Chapter 078: Game Boy
The next day, the headlines of all the newspapers in Hong Kong were once again covered by Oriental Electronics. "100 people attacked the factory, throwing money to help students attracted the eyes of the community?", this is the horror headline given by the "Oriental Daily", the report directly exaggerated the number of Feizi who attacked the Dongfang Electronics Factory from 40 to 100.
And "Oriental Daily" did not mention a word, and the seizure of the copycat factory by the community boss was the fuse of the incident. On the contrary, the incident was imagined as Dongfang Electronics throwing a large amount of money into Chinese University, so it attracted the eyes of the community members and demanded to increase the protection fee, but Dongfang Electronics Company refused, so it was retaliated against by the other party!
The whole article is not so much a true report as a story made up by a journalist. However, neither the Shatin Police Station, which participated in the investigation, nor the victim, Oriental Daily, made a public statement, which also gave them an excuse for reverie. The report portrayed Dongfang Electronics as a tragic victim of an attack by evil forces, and tortured the Hong Kong government to ask why the Hong Kong government was indifferent to such a deterioration in Hong Kong's social order.
Such a report is very much in line with the position of Dongfang Electronics, in fact, there is the company's public relations department behind it. Along with the large photo published on the front page of the headline report, it was quietly provided by the company's public relations department as the whistleblower. A group of thugs armed with sticks and watermelon knives were rushing up the stairs with hideous faces.
At the time of the incident, the company specially took several cameras prepared in advance and captured a large number of photos from various angles. These were originally intended to be given to the police as evidence to try to arrest the suspect. Because of the harassment of factories by associations like this in Hong Kong, it is often not resolved due to lack of evidence.
This time, the public relations department carefully selected a batch of photos in advance and secretly provided them to various newspapers, and the angles of these photos all showed the ferocity of the bad boys of the community who came to smash and make trouble.
Li Xuan came to the company early in the morning, and he was sitting there reading the newspaper. A star company that has just been chased by the media in Hong Kong and whose popularity has not faded suddenly broke such a big news, and the enthusiasm of the reporters can be imagined. Under the deliberate guidance and cooperation of the company's public relations department, in addition to Dongfang Electronics Company being placed in the position of a victim in need of sympathy, the Hong Kong Police Force has borne the brunt of the Hong Kong media's criticism, and it is believed that it is the laxity and inaction of the police that will cause such a deterioration of social order in Hong Kong.
Li Xuan showed a smug smile on his mouth, on the one hand, there was surging public opinion pressure, and on the other hand, Dongfang Electronics' two million cash**, what choice the Hong Kong Police Force would make, it is naturally conceivable.
"Xuan Shao, this is the latest gameboy after improvement, what else do you think is built?"
Du Wenqiang walked into Li Xuan's office like a treasure, took out a palm-sized handheld with an orange shell from his pocket, and handed it to Li Xuan with a smile. Yesterday's turmoil did not affect the normal operation of the company. Li Xuan took the new gadget handed over by Fat Tsai Du, and the smile on his face was even better.
When Li Xuan got the Hong Kong cubes out, he knew that this was not actually a game suitable for arcades. And Dongfang Electronics' sales in recent months also prove this, the arcade price of Hong Kong Square is only two-thirds of the tank battle, but the order is still not as much as the latter.
Although the Hong Kong Square Arcade machine sells well in the American market and the Japanese market, even if it is not as good as the sales of Tank Wars, it can easily kill other arcade machines listed at the same time by Sega and Taidong.
But this can only be said that there is no tiger and monkey in the mountains to call the king, and the current arcade game picture is not as vivid and rich as a few years later, so that such a casual game is successful in the arcade market.
The most suitable game platform for Hong Kong squares is the handheld, which is the thing that Li Xuan is holding in his hand now. The first time Li Xuan played Tetris in his previous life, he played it on a handheld borrowed from a classmate.
Most of the handheld game consoles played by the post-90s and post-00s generations are Sony's PSP, Nintendo's DNS, and Microsoft's Xbox. But for post-70s and post-80s players, when it comes to handheld game consoles, what suddenly comes to mind is definitely the figure of Nintendo's Gameboy.
There must be very few domestic players who have bought genuine Gameboy game consoles, and the price is directly converted into RMB to start at a few hundred yuan. That's a few hundred yuan in the nineties, which is worth half a month's salary of an ordinary worker.
But fortunately, there are a variety of copycat products produced by large and small domestic electronics factories, and the dishes have made Chinese children and children in other countries in the world spend a childhood with games and gameboys.
Li Xuan took a closer look, and the newly made handheld sample in his hand was almost the same as the gameboy in his memory, with an LCD screen on the top, a cross arrow key on the left side below, and two function keys on the right.
Just last month, Dongfang Electronics filed a global patent application for the design of the cross key. This is one of Nintendo's important patents to dominate the game industry, and now it is also in Li Xuan's pocket, he does go further and further on the road of others, and finally let others have no way out.
"There is a small switch on this one, break it up, and the entire game screen can be pulled out!" Du Wenqiang pointed out the ingenuity of the game console design to Li Xuan.
According to Li Xuan's original idea, the game console must be able to replace the game card, so that the vitality of the game console can be maintained with a steady stream of good games, and selling game cards is obviously more profitable than selling game consoles.
Nintendo's Gameboy was actually its second handheld, which wasn't launched until 198-9. Prior to this, Nintendo launched the first handheld game console that swept the world in 1980 - Gamewatch. But GameWatch was originally designed to be a one-game game, and you can't play other games on consoles.
Li Xuan naturally didn't understand the reason why Nintendo did this before, and when he developed his own handheld, he discovered the problem - the LCD screen. Gameboy, which can play new games by changing game cards, uses a dot matrix LCD screen. But now in 1980, this technology is not yet mature.
Now it is a printed LCD screen that is put into use on a large scale and at a low price. As the name suggests, printing LCD screen is to print the pattern on the screen in advance. Such screens are now widely used in electronic calculators.
If you look closely at the display of the electronic calculator, even if the numbers are not displayed, you can vaguely observe on the blank screen that there are all rows of "8s", which is printed on the screen in advance.
This kind of technical limitation, even Li Xuan can't break through. Therefore, the design idea of Dongfang Electronics' first handheld computer can only be a game displayed on a screen. However, according to Li Xuan's requirements, the game screen and the ROM that solidifies the game content are designed together to form a module that can be easily detached, which is equivalent to a large game card with a screen.
The cost of this game card accounts for about half of the cost of the whole mechanism, which means that when Dongfang Electronics Company launches a new game, players can save half of the cost by buying a game card than buying a new machine. The low price is the basis for the expansion of the limited edition of the game.
Li Xuan opened the game console named Gameboy by Dongfang Electronics, he was indeed quite shameless, robbing other people's companies' games, and even the name of the game console was not spared. In the future, the name Gameboy will have nothing to do with Nintendo.
The game card inserted on the handheld is the snake, yes, it is the small game that swept the world with Nokia mobile phones in later generations. This game is undoubtedly very suitable for handheld platforms, it is easy to play, but it is not boring to play.
Although Li Xuan loves to play games, his game skills are really bad, he only ate four or five bites, and if he didn't pay attention to the direction in time, the snake's head knocked down the edge of the screen, and the gameover. And the game master in the previous development team, playing the computer version of the snake, ate the snake so long that it almost filled the entire screen.