Chapter 423: Intercepting Nintendo Games

In a blink of an eye, the summer vacation is over.

After school starts, Su Mingzhe will soon be a senior high school student.

After two months of training by Su Mingzhe, Chen Jianghe grew taller to about 1.5 meters, and his strength also began to approach that of a normal adult.

Combined with Su Mingzhe's special training, Chen Jianghe can now "stand like a pine tree, sit like a bell, walk like the wind, and lie like a bow."

Compared to his past self, Chen Jianghe could even say:
"I want to hit ten!"

"From now on, hunting at home will be left to you."

Su Mingzhe patted Chen Jianghe's shoulder gently, his eyes full of relief.

In the past few years, because he had a grandfather who needed care at home, Su Mingzhe stayed in Pujiang day and night.

In the past six months, Su Mingzhe has not had the heart to go out because of his grandfather's passing.

Now, he has found a male protagonist, Chen Jianghe. Su Mingzhe entrusted the Su family members to his care, and he thought about going out to see the world.

Chen Jianghe thought this was a test from his elder brother, so he nodded immediately:
"Brother, just go to school and leave the housework to me."

After hearing Chen Jianghe's assurance, Su Mingzhe smiled:
"I feel at ease leaving things to you, but if you encounter any problems, remember to tell me."

Su Mingzhe said, leaving an avatar to stay in Pujiang on his behalf, and the real body flew across thousands of mountains and rivers and came to Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong in the 70s, the four major detectives and the four major families fell into decline one after another.

The situation began to reshuffle last year when the Independent Commission Against Corruption was established.

When the people saw that the Governor seemed determined to build Hong Kong, they were full of hope for life and the economy developed rapidly.

The first thing Su Mingzhe did when he arrived in Hong Kong was to get his ID.

Last year, Hong Kong began to practice the "resistance policy".

The so-called "resistance" means that as long as the illegal immigrants from the mainland can run to the urban area of ​​Hong Kong, they can obtain official identity documents.

This is what happened to Su Mingzhe. He got an ID and used the alias "Yesong".

Now Hong Kong’s identity documents have been updated to the third generation.

The identity documents of the first two generations were all in English.

As the colonized people, the Chinese people’s names were handwritten in traditional Chinese characters.

It can be said that it has a strong colonial flavor.

In 73, the third generation of identity documents appeared, with Chinese characters next to the English characters.

After getting the certificate, Su Mingzhe got some gold and silver from the sea, found some pawn shops, and easily earned his first pot of gold.

In fact, the price of gold this year is not that high.

The international market price is only one hundred dollars per ounce.

Five years later, the price will skyrocket to eight hundred US dollars, an eight-fold increase in five years.

Therefore, Su Mingzhe just got some start-up capital and stopped selling.

After getting money, the first thing Su Mingzhe did was to open a game console factory.

The 1970s and 1980s were the era when Nintendo was extremely popular.

Su Mingzhe has programmer technology, lithography machine technology, and a series of other related technologies in his mind. It is extremely easy for him to replicate Nintendo's successful path.

As for the name of the game company, Su Mingzhe thought about it for a long time and named his future company "Overlord".

The first generation of game console designed by Su Mingzhe was the "Subor" handheld game console, which directly introduced the LCD screen mode.

This move was a historical first in the 70s.

The games in this handheld console are mainly Tetris.

Su Mingzhe is such a bad name, I’m too lazy to come up with a new one.

After having the "Subor" handheld game console that can play Tetris, Su Mingzhe began to research and produce the "Subor" home game console for "Super Mario".

This is not difficult.

In less than a month, Overlord Game Company, registered in Hong Kong, launched two new game consoles and two games.

These two games and game consoles became popular all over the world as soon as they were launched because of their simple gameplay, easy portability and low price.

Various orders came flying towards Overlord Company like snowflakes.

Among them, the orders for handheld game consoles were the most, with more than five million orders received in just one month.

Based on the factory price of 15 yuan for a handheld game console, the company squeezed its profit to around one yuan.

Labor costs, electricity costs, and raw material costs account for the bulk of this.

And these costs cannot be reduced in the short term.

Su Mingzhe asked the factory to add ten production lines and adopt three shifts a day.

Driven by such intense production, the factory produces more than 50,000 handheld game consoles per day.

With this production speed, if we want to complete all orders, it will take three to four months after the orders are placed.

That day, Su Mingzhe was in the office, programming "Contra". He heard a knock on the door and opened it to let the person in.

The sales manager rushed in and said, "Boss, we received another million-dollar order today. The number of orders for handheld game consoles is really too large. Should we raise the price? Or double the production line?"

"The price cannot be changed, but the number of production lines can continue to increase."

Su Mingzhe glanced at the sales manager coldly and reminded him, "We set low prices so that we can suppress the emergence of competitors. If we set high prices, other large consortiums will see that they can make money and will not care about patent laws and will definitely steal our business."

