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But the arcade machines of the early 80s were pretty rudimentary, and this game will definitely be a hit even if it makes it to the arcade market. Therefore, "Tank Wars" will make an arcade version first, and make a lot of money on it first. When Pangu Studio came out of the console platform, "Tank Wars" was ported to the console platform as an exclusive game on the game platform of New Venture Electronics.

In fact, the '80s did create some classic games that weren't technically complicated, but they were as fun as the platinum games of later generations.

The so-called classics are works that do not fade over time.

Most of the big-selling games of the 80s have been forgotten by players over time. However, there are always some classics that are engraved in the memory of a generation of gamers and are not forgotten as players play more masterpieces.

In a few decades, there will be no more than ten games that will be remembered by hundreds of millions of players - Super Mario, Contra, Tetris, Tank Wars......

Although "Tank Wars" does not sell as well as "Cube" and "Mario", it can at least be on an equal footing with "Contra".

After the development of "Tank Wars" was assigned, a development team of more than 50 people was formed on a voluntary basis.

In fact, there are not so many people at all, and the game is completely different from later generations. Later generations of large-scale games even required hundreds or thousands of people to develop.

But games in the 80s generally only needed a few to more than a dozen people, and it was a waste to have more than 50 people develop a simple game.

Even so, there is still a part of the labor force that is idle.

There were more than 40 people left, and Lin Qi simply asked them to port "Chinese Cube" to the two platforms of apple II and Cromemco.

In this era, people only pay attention to the scenery of appleII, but they don't notice that Cromemco, a cheap computer, is not inferior to apple II.

And when the apple II costs more than $1,000, the Cromemco costs only six or seven hundred dollars a unit. Before IBM's PC standards were released, Cromemco was already using Intel's chips. When the PC compatibility was first introduced, Cromemco was the first to use the 286 chip when the 286 chip was not yet used.

In the early 80s, the company was known as the "Volkswagen" of the computer industry, and by '82 it had sold more than 20 million computers, more than any other computer brand.

But such a market pioneer was later similar to Apple, and was hit by the PC camp. Apple later transformed into a mobile phone manufacturer. However, Cromemco did not survive the successful transformation and declared bankruptcy in '94.

In 80 years, the Apple and Cromemco platforms could represent the personal computer market, and the combined number of users of the two was at least seven or eight million, if not 10 million.

Although, the main market for the game "Chinese Cubes" is not the personal computer platform. But historically, the "Block" game was also a big seller on computer platforms. A project that makes sure you don't lose money, and you can train your team, so you have to do it with one stone!

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After the expansion of the new start-up electronics company, although it is not bad, it is still poor for top scientific research talents.

In this era, there are many famous business geniuses among the Chinese, but there are not many big bulls in the computer industry.

Of course, this is also related to the current economic backwardness of China, and without a huge domestic consumer market for computer software and hardware, it is naturally impossible to cultivate a huge contingent of qualified personnel.

It is precisely because of the rarity of authoritative experts in the Chinese computer industry in this era that Lin Qi attaches great importance to those who have names and surnames and are not too old.

Among them, Yu Youcheng is the target of Lin Qi's preparation.

Yu Youcheng has been working in Silicon Valley since the 60s, and has held key positions at Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation. Although, after he left Intel, the business failed in a mess. But it doesn't mean that his ability is low, it can only be said that his business acumen is not too bright.

Lin Qi doesn't care too much about business management, he needs technical authority.

In mid-July 1980, Lin Qi found out the address of the computer training school founded by Yu Youcheng, and then brought Zhang Ru and two bodyguards to the door.

Although Yu Youcheng was suspected of cheating money in running the training class, he was serious about teaching. Not only did he give lectures by himself, but he also found a group of professors in the computer industry in the United States to help teach.

It can be said that the depth of the content of the lectures is not inferior to that of the first-class universities in the United States. The tuition fee is also cheaper than that of universities in the United States, and the average student only charges 20,000 or 30,000 Hong Kong dollars for teaching and selling computers.

If he hadn't been in trouble, he wouldn't have been so low-voiced and pitted such a small amount of money.

"Mr. Yu......" Lin Qi was outside the door, listening for a long time, and he dozed off.

Numb, I don't understand!

Even if he is full of English professional terms, even if he speaks Chinese, he can understand every word, and when combined, it is a little confused.

Therefore, Lin Qi never imagined that he could work hard to become a scholar.

He respects Xueba, but he knows that he can't become a Xueba. Not only can't endure hardship, but also, Xueba has to talk about talent.

For example, most of the students recruited by Yu Youcheng are students or teachers from some domestic research institutes, as well as famous universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University.

These people have a good foundation and a high IQ, and of course they make rapid progress, and after making up the foundation, they quickly enter the deeper teaching content.

Yu Youcheng didn't cheat them, and the computer used for teaching was based on the 8085 chip, and he also helped these students translate the latest textbooks from the United States. And it's not just about using software and computers, and it's not just about writing programs on a certain platform. It's about teaching, designing the way of thinking and learning about software and hardware.

In other words, low-level computer training will only train people to code farmers who can use certain tools to write code.

Therefore, not only Lao Yu himself is valuable, but the students of this training class are also some talents who can be created.

Until Yu Youcheng's class ended, Lin Qi and the others did not leave, but were quietly at the door.

"Are you?" Yu Youcheng looked at Lin Qi and his party suspiciously. As early as when I was teaching before, I saw these people standing at the door, and I thought I was attracted by the course and stopped outside the door to listen, but obviously, it shouldn't be.

Lin Qi was followed by a bodyguard not far behind, and beside him was a beautiful secretary, who at a glance looked like a common business owner in Hong Kong. Moreover, he is not a small boss, after all, a small boss, one dollar is eager to be broken and spent as two dollars, who will hire bodyguards?