On the first day of opening, the game hall was full, and there was a group of people around each machine. Once someone gets off www.biquge.info the machine, someone will throw in coins and seize the machine within a few seconds......

Open 12 hours a day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the arcade is overcrowded. Until the door closed, hundreds of players were still reluctant.

80 years of arcade games, of course, in Lin Qi's opinion, is very simple. But in the eyes of players in this era, it is very attractive.

The gameplay isn't too chaotic or boring, and basically, it attracts a lot of popularity.

"Space Invaders" and "Little Bee" are undoubtedly the most popular games in the arcade, because these two games are currently popular in the global market, selling more than thousands or even tens of thousands of units per month. What's more, both games offer a two-player mode for more efficient gold swallowing!

Relatively speaking, "Chinese Cube" did not consider the two-player mode for the time being, because Lin Qi knew that the predecessor of this game, "Tetris", was not suitable for two-player competitive gameplay. The reluctance to switch to a two-player mode doesn't add much fun. Rather than that, it's better to keep it at its best - a single-player casual game.

Although the gameplay of "Chinese Cube" is simple, every time the player passes the level, the speed of the block falling will be significantly accelerated, and in the later stage, it has exceeded the limit of human neural reaction speed.

No matter how good the technology and neural reaction speed are, as long as it is still human, it is impossible to pass the level indefinitely.

At the level of a beginner player, a few minutes can waste an in-game currency.

A slightly more powerful player should be able to play for more than 10 minutes, but after more than 20 minutes, it has already entered a high speed that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, so it is hard to imagine that any player will be able to play for more than half an hour.

Therefore, the coin swallowing efficiency of "Chinese Cube" is not low.

By eight o'clock in the evening, after the arcade closes.

The crowd began to open the cash box inside the game console...... Although, due to time constraints, the cash box is not fully full. But each box is also about half full.

A box can be filled with about 1,000 coins, and the game currency of the new start-up game hall uses 1 Hong Kong dollar coin as the parent currency. When the player inserts a coin, the machine will compare it, and like the mother coin, the coin is successfully inserted. If it is different, it will be refunded.

Although it is not possible to imitate 100% of players to cheat, as long as the cheating is controlled within the allowable range, the profit can be guaranteed.

The first day of operation of the game hall was about HK$10,000......

This turnover shocked everyone present!

With this income, the investment cost of the game hall can be recovered in less than a month. And with the continuous addition of machines, profits can rise!

This is no longer an ordinary profiteering, but equivalent to a money grab!

You must know that the more expensive movie theaters are located in the more prosperous neighborhoods of Hong Kong, and the average daily income is only 30,000 or 40,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Cinemas in this era were basically single-hall large theaters, and the area of a cinema was at least five or six hundred square meters, or even thousands of square meters.

Each film, near the average box office revenue, has to be split among the production companies. The revenue attributable to the theater is only half of its box office.

So...... The net profit of the 300-square-meter game hall on Apliu Street, which is located in Hong Kong, is almost the same as a 600-square-meter movie theater!

This is still because a large amount of space in the game hall is still idle, and the machine is not yet full.

"Everyone!" Lin Qi said in high spirits, "The profits of the game industry, everyone has already seen it! Although there is no guarantee that there will be so much income every day in the future, as the machines are full, there will be more than 200 units." Even if the daily income of each machine is reduced to 100 yuan, the daily income of a single game hall will be as high as 20,000 yuan! And the manufacturing cost of a machine is only 4,000 yuan, and this cost can be reduced in the future...... This lucrative industry has been clearly displayed in front of our eyes, waiting for us to continue to conquer and occupy!"

"No, this is no longer a huge profit, it's a bank robbery! It's not right, robbing a bank is not as good as making money in the game industry!" Gao Tian couldn't help but look at Lin Qi with admiration, originally, he didn't think much of Lin Qi, thinking that he was just a whimsical young man, relying on good luck, making some money, and then, he didn't know that the sky was high and the earth invested in the research and development of various new products.

There are people innovating all the time in the world, and there are a lot of new products coming out all the time. The vast majority of them are creative and technical, but most of them end dismally!

For example, take Dr. Yu Youcheng, who made personal computers in the same era as Jobs, he was originally a technology expert of Intel Corporation, serving as the product leader of Intel, and he was Grove's subordinate in the Fairchild era, so he was deeply valued by Grove, the president of Intel Corporation. At the beginning of 75 years, he insisted on going out to start a business, despite the retention of the president of Intel Corporation and his old boss Grove.

After that, Yu Youcheng relied on his qualifications and prestige to pull out a team from Intel Corporation and pull in venture capital.

Soon they developed a home computer based on Intel's 8085 chip, one of the simplified versions of the 8086 chip, VideoBrain!

This computer is theoretically not inferior to Apple of the same period? II, even, the price is better than Apple? II is even lower - you can buy it home for only $499!

Such an awesome person, whose fame, technology and capital far surpass Jobs, and even the price of his products is lower than that of Jobs's products, but he is a mess.

Because, the market for this computer is set for home users, but ordinary people don't know much about computers, and it won't be of much use to buy it.

And Apple? The success of II is due to the fact that it is aimed at professional computer enthusiasts, as well as the office needs of some enterprise users. This is the early days of the popularization of microcalculators, the real user group.

As for the popularization of computers to ordinary homes, it did not work in the 80s. Suppose that Yu Youcheng made the computer into a game console at the beginning, perhaps, there is still hope of a big sale. However, he accepts elite engineers all day long, and it is difficult to put himself in the shoes of ordinary users to design products according to the needs of ordinary users, and sell them computers that ordinary household users may not be able to operate when they read the manual, of course, they can't sell it!

After Yu Youcheng failed to start a business, he owed a bunch of debts and had no face to mix in the United States. Instead, he went to Chinese mainland and fooled 200 students in the name of teaching computer software and hardware technology. Then, a training course was held in Hong Kong, so that the trainees recruited by the mainland not only paid an expensive tuition fee, but then ...... Cromemco sold 500 low-end computers in the United States to this group of students.

I made a sum of money, and then, after the training course, I paid off the debt of the United States.

After a few years of such decadence, in the spring of 81, Yu Youcheng returned to the United States in a gloomy manner, and then his old boss Grumman readmitted him. Yu Youcheng was re-entrusted with the important task and participated in the research and development of a series of processors such as 386, 486, and Pentium.

Such a bull man, because he stepped on the wrong rhythm, failed to start a mess. You can see how difficult it is to develop new products and sell them!

There is a maxim in Silicon Valley - if you want to harm someone, let him set technical standards!

A large number of cattle people are defeated by pretentiousness, and have developed more advanced technology and formed more advanced technical standards. However, the market didn't buy it, and it was a mess of failure.

But Lin Qi is different from these cows, he will not come up with an advanced technology and product that has no market demand at all now!

On the contrary, he is step-by-step, although it seems that each one is very radical, but it is completely in line with the market needs of this era......

Plus...... Lin Qi's information advantage is too great, and he can afford to lose. Even if he loses badly, he can find more hole cards to turn over, unlike some people, after losing the capital, he loses the qualification to turn over.