er-eleics-show, Chinese is a consumer electronics exhibition, which originated from the Chicago Music Exhibition, which was the largest consumer electronics exhibition in the world at that time.

The first CES exhibition was held in New York. It was 1967. Although only a dozen companies participated in the exhibition, they were all famous, such as Motorola and Philips. The exhibition hall area at that time reached 100,000 square feet, and the exhibition guide also appeared for the first time, which is what we are talking about now.

As time goes by, the influence of CES exhibition has become increasingly greater, and more and more companies are participating, and the number of exhibitors has repeatedly set new highs, basically becoming the largest event in all consumer electronic products in the world. Whether it is Panasonic's 15-inch TV or Sony's An epoch-making products, they are the first to debut at the CES exhibition.

Moreover, for game manufacturers, before the real birth of the e3 exhibition, the CES exhibition was also their most important and even the only exhibition.

Atari once brought their home pong to the exhibition, which was also the predecessor of VCS2600. It was precisely because of the success of home pong that Atari would study home game consoles. For example, Nintendo would bring their Nes to the exhibition this year, which is also considered one of the most important exhibits in the decades of CES history. In addition, in the history that Jester knew, it was at the 2019 exhibition that Henk Rogers brought the world-famous Tetris, which would be popular all over the world for the first time.

Today is the opening day of the CES exhibition.

Jester woke up early, washed up, and then went to the hotel restaurant to have a meal.

Howard Garfield, the barrister who had already made an appointment with him had been waiting for him in the restaurant. He picked up a plate and chose a buffet breakfast. Jester sat down in front of Howard Garfield.

"I was having fun at Caesars Palace yesterday?" As soon as he sat down, Jester asked on his own initiative. He knew that Howard had brought his family to Las Vegas for vacation before, and arrived two days earlier than him, so he asked this question.

Howard just smiled, picked up the wine glass in front of him and took a sip, and said indifferently: "I won a little bit, it's basically a waste of time to come to Las Vegas without going to the casino, but it's not interesting to come too many times. What? Are you interested? I can take you to a gamble tonight."

Jester shook his head and said calmly: "I don't like gambling."

"That's a pity." Howard's tone was quite regretful.

Jester cut a small piece of smooth steak and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, swallowed it, and then continued, "Howard, if Nintendo sued...well, it is inevitable that they sued it if I did this. Then, it is still the same old question. How long are you sure to hold this case?"

"Jess, don't forget that we are American companies, Nintendo is Japanese companies, a Japanese company suing an American company on American territory, and - in essence you are not making any profit from this, at most it is just infringement."

He had talked about these with Jester, so he did not go into detail again, but instead repeated his conclusions again.

"This matter is certain, so you cannot win the case, it is even very simple. If you need me to close the case in less than a week. But as for how you lose this lawsuit, when will you lose this lawsuit have a lot of room for operation. And for such a lawsuit, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can close the case quickly, and of course, it will not be able to be fought in less than three to five years."

...Howard said it with confidence. He has handled too many such cases. In the United States, it is not impossible for a foreign company to sue the American company for infringement. Of course, it is not impossible for them to try it out. Of course, it is not up to these lawyers to decide how to try it? If they delay it for a few years, what if they lose the lawsuit, they will just pay some money.

As long as you have money, nothing can be done in the United States.

"That's good." Jace nodded, not continuing to say anything. In fact, he had asked Howard before, and the reply he got was exactly the same as now. Now he asked again, just to prepare himself for some confidence before making his own plan.

But after saying that, Howard pondered for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and then sighed suddenly.

"What?" Jester looked up and looked at his barrister with a little puzzled look. He rarely saw Howard's expression.

"Nothing." Howard shook his head, and kept shaking his wine glass.

"You said you don't gamble, but in fact you bet much more than me. I will stop at most if I win or lose tens of thousands of dollars at one time, and you win or lose at one time..."

Howard didn't finish his words, but Jester also understood what he meant.

Jester is unquestionable about this.

His tone was very calm.

"Actually, this is not a gambling. Just like this time, I was confirming that you could delay this lawsuit for three or five years before I would do it. If you said that I had to make a home game console without hesitation..." Jester paused, a look inexplicable in his eyes flashed, and then continued, "It's because I knew it would succeed, but others didn't know."

"Maybe." Howard picked up the glass and touched Jester's champagne. After taking a sip, he spoke, "Jess, do you know? Sometimes, I always feel that you can see the future."

