For most Chinese in the 80s, the CES consumer electronics show held on the other side of the ocean was far away and unfamiliar, just because the news was closed, so for most Chinese people, they did not know that there was such an important exhibition.

But in fact, CES in the 80s was the era of today's electronic prototype explosion, and many of the products exhibited at that time influenced an era, and these high-tech products are still influencing our lives today.

Duan Yun's plane slowly landed at the airport in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas in April is cool and pleasant, here is definitely a city that never sleeps, the United States in the 80s, can be described as drunk and gold-hungry, and compared with other cities in the United States, the whole city of Las Vegas is more dazzling, all kinds of neon lights will be gorgeous and brilliant here, dizzying.

Duan Yun still got the ticket to the CES exhibition through Wang Shi's foreign trade company in Hong Kong this time, and the foreign trade company provided Duan Yun with a translation and booked hotel tickets.

As the so-called poor family rich road, the first time he came to the United States, the hotel that Duan Yun booked was the Sahara Hotel, this hotel was established in 1952, and on the day Duan Yun went to him, he was surprised to find that the interior of this hotel was very beautiful, and there was even a palm tree more than 5 meters high planted in the hall, each tree was bought from other places, and it cost tens to millions of dollars, this is definitely a luxury palace piled up with dollars.

Duan Yun and his accompanying translators lived in a room for $800 a night, which is definitely a sky-high price that Chinese people can't imagine in China, but here, they can only live in a standard room with a good environment.

Duan Yun himself does not need a translator, and his English level can communicate with Americans without barriers, but because he doesn't know much about the local area in the United States and the situation of the exhibition, it will be much more convenient to have an interpreter by his side to lead the way.

The most attractive thing in the hotel is undoubtedly the in-house casino, but Duan Yun is not here for gambling money, he has a mission on his side.

When Duan Yun entered the hotel, many people, including the waiter at the front desk of the hotel, thought he was Japanese, and after learning that he was a businessman from China, they were all surprised and curious.

In fact, this is also a very normal thing, China in the 80s was weak and poor, except for some government visiting groups and public students, only Chinese people who came to the United States through special underground channels, and Chinese like Duan Yun who came to Las Vegas as a businessman are very rare, and most of the yellow-skinned faces are still mainly Japanese and Koreans.

The exhibition will open at 9 a.m. tomorrow on March 28, and Duan Yun, who has been flying for more than 20 hours, must take advantage of this time to adjust the time difference and maintain full energy to meet tomorrow's exhibition.

But at this time, Duan Yun, who was in an excited mood, had no intention of sleeping at all, tossing and turning on the huge bed, thinking about tomorrow's exhibition.

Early in the morning of the second day, Duan Yun followed the translator to the venue of this year's CES exhibition.

The CS exhibition venue is not far from the hotel, and it only took half an hour to drive to a large exhibition hall outside Las Vegas, which was already full of cars of all kinds, and exhibitors from all over the United States and the world entered the site, and at a glance, it was full of dense heads.

In fact, since the 80s, the influence of CES has quickly attracted attention around the world, and by 1984, the number of attendees exceeded 100,000 for the first time, including hundreds of global media outlets.

At last year's CES, Nintendo from Japan can be said to shine, Nintendo showed a revolutionary product: Nintendo entertainment system, that is, the home red and white game console that was later known to the Chinese people, although the United States Atara started earlier, but the American game is simple and rough, by the end of the 90s, the domestic game dealers in the United States have been wiped out, and it is Japan's Nintendo that really makes the game console popular all over the world.

This year's Nintendo is still a high-profile exhibitor, after Duan Yun and the translator entered the venue, the first thing they saw was Nintendo's booth, there were more than 200 square meters of booths on the latest home game consoles they launched, the handle is a standard 10-word key, the middle is the start and close key, and there are two red AB buttons on both sides, which is not much different from the "Little Overlord" game console that Duan Yun played when he was a child.

Just such a game console that makes Duan Yun look very primitive, but the price is as high as 2300 US dollars, even if it is placed in the United States and European countries, it is not something that ordinary families can afford, and such an expensive machine is obviously not able to be popularized quickly.

Duan Yun also has the intention to let his electronics factory produce game consoles in the future, in fact, including the red and white home game consoles that swept the country in the 90s, and its core component is now The 8088 chip used by IBM home computers, but now the price of the 8088 chip is very expensive, a piece will cost four or five hundred dollars, and if it is imported into China, the price will be higher, the whole cost of making the whole red and white game machine is calculated, at least five or six thousand yuan, such a price is basically not many people can afford to buy in China, especially the game machine is not like TV refrigerators, washing machines are necessary household appliances for life, so at this time the production and sales of game consoles in China far exceed the consumption capacity of the Chinese people, and there is not much commercial feasibility。

In addition to Nintendo, there are many Japanese manufacturers participating in this exhibition, at least standing in about 1/3 of the entire exhibition, which shows that the Japanese electronics industry is quite strong in the world.

In fact, CES played a crucial role in the global rise of Japanese electronics, and many of Japan's most innovative electronics products were made known to the world through this exhibition.

The exhibition of this era is not like the later science and technology exhibition in the form of multimedia, the vast majority of the booths are dressed up with light box posters, product samples are placed under the posters, and a few staff members are done in front, and many manufacturers also hire some tall and swaying beauties to take the initiative to introduce goods, and the smile is particularly sweet.

And the biggest focus of this year's CES show was on portable digital video recorders, and in this exhibition, the VCR device appeared for the first time, which was definitely an epoch-making product, he brought the movie theater into the home, and thus began the home entertainment revolution.

However, what shocked Duan Yun the most was that he accidentally discovered the VR system produced by NASA at the exhibition!