The first-year curriculum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is dominated by general education, and Li Xuan's course selection schedule in the first semester has only one professional course, called computer principles and basic programming, and the rest are general education courses.

Because the Chinese University of Chinese is a merger of three colleges, each college has its own tradition, each college requires the completion of two compulsory and three elective courses for a total of five general education courses, but each college offers its own characteristics.

For example, at United College, where Li Xuan works, freshmen are required to take two courses: University Life and Learning, and Modern Social Issues. However, the new Asia College freshmen are required to take guided reading and thinking methods, and Chung Chi College's general education elective courses also include theological courses such as Introduction to the New Testament and Foundations of the Christian-Christian Faith.

Life outside of schoolwork is also very exciting, the school's student union has just started to recruit new people on a large scale to absorb fresh blood, and various clubs also have a variety of activities to attract everyone to participate. On Thursday evenings, the dormitory committee also makes a zuò dessert for everyone.

There is also a regular reading salon in the dormitory every week, and boys who love to kick waves can gather together in front of the TV in the living room to watch League One broadcasts on weekends. The current top club league in England has not yet changed its name to the Premier League, and the Reds Liverpool are still the well-deserved hegemons.

For Li Xuan, this is the third time he has stepped into the university campus, and each school has its own unique culture and traditions, which has brought him a lot of novel experiences. For example, in the dormitory where he lives, the president of the dormitory committee will bring other backbone zuò delicate and delicious desserts to treat everyone every Thursday night, and this kind of home-like warmth is something he has never experienced in his previous college life.

In addition to class, Li Xuan also needs to run to the Kee Electronics Factory in Kwun Tong from time to time to take a turn. The production of arcade machines is slowly on track, and it is possible to assemble about ten arcade machines per day. The factory has also recently encountered a problem that has left him depressed. According to the normal law of industrial production, as the scale of production expands, the production cost of a single product should gradually decrease, but the situation he encountered was the opposite.

The main reason for this is the supply of circuit boards for game consoles. At present, there is no company on the market that specializes in making game console substrates, and the computer boards of each arcade machine are specially designed and produced by the game console factories themselves, and will not be sold to the outside world.

The circuit boards of the copycat game consoles produced by Ke Kee were purchased at high prices from the dealers of genuine arcade machines, and the agents took them out from the game console factories in the name of replacing accessories.

In this way, the number of circuit boards that the electronics factory can get each month is very limited, and the more you buy, the higher the asking price, after all, the greater the risk that the other party bears. Once found by the original factory, not only the agency qualification is not guaranteed, but also may be subject to lawsuits.

Li Xuan also considered asking the factory that produces printed circuit boards to customize it for himself, but the circuit boards used to make arcade motherboards are not low-tech, and the vast majority of small factories in Hong Kong cannot produce them, and a few large factories that have the ability to produce them simply do not look down on Ke Ke Company's scattered orders of only a few hundred pieces per model per month.

Fortunately, Li Xuan also only sees the copycat business as a stopgap measure, and he is currently working on a new arcade game, a game that will become famous in a few decades, and he has already thought of a name called Hong Kong Cube.

In fact, in Li Xuan's opinion, Tetris is not very suitable for arcade games, it does not have exciting fights, and it does not have hot and gorgeous pictures. It was invented by the Russian mathematician Kitnov, supposedly to test the performance of computers, and was inspired by jigsaw puzzles. Li Xuan had never seen him in the arcade hall in his previous life, but he could be seen everywhere on his mobile phone and online mini-game websites.

But it's 1979, and arcade players haven't been exposed to classic games like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, and Tiger Fighters, and the rough graphics of space invaders and bees can make them mesmerized. Tetris' simple graphics aren't as simple as the arcade games of twenty years later, but they're still on par with the arcade games of 1979.

Its classic program has stood the test of time, and has been selected as one of the most classic games of the 20th century in various selections since then. It is also said to have a very embarrassing record - the game that has involved players in prison for the longest time, which shows the obsession with him.

Therefore, after Li Xuan thought about and analyzed it again, it is completely feasible to transplant Tetris to the arcade machine in this era. For Li Xuan, the reason why he chose Tetris for the first game he developed was mainly because he only needed to be alone in this game.

It's not that he hasn't thought about other classic games, such as Nintendo's Super Mario. But the development of these games is not something he can do alone, in addition to software and hardware problems, the design of characters and graphics must at least be done by professional artists, although he has an aura of rebirth, but he is not omnipotent.

"Xuan Shao, how can you have time to come to the company today!"

Li Xuan walked into the office, and Du Wenqiang looked up and quipped. The factory area rented by Kee Company is not large, except for the production area, only two or three offices are separated for daily office. Although Li Xuan has a desk, he doesn't have much time to come to the factory, so his office is also arranged for Du Wenqiang.

Recently, the company has recruited two new employees with a foundation in electronics, who are specifically responsible for the number of games and recording, and Du Wenqiang has finally been liberated from boring and repetitive work. Du Wenqiang has a good level of programming, and most importantly, he is very fond of video games like Li Xuan. When the two first met, he also used his computer to show Li Xuan a few small games he wrote in assembly language.

With such a senior technical talent, Li Xuan had already planned him into the game team that he had not yet had time to build. During the previous time, he had actually been examining the other party's temperament. In Li Xuan's view, to form a R&D team, in addition to excellent technology, team members must also consider their personality and character, at least they must be able to communicate, and they will not be backwater. After Li Xuan's personal contact during this time, he has basically recognized the other party.

"What are you doing, you can't be lazy during work hours, I found out that you should be careful to deduct your salary!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"What else can I do, I'm testing the program! I just found a small bug, now fix it!"

Du Wenqiang is a technical maniac, and he said a word without raising his head. Li Xuan didn't continue to focus on copycats except for the first few games. On the contrary, Du Wenqiang took over his mantle, and two new games have been cracked and copied in half a month.

Due to the lack of supply of circuit boards, the company could not increase the output of a single game, so it could only work on the number of games. Now, the company's copycat products have increased to five, which can basically support the demand for a small game hall.

"Show you something good!" Li Xuan took out a floppy disk from his bag. Tetris has already been written by him, of course, the current name of this game is Hong Kong Cubes, and the future honor has nothing to do with the Russians.

"What is this, your new game?" Du Wenqiang launched the previous program, picked up the floppy disk handed over by Li Xuan and inserted it into the floppy drive.

"It's a new game I've made recently, but it's different from the previous ones! I used to just copy and plagiarize others, and it really didn't really get on the table! This time this game was written by myself, original, unique in the world, and the name of the game is called Hong Kong Cube!" Li Xuan was still a little embarrassed when he said these words, but he was cheeky and soon became nothing.

"Really?" Du Wenqiang was still a little skeptical.

"You just have to play, it took me a lot of effort to make it, it's a game of building blocks, I think it's suitable for all ages, it should be good!"