Video Game Empire

"Uncle Chuan, have a cigarette!" Shao Yongqiang saw Li Haichuan standing not far from him at some point, greeted him very politely, and handed him a cigarette.

Li Haichuan was stunned and forgot to reach for the cigarette. Shao Yongqiang put on a posture of respecting the cigarette, but the other party didn't answer for a while, which made him a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Li Haichuan finally reacted. He reached out and took the cigarette that Shao Yongqiang handed him with a trembling hand, with a forced smile on his face.

Before today, Li Haichuan was only a small person at the bottom of Hong Kong, but now he has received cigarettes from a well-known club boss in Hong Kong and Kowloon. He knew that his son had earned him face, and this pride made him feel like he was ten years younger.

Shao Yongqiang is a proud person. He has met Li Haichuan before, but he never thought of taking the initiative to say hello. But he really admired Li Xuan, a young student. After just a few days of dating, he had already regarded Li Xuan as an equal and communicable friend from the bottom of his heart. If he hadn't already seen that Li Xuan was not something in the pool, the temple of Heletang might not be able to accommodate this big Buddha, or he really planned to forcibly drag him into the club.

Even with the brains and abilities that Li Ke showed in organizing the company during this period of time, he also greatly changed his views on this younger brother who did not seek to make progress. Also because of these two brothers, Shao Yongqiang has a little more sincere respect for Li Haichuan, who can cultivate such an excellent son.

Li Xuan, who was standing aside, noticed his old bean's predicament, and came up in time to relieve the siege.

"Brother Qiang, thank you for your advance payment, otherwise the company's funds will not be able to work!" The 120,000 principal that Li Xuan had prepared before, but he soon found that it was not enough when he actually set up the factory. Fortunately, Shao Yongqiang paid In the name of the agent, he provided him with an order payment of 100,000 yuan, so that he could match all kinds of raw materials.

"It should be, after all, Ke Zai is my brother, and I would like to thank you two brothers for giving me the opportunity to make money!" Shao Yongqiang also noticed Li Haichuan's restraint. Go ahead and say what comes.

"The factory has just started, and the workers are unskilled in operation, and they need to be familiar with it. I guess the production speed will be slow in the recent period. It should be almost on the right track by the beginning of October. I have already prepared three of the most popular models on the market. Games, the original plan was to produce 100 units of each type of game console per month after the factory was on track.

Opening a game arcade with three different game consoles can barely support the scene. Next, I will make one or two new game consoles as soon as possible! "Li Xuan knew what the other party was concerned about, and briefly introduced the situation in the factory to Brother Qiang.

This production speed is enough to supply He Yuetang to open up the Hong Kong game arcade market, and even the Hong Kong market cannot digest it. Of course, Li Xuan won't worry about Brother Qiang. Cross-regional cooperation between associations has existed for a long time. As long as there is profit, Heletang will be able to open up the channels of Taiwan, Macau and Southeast Asia in less than half a month.

After the firecrackers were set off, the Keji Electronics Factory officially started. Li Xuan has roughly calculated the profit of the factory before. Based on the monthly production of 300 arcade machines, the raw material cost of each arcade machine, plus the manufacturing cost, will not exceed 2,300 Hong Kong dollars. According to his ex-factory price of 4,000 Hong Kong dollars per unit, the company can generate nearly 500,000 Hong Kong dollars in profit every month.

Of course, Li Xuan has no plans to continue to expand the scale of the factory. Your factory is small and pirated a few other people's game consoles, and those big manufacturers are too lazy to care about you. But once you develop to a certain level, they will put pressure on the Hong Kong government to ensure their own interests.

According to Li Xuan's plan, after he has accumulated a certain amount of capital, the Keji Electronics Company will be cancelled in at most half a year. Then he would start a new company and really start his own gaming business.

However, the cooperation with Heletang is not something you can easily quit if you say quit. Li Xuan has already figured out a way out. During this time, he is designing a new game console, which may be the most favorite for organizations like Heletang.

