Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 106 Tokyo! Tokyo!
When Ethan told Yamauchi that he was moved by his sincerity and decided to accept his invitation to go to the studio for an inspection, the 49-year-old third-generation head of Nintendo suddenly smiled like a flower and bowed excitedly. However, after Ethan's attempt to stop him, he finally followed the local custom and opened his arms and gave Ethan a big hug to express his gratitude.

Since this was a trip abroad, Ethan had two things to do before leaving.

The first thing was to apply for a passport. This was simple, and it would only take a few minutes, whether Ethan found someone himself or Yamauchi Hiroshi helped him find someone.

The second thing was to hire a translator. Although Yamauchi's English was good and he could communicate with Ethan normally, after going to the book, he couldn't let Yamauchi be the translator, right? Even if the head of Nintendo wanted to say something, he didn't want to listen! Because in the absence of language barriers, no one knew whether the other party would talk nonsense!
And this matter...

It’s not that simple in the United States.

Don’t ask, the answer is cultural confidence.

Of course, if you spend money, you can still find it. It took Evelyn about four days to find a teacher who teaches Japanese courses at Brandeis University, with a salary of 55,000 for a month's business trip overseas. This teacher was a middle-aged man in his fifties who had been a business translator for Ford Motor Company in Japan and returned to the United States because of his marriage.

Although Ethan didn't know how good his Japanese was, considering that Ford Motor had hired him for five years, there shouldn't be any big problems with his ability.

After making all the preparations, Ethan and Evelyn flew back to Los Angeles from Boston on July 1976, 7. After a night's rest, they flew to Tokyo the next day on Yamauchi Hiroshi's chartered plane.

As they set off, Milohua breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news.

"Sure enough, after hearing about MOS 6502, Yamauchi Hiroshi will definitely try every possible way to get this chip. His persistence... is really worth learning from!"

The old man's words made the fat and thin men nod repeatedly.

After sighing, the old man urged again: "Since Ethan has left North America, it proves that his company will not release new games for the time being. We must seize this precious time to re-acquire other game companies in the market! At the same time, let the people in the R&D department speed up the R&D speed. If there are not enough people, just recruit directly! And let the people in the procurement department go directly to Intel to get chips!"

"Time is precious, okay?"

"We have failed twice, we can't fail again this time!"

"Understand?"

"Of course!" The fat and thin duo responded quickly.

At the same time as Milowa responded, Nolan Bushnell also heard the news of Ethan's departure from Warner. As for the authenticity of the news...

Everyone thinks it’s true!

Because that was the news that Spielberg yelled out when he answered the phone on the set! At that moment, almost everyone heard it. Spielberg asked Ethan to help get two autographed photos of Akira Kurosawa!
Although Nolan Bushnell didn't know why Ethan was running for the script, he knew that this was an opportunity. He called his subordinates and shouted, "Hurry up! Contact Intel to buy chips!"

"First come fifty thousand..."

"No! One hundred thousand first!"

"One hundred thousand 8080!"

"Attention! Make sure to keep the price below thirty!"

"Also! Keep Intel confidential about our business practices!"

The two sudden orders left Intel stunned.

At this moment, Intel's founder and CEO Gordon Moore couldn't understand why his company suddenly received a purchase order for 8080 s?

Although he has always been confident in his own chips, he has to admit that the most popular chip on the market is 6502. However, when he saw the two buyers, Milova and Atari...

He then understood what was going on.

I guess these two families were driven crazy by that Ethan Jones?
if it is like this……

"Then this money comes as a surprise." Gordon Moore murmured.

If you don’t make money that comes to your doorstep, you’ll be wasting it.

Gordon Moore gladly took the orders from MIT and Atari.

Of course, since the client requested confidentiality...

Then he will naturally respect the other party's request!
After all, two hundred thousand 8080s could bring them six million in operating income!
But without publicity, that is impossible.

MOS chips are selling so well, if Intel doesn't speed up, won't it explode?

