Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 147: Fight for Tetris

"Well, what should we do next?"

Masato Takeshita asked and answered himself while playing with the water.

"OK, I've decided to enter the gaming industry first."

The young man has countless classic ways to play games in his mind. If he doesn’t restore them and make a lot of money, he would not be worthy of his identity as a time traveler.

Once you have an idea, execute it as soon as possible.

The next morning, Masato Takeshita immediately convened a general meeting at Xinghai Semiconductor.

"The company is preparing to enter the gaming industry. If you are interested, you can go directly to Assistant Lin to sign up after the meeting."

In the 80s, the production process of games was very simple, and many times one person could do it all.

Therefore, in the initial stage of development, it is enough to poach some people from Xinghai Semiconductor.

Of course, the upcoming Star Ocean Games is not affiliated with Star Ocean Semiconductor.

First of all, the semiconductor industry and the gaming industry are not very related and it is difficult to put them together.

Secondly, Star Ocean Game has the design ideas provided by Masato Takeshita, which basically means that one can make money without doing anything, so naturally a separate company has to be set up to operate it in the early stages.

This way, even if you have to share the profits later, you can still get more money.

Masato Takeshita's remarks did not cause much waves within Xinghai Semiconductor.

The vast majority of employees have no intention of entering the gaming industry.

But there are still a few individuals who like games and their eyes begin to flicker.

"Game department, really?"

Masafumi Akashi likes games, but he's not that crazy about them.

He was not sure whether he could succeed in the gaming industry and stay in it, so he was a little hesitant.

Akashi Masafumi's gaming friend Aoki Hideyuki is different. He is an avid game fan.

Not only do I stay in the arcade all day on weekends, but I also often play FC games after get off work on weekdays.

Arcade blockbusters such as "Space Invaders" and "Tank Battle"; FC games such as "Super Mario" and "Dragon Quest" are all Hideyuki Aoki's favorites.

Seeing his friend's hesitation, he simply said, "What's there to think about? Of course I'll go to Xinghai Game. Anyway, as long as I have the skills, I can come back anytime."

"Uh, that makes sense. I'll come along then."

Masafumi Akashi and Hideyuki Aoki, a pair of gaming friends, decided to sign up. Masahiro Abe, Hayato Arai, Setsu Iida and others also made a similar decision.

These people's reasons are different from the previous ones. They value the potential of the gaming industry.

The gaming industry is still in its infancy, and newspapers often report on the wealth myths created by gaming companies.

Namco built an office building with dozens of floors with a game called "Iron Plate Array".

The Ando brothers of Hudson took all the employees on a chartered plane for a one-month luxurious vacation in Hawaii.

Kobe-based Konami saw its performance increase dozens of times in its first year of entering the FC game console market.

After Enix released "Dragon Quest", the company's employees were immediately given high bonuses equivalent to half a year's salary.

It can be said that in the eyes of many people, the gaming industry is a gold mine waiting to be mined.

As long as you get started, you can make a lot of money.

……

Since he had decided to enter the gaming industry and had officially announced it in the company, Masato Takeshita immediately took action.

He directly called lawyer Ryo Asuka from the cooperative law firm to the president's office.

“Are you going to set up a new company?”

"Yeah, that's good. I'm going to set up a new game company - Xinghai Games."

"Also, all words with the word Xinghai in them have been successfully registered as company names and trademarks."

Trademarks are very important to a company. It would have been fine if I hadn't thought of it before, but now that I have, I naturally have to patch this loophole.

He doesn't want to see a company with the word "Xinghai" in its name in the future that was created by someone else.

If that company does something bad, it will definitely affect the reputation of our own company.

"OK, what else?"

Asuka Ryo quickly wrote down Takeshita Masato's needs in his notebook, then looked up and asked.

"Also, help me acquire all the copyrights for a game that is popular throughout the Soviet Union."

"I forgot the name of the game, but the main gameplay is that players control the falling of interesting patterns composed of 4 small blocks to score points."

“This is the gameplay diagram I drew, which should be more helpful for everyone to understand.”

After saying that, Masato Takeshita handed over the Tetris-related drawings that he had drawn last night to Asuka Ryo, so that she could understand the game more intuitively.

Yes, the game that Masato Takeshita wanted to acquire was Tetris.

This puzzle game was definitely the most popular game in the world before the 21st century.

Although the young man had played this game and was addicted to it for a while, he had no idea what the game's real name was in the Soviet Union.

Anyway, the name can’t be “Tetris”.

"I see. Okay, I understand. Don't worry."

When it comes to games, many times, even if you talk about it until your mouth is dry, you still can’t explain it clearly.

This is a shortcoming of text, its lack of intuitiveness.

Pictures are different. They are very intuitive and allow people to quickly understand the content.

"Our bottom line is $350 million. As long as you can get all the copyrights of the game within one month, we don't care how much the law firm earns."

Masato Takeshita's goal was to obtain the game copyright as soon as possible, rather than thinking about how to save money, so he just spent money lavishly.

Only those who are brave will be rewarded heavily.

With such favorable conditions, the law firm will definitely put forth its best efforts.

Because of this order, the law firm can earn at least millions of dollars in revenue.

If the negotiations go smoothly, it is not impossible to make $300 million.

Of course, $350 million is not Masato Takeshita's bottom line.

But this is already a very high price. If it were any higher, it would easily lead to unnecessary greed in the law firm.

He is not afraid of spending money, but he is afraid that the law firm will miss the opportunity because of greed.

"$350 million? No problem."

Asuka Ryo was surprised and also became very excited.

She is a partner of the law firm and the person in charge of this case.

If the negotiations go smoothly, the dividends can be as low as 1 yen version of the small target and as high as 3 yen version of the small target.

“You must obtain all copyrights of the game within one month. If you cannot, please explain the reason in time.”

"Don't worry, I'll definitely get it on time."

"Ah That's good."

Masato Takeshita nodded with relief.

The game "Tetris" has now entered the vision of game publishers.

If Masato Takeshita had not intervened, the game publisher would have reached a copyright purchase agreement with the Soviet government in 1988.

However, there was a loophole in the agreement, which led to a wonderful copyright war.

Nintendo, the Nth player that came out later, successfully won the final victory and gained the most profits.

(End of this chapter)