110. When three geniuses come together
A cafe located right in front of New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Hoyoung was drinking coffee there, waiting for someone.
He had been feeling relaxed for a long time.
Inhaling the fragrant coffee aroma, he tasted a small sense of victory.
The news that Cho Nam-shik had been demoted to vice president in a phone call with Jo Jung-sik a while ago felt like a 10-year-old congestion going down.
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Just then, the cell phone rang and Ho-young answered the phone right away.
“Hello? Are you all here? ah! see.”
Hoyoung got up from her seat and waved her hand.
“Hey! Hoyoung!”
“long time no see. zone!”
The person Hoyoung was waiting for was John Carmack.
“I’ll tell you in advance when you come to America! Can you call me right before you go back to Korea?”
“Sorry. In fact, it was because it was ambiguous to even ask me to come here.”
“You should have called.”
“I was going to come separately to see you next time.”
John Carmack rolled his eyes at Hoyoung, then smiled.
“okay. Anyway, it’s really nice to meet you like this.”
“I’m glad too. How is the development situation?”
“Wolfenstein?”
“Isn’t the release coming soon?”
“right. It’s in the final stage now, and it will be released in about three months.”
“I’m glad. Wolfenstein will work, of course, but you know what to think of as the cornerstone for the next game?”
John Carmack said with a chuckle.
“don’t worry. Because I know how to do it.”
“okay. it will be awkward How about John Romero?”
“Romero? he always works hard why?”
“no. Good luck then.”
Hoyoung nodded.
Summer wasn’t yet the time for John Romero’s indolence to appear.
“First of all, it’s nice to meet you, but why did you call me all the way to New York?”
“Can’t I just call you?”
“Of course not. But aren’t you just someone to call?”
“haha. How do you know me so well?”
“What. That is basic.”
John Carmack shrugged.
“That’s right, actually, I had something else to meet today.”
“So what’s the matter?”
“Hang in there. Because they are coming.”
“what?”
Instead of answering, Hoyoung smiled and closed his mouth. John Carmack was frustrated, but he knew that Hoyoung would not tell him, so he ordered a cup of coffee and sat in front of Hoyoung.
“By the way, Chronos 2 was great, right?”
“okay?”
“Awesome. In fact, I might not have thought of anything special, but after learning about the operating system from you the other day, when I opened it, I realized how great the operating system was.”
“Did you rip my operating system?”
“Oops, haha I didn’t remodel it. I was just tearing it apart.”
Hoyoung narrowed her eyes and looked at John Carmack.
“Ugh. Yes, please make a good game.”
“haha. Okay.”
John Carmack and Hoyoung chatted for another hour or so after that.
The two enjoyed talking to each other.
Both of them were able to feel more pleasure because there was no partner with whom they could have such a high-level conversation at the same age.
“It’s time to come soon.”
“So what the hell is coming?”
“Who will come? uh? It’s finally here. Here it is!”
John Carmack looked in the direction Hoyoung was waving.
“So, who the hell…! Huh!”
John Carmack took a quick glance at the man approaching from a distance and sighed.
He was a dark-haired Asian, and Ho-yeong greeted him very warmly.
“Shigeru! Nice to meet you. Seeing you in New York, it feels different again, doesn’t it?”
“Iknow, right. Did you stay well?”
“haha! As you can see, I always got along.”
“I heard that Hoyoung was coming to New York and contacted me, but I was surprised when he asked to meet me right away.”
The person who appeared was Shigeru Miyamoto, the de facto head of Nintendo.
While Hoyoung and Shigeru were greeting each other, John Carmack was right next to them.
“uh···. So···.”
“zone. say hello This is Shigeru Miyamoto. you know well Shigeru. This is John Carmack.”
“John Carmack? You mean John from id Software?”
John Carmack had a moved look on his face.
“Do you know me?”
“haha. sure. How could I be ignorant of Richardson’s genius?”
“min···. Embarrassed.”
“Hoyeong asked me to meet someone she really wanted to introduce to me today, and you tried to make such a good relationship. Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to see you too. I really wanted to see you.”
Today’s meeting was the day when Hoyoung realized what he had been thinking about before.
Shigeru Miyamoto, a rare genius who created the world’s most famous games such as Mario and Zelda.
And this is how John Carmack, another genius who creates rare games such as Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake, met.
‘In the past life, the two never met after all. I don’t know what kind of effect the meeting of the two will produce.’
In his previous life, John Carmack admired Shigeru Miyamoto so much, but the two never met.
Hoyoung thought that the meeting between the two could create tremendous synergy.
“ha ha ha! I wasn’t really sane at the time. Because I thought I had to finish the game somehow. In order to reduce the capacity as much as possible, I used the same pixels for clouds and grass and expressed only different colors, and it was not easy to express the face with that amount of dots, so I put a hat on.”
“Wow! okay. Did you know that I made Super Mario for DOS and submitted it to Nintendo America?”
“sure. I know, but I had no choice but to turn down the offer to make Mario for the PC.”
“What was the reason?”
“Actually, there was a misunderstanding at the time. We thought it must have been dismantling our game and porting it to the PC. I never thought that I would recreate it from the structure and make it by picking dots stitch by stitch.”
