America: The Godfather of Game Development

Chapter 341 N language is the best language!

"President Lin, you—"

Nakayama Hayao stared blankly at Lin Lixin, who had just finalized a deal involving tens of millions of dollars with a single phone call, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

Look at the courage he has!

If Sega could be this ruthless, maybe—

They might die even faster.

After all, not everyone has the power of GAMENOVA to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

He took over Atari's mess and revitalized the North American gaming industry in just one year.

After taking over the dying Micron, they caught Japan off guard within a few months by securing a semiconductor agreement.

They broke up and acquired the struggling Westinghouse, and then extracted the TFT-LCD technology stack from its patent pool.

Even————

Taking over Sega, which had been nearly destroyed by Nintendo, he turned the tide with just one title.

Although Nintendo still holds a dominant position in Japan, as long as Metal Slug is around, that...

Sega's home console division won't die anytime soon.

It would have been better if we hadn't reviewed it. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that even the Wall Street bigwigs weren't as accurate as Lin Lixin in their judgment!

He essentially built an entire entertainment empire around games.

"Are you planning to collaborate with Warner?"

"I'm not really interested in Warner Bros., but I am a little envious of DC Comics."

Lin Lixin mentally calculated the time, pondering if there was any way he could get involved. "Now that Warner has lost Atari, it doesn't pose any competition to us at all. On the contrary, because of 'Rock Smith' and the TV show, there are quite a few overlapping interests."

The Atari of today has long been completely dismantled.

The arcade division was reorganized into Atari Games, and its current shareholder is Namco, which has just decided to join the Sega camp.

The remaining business was packaged and sold to Jack Tramir, the founder of Commodore.

It is clear that Conmada intends to take this opportunity to further penetrate the video game business.

After all, although the C64 was nominally a dual-purpose PC, most users treated it as a game console.

It must be said that this unconventional positioning did indeed allow Kangmaoda to survive and thrive amidst the onslaught from Apple II and IBM.

only----

People are not as good as the sky.

The Tramir family probably never imagined that such an unreasonable company as GAMENOVA would suddenly emerge from the bleak game market.

The 8-bit console war between Gamenova and Nintendo of North America nearly killed the newly resurrected Atari.

For some time now, Warner has been quietly reducing its stake in Atari and Atari Games, clearly intending to find an opportunity to completely divest itself.

With the loss of Atari, Warner Bros.' influence in the video game industry was completely wiped out.

If we want to do this kind of business again in the future, we can only do so by having other manufacturers develop it on our behalf through IP licensing.

"Video games are a lucrative business that everyone wants a piece of, and I don't think Warner Bros. can just honestly and quietly give up."

If Gamenova were to suddenly express a willingness to cooperate at this time, it would be an incredible opportunity for Warner Bros., like a windfall.

Thinking of this, Lin Lixin looked at Nakayama Hayao and continued, "President Nakayama, go back and ask Mr. Nakamura Masaya if he is interested in transferring the shares of Atari Games."

Hayao Nakayama nodded in agreement.

In fact, when Lin Lixin mentioned Warner earlier, he already had some guesses about it.

It can be said that the numerous lawsuits Namco has encountered in the past two years are all inextricably linked to Atari, a non-performing asset.

Even the conflict with Nintendo was partly influenced by Atari.

"I don't think he'll refuse."

"Ha, that's good. I was just planning to set up a proper arcade division for GAMENOVA."

As the business gradually expanded, Lin Lixin increasingly felt that the current structure of GAMENOVA was not clear enough.

He has learned a lot from his visit to Sega these past few days.

While Sega's approach of splitting different business units into independent departments increases administrative expenses, it does indeed generate substantial revenue.

effectiveness.

Currently, GAMENOVA's development department only has a few people, so they haven't done this part of the work.

Even if there was additional development work, it was simply handed over to Activision or Blizzard to handle.

Now that it has absorbed Sega's business, it will inevitably continue to penetrate the arcade market in the future.

After all, in this day and age, it's far from the point where arcade games are starting to shrink drastically.

The arcade market remains a treasure trove capable of generating astonishing profits.

Taking this opportunity to acquire Atari arcade machines from Namco would save him some trouble with restructuring.

"Okay, that's all for today. I have some things to discuss with Xiaozhi. I'll continue my work at AM8 tomorrow."

Lin Lixin waved his hand, indicating that Nakayama Hayao could leave first.

Just as he reached the door, Lin Lixin's gaze fell on a card box without a cover next to the monitor. Suddenly remembering something, he called out to Nakayama Hayao, who was about to leave.

