PLAY-BOX handheld consoles, in the United States two or three thousand household appliance dealer stores, have been quietly on the stock one after another, in fact, for several days.

From San Francisco and Los Angeles, the westernmost frontier, it was already available four days ago on June 23. By yesterday, June 26, even New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, the traditional big cities, and even Atlanta, the economic transshipment and distribution center in the south, were also loaded one after another.

In the following week, small and medium-sized cities at all levels will also be gradually rolled out.

It's just that, in the eyes of peers, Tiankun Entertainment seems to have forgotten to do pre-listing advertising and promotion warm-up.

In the first few days, the stock of 100,000 units was only sold in the United States, and only two or three thousand units were sold in the United States - mainly the game hall owners who used to do the arcade business of Tiankun Entertainment and other industry personnel were buying.

These "friends" are often the first users of new electronic devices, and they are not so much for fun as for testing and learning about the competition.

The customers who know the hardware vendor best are often his competitors, and no one is exempt from this.

Among these next operators, there are some diversified operators whose business is relatively large, and they will open game halls and electrical appliances stores at the same time. These people should have been the biggest fans of the Tiankun entertainment brand, but looking at Tiankun's previous non-Buddhist posture, they were also secretly angry.

As for Atari, the main opponent of Tiankun, he still doesn't know how to laugh rampantly and secretly in the past few days: these Asians who are slamming the door are reluctant to pay for advertising before launching a new game console!

Fortunately, this situation changed overnight on June 28, with an explosive news.

On this day, an international electronic academic journal with the IEEE prefix published a paper by Erickson, a professor in the EE department of Stanford University.

(IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.) Anyway, many journals that remember the IEEE prefix are the ones with the most outstanding academic status in the international electronic and electrical fields, and the SCI impact factor in this field is hugely high. ）

This paper is actually the end of a series of academic discussions, and there are several related articles in front of it.

But because of the previous text, only professionals can understand it, so although the mine has been buried for half a year, no layman has noticed it.

However, this last article is an analysis of engineering practice and application, and it is closely related to current affairs cases, which can be understood by laymen.

Therefore, on the first day after the journal came out, it was immediately quoted by some mass media and even TV stations.

There is also a TV station that arranged a talk show interview on the same day.

If you look back, you must know that there are people behind this who are stuffing money and hype, otherwise, how can the mass media keep up so closely with the latest achievements in academic journals.

"The IEEE-*** Journal disclosed an important research result of Professor Erickson of the EE Department of Stanford University: a number of the latest cutting-edge warships of the Burese Army that were sunk in the naval battle of the South Atlantic recently were damaged due to the lack of mutual interference and compatibility of the ship's electronic and communication equipment, resulting in the air defense radar early warning system not working normally around the clock, and there was a time blind spot......

After this news was reprinted, it almost instantly caught the attention of people who care about current affairs all over the world.

It is now the end of June 1982, and at this point in history, there are only two major hot spots in the world: one is the ongoing World Cup, and the other is the Battle of the Falklands.

Any new results, awesome weapons and their interpretations in the Falklands naval battle are all news and entertainment programs for military fans in an instant.

You may not have experienced the Battle of the Falklands, and China was still relatively closed in the early 80s, so you don't have any intuitive impression of this feeling. But if you are born in the 70s or early 80s, you can think about how influential the terms "Scud" and "patriot" were when you heard about the Gulf War in 91.

In the world outside of China, the popularity of "Flying Fish" in 82 is as awesome as that of "Patriot" in 91.

What's more, people all over the world like to watch the drama of the weak swearing to resist to the death. Just like in the '60s, there were so many young rock 'n' roll in the United States who printed Che Guevara on their cultural shirts. It's not that they love Cuba because they're not patriotic, it's just that they like to watch dramatic rebels like tragic epics.

In the Falklands War in history, only two destroyers and many frigates were sunk, and it was already so big in the news.

Destroyers of this class have not been sunk in major wars since World War II -- from previous wars in the Middle East, to Iran-Iraq, and several Indo-Pakistani wars, there have been precedents for destroyers to be sunk.

But now, history has been changed by Gu Qiu, resulting in the sinking of the "Hermes" aircraft carrier.

That was the first time in nearly 40 years since the end of World War II, and there may be no chance of a repeat in the coming decades.

After all, those who have aircraft carriers must be big hooligan-level powers, sinking aircraft carriers, but it means that the rabbit bites the lion and succeeds, the small country is cold and slashes the powers, and I heard that the Duke of York's ships have been heavily damaged, which is so interesting.

That's why at least one billion people around the world are just as active in finding the latest news in the newspapers and on TV every day as they are in World Cup reports. Maybe I am faintly looking forward to the Argentines creating another historical miracle and giving everyone a chance to hunt.

"Wow, I thought Flying Fish was so awesome. It turned out that the sneak attack was successful when the Bretanian radar was forced to shut down. ”

"You can only sneak attack once, right?