"Haha." Jester just chuckled, and Howard didn't care. This was his joke.

At 8:30 a.m., in a lobby at the Las Vegas Convention and Exhibition Center, Nintendo's platform had been set up long ago. Below the platform were reporters gathered and many tourists who might have come here or they might have just walked by.

Mi Arakawa stood in the center of the stage, and behind him were a large screen composed of many TVs side by side. The press conference has not officially begun yet, and he is constantly debugging the sound of the microphone.

Jester found a location on the periphery, not far from the platform. Although he couldn't see the appearance of Arakawa Mi's appearance with his naked eyes, he could still see clearly through the big screen behind him.

After more than ten minutes, it seemed that everything had been debugged. Arakawa made a gesture to make everyone quiet in the center of the platform.

Then, from the on-site audio, Mi Arakawa spoke in extremely standard New York accent English.

Jester had been in contact with Mi Arakawa before, and he was quite surprised at that time. He never expected that a child who grew up in a traditional Japanese samurai family could speak so fluently and authentic American English, and could hardly hear a slight Japanese flavor.

"Welcome to Nintendo's product launch conference."

The opening of Arakawa Michi was very brief, just briefly said something welcome and explained that President Yamauchi originally planned to come in person, but because he was not in a hurry to experience the cold, he was hosted by Nintendo's press conference this time.

He was not interested in these Jesters, and he was interested in the game consoles that Nintendo was about to release.

Fortunately, Nintendo's products at this CES exhibition were only like game consoles, so Mi Arakawa did not delay for too long. She carried a white-shelled and gray-bottomed staff to the platform, which looked very similar to the video recorder, and handed it to Mi Arakawa.

… "This is the home entertainment system we are going to release in the United States, nintendo-advaem, ns for short. Now I'll declare that this is not just a game console!" Arakawa showed the appearance of their game consoles to the people below the stage, and at the same time the big screen behind him also gave close-ups of the machine in his hand from all angles.

But this name surprised Jester a little. He remembered that it should be called nes? Why did it turn into ns?

In fact, this is just that Jester's understanding of the history of electronic games has not yet been refined to this extent. When Nintendo created es in 1985, he used the name nintendo-advaem, the Nintendo advanced video system, but later he found that the name was too different from the actual functions of their game consoles. It was changed to Aiem not long after. The name Nintendo Entertainment System, can the word entertainment still have something to do with games?

To be honest, the appearance of Nes is pretty good in this era.

So the people in the audience kept cheering in agreement.

And the configuration is really good. As soon as Miya Arakawa took over Nes, he started to blow up Nes configuration, and claimed that Nes' performance is currently the most powerful of similar products in the world. This machine is so powerful that it can display up to 52 colors, display sixteen colors on the same screen, and has a special sound processor. These are advantages that other similar products do not have at all.

Then, in order to prove that what he said just now was not false, Aarakawa asked someone to bring the one in his hand to a TV and plug in a game cassette. When Aarakawa picked up the game cassette, a close-up was given on the big screen again.

The cassette is gray and larger than the Japanese cassette on the FC. From the English text on the sticker on it, we can see that this is a transplanted version of the classic arcade game "Pa" that was just released last month by Namco.

At the same time, a game screen also appeared on the big screen.

The picture is very rough and the colors are extremely monotonous. Just at first glance, Jester knew that this was definitely not the picture on Nes. Because the picture on Nes has a special PPU, the picture on Nes is much more refined than the ones that appear now. Although they are all mosaics, the difference between the mosaics and the mosaics before is also very different.

Sure enough, Arakawa Mi pointed to the screen and said with a smile: "This is the picture of a previous best-selling home game running the game "Pa". Although he did not name it, those present could basically guess that what he was talking about was Atari vcs2600.

Because many people have played the Pa on the Atari 2600 machine with their own hands.

The teasing of Mi Arakawa also made the audience burst into laughter.

Then, Aarakawa made a gesture, and the screen on the big screen became the screen of "Pa" running through the Nes next to him.

I have to say that Namco is quite careful in transplanting Pa. Because Nes has a separate PPU, it is indeed a few streets away from the Atari 2600 game console in the processing of the picture. In terms of sound effects, Nes uses three dedicated processors, which is even richer.

At the same time, Arakawa Miya also showed the people on the scene that nes is completely different from any other game console.rs
Chapter completed!