So, after thinking about it, Gordon Moore said to his subordinates: "Spread the news that Milova has purchased hundreds of thousands of chips from us, and the estimated revenue is nearly 10 million." That's right!

Atari asked them to keep it a secret, but Mirowa didn't!

Then in this case...

Mi Luohua, you just take the blame!
While Intel's production line was running frantically, after twelve hours of flight, Ethan finally arrived in Tokyo on July 1976, 7, Eastern Time.

In fact, when the plane was about to arrive in Tokyo, Ethan had taken off his blindfold and looked down at Japan's largest city through the window of the plane. The densely packed buildings looked like a spider web, but more like a turtle's back, spreading inward from the seaside of Tokyo Bay, occupying almost all the land visible to the naked eye.

On the surface of Tokyo Bay, countless ships are shuttling back and forth. They are like busy worker ants, working hard for the needs of the colony.

Because Evelin slept leaning against Ethan, Ethan's overlooking behavior woke her up directly. When she opened her confused eyes, wondering what Ethan was doing, she also saw the world below her. She widened her eyes and asked in surprise, "Is this a city?"

"Yeah." Ethan nodded with emotion, "Tokyo."

"The most populous city in the world, probably has..."

"The population of Tokyo city reached 10 million a few years ago, and the entire Tokyo metropolitan area now has 25 million people."

When Ethan and Evelyn were talking, Yamauchi Hiroshi, who heard the voices, also looked outside.

Looking down at the tiny land, his face was full of emotion, "Maybe it's because the population is too dense, all businesses are easy to do here."

When this sentence appeared, Ethan still had some impression that business was easy to do. After all, when it came to discussing total volume, no one in the world was more experienced than him.

But Evelyn had no idea about all this.

But when they boarded the Toyota commercial vehicle sent by Nintendo and followed Yamauchi Hiroshi deep into the city of Tokyo, the traffic jams on the roads like capillaries, the moving figures on the large number of overpasses, and the narrow design of the main roads and houses that Benzi liked to use, all perfectly reflected the concept of dense crowds.

While waiting for Yamauchi Hiroshi to order the driver to drive the car to Akihabara, Tokyo's electronics city, Ethan and Evelyn intuitively felt what the entertainment atmosphere brought about by the dense crowds was like.

Although Akihabara of this era did not have the strong otaku culture of later generations, the flashing neon advertising signs were very eye-catching, and the Nintendo logo of a green snake swallowing an apple could be seen everywhere.

Standing at the crossroads and looking around, no matter which direction you look, as long as you can see, there are arcade machines like "Snake". Students who are finishing their classes and office workers who are off work are the largest group of people who stop and consume video game arcade machines.

Sometimes they tightly grasp the joystick, their faces twitching as they try to reap success;
Sometimes he waved his hand in dismay, angrily announcing his failure;
Sometimes you insert a coin and try again to get a higher score;

Sometimes he looked up to the sky and sighed, as if complaining that the game was too difficult.

When these scenes occur...

Every time you blink, you can see the money falling!

With every breath you take, you can hear the sound of money flowing!

Ethan admitted that although he had lived two lives, he had seen too many surprising things.

but……

The feeling of printing money right now is definitely not comparable to North America!

If it weren't for the exchange rate issue, Ethan even felt that this densely populated country was the real paradise for video games!
Because when there are more people, the atmosphere will be more lively!
Once the atmosphere gets exciting, it's easy to get carried away!

"Is this the result of selling 30 million in half a year?" Looking at everything in front of her, Evelin murmured, "This is even more exaggerated than the popularity in our country..."

As she spoke, she turned her head and glanced at Ethan.

At the same time, Ethan happened to look at her.

In this eye contact, both of them saw a fact from each other's eyes -

This trip is really worth it!
Compared with cold US dollars, the current market makes people more eager to own it!

If possible, Ethan even wanted to kill Yamauchi at this moment!
acting?

What the hell!
I'm Ethan Jones--

All! All! Want! Ah!
(End of this chapter)