This trip delayed Gu Biao's schoolwork for two or three weeks.

So as soon as he returned to school, he had to go back to the life of crazy make-up classes.

Director Bao told him that he might have to go to Hujiang in January to complete the final procedures and get back the equipment that was stranded in Xiangjiang.

In addition, with the establishment of the Foreign Investment Commission, accepting the donation of the Xiangjiang charter boat king and establishing a state-owned foreign affairs hotel in Hujiang is also a great achievement. The leaders of Hujiang City did not dare to report to the state at the beginning, but if the Foreign Investment Commission had made the other party's intention to contact the other party, it would undoubtedly prove the work ability of the Foreign Investment Committee.

This matter is the news that Gu Biao inquired about, and he also has to deal with the local government in Hujiang, and when the time comes, it will be done together with the filming approval of "Hujiang Beach", which can be regarded as not bothering the two masters.

Big shots, if you can ask for one less time, you can ask for one less time, and if you can pack it, you can pack it up, this is all common sense in officialdom.

Even if you don't mix with officialdom, when you get to the enterprise, the big boss hates the kind of submissive staff who come to ask for instructions once for a little thing. And like the kind of people who have a certain degree of autonomy and save up for instructions on big things, this is called being able to do things.

The scale is nothing more than "I can spend 5 more minutes, but I also want the leader to spend 1 minute less"; if it is a leader who crosses two levels, it is "his minute is worth half an hour", and so on.

Those who can grasp this scale, whether in the enterprise or in the organization, have a better chance of becoming qualified management talents. (Of course, the above is only a general situation, if the leadership style is particularly bureaucratic, the above proportion must be magnified, and that is a special case.) ）

In 1980, the Spring Festival was in mid-February, so the university had a winter vacation in early February, and the final exams at the Foreign Affairs University were supposed to be held in late January.

But Gu Biao had to go to Hujiang for business in mid-January, which meant that the school once again opened a small stove for him and took the final exam half a month earlier.

He only spent half of his classmates studying, and he was so nervous that he exploded.

However, Gu Wei also realized that what he learned at the Foreign Affairs Academy could be used directly, which was very helpful to his work and future development—if it weren't for the training he received at the Foreign Affairs Academy, he might not even have the skills to make friends with Sir Shao and the charter boat king this time.

In addition, he was an engineering student in his previous life, and he really felt that he had learned something in the past two years. In particular, the scattered experience gained from listening to APP courses on the subway in his previous life was systematically sorted out and shaped into a liberal arts and sciences all-rounder.

In addition to insisting on attending classes and tutoring, Gu Biao has two things that he will definitely do every day.

One is to spend a few minutes a day talking to Xiao Sui on the phone to relax your nerves.

The other is to call Qiantang's sister and Ma Feng.

Over the past few days, Ma Feng has also grown a lot, at least he knows how to deal with various emergencies in supply chain management.

Many things that can't be done also made Ma Feng realize his shortcomings, so he hungrily looked for "Henry Ford's Biography", an original English biography of entrepreneurs.

Of course, this kind of book cannot be used as a professional business management textbook. But if you don't consider market development and only do supply chain management, Henry Ford's old-fashioned experience is still enough, at least for Ma Feng, who has only learned English and has not learned management, it is quite helpful. This is all about learning with problems and difficulties encountered in reality, and learning in advance without a goal is not the same as efficiency.

And my sister Gu Min wants to help Gu Biao keep an eye on the progress of new product development in Qiantang: the reason why the original "Thunderbolt Fighter" was completed in a month and a half by Yang Hao and Lu Yunda, two undergraduates of Zhejiang University, was only because there were semi-finished products from Xijiao Youhong to learn, and everyone just transplanted it and tinkered with it.

After this budding development team pulled up, starting in October, Gu Xiao increased investment, striving to let everyone spend 3 months, according to his design instructions, to make two electronic arcade machines from beginning to end, from soft to hard, designed by Chinese independently.

For this reason, he privately took money to let his sister bring in two or three more developers, and even finally pulled a young male teacher from Zhejiang University, named Yan Lei.

He is a college student in the mid-to-early 60s, ten years ago, and a college student who passed the college entrance examination. engaged in electrical engineering, graduated from graduate school in 69 and stayed in school to teach-that is, the age and education experience of Han Ting.

In the 60s, there were no electronics departments in domestic universities, only electrical engineering departments and electrical departments, because integrated circuits were just emerging in Europe and the United States at that time. Therefore, most of the teachers of the new electronics department today have studied the electrical engineering department at the beginning, and later, with the progress of technology, they slowly explored with the students and learned a few electronics-related professional courses.

Even such talents learn almost together with students in electronic design, but after all, they have a solid foundation in other majors and know a little about the planning and management of R&D work. Once the team expands, it is no longer a matter of "everyone working on one project on their own", so it is important to have a little authority and some ideas.