"Ah, isn't it to verify the rigor of academic theories, some people have provided academic theoretical support to the Argentine military? Did the Argentines learn to be obedient, and then summed up their experience, so they specifically stole what time of day the Brittan fleet communicates with domestic satellites, and then step on the point to attack?"

Explosive discussions such as these have spread rapidly to the streets of major developed countries around the world at the speed of the virus splitting.

It's a pity that there is no Internet these days, otherwise this rumor spreads at least ten times faster.

From CNN to Fox, major TV stations in the United States have invited all kinds of brick family comments and talk shows.

And Professor Erikson was even booked to go to CNN for a live talk show interview. And the show's interim host was named Larry King.

However, Professor Erikson was a scholar after all, and before he could show his face, other reverse trends began to hit and dominate the news media.

The first twist and turn that appeared was some social news in Buenkistan:

"Yesterday, since the IEEE revealed the results of Professor Erikson's analysis, the people of Brittan were outraged, and there was a denunciation on the streets of London against the main shipyards of the Royal Navy, ship design units and other suppliers.

The people of Brittania strongly demanded that the naval armament system and the DNC bidding process be investigated for any omissions, resulting in technical loopholes that could be discovered by foreign civilian research institutions, but the Royal Navy has not found them. ”

It turned out that after the paper came out, the traditional conservative people in the country who were proud of the Royal Navy couldn't stand it.

Originally, if it was because of "the end of the strong crossbow, it is impossible to wear Lu Min" that the losses were heavy, then it would be fine. After all, it is an away game 12,000 kilometers away, and there is no way to do it if Argentina causes some trouble at home.

But in the end, it turned out that there was a national thief's negligence, how could this be endured?

Coupled with the fact that their national team just lost to West Germans in the second stage of the 12-4 group stage in Spain's World Cup yesterday, it seems that there is no hope of qualifying.

The football bulls who returned to China had nowhere to vent their national concerns, and the crowd was so angry that they ran to smash the DNC offices. (DNC is the Royal Navy's Director of Construction, or it can be called the Bureau of Ship Building)

Trafalgar Square and Whitehall Street were littered with rotten eggs and rotten potatoes and rotten tomatoes. The shattered glass windows were all shattered by potatoes that were not enough to penetrate at all, relying on the path of the Gatling Cult.

On the same day, the Ministry of Defense of the country had to issue a solemn statement condemning remedyly:

"Colonel Bright, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Brittany, said: Regarding the problem that the warships such as the "Sheffield" and the "Glasgow" were sunk by a "Exocet" missile, and the "Hermes" aircraft carrier's alert ship group failed to make an early warning response in time.

The Royal Navy has already conducted a deep investigation and reached its preliminary conclusions ten days ago. This conclusion was reached earlier than Professor Erikson's paper in the IEEE related journal.

It was only out of consideration for keeping military secrets and the war was still ongoing, so the Royal Navy and the Ministry of Defense chose not to disclose it at the first time, in the hope that the information asymmetry could gain more competitive advantages on the battlefield. Hereby, we condemn the unauthorized disclosure of military secrets by personnel in IEEE journals and Stanford University......"

It turned out that the Royal Navy couldn't stand it: even foreigners who didn't have first-hand information analyzed what your warship was hanging on, but you yourself couldn't analyze it.

So they hurriedly said: We also figured it out a long time ago, just for military deception, so it was not announced.

The final condemnation is actually for the angry football bulls in their own country, and they can't condemn the American universities, and they can't control the reasons for the American speech.

Just as people were about to accept this explanation, the Argentines across the Atlantic also condemned it.

"The Argentine Ministry of Defense condemned the researchers associated with Stanford University, exposing their military secrets. By reviewing the previous examples, the Argentine side has formed a tactical arrangement for spying on the time of communication between the fleet and domestic satellites and for targeted sneak attacks.

Professor Erikson's research led to the Bu Army's vigilance, and the subsequent sneak attack was likely to be unsuccessful. President Galtieri harshly condemned Stanford University's actions......"

The Argentine's remarks are a bit of an afterthought, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that this is also an additional excuse that Galtieri is making for himself to "lose the war" - when the situation of the Argentine army is already obviously unfavorable, it may be finished at any time.

If at this time we create a situation for the people: "It is not that our army is not heroic, but that American scientists wear the same pants with the Bretannes, and thoroughly study our tactics and leak them to the enemy, we will lose."

Isn't this also a good way to play a few tragic heroes for yourself?

The three parties have their own ghosts, but they surprisingly unanimously hyped this matter into the world's first hot spot.

In this context, CNN announced a preview of the program:

Professor Erikson of Stanford University said that even though the Ministries of Defense of Brittania and Argentina said they had worked on the results several days in advance, they could not announce them because of wartime secrecy.

However, he still has evidence that the relevant research group in the EE department of Stanford University is the first in the world to pay attention to the importance of electromagnetic compatibility prevention and control and make systematic research. To this end, the station will broadcast an interview with the invited guest Professor Erickson live at 8 p.m. tomorrow night. All parties with different views are also welcome to come to the venue to debate with the guests.

I'm Larry King, and I'm looking forward to meeting you. ”