Except for Shao Yongqiang, there were no other spectators at the opening of Keji Company. Originally, Zhong Chuhong was also coming, but she received a call from the director last night. A previous commercial needed to make up a few shots, so she had to call Li Xuan early in the morning to say sorry, but Li Xuan didn't care at all. Quietly entered the village, no guns, he wished no one would know.

"Hey, Master Xuan, we are so busy to die, but you are leisurely, and being the boss is different!"

Du Wenqiang found Li Xuan walking into the office, opened his mouth and laughed, showing that he had an unusual relationship with his boss. In fact, he is a very conscientious person. He used to call him Xuan Zai when interacting with Li Xuan, but Li Xuan immediately changed his name to Xuan Shao after he hired him into the company. According to him, friendship is friendship, but the superiors and subordinates must be clearly distinguished. It is very disreputable for a big boss to be called Xuanzai by a company employee.

Du Wenqiang's job is mainly responsible for burning the game program into the chip, which at least needs to be handled by someone who understands electronics. In fact, with Du Wenqiang's strength, doing this kind of work is indeed a bit overkill.

But now that the company is starting up, Li Xuan is about to start school again. A large part of his energy will be devoted to school, and the rest of the time will be focused on developing new games. This requires a person who understands video games to focus on technology. Take responsibility.

"Xuan Shao, I have tried all three games on the computer with the simulator you wrote. You are really amazing, they are exactly the same as the original!" Du Wenqiang smiled and squinted his eyes, patted his **** lightly.

Li Xuan has already cracked the three games of Space Invaders, Asteroid, and Little Bee.

Japan Taito Co., Ltd., the design company of Space Invaders, chose a tank as the protagonist when initially designing the game, but since the substrate processor they used is Intel8080, which is an 8-bit processor, its computing power is relatively limited. , in order to run the game smoothly, the screen had to be simplified.

In the end, although it was a space war gimmick, it was actually just an extremely crude shooting game. From the top of the screen, there will be rows of space invaders that keep moving down. These invaders have only four shapes, flying saucer, octopus, crab, and squid.

The cannon played by the player is at the bottom of the screen and can move left and right to shoot. There are also four bunkers in the top row of the cannon. The enemies in the columns where the bunkers are located do not need to care about them. Players only need to eliminate the enemies that are constantly approaching from the gap between the bunkers.

However, the monsters cannot break through the front bunker, but the cannons controlled by the player can smash the bunker. As time goes on, the monster moves down faster and faster. If the player is in a hurry, it is easy to destroy his bunker, and then he needs to defend. The area gets bigger and bigger and finally GameOver.

The 1978 version of Space Invaders Li Xuan only played once in his previous life, UU reading www.uukanshu. com, or for nostalgic reasons, specifically found out what this game that left a strong mark in the history of arcade development was like.

Compared with other Japanese companies such as Namco, Nintendo, etc., the history of Taidong Company has one of the strangest things, that is, its founder is a Ukrainian Jew. When he founded the company, he named it "Taidong", which means the Jewish company in the Far East. The original business of Taidong Company was to sell vodka imported from the Soviet Union in Japan.

Later, by chance, Taidong Company entered the video game industry, but it failed to achieve a illustrious name. Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Island, Thunderbolt Racing, these popular games all over the world are its products.

Space Invaders is the first shooting game in arcade history. In contrast, the little bee released a year later by Namco is more playable. Bee is heavily inspired by the Space Invaders, but it has no bunker protection, and the alien planes above it will fly down and attack from time to time. As for another game called Asteroid, Li Xuan had never heard of it or played it in his previous life.

Speaking of shooting games, Li Xuan likes to play the most, and he also thinks that the most classic must belong to the Tiger Fighter. It was the standard in the game hall along with Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The King of Fighters. When Li Xuan was a child, he liked to watch other people play this game. Those colorful bullets made the pictures very cool.

It seems that this game was only interviewed in the 1990s. In the future, when I have enough strength, I must develop it first, Li Xuan thought to himself.

PS: Pictures of Space Invaders and Little Bees are uploaded in relation to the work. If you are interested, you can see what the most popular arcade pictures in the 1970s looked like.