The richest man

Chapter 156 "Street Fighter"

Beginning of the new year.

Zhang Jun circled a large piece of land in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, almost 40 hectares, to build a chip factory. The area of ​​40 hectares is very large, and it can't be used up at present, but in order to expand the factory in the future, Zhang Jun still gritted his teeth and bought it.

Although the land here is also cheap, it is far more than that in Tseung Kwan O.

In 1974, the Hong Kong authorities decided to build the first industrial estate in Hong Kong in Tai Po.

Therefore, the land in Dapu is quite valuable.

"It took 3 million Hong Kong dollars to buy the land, and the money is like water!" Zhang Jun stood in front of the factory's construction site at the moment, watching the busy construction team in full swing, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Boss, in fact, we don't need to buy such a large land at the beginning... more than ten hectares of land is more than enough!" Marcy Broad sighed slightly.

Zhang Jun was noncommittal when he heard this.

Marcy Broad may not know how popular the 6502 chip is. In the future, MOS Technology Company will not be able to produce it by itself, and will directly authorize it to the outside world, selling hundreds of millions of chips a year.

At present, 8-bit processors have just been developed, and the distance from 16-bit processors is still far away.

Multi-chip processors, that is, multi-core processors, have become the key to breakthroughs.And Legendary Games is working hard on the technology.Once there is a breakthrough, the demand for 6502 chips will surge.

Zhang Jun couldn't help but worry a little, whether the 40-hectare factory is enough...

TSMC does not move on hundreds of hectares of land. For example, the area of ​​TSMC’s Arizona fab is 1100 acres, or about 445 hectares.You know, TSMC has many factories all over the world, and this is just an American factory.

"During the construction of the plant, workers should be recruited and trained first! Fab factories are different from ordinary factories, and have higher requirements for employees!" Zhang Jun said to the people around him while inspecting the construction site.

"Okay, boss." Everyone responded in unison.

Most of the factory equipment is purchased from Japanese companies, which are of high quality and low price, such as lithography machines. Nikon of Japan is ahead of European and American companies in terms of technology.

"Is Nikon agreeing to sell lithography machine technology?"

Zhang Jun paused and asked Marcy Broad.

This time, MOS Technology Company purchased a relatively large amount of lithography machines. Taking the order as a bait and paying a lot of money to buy it, Zhang Jun tried to see if he could get the lithography machine technology from Nikon.

However, this was obviously not what Zhang Jun wanted. Marcy Broad shook his head and said, "Nikon only promised to lower the price of the lithography machine, and did not intend to sell the technology of the lithography machine..."

Hearing this, Zhang Jun was not too disappointed. The Japanese are very smart and generally do not sell technology that can make money.

At this time, Zhang Jun's desire for lithography machine technology is not very strong.

He stared at the clouds in the distance, frowning in thought.

ASML, the well-known lithography machine giant in later generations, has not yet been established, and the predecessor of ASML is actually a department of Philips R&D Laboratory in the Netherlands.

In the book "Lithography Giants", he wrote: "In the early 20s, engineers at the Philips Research and Development Laboratory in the Netherlands built a machine: a machine that tried to make money legally like printing money. But they were Not realizing that he created a 'monster', a machine that did nothing but eat money for the next 70 years."

It can be said that Philips does not attach importance to lithography machines at all.

Therefore, it should not be a big problem to buy ASML's team and technology patents from Philips.

Because of the acquisition of ASML, Zhang Jun will not hand over the order of lithography machines to ASML at all.

It is feasible to acquire ASML first and then produce lithography machines, but the lithography machines are not as advanced as Nikon, which will have a great impact on the production cost and performance of the 6502 chip.

Not worth the candle.

The acquisition of ASML lithography machine is only to obtain talents and technology. Only when a more advanced lithography machine is developed, will the factory be considered.

Therefore, Zhang Jun thought about it carefully.

The top priority is to purchase a batch of lithography machines from Nikon.

At this time, a lithography machine is relatively cheap.