(Note: In 1979, "a single developer doing a whole project" in the industry was still the norm in the arcade world, and Tomohiro Nishikaku's "Space Invaders" was completed by himself from beginning to end.) The development model of the project team will gradually become mainstream until there are three or four competing companies in the market. ）

So, my sister Gu Min relied on private expenses, and Mr. Yan led 5 undergraduates, including the original Yang Hao and Lu Yunda, to tackle several "finalized interactive shooting games" designed by Gu Wei, so that after the Taidong and Namco competing products were listed in the future, the West Lake Electronics Factory could produce a new generation of profit points.

Gu Biao gave a total of three design ideas, namely "Pac-Man", "Bomberman" and "Tank War", and asked them to decide the development order after evaluating the difficulty.

Gu Biao's idea of choosing a game is also very simple, first of all, it must be simple and easy to implement, and the gameplay must be interesting and long-lasting.

He didn't like to play games very much in his previous life, so those ancient goods that were awesome in history but didn't have time to play in the 80s were definitely not among his choices. He can't remember which arcade games in history have sold well - he doesn't have Baidu built into his head, and he doesn't have a system.

Games like "Pac-Man" and "Bomberman" can be completely displayed without refreshing the scrolling map on one screen, considering the performance achievability of the 8080CPU.

At the same time, these games have also endured for decades, and later developed variants such as "Bubble Hall", "QQ Hall", and "Snake Snake" with art optimization and prop enrichment. It can be seen that the core game idea is very interesting. The picture is beautiful, and the practice of the picture is beautiful, and it can make people enjoy it when it is not exquisite.

"Tank War" is definitely a little inferior, but Gu Biao played with relish when he was a child in his last life, and felt that as long as the props and terrain and enemy types were reduced, and the BGM was removed, the 8080CPU would definitely be able to do it.

As for the "tank war", it did not become popular in a different form in the PC era, and Gu Biao also felt that the game itself could not be blamed - but the category of "shooting", which was originally very pictures-eating. There are more beautiful and realistic games with cool explosion effects, and who still plays old antiques. Only casual games can directly apply the core of the old era and continue to make money by changing the art.

After the computer is ready, the former fans of "tank wars" have to change to Yamaguchi Ding or War Thunder to play, right?

And the other two proposed by Gu Biao are not shooting games after all. The concept of shooting will definitely continue to be popular for a year or two now, especially if it can capture the appetite of male players, and there is no reason not to continue to explore selling points.

In addition, there are some games that are easy to implement technically, but they also fix the screen without refreshing, and the CPU pressure is very low, such as "Tetris". But Gu Biao will definitely not consider it - because he is now producing an arcade machine, not a home machine.

Arcade is counting on players to die quickly and then drop a coin, and if you want to take into account the gameplay of this game, the quick death cannot be guaranteed.

After the arcade machines of these three games are also sold out in the future, Gu Biao feels that he will definitely be able to bring out a mature technical team that is very familiar with 8080CPU applications, and then it will be safer to talk about 8086/8088 and other CPU arcades.

Otherwise, if a completely localized 8080 work from soft to hard has not been done, and he jumps 8086 directly, he is afraid that his new skills will not be enough and he will not be able to do it.

On the other hand, after the time entered 1980, it was also possible to wait for the appearance of Zilog's imitation products on the market, forcing Intel's 8086/88 CPU to further reduce the price and reduce the cost of arcade mass manufacturing.

Every week, Gu Min and Ma Feng report to Gu Biao on their progress and describe the problems the team has encountered. If Gu Biao knows the design concept and solution, and can verbally help solve it, he will naturally try his best to guide it.

In the end, the project progress given by Gu Min is that the "Tank War" can be put into production in about January, and then the "Pac-Man" and "Bomberman" can be completed around March.

Anyway, in the name of commissioned development, give some money to those R&D personnel and buy the copyright, in short, Gu Biao is a veteran of this way, and will never leave hidden dangers.

Nowadays, there is no concept of software copyright in China, so theoretically, if someone wants to build game consoles in China and sell them to Chinese to play for themselves, Gu Xiao will not care, just sell them!

But if there are foreign companies that want to plagiarize, then Gu Biao must have a way to sue them.

The most complicated situation is nothing more than "some domestic electronics factories realize that this thing is valuable, and they also learn to engage in it and sell it to foreigners to earn foreign exchange."

In this case, Gu Biao could theoretically use Heung Kong to sue those importers, that is, the party that purchased the goods. But in fact, he is not sure, so let's not think too much about it for the time being.

In this way, after half a month of studying and preparing for exams, Gu Biao received a contact from Director Bao again.

"Xiao Gu, come to the committee, some leaders want to see you. ”