snake Game" Atari has sold in total! But we know that "Snake Game" may not be long before it will break all records and become the best-selling video game in Mimi!"

"Because it's so much fun!"

"Because all of us at the Los Angeles Times were obsessed with this little snake, we reached out to Atari to interview Nolan Bushnell, but because they were busy selling, we There was no contact with him."

"However, the staff of Atari answered our questions. They told us that there were two inventors of "Snake Game" and they lived on the side of Atari. One of them was Evelyn Johnson. , a student at the Stanford School of Engineering, and the other is his younger brother, Ethan Jones, a former Mirov employee."

"When we heard about Stanford and Mirov, we were not surprised, because they are both places where miracles are born."

"And before the publication, we did not contact these two people, which makes us very regretful."

"If there is a chance, we will do an exclusive interview with the inventor of "Snake Game"."

"We want to know how the Snake Game, a game that has taken over the West Coast, came to be."

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To be honest, when Ethan finished reading this article, his hands were shaking extremely!
This is the "Los Angeles Times", the largest daily newspaper in the western part of Millikin, second only to the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" in influence in the entire city!
This kind of media wrote a sub-headline for "Snake Game"?
Oh! Sxxt! !This special is also great!

Especially the extremely beautiful vocabulary made his face show a happy smile!

What does it mean that a snake is wise?

What does it mean that a snake has a soul?

He doesn't know at all!

But these overinterpretations—

"Cough, cough, cough." Ethan coughed twice with a straight face.

Pretentiously said: "This... The editorial writing of the "Los Angeles Times" is not bad, and the writing is quite good."

"Oh! - Fxxk!!! Ethan! If you want to laugh at that special guy, just laugh!"

Instead, Steve Jobs pushed him and yelled, "I know you're excited! Because your face is so tense right now! If you don't believe me, you can look in the rearview mirror! It's so special! Now You're like a constipated one!"

As soon as these words came out, Ethan couldn't hold back anymore.

"Hahahaha-"

The empty gas station was filled with his laughter.

He is a layman!
He loves compliments like that!

"Oh~ I want to keep this newspaper well~ because they found a good game with such keen eyesight~"

After laughing, Ethan folded the newspaper again and put it in his pocket.

Steve Jobs, who looked at that fart, rolled his eyes.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have bought this newspaper." He muttered.

Then, he directly opened the door of the cab, "Get out of the car!"

"What are you doing?" Ethan was very puzzled, and shouted: "Oh! My dear Steve! Are you jealous of me? Jealous of my fame? So you want to dump me here, let I go back?"

Ethan's words almost made Steve Jobs lose his temper.

His eyes were darkened, and he said loudly: "Fxxk! Ethan! Are you mentally ill? I'm afraid of death!"

"You are so excited now, what if you weld your foot to the accelerator to find excitement when driving later?"

"It's not far from Los Gatos, so I don't want any surprises!"

"Oh~ is that so? Thank you~" Ethan got out of the car with a smile.

In his opinion, it is a good thing for someone to drive on his own initiative!

Because in the past month, he was really about to throw up!

After he sat in the co-pilot again, he also patted the car window and said loudly, "Let's go! Go home!"

In a roar, Ethan also returned to Atari.

According to his previous plan, the most important thing to do after returning is to count the sales of "Snake Game".

And this matter, Nolan Bushnell is more urgent than him.

He came back first and calculated the total sales directly.

Six weeks into the game's release, 1121 electronic arcade machines have been sold, earning $1.

Gaming boards sold 2715 for $1.

The two items add up to $2.

Although this figure is not enough compared to the revenue of hit games that cost hundreds of millions in later generations, but in this era, nearly 250 million yuan can already drive people into madness!
Among them, the share belonging to Ethan and Evelyn is 15.00% of the electronic arcade machine, 201 US dollars, and 780.00% of the game circuit board, which is 18.00 US dollars.

If you deduct the 7/732 share with Evelyn and get 5124 dollars for a replacement motherboard, he and Jobs exchanged a total of [-] game motherboards, a total of [-] dollars in labor costs...

"Snake Game" brought Ethan $203 in revenue in just over a month!
You know, this was 1975 in 20!

"Send it!"

Ethan's mouth grinned to the base of his ears!
"If you work hard and sell the game to the east coast, then this year's share should be 50?"

Ethan's thought made Nolan Bushnell burst out laughing.

While smoking, he coughed twice and said, "Ethan, I can understand your feelings, but the time to steal money is over."

"Next, we can't continue to sell like before."

　Thank you [Protection Point Solution] for the reward of 100 starting coins.

　　PS, when I wrote Chapter 33 yesterday, I made a mistake in the data. 100 circuit boards can return [-] US dollars of funds. It was written as [-] US dollars. It has been revised. I am sorry.

　　
　
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