Chapter 802 "Xiangjiang Cube" Is Released!

Monday, February 23rd.

As if overnight, an arcade game called "Xiangjiang Cube" appeared in the game arcades in the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang. It had a very distinctive Kirin Game Company logo on it - that is, the very powerful one. of unicorn.

Arcade games in Xiangjiang in 1981 were not that popular, but at any rate there were more than a hundred in production. The games were all from the United States and Japan, and there were not many types. They were far from as prosperous as they would be in the future, but But it is enough to attract young people in this era who have nothing else to enjoy.

Now this arcade machine is very beautiful and has a distinctly local atmosphere in Xiangjiang. It immediately attracted the interest of many young people who got up early.

Next to the "Hong Kong Cube" arcade machine, there is a piece of paper explaining in detail how to play it.

Several young people who like to try new things immediately invested game coins to see what it was like.

As a result, after playing this way, they became addicted immediately.

It wasn't just them, a large group of people gathered around, nervously watching how these players arranged the blocks to fall.

"left!"

"No, no, right..."

"Quick, it's down again!"

"Change your position quickly, stand up, stand up!!"

"Oh, what a pity, what a pity!"

"..."

Usually such a group of people give random instructions, and the novices can easily get distracted due to the noise in their ears, and they will be finished if they get distracted.

Those with a good temper can only shake their heads and continue to invest game coins to play.

The bad-tempered little gangsters immediately got mad: "Fuck! Get the fuck out of here! You're all screaming like shit! I'm going to lose!"

But the gangsters continued to scold him, and when they started fighting again, the people around him gathered around again and gave him random advice. The gangsters were so angry that they screamed at the loss.

The people next to me were actually itching to see it, but there were too few machines, and they came too late. Whether they were gangsters or ordinary young people, they would not let them take advantage of the machines. They had no choice but to go and play. Protest to your boss.

At the beginning, there were only 600 game arcades in urban areas, which was basically three or five arcades per arcade.

This is for the sake of the Kirin Group, and it is free to use within a week, so the game arcade owners are willing to put it in their own game arcades.

But the bosses did not expect that "Xiangjiang Cube" would be so popular. In the morning, a smart boss called Qilin Game Company and asked them to quickly move five, eight, or ten units to their store, and You pay when you arrive at the arcade.

So at noon, all the game halls in Xiangjiang had at least 10 "Xiangjiang Cube" arcade machines, and the bosses made a rigid rule that each person could only play with a maximum of three coins, which calmed the emotions of many game fans. .

However, the atmosphere in the game room was still very exciting, even a bit gunpowder-like.

Originally, people who played other game consoles didn't pay much attention to this new game, but seeing so many people surrounding it, as if the machine never stopped for a moment, they became interested.

After walking over and taking a look, they understood the gameplay of "Xiangjiang Cube" after a little pondering.

At first, they thought the game was simple, but as the players played, they gradually became involved in it, and gradually became like other bystanders, yelling, directing, and cursing.

"The beating sucks, let me do it!"

"No, no, let me play one more game, please..."

"My eldest brother is xx, who dares... ah... let me go..."

"Hey, come and see, this kid is fighting so well! He's so awesome!"

"Brother Xiong, you are so awesome, can you help me with some of my sisters?"

"Fuck! Don't talk nonsense. If you dare, choose the highest difficulty level and see who can play longer. The loser will be called the uncle. Do you dare?"

"..."

The popularity of the game arcades directly emptied out the warehouse of Kirin Game Company, and sent out every last one of the 2,000 arcade machines that had been prepared.

The developers of the game certainly didn’t stop either.

They were waiting in various cafes in the city, waiting to repair the broken arcade machines at any time.

The result that made them laugh or cry was that most of the "Hong Kong Cubes" that they were asked to repair in a hurry were because too many game coins were put in in a short period of time, which directly filled the slots, making it impossible to play anymore.

Only a small part of them did have some problems with the electrical board. After replacing the electrical board, they made a note of the problem and prepared to return to the company in the evening for everyone to study and discuss it together.

Mass production is like this, and there will always be shortcomings of one kind or another. This also gives these technicians the opportunity to continuously improve.

Xiangjiang is also a small market, and they take advantage of this market to continuously improve the program of "Xiangjiang Cube" and try to make it as durable as possible.

