Chapter 040: I paid the money first
"Mr. Li Xuan, the scene you made is too big!"
At this time, Manager Li of Lisheng Cinema was walking towards Li Xuan with a worried face. Usually the morning is the sparse crowd in the cinema, but today the hall is crowded, and this kind of lively scene has not been seen since the opening of the cinema.
What made him even more depressed was that the people who came did not buy tickets to watch the movie in the screening hall, but came for the two new game consoles in the hall, which made him feel very helpless.
"Haha, good morning Manager Li, this shows that our video game console is really very fun, and it can attract a lot of popularity to your movie theater!" Li Xuan said with a smile on his face.
The two of them stood in front of the ticket window, which became the emptiest place in the hall, and even the window next door selling drinks and fruits was not attended by customers in line.
Suddenly, in front of the arcade of the tank battle, there was a disgruntled shouting from the players.
"Waiter, where's the waiter? This broken machine can't be used!"
"It won't be so weak, I've been queuing for more than an hour, and it's my turn, hurry up and find someone to fix it!" The people behind the line also stirred, and the crowd of onlookers next to them also began to coax.
Li Xuan saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Everyone, let me go, I'm a maintenance technician!"
As soon as the others heard that the repairer was coming, they quickly flashed a space for him, Li Xuan walked to the arcade, only to hear the alarm sound of the game machine, and he couldn't laugh or cry. It's not that there's a problem with the machine at all, it's that the coin storage compartment inside is stuffed with coins that players have put in, and they can't continue to put coins, so an alarm sounds.
"Manager Li, hurry up and ask your cashier to bring a big basin over, the coins in the game console are full, you need to take them out first!" Li Xuan shouted to Manager Li outside the crowd.
The key to open the box inside the console has long been given to the administrator of the cinema. Manager Li called the staff to turn on the game console, and the coin box was filled with brown five-millimeter coins. A cashier lady in the cinema poured all the coins into the boxes prepared in advance, and the rattling sound attracted a burst of envy from the people around her.
"Click!" a person next to him recorded the moment with a camera on his chest. Li Xuan didn't pay attention to the woman who poured the coin, but stared at the person taking the picture, and ordinary players definitely don't have this hobby.
The man noticed that someone was watching him, and turned his head and smiled at Li Xuan in a friendly manner. Li Xuan had a strong feeling that the other party should be a reporter who catches the news, and it was definitely not invited by himself, but attracted by the huge momentum caused by the real Lisheng Cinema.
At this time, the originally frowning brow on Manager Li's face had been completely replaced by a smile. Dongfang Electronics' arcade machine uses a large coin storage box, which can hold 1,000 coins. In other words, the game console in the movie theater has already made a profit of 500 yuan in less than a day.
At this rate, if you put four or five arcade machines in the hall, you can earn more than 100,000 yuan out of thin air in a month, and even if you get a few discounts, how can you have 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.
Manager Li began to recall the negotiation with Li Xuan at the beginning, at that time, what was the price he quoted to himself for this kind of game machine? 10,000 yuan a piece, yes, this price is very cheap, you can pay back in a month, and it will be a net profit in the future, so you must place an order to buy it immediately!
Manager Li looked at Li Xuan as if he were looking at his own son, and his tone became more kind: "Mr. Li Xuan, we talked about buying a game console before, when do you think I will pay the money first, you hurry up and bring over a few more units, and there is still a large group of people queuing outside?"
"Didn't you say that you had to ask the theater chain for approval before you could sign the contract?" Li Xuan asked meaningfully.
"It's okay, I still have the right to make up my mind about this kind of thing!" In front of the golden Hong Kong dollar, Manager Li didn't mind slapping his mouth at all, and gave a completely different statement from last time.
"I've already asked my colleague to bring two more game consoles to the rescue. Let's be honest, the new game won't ship until next week at the earliest, and these are the experimental products that our company made before. Therefore, your movie theater is unique in Hong Kong, and money can't buy it anywhere else!" Li Xuan no longer hung the other party's appetite, and explained directly, after all, the customer is God, and you should be polite to God.
At this time, there was a cheer at the door of the theater, and Du Wenqiang had arrived with three other arcade machines. The players were so enthusiastic that they took the initiative to lift three one-person-tall game consoles off the truck and into the cinema lobby.
Three new forces joined, but the team was often split into five shares in an instant. However, the Lisheng Cinema is located in the downtown area of Kowloon, and the lively scene here has already attracted many onlookers, and some of them young people have been attracted to join the queue.
Li Xuan even saw several people calling friends on the public phone in the electric theater, and summoning other friends who were still in the bed without getting up like offering treasures, and hurried over to join in the fun.
Li Xuan knew that his first step was successful, and it was even more successful than he expected, this is the charm of the two classic games of Hong Kong Square and Tank War, which is worthy of being a good game that countless people are obsessed with!
"Hey, you've already invested three times, are you still going to fool around? Your school teacher didn't teach you how to count, can't you tell the difference between one millimeter and five millimeters?"
Li Xuan recognized that it was Wen Zai who was talking and training people, Ma Zai under his eldest brother, and the young man who was trained wanted to scold a few words back, but when he saw Wen Zai's unkind eyes, he was a little timid, and the people behind him began to coax and scold again, so that he had no money to hurry up, so he had to reluctantly take out a five-millimeter coin from his pocket and put away the one-millimeter coin that he wanted to pass the customs in confusion.
This is just a small episode in the process of playing the game, but Dongfang Electronics has long thought about this kind of trick that players may use. When the Hong Kong government issued a new version of the five-millimeter coin in 1977, it caused great dissatisfaction among Hong Kong citizens.
Because this new five-millimeter coin and the previous one-millimeter coins in large circulation are made of brass nickel alloy, although the proportion of metal composition is different, it is very similar in appearance and weight, and it is easy to be confused if you are not careful to identify the words "one millimeter" and "five millimeters" on the obverse.
When designing the arcade machine, Dongfang Electronics Company used a more technical comparative coin to eliminate the luck of players using one millimeter coin instead of five milli coins to use coins.
Compared to mechanical coin-dispensers, which can only be identified by the size, weight, and thickness of the coin, this comparative coin dispenser has a much higher level of detection. When a coin is fed into this comparative coin-dispenser, it first passes through a magnetic field generated by a specially high-frequency oscillating circuit consisting of an inductor and a capacitor.
When coins with different proportions pass through a magnetic field, the circuit will produce changes in different oscillation frequencies, and if the number jรน is very different from the pre-set parent coin, the coin will not be successful.
Dongfang Electronics' employees had tested it with an accuracy rate of more than 99%, so although the use of this Japanese-made comparative coin dispenser had increased the manufacturing cost of the arcade machine by nearly 100 Hong Kong dollars, Li Xuan decided to use this more technical accessory.
ps: I read a book in the morning, and by the way, I voted for the recommendation, and I knelt down to thank you, hehe!