Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 151 What is the most important thing?
Square Enix was having a great time, and Bulletproof Software was also receiving great news.

Rogers' only request was to meet him first.

Henk Rogers is Dutch and has a rather forthright personality.

He looked at Masato Takeshita and asked directly, "We are just a small, unknown company. Can you tell me why you acquired us?"

It was the first time that the young man met such a generous master, and he felt a little unfamiliar for a moment.

But soon, Masato Takeshita adjusted himself.

"The reason is simple."

"First, I heard that you have a good relationship with Yamauchi Hiroshi. We, Xinghai Games, have just entered the game industry, and we hope that you can act as a lobbyist and persuade Nintendo to sign a more relaxed contract with us."

"Second, you are very humane. Unlike Namco's founder Masaya Nakamura and Konami's founder Keizo Uetsuki, you are the perfect choice for the president of Star Ocean Games."

Masaya Nakamura was already shameless enough to only give the person in charge of Pac-Man a reward of a few hundred dollars.

But compared to the founder of Konami, Masaya Nakamura is considered a good person.

Even such an outstanding talent as Hideo Kojima was forced away by Konami.

This company is a piece of shit.

"Humanistic?"

"That's right, our Xinghai Game needs a president who is humane."

Rogers is Dutch, but he immigrated to the United States very early and worked for the military for a period of time.

But soon, he felt that this was aiding and abetting evil.

I can't help a murderous organization by developing software specifically for killing people.

Rogers later moved to Japan and founded the gaming software company Bulletproof Software.

In addition, what better reflects his humanity is what happened after the end of the "Tetris" battle in the previous life.

Nintendo won the battle for "Tetris", and Rogers, as the broker, also made a lot of money.

However, the game's developer, Alexey Pajitnov, only received a pirated IBM computer.

After all, the Soviet Union was a publicly owned political system at the time, and all the fruits of labor belonged to the state, and Tetris was naturally no exception.

At this time, Rogers, who couldn't stand it anymore, stood up.

He wrote a sincere letter to Elorg, the copyright holder responsible for selling Tetris, which was the department in the Soviet Union that specialized in selling software.

“If someone plants an apple tree and you harvest many apples from it, you should also give him an apple. This will encourage everyone to plant more apple trees.”

Unfortunately, the situation in the Soviet Union was rather complicated at the time, and the letter eventually fell into oblivion.

But even so, Rogers did not give up.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, he immediately found an opportunity to immigrate the Pajitnov family overseas.

Rogers is very humane, and Pajitnov is not bad either.

Reporters from various countries often asked him maliciously: "The Soviet Union nationalized all your income. Do you feel resentful?"

Pajitnov's answer was in keeping with the image of a patriot.

He was initially surprised by this and asked why money should be used as the measure of a person's success?
The Soviet Union gave birth to me, raised me, and educated me. The computer used to develop Tetris was also provided by the government.

Why hold grudges?

As long as someone can play my game, I will be very happy.

This is Pajitnov, a simple, lovely, and always positive scientific researcher with an attitude towards life.

“I never thought I would be chosen for this reason.”

Rogers was very happy and felt like he was finally recognized.

He said excitedly: "Okay, I agree to your request."

Bulletproof Software was more mature than Square and had made a lot of money developing games for Nintendo, so the price was more expensive. After a week of negotiations, the price was set at 20 billion yen.

To do this, the young man had to sell some more stocks to raise the required funds.

In fact, Masato Takeshita could have chosen to purchase the game with a loan, but in order to show the strength of Star Ocean Games to newcomers, he finally chose to pay the full amount.

This is even more shocking.

After the acquisition was completed, Rogers became the president of Star Ocean Games.

Masato Takeshita retreated to the second line, that is, he took up the position of president, which is similar to the position of the emperor.

After a brief discussion, the two finally decided to move the company to the port area.

This is a prosperous area in Tokyo, making it easier to recruit outstanding talent.

"President Rogers, what do you think of Toru Iwatani, the developer of Pac-Man?"

"A talented creative person, is the president interested?"

"Well, I hope you can recruit him, but I don't know if it will work?"

When the time came, Masato Takeshita could not help but feel a little hesitant. He wondered if this former genius game producer would accept the invitation from Xinghai Games.

"Don't worry. The president has such a good reputation, plus our company's conditions, the chances are very great."

Rogers is confident because StarCraft Games is very generous to its employees.

Masato Takeshita had long wanted to follow Huawei's model and implement virtual employee shareholding, but he had no choice but to give up because of too much resistance.

Star Ocean Games is just a small company right now, so it’s a good opportunity to experiment with its employee virtual stock ownership plan.

Of course, Masato Takeshita was not as bold as Ren Zhengfei, and later more than 99% of the shares were held by employees.

He only took out 30% as a test.

Japan is a capitalist country and needs to distribute benefits.

It is already an extreme practice for employees to hold 30% of the company's shares and pay dividends.

If there are more, it is easy to be attacked from behind.

However, once his position in Japan is solidified, he will still try to acquire 51% of the company's shares, which will be owned by all employees.

This is equivalent to the fact that this line of family will always hold more than 51% of the company's voting rights. There is no need to worry about the dilution of their own shares and the company being out of control.

A family with $10 billion and a family with $1000 billion enjoy basically the same life.

After all, whether it is eating or wearing, there are marginal effects.

Masato Takeshita was willing to give up a large sum of money to increase his descendants' control over the company.

"Well, I'll borrow your good words, and I hope I can gain something from it."

In addition to Toru Iwaya, Masato Takeshita also took a fancy to many young talents.

Konami's Hideo Kojima, Capcom's Yoshiki Okamoto, HAL's Satoru Iwata...

However, here, Masato Takeshita is only relatively confident about Hideo Kojima.

Hideo Kojima was not happy with his career at Konami. As long as StarCraft Games supported his game development work, it would be easy to poach him.

It’s different with Yoshiki Okamoto. Now everyone at Capcom values him very much.

But there is no need to rush, as Yoshiki Okamoto will soon face a career crisis.

If you use the hoe well in the Star Ocean game, you may not have no chance.

Only Iwata Satoshi, the handsome talent that Masato Takeshita desires the most, really has no chance at all.

HAL Research Institute was very kind to him, and Nintendo was also eyeing him covetously.

Star Ocean Games simply couldn't offer the conditions that Satoru Iwata wanted.

(End of this chapter)