Chapter 32 Little Honey Bee

  Although Nagano said that Yang Yun's game was free of inspection, he finally got in touch with the Japanese headquarters by phone because various technical details needed to be standardized and negotiated, as well as emphasizing all sorts of legal affairs authorization.

  On Friday, they had a preliminary contact. Then Japan's national holiday delayed things for two days. On Monday, Sega's headquarters dragged their feet for another two days. It took five days in total before Sega and Yang Yun signed a relatively fair formal contract.

  The game was kept under 32K by Yang Yun, meaning that the cheapest and most common 1M game card on the market could fit 32 games of this size. In North America and Japan, such small capacity games were not suitable for single-card sales, but rather in a collection form.

  So Sega decided to pay patent fees based on the number of copies, $0.10 per copy sold overseas, regardless of the form of the game medium, with a settlement period of three months, and calculated according to the financial reports of Sega Corporation's listed company.

  In mainland China, Yang Yun is responsible for production and sales. Sega does not share a sales channel with Yang Yun in the domestic market, and Sega cannot include Circus Games in its own legitimate cartridges, i.e., Yang Yun has exclusive sales rights in the Chinese market.

  Nintendo bought Tetris for a one-time payment of $1.5 million, mainly because the Game Boy was about to go on sale, while Sega used a cooperative quarterly settlement method, as they were not in urgent need of relying on Circus Games to make a profit.

  The price made Yang Yun very satisfied, the circus game didn't have much technical content, a simple horizontal scrolling game, the picture was slightly bigger, and the operation was just jumping around, what's valuable is its creativity, it's good to get 0.1 dollars, Sega isn't some rich household either, first-time cooperation, Yang Yun taking a small loss wasn't a big deal, to show sincerity.

  After the initial contact that day, Yang Yun returned to the company and called Fang Jindong and Jiang Shaoyun: "Jindong, keep a close eye on the production of Chiyang Electronics Factory. It's our game, so grasp it tightly for me. Don't let those people steal it away from us. We can't afford to lose a single cent. This is the principle. Shaoyun, go and contact Jiangyang again, help me collect as much information as possible about Taiwan's Little Genius Company. They should have records of all the game cards, educational cards they've produced over the years, and when they were released."

  Yang Yun briefly explained the conflict he had with Xiao Dehua today, and Jiang Shaoyun nodded: "Mr. Yang, I'll go find Jiang Yang in a moment. The Taiwanese prodigy has been in the mainland market for some time now, so Old Man Jiang must know about it. Also, if Shijia refuses this Xiao CEO, will he switch to Rendian instead?"

  Yang Yun nodded: "Very likely! It's either Sega or Nintendo, there is no third way. So, you take the new recruits from the marketing department, He Jianghai and the others, your marketing department not only has to be responsible for sales, but also must take on the important task of gathering intelligence for me. To defeat the external enemy, we must first stabilize our internal affairs, although our biggest enemy is Nintendo, but these annoying flies flying around domestically, we still have to swat them dead first! Little Genius is the first one! He's too despicable!"

  Unexpectedly, after a few days, Yang Yun returned from Sega China after signing the contract. Jiang Shaoyun came to find him and smiled strangely: "General Manager Yang, that annoying fly you mentioned the other day is probably not in the minority. Take a look at this!"

  He handed over a yellow game cartridge after finishing speaking.

  "Little Overlord?" Yang Yun's eyebrows furrowed.

  Brand new upgraded Little King Four-in-One game card, Greedy Snake, Russian Blocks, Tank Battle, Little Bee.

  Yang Yun suddenly lost his smile and let Jiang Shaoyun insert the card and run this little bee game.

  "I'm going..."

  Yang Yun almost burst out laughing, this little bee game was a bit different from the classic one he remembered, especially the background music, which was a Spanish bullfighting song, completely different from the original "dudu" alarm sound, leaving Yang Yun in tears of laughter.

  The game of Little Bee is very simple, the player controls a small plane moving horizontally at the bottom of the screen, can press AB keys to shoot, on top of the screen are several rows of neatly arranged enemy planes, one second whole horizontal movement one step, the player's bullets are easy to hit in the gap of the enemy camp.

  In the enemy camp, small planes will occasionally fly out alone or in formation to attack the player while firing a few bullets. Due to the small screen and unpredictable flight paths of enemy planes, which resemble the figure-eight flight pattern of bees, this shooting game is figuratively called "Little Bee".

  Yang Yun asked: "Shao Yun, when was this card issued?"

  Jiang Shaoyun replied: "It was listed a few days ago. Jiang Yang personally delivered it this morning."

  Yang Yun put down the handle: "Well, this was done by a group of colleagues I had when I was at Little King Bee. This game, Little Honeybee, I mentioned the idea to them once when I was the technical director at Little King Bee, but for various reasons, I didn't write out the source code. Didn't expect that after a month, they still managed to make it..."

  Little Bee is a single-screen game, technically not difficult, based on the source code of other games left by Yang Yun in Little King's technical department, as long as you understand it thoroughly, making Little Bee is not difficult.

  Only to steal the ideas left by Yang Yun before, without even a phone call, let alone discussion and authorization. The way Little Overlord Company did it made Yang Yun feel very uncomfortable and disheartened, so much so that he didn't even want to eat lunch, saying his appetite was bad.

  Under Jiang Shaoyun's hint, Fang Huimin took a large package box and put it in front of Yang Yun: "President Yang, you don't eat or drink, we employees are worried!"

  Yang Yun opened the wrapping paper, and his mood immediately improved: "Wow! Thirteen unique snacks from old Beijing! Good job Huimin, you've really worked hard on this. We'll have to collect them all, I'm afraid we'll have to run all over Beijing!"

  As he spoke, a piece of tofu was swallowed down, and then another piece was picked up and rolled into his mouth with a big crunch, what a foodie, where did you see that his appetite wasn't good?

  Fang Huimin smiled and said: "This was sent over by Old Jiang this morning, he said he's going to the Chiyang Electronics Factory to pick up some goods and brought two boxes for you."

  Yang Yun slowly chewed and swallowed the donkey's rolling sound, thought for a moment and said: "Just right! You go call Shao Yun, then give Director Duan a phone call, we'll also go to Chiyang Electronics Factory."

  Half an hour later, Yang Yun brought Jiang Shaoyun and Fang Huimin to the entrance of Chiyang Electronics Factory, where they met with factory director Duan Haisheng and others in the workshop.

  Fang Dong hastily ran over. He has almost become the representative of Longteng Company in the factory. If there weren't really no one else, he would have liked to return to the company for R&D a long time ago.

  A group of people moved into the office, several leaders closed the door and held a meeting.

  Yang Yun first asked: "Director Duan, what is your relationship with Xiao Dehua of Taiwan's Little Genius Company?"

  Duan Haisheng felt a bit uneasy upon hearing this name: "What? Does Yang know Xiao Dehua?"

  Yang Yun smiled: "I saw him once last week, he mentioned you, and his tone didn't seem very good. I think I offended him pretty badly. I heard that their little genius company has now latched onto Nintendo's thigh, joined Nintendo's game software quality management system, with the intention of becoming a game supplier for Nintendo, and is ambitious to make a big splash in the mainland!"

  Jiang Yang burst out laughing and clapped his hands, saying: "Old Duan, I told you, even you have times when the birds peck at your eyes!"

  Yang Yun's interest was piqued: "Huh? Is there still a story behind this?"