Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 460: The year of the personal computer

Tang Huan was about to ask what was going on, when the door of the ward slammed open, a little girl staggered out and fell to the ground when she hit him.

"Does it hurt to fall?" Tang Huan hurriedly bent down to ask. At the same time, he noticed that the other party was so thin that the eyes on his small face became bigger and bigger.

Some timid little girls shook their heads without saying a word.

The quick-acting Deng Lijun gently lifted the little girl, helped her tidy up the hospital gown, and wiped away the tears on that little face with a handkerchief.

"This child is so thin," Deng Lijun said in a low voice pityingly.

"Thank you." The little girl's mother chased it out and explained apologetically, "Betty ran out while I was not paying attention."

"It's okay." Tang Huan waved his hand, knelt down to look at Betty, and asked gently: "Your name is Betty, how old are you this year?"

"Five years old." With her mother beside her, Betty became more courageous. While answering, she looked at Tang Huan curiously.

"Can you tell me, why don't you listen to your mother?" Tang Huan continued to ask with a smile.

"I don't want my mother to cut my hair." Betty fiddled with a strand of her hair, her little face full of stubbornness, "Without hair, you won't be beautiful."

Tang Huan looked at Betty's mother inquisitively, but the other party just shook his head with tears in his eyes.

The accompanying hospital director whispered: "Betty has leukemia..."

Tang Huan nodded suddenly, and the heart that was busy with various calculations all day was suddenly touched. Although he can be regarded as a human being for two lives and has his own unique understanding of life, he is still unable to achieve complete detachment.

"Betty, I don't listen to my mother, it's not right." Tang Huan touched Betty's hair lightly, "Actually, it won't be ugly without hair. If you don't believe me, I will cut your hair with you."

"Really?" Betty reached out and touched Tang Huan's head.

"Of course." Tang Huan nodded earnestly, "Now I will cut my hair to show you."

There are two beds in the ward. Like Little Adult Betty, he pointed to one of them and introduced: "This bed belongs to me, and the big sister of that bed has been discharged from the hospital."

"As long as you listen to your mother and the doctor, you will be discharged soon." Tang Huan took over Hasbro's latest toy Pony Pony from his subordinates. Pass it to Betty, "I gave you a Christmas gift, see if you like it or not."

Betty opened the box excitedly and cheered immediately.

Tang Huan smiled comfortedly and sat on the chair the nurse moved. Start a haircut.

Betty put down the toy and stared at Tang Huan without blinking, witnessing the birth of a bald head.

"There is nothing to be afraid of." Tang Huan lowered his head and let Betty touch a few times. "The other brothers also want this hairstyle."

Ever since, Tang Huan's assistants also removed three thousand troubles one by one in front of Betty.

Seeing so many people accompany her, Betty was no longer resisting, and the nurse had her hair cut happily.

Before leaving. Tang Huan shook Betty's small hand and said, "If the doctor allows us, let's spend Christmas together, okay?"

"Are these brothers together?" Betty looked at Tang Huan's bald assistant one by one.

"No problem." Tang Huan nodded with a smile.

...

After getting in the car, Deng Lijun touched Tang Huan's slick scalp and smiled sweetly, "Your image has changed a lot, and it won't affect the subsequent activities."

"It's just a different hairstyle. What's all the fuss about." Tang Huan also touched his bare scalp, and sighed with emotion, "People always have to be in awe. Face life and death. Everyone is there. The same powerless, we are no different from Betty."

Deng Lijun, who was convinced, took Tang Huan's hand and said softly, "So. I am very content with what I have now."

...

Tang Huan's bald image is still very powerful. After Christmas, Trip Hawkins, who came to report on his work, was surprised for a while.

"I heard that Atari's video game "et Alien". The sales are good?" Tang Huan asked casually after touching his bald head calmly.

"Atari launched the video game "et Alien" before Christmas, but it also picked a good time. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and sold tens of millions of dollars in sales. Look at this momentum. , More than 1 million copies, it’s just a matter of time."

Tripp Hawkins nodded with a complicated expression, "On the surface, the market is very popular, but the evaluation of this game is mostly negative, but Atari has no reaction, and I don't know whether it is a blessing to this company. disaster."

Steve Ross spent more than 30 million U.S. dollars to get the exclusive authorization to develop the arcade and console games of the movie "et Alien". After paying 200,000 U.S. dollars and a free Hawaii vacation, he came here. ;;warshaw Howard Scott Warsaw is responsible for the level design and programming of the video game.

