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Chapter 72 Come again when you have time

Satoshi Iwata and Hudson's Kudo brothers are considered fellow villagers, both born in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

After graduating from Tokyo University of Technology, he did not choose to join a large company, but continued to work in the hal research institute founded by himself and his friends.

In addition to the movie "2001 Space Odyssey", the name hal also means that each letter is one step ahead of the Deep Blue Giant, the international commercial machine company ibm.

In 1983, the outstanding picture expressiveness of the Hongbai Machine made Iwada Satoshi realize that the opportunity had come.

The HAL Institute participated in the development of the FC version of "Pinball Platform", a company composed of five people, was appreciated by Nintendo and the two parties established an extremely close relationship. Although there is no second party yet, HAL is actually Nintendo's second party.

The most dazzling one in the hal laboratory is Satoshi Iwada, a young man with a mid-divided hairstyle and looks chubby. He has extremely strong programming skills, and Nintendo people unanimously call him a "genius programmer."

This rare talent pushed open the door and saw the situation inside the house, he was stunned. He saw Miyamoto Shigeru holding a young man who didn't know him, and he seemed to have cried and laughed at him. He scratched his head in confusion, not knowing what was going on.

Shigeru Miyamoto got up from the ground with a little embarrassed and returned to the sofa.

Takahashi looked at Iwada Satoshi as if he was about to report on his job and felt that he should go out.

"I want to make a red and white version of "Balloon War"." Iwada Satoshi said straight to the point, turning around and trying to leave Takahashi, who was just halfway through at this moment.

As I heard it, Yamauchi Hiroshi didn't rush out, and there was no need to walk out again. Takahashi and Miyamoto Shigeru sat side by side on the sofa.

The prototype of the game "Balloon War" comes from the arcade game "Ostrich Knight" produced by Atari. The core gameplay of the two games is the same. To a certain extent, "Balloon War" is considered a skin-changing product of "Ostrich Knight".

Just like Tomohiro Xikao from Taidong, he was just an arcade repairman at the beginning, but because he had repaired too much, he understood the operating principles of the arcade and produced "Space Invader".

The "Balloon War" produced by the hal Institute is not a positive development, but instead reverse engineering of "Ostrich Knight" to figure out the circuit composition and program settings of "Ostrich Knight", and then design and develop "Balloon War" on this basis.

Now, the arcade project of "Balloon Wars" led by Satoshi Iwada has just completed the reverse engineering of "Ostrich Knight". Before the formal design work has begun, he plans to develop the red and white version of "Balloon Wars".

Yamauchi Hiroshi thought for a while and said, "It can be developed, but don't delay the progress of the arcade version."

"I know." Iwada Satoshi got permission, turned around and left Yamauchi Hiroshi's office, without any delay.

Takahashi looked at Iwada Satoshi's departure, and he knew the reason why Yamauchi agreed to develop the red and white version of "Balloon War".

Compared with Namco, an arcade giant like Taidong. Although Nintendo's arcades are still sold well, they are still an order of magnitude smaller.

Even if Nintendo has created a powerful home gaming platform like Red and White Machine, Nintendo is just on an equal footing in the eyes of other arcade giants.

Under such circumstances, although the major manufacturers did not refuse the premium system that Nintendo forced to implement for the sake of money, they still disliked the feeling of being inferior to Nintendo.

After the door was closed, Yamauchi Hiroshi continued to talk about the topic just now.

"If you want to have half a company in the future, I suggest taking the path of special game media. I don't think you are suitable for gaming."

"Why?" Takahashi asked.

"You have a strong spirit, but your ideas are too imaginative and not down-to-earth. Compared with writing articles, making games is a technical job, and it also requires patience and hard work. I don't think you have the patience and skills to make a game." Yamauchi Hiroshi replied.

This kind of ruthless and ruthless approach to commenting on people in person is a bit hurtful.

However, Hiroshi Yamauchi said it well. Although Shinchi Nakamoto taught Takahashi a lot of knowledge and read a lot of books himself, he still couldn't do it by letting him lead the production of a game himself.

It's like when I was in school, I seemed to have learned all kinds of knowledge, but when I put it into practice and do a real project, even students with the best grades in school will be confused and confused.

As for personality, Hiroshi Yamauchi said nothing wrong.

Although Takahashi looks down-to-earth and only has the truth and meticulousness, he is restless inside.

It’s not that he wants to do this, but as a time traveler who travels back to the past from the future, there are really many thoughts in his mind.

Even if he didn't care about these thoughts at all, these thoughts still affected his state of mind.

Perhaps no one in this world can resist the feeling of knowing a lot of information, as if he could get rich overnight and watch the chances go away one by one.

Takahashi nodded, but did not agree with Hiroshi Yamauchi. He looked up at Hiroshi Yamauchi and said, "President Yamauchi, if I really make games, can I come to you and let my game be released on the Red and White Machine?"

"Do you really want to play games?" asked Hiroshi Yamauchi.

"Yes." Takahashi nodded heavily.

"Haha, I'm so young. OK, you can make red and white machine games. However, it's useless for me to see that you have to go through the normal process and pass the game quality before you can pass the review and get on the red and white machine."

"Thank you." Takahashi thanked.

Although what Yamauchi said seems to be very fair and there is no backdoor open. In fact, being able to send the game to Nintendo for review is already the biggest backdoor.

In addition to titular second parties like Hal, there are only five that can develop games for Nintendo in fact.

In addition, other game manufacturers want to make red and white game games, the only way at this moment is to find these five third parties.

Four of them are not short of money and are unwilling to rely on other companies that want to make red and white game games. When they have time, they will make a good game themselves.

The remaining Hudson family became a hot commodity and was called the Nine Thousand Years old.

Of course, although Jiu Qiansui sounds like a respectful title, it doesn't mean it very well.

The so-called Nine Thousand Years refers to the eunuchs around the emperor. In extension, it means bullying others with power.

Therefore, other companies only call this nickname behind the scenes, and no one calls it openly for the sake of death.

"If nothing happens, I will go back to Tokyo. I will have to record the show tomorrow morning." Takahashi said.

Yuki Yamauchi didn't try to keep him, "Go back. Today I watched your show. Why should that show be broadcast live? It's okay to record it. Finally, you are welcome to come to Nintendo when you have time."
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