After a round of shopping, Xu Zhi returned to the booth of his Midea company, and at this moment, the arcade area had gathered a lot of onlookers to eat melons.

Since 2 months ago, RB Taidong released an arcade game called Space Invaders, which instantly detonated the entire game market.

As in other industries, American games have dominated the market before the Space Invaders, with the first arcade game being the most famous PANG in history, followed by Atari releasing several well-known games in a row, including Joe's Arkanoid Gang Leader, which is invincible in the world as soon as the sound is turned on.

But most of these games in the United States are sports games, which is also the most intuitive application of video games. "Space Invaders" is far away from the familiar sports genre and brings players more fantasy content. The player controls a moving turret to bombard the advancing fleet of alien invaders. The enemy's advance is slow and unforgiving: when they reach the player's territory, the player loses a life. Skilled players can fight off several waves of enemies, but each time a new round begins, they will advance faster and faster, and fight back more violently. Even the best arcade masters will eventually succumb to an endless stream of aliens. This is a game where there is no concept of winning, and the key is to squeeze a coin into a longer game and get a higher score.

At the same time, the space invaders are also the ancestors of 2D shooting games, in just 2 months, the United States has introduced more than 20,000 space invaders arcade machines, countless people in various movie theaters, small supermarkets waiting in line, and the huge profits in this are all the companies red, according to some bricks, Taidong company with this game alone, a month of net profit can exceed 10 million US dollars.

Of course, the dealers who have obtained the general distribution qualification of the game are also the same as the chicken dog ascending to heaven and making a lot of money, so on top of the electronic exhibition, many dealers from all over the United States are constantly looking for new targets in the game area.

Next door to Midea Electronics, Sega and Atari also brought their own new games, Xu Zhi didn't ask about the name or something, but Xu Zhi also took a few looks, the style is completely imitation of the space invaders, but the alien spaceship was replaced by an alien zerg, among which Atari is very creative, fixing the position of the personnel, and the steering stick is used to control the direction of the bullet route, which is also a good invention.

Shooting games are always the favorite of hot-blooded men, and women don't like it very much, under Lin Siqi's hookup, several blonde girls came to the exhibition hall of the United States, playing Xiangjiang cubes and snakes.

Tom is a small gambling machine supplier in Las Vegas, and in his city, the most important source of income is the countless casino visitors from all over the world, and how to attract tourists depends on the variety of different games and different gambling machines that are developed every year.

In order to study the psychology of customers, the major casinos have joined forces and hired psychology professors from top universities in each state to study how to maximize the passion of customers and make them lose themselves in the joy.

The professors also worked tirelessly to invent several methods that worked very well: to supply the entire casino with high-purity oxygen (not too thick, the kind that is slightly refreshing) so that customers would not be limited to fatigue.

All the time, when a customer makes a big profit, there will be celebratory sounds everywhere in the casino, so that everyone knows that someone is constantly winning money all the time, and as long as you work hard, it will soon be your turn.

Slot machines in some casinos can overwhelm you – more than a hundred lights flicker, filled with the sound of simulated coins clanging. The names of these machines are extremely seductive: King Misda, Rich Devil, Cash Fantasy, The Wizard of Oz, and many more.

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But even so, there is a problem that makes all bosses headaches: how to make a boring woman not boring.

Most people come to the casino with their spouse or girlfriend, after all, on the surface: everyone is here to travel, and gambling is just by the way.

But most of the casino games are group activities, a group of people get together, you lose and I win, which is the second strongest physiological stimulation for men.

However, for most women, this kind of activity is not very friendly, they don't like yelling, and prefer to play quieter games.

The casino also did its best to provide them with such an environment, and the original purpose of the slot machine was this, but no one could have imagined that the attraction of this thing to men was also bizarre.

Although a new business opportunity was discovered by accident, the hearts of casino owners were bleeding to watch a group of players who were reluctant to leave being dragged away by their female companions.

As a result, how to make women play games quietly has become the focus of casino owners: they are not required to make too much money, as long as they are willing to be quiet.

Tom walked around the game area and was disappointed that almost all of the games were modeled after the Space Invaders shooter genre, but due to the tight schedule and the need to avoid copyright infringement, the games made by several well-known game companies were not satisfactory.

In fact, this is also a normal phenomenon, the first idea is easy to shock the world, but if the later ones do not have new ideas, it is difficult to be accepted.

Tom found that his female companions were gone, and although there was a big brother in this era, not everyone could use it, and he spared a few people in the middle of the show before he found a few people at the booth of a small company called Midea.

"It's time for us to go, we're going to eat!" said Tom as he walked over to the group.

One of the girls looked back at Tom and said, "We're not hungry, you go first, and you'll bring us some burgers later." ”

"You just said you were hungry!" Tom frowned as he looked at the game in front of him. Because the exhibition hall is not big, there are only a few machines, a few girls can only grab one machine, one girl is playing, and the other two not only watch with relish, but also keep issuing various commands: quickly change positions and put them on the right......

After watching it for a while, Tom also saw some fame, this is a very strange game:

At the top of the screen, small squares of different shapes fall from the top of the screen, and the player adjusts the position and orientation of the tiles so that they form a complete one or several strips at the bottom of the screen. These full bars disappear to make room for the newly fallen tiles, while the player is rewarded with points. The blocks that have not been eliminated are piled up, and once they reach the top of the screen, the player loses and the game ends.

And there seems to be some special setting, if you can eliminate two rows at a time, then the score will be four times that of one time, nine times the score of three rows, and the highest four rows at a time is 16 times, this setting will tempt the player to risk piling up the bottom blocks, but there is danger in organic, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall into a crisis.

Tom, who is keen on business opportunities, immediately discovered the business opportunities, which is the dream game of the major casinos, which is relatively gentle, extremely time-consuming, and once introduced, it will inevitably attract women who accompany their boyfriends or husbands to the casino, so that they can play the game with peace of mind, regardless of their man's addiction.