Nikon's most advanced lithography machine is only more than 400 million US dollars.

Zhang Jun decided to purchase 10 units at a time.

The working efficiency of lithography machines in this era is far from being comparable to that of later generations. In order to achieve the ideal output, we can only buy a few more lithography machines.

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Zhang Jun's every move has attracted the attention of the media.

The fact that he built a factory on such a large piece of land in the Dapu circle of Hong Kong will of course cause a sensation!

The media frantically interpreted it.

However, it is probably because Zhang Jun established such a factory in order to reduce costs.

They didn't realize what the birth of this fab means. Hong Kong's economy may deviate from the historical track and develop in the direction of technology...

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On the morning of January 1975, 1, Zhang Jun hurried to the Legendary Game Company.

The arcade game "Pac-Man", which took more than half a year, has been successfully developed.

This game is popular all over the world, and it is even more successful than "Space Invaders". It has been certified by Guinness as the world record of "the most successful arcade game machine"!

Zhang Jun seemed to see countless dollars flying towards him.

In the internal game testing room of Legendary Game Company, Zhang Jun is trying to play "Pac-Man".

Similar to the game in memory, Zhang Jun's skills were poor and he died in the fourth level, but he had a smile on his face.

"That's right, "Pac-Man" is just as I imagined it to be, whether it's the color of the screen or the gameplay. It's just amazing. You guys have done a good job. You are indeed one of the best development teams in the industry..." Zhang Jun was not stingy Complimentary words, big praise to the game and the development team.

Shangguan Muye smiled and said, "Boss, all employees of our company have tried "Pac-Man", and everyone agrees that this game will be popular! The key is that this "Pac-Man" is not only loved by boys, Even girls like it very much!"

Zhang Jun heard this and said with a smile: "Hehe, "Pac-Man" itself is actually a game developed for the female market, otherwise I wouldn't let you design Pac-Man and the ghosts in the game into Q-version cute images , with a variety of bright colors of yellow, red, pink, blue, and orange."

After a pause, Zhang Jun said again: "It's still the same as before. At the same time as the new game is launched, the novel and comics of the game of the same name will be serialized on the "Legendary Game" magazine to create an IP..."

"OK, all right!"

Zhang Jun stood up from the stool, glanced at everyone, and asked slowly, "Do you have any ideas now?"

Everyone was silent.

In the game, the images of Pac-Man and ghosts are rather weird, and the story is not easy to make up.

Unlike "Space Invaders", the human race entered space and was attacked by the Zerg, and the two sides then launched a series of wars. Under such a story background, not only can the novel be written wonderfully, but also comics, cartoons and live-action movies The adaptation can also be relatively easy.

In fact, the novels and comics of "Space Invaders" are already very popular among gamers, and many people even call on the legendary game company to adapt it into movies and cartoons as soon as possible!
Moreover, Shangguan Muye and Zhang Jun also had the same thoughts.

"Boss, "Pac-Man" is not very easy to adapt..." Shangguan Muye shook his head.

Zhang Jun smiled and said: "There's nothing wrong with adapting this. I can make up one for you on the spot. For example, the race of 'Pac-Man' is inherently kind and has nothing to do with the world. It has lived by growing beans for generations. Suddenly one day , a group of evil ghosts came to the village. They were extremely ferocious and preyed on the villagers. As a result, "Pac-Man" began to rise up and resist. As long as they eat special beans, they can gain special abilities, and they can kill ghosts. Hmm Well, the story is almost like this, you can fill in the specific content by yourself..."

""Pac-Man" cannot be made into a live-action movie, but there is no problem with making it into an animated movie. Maybe the "Pac-Man" animated movie will be released in Hollywood!!!"

Zhang Jun said with a certain tone of voice.

The game "Pac-Man" is popular in Europe and the United States, and has many fans. It is still very interesting to make an animated movie.DreamWorks has made so many cartoons, it's time to try to make animated movies...

Shangguan Muye and others couldn't help feeling excited when they heard this.

When it comes to animated movies, Disney comes to mind first.