The development of "Xiangjiang Cube" was completed a week ago.

Then this group of Japanese engineers with experience in arcade development asked the game company's logistics staff to purchase various raw materials for the frame in Xiangjiang, and entrusted the furniture company and electrical appliance company to assemble them; on the other hand, Nakata Tomogo led I personally went to Japan, found a familiar manufacturer that I had contacted in advance, and asked them to run the machine at a high price, and produced 3,000 electrical panels.

During the entire 18 hours of production, Nakata Tomogo and his men did not leave the production line for a step. It was not until all production was completed and they counted all the electrical panels that they packed them up and took them back to Xiangjiang for air transport.

After more than a month of product development and assembly, today, it is finally time to deliver results. However, everyone at Kirin Game Company has changed from distrust at the beginning to full confidence now.

Only after playing "Hong Kong Cube" will you know how attractive this simple game is.

Until now, they still feel a little incredible that they can complete all the research and development, assembly and sales tasks in one month.

But this is how miracles happen. Everyone has to believe and admire the biggest contributor to the miracle - the boss Yin Jun!

It is absolutely rare to have such game design talent, even in Japan.

The boss’s reputation as a “genius” is indeed well-deserved!

And their employees below will also be included in the world's gaming history with the game "Xiangjiang Cube"!

This is a great honor!

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Compared to them, Le Yiling seemed more worried.

"I said, you don't recruit any R&D talents from Xiangjiang, and let the Japanese team handle them all. What do you mean?" Le Yiling frowned and said: "If this continues, how will we control this game company?"

"Sister, I was not planning to get involved in the game company." Yin Jun said with a smile, "At the appropriate time, I will let this team go back to Japan to develop it. We don't want to do this kind of desperate game development As a company, we should be a creative company that creates games, and then hand over the ideas to them to turn them into reality. To be honest, the Japanese are the best when it comes to making games.

We just need to do what we are good at and leave the rest of the research and development to them. After all, our core industry is still an entertainment media group! This game company only exists incidentally and can be used as a profit growth point and the development of derivative products, but if too much investment and attention are paid, it is completely unnecessary. "

Yin Jun couldn't tell Le Yiling that the current games are very simple, but their prime time period is in the past ten years. After that, the game will start to compete with various soft and hard capabilities. To put it bluntly, it will be a competition to burn money. Many All good game manufacturers suffered serious losses due to burning money through competitions, and eventually went bankrupt.

If we wait until the era of games to take off, and the era of online games after 2000, it will be 20 years later. By that time, Kirin Group will have deep roots in entertainment media. At that time, it will be impossible to enter at the right time. not late.

"Then when they return to Japan, will we increase our investment?" Le Yiling asked.

"It should be possible within three to five years." Yin Jun said, "After all, we still have comics such as "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider" that are suitable for adaptation into games, and I also have some good small games. The creativity is similar to this "Xiangjiang Cube". They have developed it in the past few years and it is a great supplement to our business."

"Can I replenish the US$2.5 billion in your loan?" Le Yiling asked.

Yin Jun blushed, "Sister, how is this possible? Three to five billion US dollars shouldn't be a problem, but our most important profits still come from Transformers toys and movies."

Also, when the land market and real estate market in Xiangjiang collapsed, we hoarded a batch of land resources and waited until prices rebounded before selling them.

Even so, it should take five years to pay off all the loans. If you are unlucky, it may take longer.

"You are also brave!" Le Yiling shook her head, "Forget it, Hollywood is not the most important thing anyway. We can just do well in Xiangjiang. But if we can't do it well there, we will lose hundreds of millions. It’s probably no problem to go out.”

"I didn't buy the company for the purpose of losing money." Yin Jun said with a smile, "Sister, just wait and see! Starting from this "Xiangjiang Cube", the speed at which we make money will speed up soon!"

Le Yiling had no doubts about this.

She had watched people play "Hong Kong Cube" two days ago, and it was much more interesting than those current arcade games.

Xiangjiang is just a small place and cannot support the arcade game market.

But Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe are different. They are paradises for arcade games.

Any game can sell more than 10 million units. "Xiangjiang Cube", a hit game that has received unanimous praise and is recognized by game fans today, sells 20 million copies. Not too much?

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