"By the way, President Nakayama, I have a little idea regarding the promotion of GenesisNE0—"

Lin Lixin picked up the card box and looked at the words "Muranishi Toru" written on it with a marker.

"I have a friend here who I can introduce you to—"

We need to find this kid something to do; we can't let him run off and wreak havoc on NovaXeno.

On this day, Nakayama Hayao gained a new understanding of your Brother Lin's large hands.

So you did all of this!

The next day.

Sega released a scathing statement through gaming media.

The article was strongly worded and accused someone of circulating and releasing a batch of unauthorized works underground in an attempt to damage Sega's corporate image.

Sega stated that it will not tolerate this and will severely punish the perpetrators, and will bring them to trial in accordance with the law.

However, despite all that, perhaps because Sega has been busy with various businesses recently, this matter ultimately turned out to be all talk and no action.

Sega merely made a perfunctory announcement that it would strengthen its supervision of its distribution channels in the coming days, and then nothing more was said.

Meanwhile, a batch of products claiming to be "discarded cartridges produced by Illusion Entertainment" entered the market through scalpers.

It has entered the market.

Of course, how to do this better and cleaner is something that Hayao Nakayama needs to consider himself.

This primary driving force, which overrides rationality, can indeed bring in a significant amount of additional market share.

Just like PC-E.

The so-called "FC killer" and "strongest 8-bit machine" are just gimmicks, just a stepping stone.

What truly allowed them to gain a foothold was these crooked and unorthodox methods.

However, this incident will naturally bring some backlash.

At least for mothers, they might need to think about buying GenesisNE0 for a few more days.

Lin Lixin dumped all these messy and trivial matters on Nakayama Hayao and went straight to AM8, where development was in full swing.

"Hey, Yuuji, you're pretty diligent today."

As soon as I entered, I saw Yuji Nakamoto busy studying the source code left by Lin Lixin.

Judging from the empty coffee can on the table and his listless state, it was clear that he hadn't come early in the morning.

"How is this possible? How is this possible?!"

Yuji Nakamura muttered to himself, occasionally flipping through the source code, trying to glean insights into Lin Lixin's thinking.

For any game lead programmer, having the opportunity to observe Lin Lixin's work is a rare and precious chance.

It's like the protagonist in a cultivation novel who happens to obtain a scroll of heavenly scripture.

However, this book of cryptic knowledge is just too difficult to decipher.

"Hey, what are you muttering about?"

Lin Lixin suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

As if just emerging from his flow state, Yuji Nakaji shuddered and only then noticed the newcomer.

"President Lin! I—I'm reading the project source code."

For any project, the first thing a newcomer should do upon joining the team is to thoroughly understand the entire project, or at least to complete the part they are responsible for.

But even such a simple task has kept Yuji Nakamoto stuck for an entire night.

Lin Lixin came closer and then noticed that what this guy was gnawing on was actually compiled code.

"Idiot, why don't you just go and study the machine code? Didn't I write a version in N language?"

"Well----"

Yuji Naka scratched his head, his cheeks feeling a little hot.

It's as humiliating as being persuaded to drink at the children's table, yet you can't even argue back.

He considered himself a genius, but after a whole night he hadn't even finished reading the source code.

"Compilation—couldn't the performance be a bit higher? Sonic's already so fast, every little bit saved counts—"

Unlike modern high-level languages, encoding directly manipulates low-level hardware such as registers. As long as the technology is good, the efficiency is simply incomparable to that of high-level languages.

"You make a good point."

Lin Lixin nodded with satisfaction.

In this era of rapid and ever-changing development of programming languages, veteran craftsmen who insist on using programming languages ​​like this are truly worthy of respect.

However—

"But aren't you underestimating me a little?"

"Well?"

"I personally oversaw the development of the N language compiler, with the support and collaboration of our comrades Carmack and Gerald. It was a product that underwent several years of iterations."

Although this thing can only be used for video game development, it is indeed inferior to other languages ​​in other fields.

But within the realm of video games, it is undoubtedly the most powerful language.

N language is the best in the world!

"A skilled programmer can write excellent code and be even more efficient at writing code in N. A person who can't write excellent code can't be saved even by being given N."

No matter how powerful a compiler is, it can only understand the developer's code, perform certain optimizations, and finally compile it into machine code.

It is not the VibeCoding of later generations, and it cannot produce content out of thin air.

Given Yuji Naka's skill level, it wouldn't be a bad thing for him to start learning the N language as soon as possible.

That's all I have to say. Of course, I won't object if you continue using compilation.

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