Chapter 51: Real Estate Tycoon (Seeking Recommendation Tickets!!)

  Do you think Jester wants to invest in Samsung Electronics?

  This is nonsense, who wouldn't want it?

  He certainly knows that Samsung Electronics will be a great company in the future, yes, the adjective used by Jester is great, and now it's absolutely a profitable deal to participate in its shares.

  But this is impossible.

  There are only three scenarios in which a company may give up shares: when the company is just starting out and needs a large amount of capital for further development, but Samsung doesn't lack money; when it needs to open up new markets and may give up some shares to win-win with market partners; or when this customer is the most important one for the company, and in order to maintain this relationship, they need to swap shares to gain a say in each other's affairs.

  But now Jester has none of these three things.

  What? You're talking about a 10 million unit order? This hasn't even been formally signed yet, and even if it were, Lee Jae-hwan doesn't have high hopes for the future of the electronic game market as described by Jester. Moreover, with the current bleak state of the US electronic game market as a reference, it's really impossible to convince Lee Jae-hwan or Samsung Electronics that Jester will become their long-term and stable customer.

  Unless Jester can prove otherwise.

  In this case, if Juest proposed to invest impulsively, he would only get a straightforward refusal from Li Jianxi.

  So, although Jestar still coveted Samsung Electronics like a baby, he had to temporarily hide his thoughts.

  But Jester felt that it was not far from realizing this idea.

  At this time, an employee of the hardware R&D department walked quickly into Jester's office, holding a test sheet in his hand, with no expression on his face.

  When he came in, Jester didn't show any special expression, but Li Jianxi's face became obviously tense.

  After this conversation, Li Jianxi also knew that Jester's 10 million pieces were not empty words, so he attached great importance to this contract. Although he knew that the memory chips of his own family would never have any quality problems, he still couldn't help but show a tense expression.

  This was after all the first time that Samsung Electronics' semiconductor products had broken into the US market, and for Lee Kun-hee it was a fight in which he could only win, not lose.

  "Boss, the test results are out. Although they're not as good as Fujitsu's of the same type, they're very close and can be used completely." The employee's tone was very excited, he also knew that this specification of memory chip, the product of the company he had just tested was much lower than Fujitsu's.

  Li Jianxi, who was standing beside him, also visibly breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

  Jester smiled and took the test paper, scanned it briefly, then stood up and extended his hand to Li Jianxi.

  "It was a pleasure working with you."

  "It was a pleasure working with you." Li Jianxi stretched out his hand and shook hands with Jester, a hint of relief visible on his face. For himself, although the trip to the United States had not been very smooth, he had at least managed to return unscathed.

  It was lunchtime, and although some details of the contract had not been discussed clearly, eating was also necessary. Originally, Jester wanted to entertain Li Jianxi and his party, but the Koreans obviously wanted to finalize the contract as soon as possible, so they politely declined, only asking Jester to send them a quick meal like the one from Huoxing Entertainment. After dinner, they would continue negotiating the details of the contract, striving to finalize the formal agreement within a day.

  Then, Li Jianxi also proposed to bid farewell, he also needs to consult with his own team.

  Jester also did not stay.

  In game development companies, developers can't live without fast food and overtime is a common occurrence.

  After Jester finished the pizza delivered by the fast food restaurant, he also went to the R&D department with some boredom. Since it was lunchtime, most employees were eating the pizza provided by the company, and some people went to the first floor's rest room to play video games.

  A commotion of people huddled together around a table in R&D caught Jester's attention.

  He walked over with some curiosity and took a look, only to find his employees enthusiastically playing an unknown desktop game.

  The game map is a rectangular copperplate paper that covers almost half of the table, printed very finely.

  Jester gazed at the game map, feeling a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before. Just as he was about to get lost in thought, Shawn Dabiri, the lead developer of "Origin", tossed out two six-sided dice. When the dice stopped rolling, both showed the number six. Then, Shawn moved his small game piece, representing himself, twelve spaces forward on the map's grid.

  Next to this grid has been placed a small plastic house.

  At this time, Sean Dabiri's face showed an ugly expression, and he reluctantly pulled out a bill from a stack of what looked like some kind of currency in front of him and threw it to another young man with a smiling face, wearing glasses and jeans.

  Then Sean Dabiri controlled his little man and continued to push forward twelve more squares, this time without a plastic house next to the square.

  This time, Shaun Dabiri's face showed a happy expression. He took out the largest denomination from the stack of paper resembling banknotes in front of him and placed it to one side. Then he put a small plastic house of a different color from the previous one into this grid next to it.

  Then, the young man wearing glasses casually picked up the two dice from the table, shook them in his hand and threw them out.

  Upon seeing this scene, Jester slapped his forehead, and he finally remembered why he was so familiar with this desktop game.

  Because he played the PC version of this desktop game.

  To be accurate, it's a game of this type made by a game company on Treasure Island, and of course, it was not authorized.

  The game is called Monopoly.

  "It wouldn't be bad to make this game into a PC version, and it's not that difficult to produce either. Moreover, it can also be ported to home consoles in the future." Jester thought to himself with a hint of contemplation, then his brow furrowed as he suddenly realized, "But whose hands is the current version of this game in?"