To make money, we must hurry up. Steve Ross’s wishful thinking from the beginning is to take advantage of this year’s movie "et aliens" to sweep North America, let the video game of the same name be listed on the Christmas time, so as to make a lot of money. Last stroke.

Therefore, the development time of the "et aliens" video game is very tight.

You know, Howard Warsaw’s famous video game "Indiana Jones" took seven months to develop, while the development time for the "et Alien" video game was only about two months.

Even more exaggerated is that the arcade version of the "et alien" game has also been put on the agenda at the same time.

In this case, Howard Warsaw can only rush to work hard, and it is very good to be able to produce the finished product within the specified time. As a result, the game ideas and programming implementations he took for granted were not recognized by the players, and Atari ignored these reactions and did not take any public relations measures to remedy them.

The reason for this is not unrelated to Warner's internal operating mechanism.

It was the idea of ​​boss Steve Ross to buy the license for the arcade and console video games of the movie "et aliens" at a high price, and Atari CEO Rekasa disagreed.

But this man, before the announcement of the financial report that triggered the decline in Warner’s share price, sold his own shares, which led to an investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission on suspected insider trading and had to take the blame and resign. As a result, Atari's operations were not so good. Unblocked.

After taking a sip of tea, Tang Huan slowly said, "The production plan for the "et Alien" video game cassette is 5 million sets. Real or fake? How many Atari 2600s are there on the market? Don’t you know?"

"They haven't secretly targeted our Cubs console platform." Trip Hawkins snorted disdainfully. "The Atari 2600 version of the "et Alien" video game has already been rushed to work. , The version of Cassidy’s game console platform is even more horrible."

"It seems that the decline in stock prices has caused Warner to make a desperate move, putting all the treasure on the "et alien" video game, hoping that it can bring considerable financial data." Tang Huan frowned and analyzed.

"It should be so." Tripp Hawkins nodded. "After Rekasa stepped down, Warner had not had time to pick a successor. Now Atari's head is the assistant chief executive officer. The operation of the "Alien" video game is so radical and intriguing, it is likely to be desperate to please Warner headquarters in order to get a promotion."

"If Atari has been going down this road, then it will be really dangerous." Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows, "Daddy die to marry, everyone cares for everyone, let it go, ea's The stock price is also falling, and my position as the richest man in the United States is unstable."

"Fangyuan Computer is coming soon. You can't get the first place. It's you." Tripp Hawkins complimented him, and then said with some anxiety: "The land area is finally settled, but the market situation is now like this. Not sure, shall we continue to operate?"

"Of course continue." Tang Huan laughed, "You have said that Fangyuan Computer will be coming soon, and I can still have less funds to support ea."

At present, Zheru Fangyuan Computer ea, plus an Apple company, are all located in a small Cupertino, which is inevitably a bit crowded. In addition, Tang Huan hopes that his industry can go out, so he has been planning. Let ea Fangyuan Computer and other companies move.

Since he was deeply impressed by the size of the Google headquarters in the original time and space, Tang Huan asked ea to find the new headquarters in Silicon Valley or the San Francisco Bay Area. The site must be large enough to adapt to his next plan for ea.

However, it occupies a large area, which means that it has to pay more taxes. Tang Huan hopes that ea can be taken care of like Google.

There are so many factors that need to be considered ~www.wuxiahere.com~ which makes it difficult for ea to move the nest, and it has only been busy until now.

"Redwood City meets all our requirements." Trip Hawkins took out a few maps and pointed them to Tang Huan. "This is next to King's Avenue and has the only deep-water port south of San Francisco in the San Francisco Bay."

"This place is good." Tang Huan nodded repeatedly.

While chatting, the subordinates reported that Michael Moritz, the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco branch of Time magazine, came to visit.

Michael Moritz is an old friend. When Tang Huan was selected as the Man of the Year of the Times last year, he was responsible for the interview.

Tang Huan, who stood up to greet him, joked: "Michael, didn't you come to tell me that this year I was also selected as the Man of the Year by Time magazine, right?"

"Of course it's impossible." Michael Moritz pointed at Tang Huan's bald head and almost overturned the coffee with a smile. "But it's almost the same. We selected the personal computer as the Man of the Year this year." To be continued.

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