Shangguan Muye and others never expected that Legendary Game Company was originally just a game company, but now it has developed into a large group involved in games, novels, comics, cartoons and even movies.

The game room is not suitable for talking about work, Zhang Jun and others came to the meeting room instead.

After everyone was seated, Shangguan Muye first asked Zhang Jun, "Boss, "Pac-Man" has been successfully developed. When do you plan to officially release it?"

Zhang Jun pondered for a while, and then said: "The 6502 chip developed by MOS Technology Company has been successful. We can first use MOS Technology Company's small fab in the United States to produce chips with all our strength. It can produce about 20 chips a month... So, on March 3 It's officially on sale!"

Shangguan Muye nodded unconsciously when he heard the words.

More than a month is enough to produce more than 30 "Pac-Man".

No matter how popular "Pac-Man" is, it is impossible to sell so many game consoles in a month.

The distribution of goods is also relatively simple. Legendary Game Company has opened branches in major European and American countries. The branch offices have warehouses, and dealers themselves come to the warehouses of the branch offices to pick up the goods.

The legendary game company will not specialize in advertising, but will directly promote new games on the "Legendary Game" magazine.

As long as you are a game player, even if you haven't bought the "Legendary Game" magazine, you should probably have heard of it, and the effect of advertising on it is actually the best.This has also led to many arcade machine manufacturers hoping to cooperate with Legendary Game Company in order to increase the reputation of their products and increase exposure. sell goods.

This further led to the slow transformation of legendary game companies into game publishing companies.

In fact, whenever a company grows bigger, the resources it possesses will make the company unconsciously transform into a publisher.

Look at many industries, movies, music, comics, games, etc., without exception.

After talking about "Pac-Man", Zhang Jun began to ask about the development of multi-chip processor game substrates.

This game substrate is related to the next series of development projects of Legendary Game Company.

The computing power of an 8-bit processor is still too small, and game developers are stretched to the limit, and it is difficult to develop games with wonderful graphics and grand game scenes.

Right now, the 6502 chip has been developed.

It is that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Shangguan Muye replied: "Multi-chip is not simply adding four chips together, which involves a lot of technology. Developers forget to eat and sleep, and work overtime day and night. At present, we have made great breakthroughs. It is expected that within six months Multi-chip processor game substrate developed!!!”

It's still half a year!
Zhang Jun was a little depressed.

However, the failure to develop such a game substrate does not mean that related game software development cannot be carried out in advance.Game developers can fully estimate the processing power of quad-core chips to develop games.

Zhang Jun thought for a while, and said: "Although the multi-chip processor game console substrate has not been developed, our game software development team can't wait. I have an idea for a new game here, which can only be satisfied by the computing power of multi-chip. For To be on the safe side, only one game development team was called out to be responsible for the development of this new game. The development of this game is very difficult. In fact, when you develop it, the multi-chip processor game substrate has already been completed..."

Shangguan Muye asked curiously, "Boss, what type and name is this game?"

"Fighting arcade game, the name is "Street Fighter"!!!"

Fighting games are the king of arcade games!
Once "Street Fighter" came out, it was invincible! ! !
Almost half of the machines in game halls around the world are street fighters.

"The King of Fighters" replaced "Street Fighter" later.

Zhang Jun gave everyone a detailed description of the characteristics of fighting arcade games. After listening to it, everyone suddenly realized and was extremely excited.

This kind of fighting game obviously has a confrontational nature, and it will definitely be more popular with players.

Everyone can already imagine what a huge sensation it will cause when "Street Fighter" is released! !

"Boss, your talent in game planning is really a genius!" Shangguan Muye praised sincerely.

Zhang Jun smiled and said: "Calm down, be humble, you can't talk about geniuses, I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants..."

What Zhang Jun said was completely true.

He copied it.

You must be standing on the shoulders of others~
"Newton also said, 'If I see farther than others, it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants...' Boss, you're comparing yourself to Newton!" joked one executive.