  The Great Landlord is the translation in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the original name of this game is Monopoly, the official Chinese translation name is The Great Landlord, Monopoly originally means monopoly, because The Great Landlord is a game that no matter how many people participate, there can only be one winner, the creator of this game originally wanted to use this game to satirize the evils of capitalism - winner takes all, and the meaning of Monopoly's monopoly also implies this.

  But what was not expected was that this game became a craze soon after its release and swept the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

  Jester only remembers that the inventor of this game is Charles Darrow, who later sold the copyright of this desktop game to Parker Brothers, which also officially pushed this board game to the market.

  But now it's been decades since then, Parker Brothers no longer exists, and the copyright has changed hands several times, so who knows whose hands it's in now.

  At that time, companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan could ignore copyright and pirate "Monopoly", but they themselves would not dare to do so, or else someone would immediately sue them.

  At this time, a game just ended, and the final winner was Sean Dabiri, who became the last winner. Then he proudly showed off his stack of gaming chips to the other players who were somewhat disappointed.

  "Shawn, which company released this game?" Jester asked at the right moment.

  "Hasbro." Seeing his boss ask him this question, Sean Dabiri thought his boss was also interested in buying a copy of the desktop war game, so he started talking enthusiastically, "I'm a die-hard fan of Monopoly, I've been playing it since I was seven years old. Let me tell you, this game is meant to be played with everyone together, the more people the better, and then there's a crowd watching..."

  In Gerber's hands.

  Hasbro is just Baby Alive, but now they don't have this Chinese name yet.

  Jester nodded, not commenting on the rest of what Shawn Darby had said, and smiled as he spoke directly: "Why don't we make this game into a computer game?"

  "Make it into a computer game?" Shawn Dabiri was taken aback at first, then his face lit up with excitement in an instant. He said somewhat impatiently, "This is simply the best news in the world!"

  The others who were watching with him also cheered up one after another.

  "This is a great idea!" This was almost everyone's thought who was present.

  While some people were still eating pizza, they were attracted by the cheers. After knowing the reason for the cheers, an even louder cheer than the first time erupted in the R&D department again.

  This also shows the influence of Monopoly on Americans, which is indeed the most popular board game in the United States, with far more followers than DND. After all, it has a history of over half a century, and many people's grandfathers even grew up playing this game.

  Then Jester continued to ask: "Do you know anyone from Hasbro? Can we negotiate with them and get the copyright for this game?"

  Sean Darby shook his head, but at this time a slightly thin employee raised his hand and said, "Boss, I have a friend who works at Hasbro, I can contact him."

  "Alright, once we get the copyright for this game, we'll start the project." Jester said with a smile.

  This once again caused the people present to erupt in cheers.

  Jester saw this scene and just smiled without saying a word. He himself was indeed playing with his own "Monopoly".

  Although he had thought before that he didn't want to get into computer games too early, after all, he created a publishing company, and this publishing company couldn't just survive by selling arcade boards before the release of its own console, so making a high-quality, fun computer game to build reputation was also necessary in Jester's view.

  Moreover, the PC game industry is not as unprofitable as Jester thought. He had previously asked an investigation company to investigate the situation of several companies in Xue Le Shan. Although the market for PC games is not large, there are still sales figures of tens of millions per year.

  What Justest didn't know was that Snowy Mountain, which specialized in PC games, also had sales of nearly $1 billion around 1990.

  Then he inquired about the progress of several games currently under development.

  The first thirty levels of "Snow Bros" have been completed, and after getting a handle on the level design, the development speed of the original point R&D team is also getting faster and faster. It can basically be done within two months. In addition, the twenty-five level version of "Snow Bros" for the US game tour has also been largely completed.

  As for "Dawn", it has not been officially launched yet, and there are not enough personnel, so no special production has been carried out. However, two art designers are still making setting diagrams for this game based on Jester's settings.

  Jester also took a closer look and was still relatively satisfied with the production of the setting chart.

  The author of the game's plot, "Dawn", has also been found. He is a second-rate science fiction writer who has written several books that didn't sell well. After hearing that Mars Entertainment could pay $100,000 for this book, he agreed without hesitation.

  Although he knew he could only get one percent of the book's royalties from it.

  Jester was also satisfied with this, as he didn't have high demands for the quality of the book. As long as it followed the story and game plot outline he set out, that was good enough. He allowed the author to make some free interpretations as long as they didn't deviate from the game's plot, after all, he just wanted to perfect his own worldview.

  The formal versions of the three games "Treasure Hunter" have been basically completed, and the debugging process has also gone very smoothly. After signing with Sega, the game can be directly released to Japan for official production. With the designers freed from the post-processing of these three games, "Dawn" can also be launched and some initial design work can be carried out.

  At this time, Cao Kairui walked towards Jester with a painting paper.

  "Boss, take a look at the image I designed earlier. I've been thinking about it for over a week and came up with this scheme. See if it meets the kind of affable, approachable, and memorable characteristics you mentioned." Cao Kairui walked to Jester's front and handed him the drawing paper.

  "Oh?"

  Jester gave Cao Kairui a somewhat unexpected glance, he didn't think that the other party would actually take out the designed plan, so he stretched out his hand to receive the drawing paper and quickly lowered his head to take a look.

  Then, a look of surprise flashed across Jester's face in an instant.

  Obviously, he was very satisfied with this image designed by Cao Kairui.