Patent laws have been introduced around the world for many years, but many countries have adopted a very "ambiguous" approach to the use of such patent laws. That is, such patent laws only protect their own companies, or even local companies.

These patent laws do not apply to foreign companies.

Piracy is prevalent in many countries, especially in the so-called developed countries.

At present, piracy is the most prosperous in the United States.

When it comes to the pirated market of American TV series, even John Bull would cry.

Because the Eagle Sauce side is most keen on pirating John Bull's products.

And John Bull himself pirated.

When talking about the pirated market of John Bull, Gallic Chicken and his friends around him started crying.

Because most of the things John Bull pirated were products from countries like Gallicus.

Anyway, these countries engage in piracy, you pirate mine, I pirate yours, and everyone pirates each other.

The real fight against piracy will have to wait until 20 years later, when developed countries formally allow the WTO to operate in order to protect their own rights and interests.

Therefore, even though Su Mingzhe sent people to register his patents all over the world, he did not dare to make money all over the world by relying on his own technology and the uniqueness of his games.

The sales manager felt that his boss was suffering from paranoia, but he was just an employee and he would listen to whatever his boss said:
"Boss, we already have ten production lines. How many more should we add?"

"We will increase as much as we can. As long as we can ensure that the workers' operating skills are good, the raw materials can be supplied, and the quality is up to standard, we will keep increasing it."

After Su Mingzhe gave his instructions, he saw that the sales manager had not left yet, so he frowned and asked:
"Do you have anything else?"

"Boss, the finance department said that there is almost no money in the account."

The sales manager smiled bitterly:

"Only part of the deposits were paid for those orders. In the past month, we have been buying factories, customizing machines and equipment, training employees, and purchasing materials. The money in our account has run out."

"Then notify all customers that they will need to pay in full when placing orders in the future. We will give priority to customers who have paid in full. For those who have only paid deposits and security deposits, the delivery time will be postponed."

Subor handheld games are extremely popular right now, and with demand far outstripping supply, it's only natural that Su Mingzhe is the boss.

If customers want the goods, they have to pay the money first, and it must be paid in full.

After hearing this, the sales manager nodded and left.

After sending the sales manager away, Su Mingzhe contacted the logistics manager.

After a while, the logistics manager came over and Su Mingzhe gave him a direct order to communicate with the raw material suppliers, on the one hand to lower the price, and on the other hand to discuss the delayed payment of the goods.

Originally, because the company had just been established, suppliers of raw materials required cash payment and immediate delivery.

Now, Overlord Game has become so popular that it can completely control the upstream raw material suppliers.

After hearing this, the logistics manager nodded in agreement.

Solved the sales, logistics and funding issues.

Su Mingzhe continued to program "Contra" with his head down.

The game "Contra" is a little more difficult than "Super Mario", but it didn't make Su Mingzhe waste much time.

Another month later, when winter came, the design was completed.

With the arrival of Christmas, "Contra" is officially released.

With the popularity of "Super Mario" and "Contra", the sales of home game consoles have once again skyrocketed, and the number of orders has also increased from hundreds of thousands to towards the million mark.

The factory price of a home game console is much more expensive than that of a handheld game console, a full 150 yuan.

Of course, the factory price of a home game console may be a bit expensive only relative to a handheld game console.

The factory price of Su Mingzhe's product is 150 yuan, but because there is a shortage of demand in the market, the selling price on the counter is generally more than 500 yuan. Even so, there is still a shortage of demand.

These channel dealers are so fucking shady!

However, Su Mingzhe also started to steal things and went abroad to buy the rights to use the game names of superheroes such as Marvel and DC, and this purchase was a permanent right.

After obtaining the rights to use the game names of these superheroes, Su Mingzhe began to research games such as "Superman" and "Batman".

In addition, Su Mingzhe also studied domestic games such as "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" and "Heroes of the Water Margin".

A blink of an eye.

The time came to the winter of 1977.

In the two years since Overlord Game Company was founded, it has sold more than 80 million handheld game consoles, more than 3 million home game consoles, and more than 20 million game cards of various types.

In just two years, the game company earned nearly 100 million yuan in profits by selling at low prices and high volumes.

The company still has more than 1 billion yuan in customer payments in its account.

Su Mingzhe used all this money to buy gold.

After the price fell in 74 and 75, the price of gold began to rise again in 76 and 77.

Keeping your money in the bank obviously won't appreciate as quickly as buying gold.

Today, Su Mingzhe has more than 3 billion worth of gold in his name.

It may be that Su Mingzhe's massive shopping spree caused the butterfly effect.

The current price of gold in the market is much higher than its original historical price, and has reached three hundred US dollars per ounce.

I don’t know if the price will rise to eight hundred dollars.

(End of this chapter)