Chapter 139 A Masterpiece in the Gaming Industry and Arcade Market!

Public security in Tokyo is not necessarily better than security in Xiangjiang.

The security situation in Hong Kong in the 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s was indeed worrying.

Yang Ming didn't want anything to happen to Xiangjiang, these game talents who had just arrived from Japan, like Tomohiro Nishikado.

Yang Ming, Mailisi and others came out of Kairui Hotel.

The white general manager of the Kai Rui Hotel personally escorted Yang Ming to the Rolls-Royce outside the door.

Chen Zhenhua drove Yang Ming back to the Repulse Bay Mid-level Villa in a Rolls-Royce.

. . .

"Peter, why are you back so late? Have you had dinner?"

Yang Ming had just gotten off the car when his mother Li Yufang, maids A Zhu and Zhong Chuhong came out to greet him.

Yang Ming came back tonight almost half an hour late compared to usual times.

"Mommy, I just had dinner with some people from Japan at the Kai Rui Hotel. We have already had dinner. You and Daddy should go have dinner first."

"I heard that your Empire State Building will be built 700 meters high?"

Empire Group held a press conference in the morning to announce the construction of the Empire State Building on the original site of Murray Building.

In the afternoon, the news channel of Asia Television was already broadcasting.

In addition, many evening newspapers and periodicals were also reporting on the news in the afternoon.

A seven-hundred-meter-tall building?

What a concept.

Li Yufang, Yang Jirong and others were shocked when they saw it.

Now the highest in the world is just over 400 meters, and the highest in Xiangjiang is only over 200 meters.

"Yes, Mommy."

Li Yufang and Yang Jirong went to have dinner first.

Yang Ming doesn't need Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong to accompany him.

Yang Ming went up to the study room on the third floor.

After turning on his computer, he started busy with his work.

When A-Zhu and Zhong Chuhong came up after dinner and served Young Master Yang to take a bath, A-Zhu asked: "Master, how much investment will your company have to make to build a 700-meter-tall building?"

"Ten or two billion Hong Kong dollars!"

More than one billion Hong Kong dollars?

What is this concept?

When Azhu and Zhong Chuhong saw the bag full of thousand-yuan bills, which was still worth 100 million, they were shocked and speechless.

Yang Ming knew.

Prices in Xiangjiang vary every year.

If it had been built earlier, the Empire State Building would not have required so much investment.

On the contrary, the later the construction, the greater the investment.

Including labor costs, construction material costs, etc.

According to Yang Ming's plan, this 700-meter-high building can be repaired in three years at the earliest and five years at the latest.

Wait until Yang Ming comes out from the shower.

In addition to recording global stock information.

Yang Ming was still busy in front of his computer until 0 o'clock in the evening.

Have a night's rest.

Early the next day.

After Yang Ming finished exercising, he had breakfast with his parents.

Take a bus to the Federal Building.

When Yang Ming went up to the 29th floor of the Empire Group, Tomohiro Nisikado and other Japanese people had already left the Kairui Hotel early and came to the headquarters of the Empire Group for the first time.

Lin Xiuzhi arranged for them to wait for Yang Ming in the conference room.

"Boss, Mr. Nishiko and others arrived at the company an hour ago and are now in the conference room."

"You will take them downstairs to visit first."

Downstairs on the 28th floor is the headquarters of Empire Games.

When Lin Xiuzhi took Nisikado Tomohiro and the others downstairs, Yang Ming drank the cup of brewed coffee in the chairman's office.

After distributing global stock information.

9:30 am.

Yang Ming went downstairs in a wheelchair.

By the time Yang Ming, Mailisi, and Barlow arrived here, Nisikado Tomohiro and others had been visiting here for a long time.

Tomohiro Nishikado did not expect that in Xiangjiang Central District, where land is at a premium, the boss, Mr. Yang, would actually rent this floor as the office space of Empire Games.

What surprised them the most was that it was equipped with hundreds of IBM5100 computers, each of which was a high-end version.

The price is nearly $20,000 per unit.

There are not many such high-end computers even in Taito Co., Ltd.

What Tomohiro Nisikado didn't expect was that these high-end versions of IBM computers were all equipped for staff like them.

in the Empire Games conference room.

Yang Ming, Mailisi, and Barlow were sitting in front.

Tomohiro Nisikado and more than 20 people sat in the back.

"This is Mr. Meilisi, the general manager of the Empire Group. Mr. Barlow, I think you are already familiar with him. Like Mr. Xu Qingsheng who is still in Dongyang, he is the deputy general manager of the Empire Games Company."

"Now I officially announce that Mr. Tomohiro Nisikado will serve as the director of the Empire Game Design Department. The salary and benefits will be twice that of the original ones at Taito Co., Ltd. As for other positions, Mr. Tomohiro Nisikado will be confirmed."

Tomohiro Nisikado really didn't expect that he would be announced as the director of the Empire Game Design Department just after he arrived in Xiangjiang.

This is considered the first person behind Yang Ming, Barlow and Xu Qingsheng.

"I am very optimistic about the "Space Invaders" developed by Tomohiro Nisikado in Taito, and spent 1.2 billion yen to acquire the ownership rights from Taito at a high price."

Yang Ming spent a high price of US$6 million to acquire the ownership of this game.

In Yang Ming's opinion, it is very worthwhile.

Even $60 million is worth it.

This game has not yet been truly perfected to the level of being released on the market.

Next, Yang Ming and Nisikado Tomohiro were in the chairman's office of Imperial Games Company, where Yang Ming and Nisikado Tomohiro discussed for a long time.

Let Nishikaku Tomohiro discover that Yang Ming's understanding of game consoles is no worse than his.

This "Space Invaders" has not been officially released yet, and he found that Yang Ming actually knows more than him.

If the Empire Group wants to imitate, it is really very easy.

"48 aliens, divided into 6 rows, 8 in each row, move horizontally on the screen. Once the invaders touch one side of the screen, the aliens will drop a row, bringing them closer to the player tank at the bottom of the screen. The laser blaster will engage in fire with the aliens, and dodge their shooting by moving from left to right, eventually killing all the aliens on the screen. The more aliens you kill, the faster they will drop. As each wave advances, the green barrier that the player uses for cover will eventually disappear, making you more vulnerable. After killing all the invaders, you will move on to the next wave, and the game becomes more and more difficult as you advance."

This is how to play "Space Invaders".

In 1978, this kind of mini-game was actually similar to some mini-games played on mobile phones in the 21st century.

However, now "Space Invaders" is the only one.

Nishikado's powerful hardware capabilities were fully utilized in Space Invaders.

He used an Intel 8080 microprocessor as the computing unit, a bitmap frame buffer to display raster graphics on a CRT monitor, and a Texas Instruments SN76477 sound chip combined with a monophonic sound simulation circuit to play music and sound effects.

He also borrowed the barrel shifter circuit technology from Gun Fight developed by Midway to make the animation smoother. The barrel shifter circuit allows the 8080 CPU to move pictures in the graphics frame buffer faster than using only its own native instructions.

While programming the game, Nishikado found that when there were fewer aliens on the screen, the processor was able to render each frame of the alien animation graphics faster.

Since the position of the aliens is automatically updated after each frame, as more and more aliens are destroyed, the aliens will move on the screen at an increasingly faster speed.

Instead of modifying this setting, he thought that this could be used as a game mechanism, which is what I said at the beginning, replacing the traditional timer design with alien movement.

Historically, this game is definitely a masterpiece.

Once it was released, it immediately shocked the global gaming community and ushered in the golden age of the global arcade market.

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