Video Game Empire

"Mr. Li Xuan, the scene you created is too big!"

At this time, Manager Li of Lisheng Cinema was walking towards Li Xuan with a worried look on his face. Usually the morning is the least crowded in the cinema, but today the hall was crowded with people. This kind of lively scene has never happened since the opening of the cinema.

What made him even more depressed was that the people who came did not buy tickets to watch the movie in the screening hall, but came for the two new game consoles in the hall, which made him feel very helpless.

"Haha, good morning Manager Li, this shows that our video game console is really fun and can attract a lot of popularity to your cinema!" Li Xuan said with a smile on his face.

The two stood in front of the ticket window, which became the emptiest place in the hall instead. Even the window next door selling drinks and fruits didn't have queuing customers to pay attention.

Suddenly, the dissatisfied shouts of the players came from the arcade of the tank battle.

"Waiter, where is the waiter? This broken machine can't be used!"

"It won't be so bad. I waited in line for more than an hour, and it was almost my turn. Hurry up and find someone to repair it!" The people at the back of the line also became commotion, and the crowd of onlookers began to boo.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Li Xuan quickly stepped forward: "Everyone, let me go, I'm a maintenance technician!"

When the others heard that the repairer was coming, they quickly flashed a space for him. Li Xuan walked to the arcade and only heard the beeping sound of the game machine. He was a little dumbfounded. This is not a problem with the machine at all, but the coin storage bin inside is full of coins put in by the player, and it cannot continue to put coins, so the alarm sounds.

"Manager Li, hurry up and ask your cashier to bring a big pot over. The game machine is full of coins and needs to be taken out first!" Li Xuan shouted to Manager Li outside the crowd.

The key to open the inner box of the game console has long been handed over to the administrator of the cinema. Manager Li called the staff to turn on the game machine, and the coin storage box was indeed full of brown-yellow five-cent coins. A cashier lady in the movie theater poured all the coins into the box prepared in advance, and the sound of clattering attracted the envy of the people around.

"Crack!" A person next to him recorded this wonderful moment with the camera on his chest. Li Xuan didn't pay attention to the woman who poured the coin, but stared at the person who took the picture. The average player must not have this hobby.

The man found someone watching him, turned his head and smiled at Li Xuan friendly. Li Xuan has a strong feeling that the other party should be a reporter who catches news, and he was definitely not invited by himself, but attracted by the huge momentum caused by the real Lisheng Cinema.

At this time, the frown on Manager Li's face was completely replaced by a smile. The arcade machine of the Oriental Electronics Company uses a large-capacity coin cassette, which can hold a thousand coins. In other words, the game console in the cinema has already made a profit of 500 yuan in less than a day.

At this speed, if you put four or five arcade machines in the hall, you can earn more than 100,000 yuan a month out of thin air.

Manager Li began to recall the negotiation with Li Xuan at the beginning. At that time, what was the price he quoted him for this game console? 10,000 yuan a set, yes, this price is very cheap, you can pay back the cost in a month, and you will be net profit in the future, you must place an order to buy it immediately!

Manager Li looked at Li Xuan like his own son, and his tone became more kind: "Mr. Li Xuan, we agreed to buy a game console earlier, you see when I paid the money first. , you hurry up and bring in a few more units, there is still a large group of people queuing outside?"

"Didn't you say that you need to ask the theater for approval before signing the contract?" Li Xuan asked meaningfully.

"It's okay, I still have the right to make up my mind about this kind of thing!" In front of the golden Hong Kong dollar, Manager Li didn't mind blowing his mouth at all, and gave a completely different statement from the last time.

"I have asked my colleagues to ship two more game consoles to save the field. To tell you the truth, the new game will not be shipped until next week at the earliest. These are the experimental products that our company has made before. So say Your movie theater is the only one in Hong Kong, and you can't buy it anywhere else with money!" Li Xuan no longer hung up on the other party's appetite, and explained directly, after all, customers are gods, and they must be polite to gods. point.

At this time, there was a burst of cheers from the entrance of the theater, and Du Wenqiang had arrived with three other arcade machines. The players were very enthusiastic, and they took the initiative to step up and lift the three one-person-high game consoles off the truck and into the cinema hall.

With the addition of the three new forces, the original team was often split into five groups in an instant. However, Lisheng Cinema is located in the downtown area of ​​Kowloon. The lively scene here has already attracted many onlookers to join in the fun, and some young people have been attracted to join the queue.

Li Xuan even saw several people using the public phone in the movie theater to call their friends and call other friends who were still in bed, like offering treasures, and hurried over to join in the fun.

Li Xuan knew that his first step was successful, and it was even more successful than he expected. This is the charm of the two classic games of Hong Kong Cube and Tank War. It is indeed a good game that makes countless people obsessed!

"Hey, you've already tossed the coins three times, are you still going to fool yourself? Your school teacher didn't teach you to count, can you tell the difference between one cent and five cents?"

Li Xuan recognized that it was Wen Zai who was giving words to train people. Ma Zai, his eldest brother's subordinate, wanted to scold back a few words, but when he saw Wen Zai's unkind eyes, he became a little timid. People started yelling and yelling again, making him run away without money, so he reluctantly took out a five-cent coin from his pocket.

This is just a small episode in the process of playing the game, but Dongfang Electronics has long considered this kind of trick that players may make. When the Hong Kong government issued a new version of the 50 cent coin in 1977, it caused great dissatisfaction among Hong Kong citizens.

Because this new five-cent coin and the previous large-scale one-cent coin are made of brass-nickel alloy, although the metal composition ratio is different, they are very similar in appearance and weight. ” and “Five cents” are easy to confuse if you are not careful.

When Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. designed the arcade machine, in order to prevent players from using one cent coin instead of five cent coin for coin-operating by chance, it specially increased the cost and adopted a comparative coin-operating device with higher technical content.

Compared with mechanical coin-operators, which can only be identified by coin size, weight, and thickness, the detection level of this comparative coin-operator is much higher. When a coin is put into this comparative coin slot, it first passes through a magnetic field generated by a special high-frequency oscillating circuit composed of inductors and capacitors.

When coins with different composition ratios pass through the magnetic field, the circuit will have different oscillation frequencies. If the data is quite different from the pre-set parent coin, the coin will not be successful.

The accuracy rate of Dongfang Electronics' employees in the previous test was over 99%, so although the use of this Japanese-made comparative coin-operated device increased the manufacturing cost of the arcade machine by nearly 100 Hong Kong dollars, Li Xuan still decided to use this technology. High accessories.

PS: I read the book in the morning, and voted for the recommendation by the way. Thank you, hehe!