Already, John Carmack and Shigeru Miyamoto were talking about flowers.
“ruler. It’s not like this. Shall we have a meal? I called the two of you, so I’ll treat you.”
“You must eat something delicious.”
“Right. Shigeru You know that? Ho-young is really rich.”
They went to dinner in unison, laughing nonchalantly.
In fact, Hoyoung let me meet John Carmack and Shigeru Miyamoto today without thinking about it.
John Carmack liked Shigeru Miyamoto so much, and the biggest reason for meeting them was that he promised to meet Shigeru Miyamoto the next time he met him the other day.
However, Hoyoung could not even dream of it.
What kind of shocks will today’s meeting bring to the game world in the future?
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The meeting of the three naturally continued from the meal to the drinking party.
John Carmack, who doesn’t like alcohol very much, mingled with them over a light cocktail.
“No, can you tell me this? This is a truly groundbreaking project. A first-person shooter game, is that possible without using 3D rendering?”
“It’s a story that’s quite possible, as I thought. We call the genre of this game FPS (First Person Shooter).”
“FPS! In the future, this genre will bring about a huge upheaval in the game market. Also John Carmack. To create a genre like this is amazing.”
“Creation. Actually that’s not it. Strictly speaking, Maze War, which was released a long time ago in 1974, can be said to be the beginning. MIDI Maze, which came out in 1985, is also an FPS game.”
Miyamoto Shigeru mate applause! and hit
“okay. Come to think of it, Ultima was also a game with this kind of vision.”
“yes. But now, the proper start of the FPS will be divided into before and after Wolfenstein, which I am making now.”
Shigeru nodded his head broadly.
“I am really looking forward to it. We want to port it to our platform as well.”
“Is that so? Will the new Nintendo have enough specs to run this game?”
“sure! I am confident that it will be possible.”
“Then, shall we try a test sometime soon?”
“How do you mean?”
“We will create and provide a demo game. Wouldn’t it be possible to find out by driving it?”
John Carmack spoke lightly, but Shigeru did not listen lightly.
“Then, don’t you have any intention of officially distributing it through our platform?”
“Is Wolfenstein a Nintendo?”
“It’s not just that. Please sign a contract to distribute the next work as well.”
“The next project hasn’t even been planned yet. Wolfenstein is also in an unfinished stage.”
Shigeru said with his characteristic wacky smile.
“So wouldn’t it be safer to have an insurance policy called Nintendo? If id Software’s games are released to Nintendo in the future, we will definitely push them.”
Hoyeong quietly listened to the conversation between the two and admired Shigeru’s insight.
‘Miyamoto Shigeru has excellent skills as a game producer, but he would have been a great success even if he had worked as a salesman.’
He seemed to instinctively feel that John Carmack’s Wolfenstein would be a huge success.
However, Ho-young was certain that the meeting would not be successful.
‘But John Carmack would refuse. The current John Carmack has a thoroughly PC supremacist mindset, so he’s thinking about entering the console market for at least five years…’
Then John Carmack almost screamed.
“good! Let’s make a contract!”
“yes?”
“What is Hoyoung’s reaction like?”
“No, I thought you weren’t going to make it to consoles.”
“why?”
“You don’t like consoles because they can’t implement 100% of the games you make, right?”
John Carmack said with a look that he had never heard of it.
“I never said anything like that?”
“You have such thoughts?”
“It was like that until a while ago.”
“What?”
“Shigeru assures me that it will be possible. And am I stupid I will do a demo test and then sign a contract.”
Hoyoung realized that he was premature and cleared his throat a few times.
“Anyway, Hoyoung, thank you so much for making such a good relationship.”
“no. Production is based on the Chronos platform anyway, so there is no need to worry about compatibility.”
“Good!”
Shigeru put on a really happy expression and filled a glass full of bourbon and handed it to Hoyoung.
“Obviously, a joint venture between id Software and us, Nintendo, will benefit both companies.”
“I will. I feel like I’m the only one gaining nothing by introducing you two.”
“The games we make run on the Chronos platform anyway, right? Obviously, H&H’s share price will go up with us.”
The three happily emptied their glasses.
At that time, there was an idea that passed through Hoyoung’s mind.
‘Wait, it’s not like this here, we have to look at the bigger future.’
Hoyoung told Shigeru and John Carmack.
“Why don’t we stop at this point and dream of a bigger and farther future together?”
“What future?”
“It’s the three of us working together to create an entirely new console.”
“Which new console are you talking about?”
Shigeru and John Carmack waited in anticipation for Hoyoung’s next words.
“Nintendo will take care of the hardware, and I will take care of the operating system for that hardware. Carmack is in charge of making the first game that will run on that console. The new next generation console is not a console that can only output dots like now. It’s a fully 3D console.”
“Can we make such a console with our technology? And full 3D, the price of one device would be staggering.”
“Certainly you can. And don’t worry about the unit price. I will be responsible for all the funding.”
Hoyoung thought that there was a high possibility that this console, which was first talked about here, would compete head-on with a game machine to be released by Sony in a few years due to timing.
And the name of the device that Hoyoung thought of as his adversary was ‘Play Station’.
