Reborn Xiangjiang as a Tycoon

Chapter 154 Atari who refuses to give up

After no longer paying attention to the trend of gold prices all day long, Lin Baicheng got busy with work.

Lin Baicheng wants to guide the "Tank Battle" team to develop the game. Fortunately, the general direction has been determined. He does not need to work with employees on development. He only needs to come over every day to check the progress and make sure there are no problems in the development.

As a result, although the lack of Lin Baicheng's personal participation in research and development has resulted in slow progress, there is nothing that can be done about it. Lin Baicheng is also indispensable at New Century Software Company.

The research and development of office software would never be possible without Lin Baicheng’s leadership.

Although the personal computer era was started by Apple, because it was only half a year ago, personal computers were not yet popular. But computers have been around for many years, and IBM computers are sold very well in administrative units, banks, schools, hospitals and other places.

Well, these places already use computers for work.

Computers have been used for some years, but there is no company that develops office software. In addition to limited ideas, there are also technical reasons.

Therefore, if you don't want to wait a year or two or even longer to see office software, then Lin Baicheng must participate and lead the company's software developers as a leader to develop the software.

Therefore, Lin Baicheng spent most of his time at New Century Software Company, leading the development of software.

This morning, as soon as Lin Baicheng arrived at New Century Software Company, Isabella came to his office.

"What's the matter? Isabella!"

Lin Baicheng knew that Isabella should be looking for him for something.

Isabella said: "BOSS, Mr. Nolan Bushnell, the president of Atari, wants to come and visit and meet with you."

"Are we talking about authorization?"

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this: "Didn't I ask you to reject Atari? And I have already rejected it twice. He should know my attitude. It is impossible to authorize the game "Xiangjiang Cube" to Atari.

right."

As early as after Christmas, Atari contacted the Galaxy Games branch in the United States and wanted to obtain the authorization of "Xiangjiang Cube" and move the game to Atari VCS, but Lin Baicheng rejected it.

Obviously, after Atari discovered the popular arcade game "Xiangjiang Cube", it found that this game is actually more suitable for application on consoles, so it wanted to obtain authorization. This is a good thing where both parties can make money together, but let

What Atari didn't expect was that Galaxy Games refused without a second thought and didn't offer a sky-high licensing fee, as if there was nothing to discuss.

A month later, Atari discovered that "Xiangjiang Cube" was becoming more and more popular. Unwilling to be reconciled, it approached Galaxy Games again and offered a very high licensing fee and conditions, so much so that Isabella was tempted and could not refuse.

Next, he asked Lin Baicheng for instructions, but Lin Baicheng refused again.

The reason for Lin Baicheng's refusal is simple, because Galaxy Games is developing its own console, so how could it possibly license its own popular games to other console companies to enhance the strength of its competitors.

Furthermore, although Lin Baicheng knows that Atari will collapse in a few years, the more Atari makes now, the longer it will last in the future. Maybe it will survive if it persists. This is not

What Lin Baicheng wanted.

Only if Atari collapses according to its original trajectory, will Galaxy Games' consoles be able to more easily prevail in the U.S. and Western markets and eat up the market left after Atari's collapse. Compared with such a huge benefit, Atari

The licensing fees and conditions given are nothing, they are just a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, although Atari offered quite good conditions, Lin Baicheng still refused and would not make any changes.

Isabella guessed: "BOSS, I think Mr. Bushnell is a little unwilling, so he wants to interview you in person and persuade you to license the game to Atari."

"It seems like this should be the case."

Lin Baicheng nodded when he heard this, he thought so too.

Although Atari VCS currently has no rivals on the market, Atari VCS is just a console. A console without games is definitely not enough. And Atari alone cannot develop many games, so it must be found

Authorized by other game companies, the game "Hong Kong Cube" is quite popular and suitable for both men, women and children. Naturally, Atari does not want to give up.

"Isabella, do you think I want to see him? You also know that our company is developing a console. Although it has just started development not long ago, we definitely cannot license the games developed by the company."

Isabella said: "BOSS, I think you still need to meet him. After all, Mr. Bushnell is the president of Atari. He came to visit us in person, but we refused to meet. It would have a bad influence if word spread. What's more,

, if you don’t meet with him this time, he may not give up, and will contact the company and never forget the authorization.”

"What you said makes sense, then meet him."

Lin Baicheng nodded and said: "The meeting place should be here in the company. You can ask him about the time. Just tell me after confirming the time."

"Okay, BOSS!"

Isabella nodded in agreement.

"Right."

Seeing Isabella turn around and prepare to go out, Lin Baicheng stopped her: "How is the Chinese tour guide I asked you to find?"

"There are basically no professional Chinese tour guides. Because you said that you may have to work as a tour guide for a few months, so I asked people to find graduates from Hong Kong who have studied abroad or are Chinese. I believe I can find someone in a few days," Isabella replied.

road.

"My parents will be coming here in a few days, but even though they are here, we haven't even found the tour guide yet."

Lin Baicheng warned that after his repeated persuasion, Lin's father and Lin's mother decided to come to the United States to travel for a while. As for the specific length of stay, it depends on the two elders' own ideas.

Isabella immediately promised: "Don't worry, Boss, I will never delay things."

"Well, I believe you."

Lin Baicheng is still assured of Isabella's ability to do things.

After Isabella left, she came to Lin Baicheng's office not long after. She said that she had spoken with Nolan Bushnell, the president of Atari, on the phone and had made an appointment to meet at 2:30 in the afternoon. The other party would come over then.

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Lin Baicheng nodded to express his understanding. Although he didn't know how Nolan Bushnell was going to convince him, no matter what the other party said, he would not change his mind unless the other party offered an unimaginable sky-high price.

The price that Lin Baicheng couldn't refuse was not a sky-high price, but he knew very well that it was impossible for Atari to offer such a high price. If the other party was really willing, then he really wouldn't mind licensing Atari, and it would be up to each other in the future.

It depends on your ability, now make the sky-high money first and then talk about it.

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