"Go, go, stop joking here, or Newton's coffin will not be able to hold it down..." Zhang Jun laughed.

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Back home that day, Zhang Jun began to organize "Street Fighter".

He took out his notebook and began to write game plans and character introductions on it, and picked up a paintbrush to draw the outline of the characters.

There were relatively few characters in the "Street Fighter" game in the previous life, and there were even fewer Chinese characters. Zhang Jun decided to add a few more Chinese characters.

"Find Bruce Lee's relatives and authorize Legendary Game Company to use Bruce Lee's name and image to make games..."

"Wing Chun Ip Man is also very famous. The key is that Ip Man and Bruce Lee have a master-student relationship. Players should be interested in this character...By the way, promote Wing Chun..." The more Zhang Jun thought about it, the more excited his face became, he felt himself It is possible to cooperate with Ip Man to establish Wing Chun martial arts gyms around the world, just like building taekwondo gyms and judo gyms. It is both famous and profitable.

Zhang Jun was very depressed in his previous life. Chinese boxing gyms were dying and there were not many apprentices. On the other hand, Judo in Japan was not doing well. Many parents send their children to judo gyms to learn judo since they were young.

Doesn't Chinese kung fu work?

At this time, Zhang Jun made a secret note that he would set up a martial arts gym in the future and open chain stores all over the world.

"There are too many, add a few famous Chinese historical figures, and we can export culture to the outside world!"

"Three brothers Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Liu Bei? Xiang Yu? Zhang Sanfeng?"

"Let's add some characters from martial arts novels, 'The sun rises in the east, and I am the only one who is invincible'.

"Chu Liuxiang is not bad either, she is coquettish and unrestrained, stealing jade and stealing fragrance..."

"I also have to choose one character in fairy tale novels, why don't I just choose Sun Wukong? Well, it seems a little unreasonable to fight between gods and mortals? The game is fun, and it can promote "Journey to the West", whether it makes sense..." Zhang Jun curled his lips. .

Before I knew it, it was late at night.

Zhang Jun looked at the notebook, and it was densely filled with words.

Because "Street Fighter" will be super popular in the future, half of the people in the game room are playing "Street Fighter", so this game will attract Zhang Jun's attention.

This is a very good opportunity to export culture to the outside world.

As long as foreigners can learn more about Chinese culture, it will be easier for Chinese cultural products to enter the European and American markets in the future!

Of course, many Chinese words will be added to the game, so that these foreigner players can unconsciously learn the Chinese language while playing the game. For example, if you are watching a small Japanese movie, you will also unconsciously learn a little Japanese. , such as XXX...

It was very late at night, Zhang Jun turned off the light and lay down on the big soft bed.There is a cool breeze, and the bright moonlight shines into the house through the window. Everything in the house seems to be covered with silver gauze. Everything is so hazy and beautiful...

The next morning, the sun rose.

The golden sunlight shone on Zhang Jun's face, and the alarm clock on the bedside table suddenly made a "jingle bell" sound.

The plan of the day is in the morning.

Zhang Jun opened his eyes sleepily, and started to get up, ready to exercise.

At around 8:[-] in the morning, Zhang Jun took the planning draft of "Street Fighter" that he had sorted out last night, and drove to Legendary Game Company.

When he arrived at the company, Zhang Jun handed the planning draft to a secretary and asked her to make a few more copies for the next meeting.

9:15, meeting room.

Zhang Jun asked people to distribute the "Street Fighter" planning draft, and then said: "This is what I sorted out last night, you all have a look at it first, and then we all work together to discuss how to improve this game!"

"Okay!" Everyone responded in unison, took the manuscripts one after another, and began to study them carefully.

Zhang Jun held a cup of tea and tasted it leisurely.

After ten minutes or so, everyone has basically finished reading the manuscript.

Zhang Jun asked them to speak and express their opinions, such as which characters to choose, how to design the external image, what is the equipment, what is the martial art, what is the ultimate move, what is the voice of the voice, etc.

After discussing for an hour, the characters were finally determined...

(End of this chapter)