Chapter 254: New Game
"Aaron, what's important today?" Li Xuan returned to his office and asked Ke Lilun, who was following behind.
"The game company just sent the latest performance report, and Mr. Li of the application software company called in the morning to ask when you were free, and he was ready to come over and give you a debriefing report!"
"He has just taken office, and the debriefing report will be forgotten. I'll call him myself later and ask him to have dinner tonight! You help me order a table of seafood at FLM, and remember to order a high-quality Napoleon wrasse and Eastern Star Grouper!" Li Xuan said.
Mr. Li is called Li Gang in Ke Lilun's mouth, and he is the senior vice president and chief software engineer of Dongfang Software Company, and the East-DOS system was developed under his full responsibility. After the split of Dongfang Software Company into two, he was appointed by Li Xuan to become the president of the newly established Dongfang Application Software Company. He Guoyuan, the original president of Dongfang Software Company, remained as the president of Dongfang System Software Company.
After the spin-off of Dongfang Software, Dongfang Systems was more important in comparison, and it had a direct stake in IBM. In order to ensure his absolute control over Dongfang System Company, Li Xuan deliberately let He Guoyuan, the former president, stay in office to control the overall situation. As for the split Oriental Application Software Company, Li Xuan did not hire an external professional manager, but chose to be promoted internally.
Oriental Application Software Company's position in Li Xuan's mind is not low, it has previously relied on the ABC series computer platform, and has established enough advantages in the desktop office software market. Therefore, as long as Dongfang Application Company develops step by step and does not make major mistakes, it is not difficult for it to grow into a world-class commercial software company in the future. Such a company. Li Xuan preferred to be in the hands of someone he knew and trusted, so as not to have the alienation of Ai Kang again.
After the headquarters of Oriental Software moved to Silicon Valley in the United States. The company's executives are often split between San Francisco and Hong Kong. And this time, Li Gang, as the president of the newly established Oriental Application Software Company, calmed down the employees' uneasiness. immediately returned to Hong Kong to prepare to report to Li Xuan, the big boss.
In fact, Li Xuan has nothing else to advise, nothing more than to continue to increase investment in software research and development, first stabilize the desktop office software market, and then wait for the opportunity to enter the enterprise office software market.
In the office, it is better to chat while eating, which can enhance the feelings between each other, which is also the unique wine table culture of Chinese people. Li Gang likes to eat seafood, and Li Xuan, the big boss, wants his horses to run refueling, so he naturally has to put a lot of effort into it.
Li Xuan just sat down. Ke Lilun walked in with the sales report of Oriental Games. He scanned it quickly, and only on a few numbers highlighted in bold black did his gaze linger for a few more seconds. After reading the report, Li Xuan smiled and signed his name on the last page, and then handed it back to Curillen for archiving.
In the past, the trump card of the Oriental Game Company was naturally the arcade machine, then the Gameboy handheld, and finally the FC family game console. But now the most obscure FC console has come to a perfect comeback, with sales in the first seven months of the year in the US market alone. That's a staggering 5 million units.
Especially in the past July, FC home TV game consoles, boosted by the movie "ET Aliens", sold 1.013 million units that month. The inventory of FC consoles in the United States was instantly out of stock. And the new batch of game consoles sent to the United States is still on an ocean freighter and has not yet arrived in the United States. As a result, Oriental Game Company could only temporarily charter three cargo planes and directly airlifted a batch of game consoles from the Hong Kong factory to the United States for emergency. The incident was also reported as news by American television and newspapers.
After reading the other documents that needed to be signed by him, Li Xuan said hello to his assistant. Just leave the office. Ke Lilun behind him shook his head helplessly, his boss was getting off work earlier and earlier. It's only two o'clock in the afternoon. It's not even time for afternoon tea.
In fact, Li Xuan himself thinks it is a good thing, because it means that Dongfang Electronics is an already very large company. Finally really matured, everyone did their part, and it didn't need him to interfere too much to run healthily.
Of course, Li Xuan actually didn't get off work, but went to the floor where the Oriental Game Company was located. As soon as he walked into the new product testing area of the game company, it was like walking into an arcade hall, and it was bustling with activity.
Li Xuan walked in front of a game console with the largest number of onlookers, and before he could get in front of him, he heard the sound of explosions, bullets, and the roar of aircraft engines. It makes people feel like they have entered the battlefield at once, and the adrenaline can't help but start to soar. Li Xuan stood in the corner and looked at the arcade display, which was a vertical scrolling shooter.
The game seems to be set against the backdrop of an azure sea and green islands, and the main character of the game is an old-fashioned propeller plane. A test engineer maneuvers the fighter plane to move forward, backward, left, and right, dodging enemy bullets. And the machine guns under the wings on both sides of the guò kept strafing, destroying the enemy's aircraft and anti-aircraft fortresses in front of them.
"Alas, I'm dying here again! The difficulty of this setting is too high, it's impossible to get through guò, you have to modify it to reduce the difficulty, otherwise the player won't be able to continue playing!"
The test engineer apparently ran into a difficult point in the map level, and soon hung up a life, and the people around him began to talk about it. The tester was silent, and soon used his second life to continue maneuvering the plane to challenge the challenge.
Li Xuan carefully observed this section of the map, and saw that there was a row of three anti-aircraft turrets at the top of the map firing bullets non-stop, and two turrets on each side of the middle of the map that could rotate 180° were constantly rotating back and forth to fire shells.
At the same time, when the player arrives at the top two corners of the screen, two bombers with red plaster flags will appear. Four neatly organized planes, with a semicircular arc from both sides. The four planes converged in the center of the map, and the shells scattered like scattered flowers, combined with the bullets released by the anti-aircraft turret on the map, instantly blocked the entire screen, and the player's fighter plane had no room to dodge at all.
Sure enough, the tester's second plane still did not escape the fate of being shot down, and the same was true of the third plane after that. After losing three planes in a row, the game gameover, begins to enter the countdown time of recharge. If the player does not recharge within 30 seconds, the game will automatically end and return to the original state.
Li Xuan has already guessed that this new game, which is still under development, is the highlight of this year of Oriental Games Company - "1942". (To be continued......)