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Jiang Ze sailor held a small square game console, staring intently at the LCD screen with both eyes, and pressing the D-pad with his left thumb unskillfully to adjust the left and right movement of the falling block. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info move in place, then press the transform key with the thumb of your right hand to adjust the rotation of the block.

He was so focused on playing that the whole person shrunk into the boss's chair and became a ball.

One level, another level, another level.

He was completely immersed in the game, and as the speed of the game increased, his mind became more and more focused, completely oblivious to the passage of time.

Boom!

Suddenly, he heard the sound of the office door closing, and without thinking, he turned the game console to mute, put the cube game console into his trouser pocket, and then threw himself on the desk, picked up a report, and pretended to look at it.

"What's it for?" Yu Dehai scolded funny and angry, "I haven't seen your figure for a long time, so I know that you must be hiding in the office playing games, as I expected!" Do you know how many customers there are outside, the salesman is too busy to be busy, Lao Wang and I have gone out to help, and you are still playing here! ”

Jiang Zeshui took out the game console in a daze, took the opportunity to glance at it, and saw the square that had almost reached the top of the screen, a little heartache, and a little ashamed and said: "That, I didn't mean to be lazy, the main thing is that this game is so fun, I accidentally got into it......"

"Forget it! I'm too lazy to talk about you. Yu Dehai waved his hand with his back to him, poured himself a cup of coffee, brought it and sat down across from him, shaking his head.

When Suteng was looking for a partner, he and Jiang Zeshui contacted Wang, who opened a supermarket in San Francisco, and cooperated to raise funds to win 40% of the shares of San Francisco Suteng Commerce, and leased a store in the most prosperous commercial center in San Francisco. Relying on the best-selling products such as electronic building blocks, portable tape recorders, and arcade machines, they soon opened up the local market and gained a firm foothold.

With the gradual prosperity of the portable tape recorder market, the variety of goods has gradually increased, and the profitability of shopping malls has become higher and higher. Moreover, the headquarters almost did not withdraw funds, but invested profits, completely bought the leased property rights of the shopping mall, and became the self-owned industry of the San Francisco branch, which further improved the profit level of the shopping mall.

△; Jiang Zeshui, Yu Dehai, and Lao Wang are even more glad that they chose the right project at the beginning, and they are more attentive to the operation of the shopping mall.

In the past four years, this Suteng electronic supermarket has become well-known in the local area, and its business has become more and more prosperous.

In terms of assets, all three of them are worth millions, have villas, luxury cars, wives and children in San Francisco, and have entered the ranks of successful people.

You know, this was the early eighties.

In this day and age, even with the number of wealthy Americans, millionaires are an enviable and rare animal.

However, Jiang Zeshui was obsessed with the new square game machine, and he played with that small game machine all day long, and he didn't manage it as carefully as before, and most of the business in the store was handed over to him and Lao Wang, which made him a little dissatisfied.

"I really don't understand, is this game that fun?" He took a sip of his coffee and said disapprovingly.

"It's really fun!" Hearing his inquiry, Jiang Zeshui's eyes lit up, and he immediately became interested, and his eyebrows fluttered, "Don't look at this game, it's very simple, but it really has a magical power, which makes you addicted unconsciously." Every time you clear the customs, you will feel that every pore in your body is as if it has been stretched, which is very comfortable. Then, in the next level, the speed of the block drop is accelerated, and you don't have more leisure time to indulge in the joy just now, so you enter the state again, and you must maintain a higher level of concentration to be able to successfully clear the level. In this way, time is inadvertently worn out......"

"So you know, playing this is killing time!" Yu Dehai glared at him angrily, and said with a straight face, "Lao Jiang, for the sake of our hard work together, I kindly remind you: This career is not only yours alone, but also me and Lao Wang!" We don't say anything if you play a game occasionally, but if you lose your mind and indulge in the game every day, and don't care about anything, then we can only ask the head office for instructions and apply for the replacement of the general manager of the branch. ”

Jiang Zeshui froze, and Yu Dehai's words finally woke him up.

To be honest, the three of them are partners in a joint venture, and they have worked hard side by side for many years, and their personal relationship is okay. But the link between them is mainly this shopping mall, and Yu Dehai and the two of them forgave him for his recent laziness because of his conscientiousness before.

If they really them off, it would be easy to join forces to remove him from the position of general manager.

According to the company's shares, Suteng Trading Corporation invested 1 million US dollars, accounting for 60 percent of the shares, and the three of them jointly invested 2 million, accounting for 40 percent of the shares.

With 22 percent of the total shares, Jiang Zeshui accounted for the largest number of shares among the three and became the general manager of the branch. Yu Dehai and Lao Wang served as vice presidents, responsible for finance and store management of shopping malls respectively.

But if Yu Dehai and Lao Wang couldn't bear it anymore and applied to the head office and were accepted, then he had no power to resist and would be dismissed.

That's containment!

Therefore, he can't ignore the opinions of the other two shareholders, and he can let the old and serious Yu Dehai criticize him in person, proving that he has indeed gone too far, so that the two partners will be so dissatisfied with him, and he will not hesitate to threaten to replace the general manager.

This, after all, is not his own company!

He lowered his head and pondered for a while, raised his head, and said, "I understand, I will work seriously during work hours in the future, and I won't play games anymore!" ”

Yu Dehai had a smile on his face, picked up the coffee cup and raised it to him, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Jingle bells!

The phone on the table rang suddenly, Jiang Zeshui quickly grabbed the phone, and said in English with the same enthusiastic attitude as before: "Hello, this is Suteng Commercial San Francisco Branch, please ask what you need, we will serve you wholeheartedly, and can provide door-to-door delivery!" ”

"May I ask if it's General Manager Jiang, I'm Li Ling from the General Manager's Office." A female voice speaking Mandarin came from the other side.

"Ah, it turned out to be Assistant Li! Yes, I am Jiang Zeshui, what is the arrangement of the head office? Jiang Zeshui quickly changed his Mandarin, which was not particularly standard, and smiled heartily.

"Mr. Jiang, I just received the instructions of the general manager, the obstacles have been removed, and the batch of goods you recently received is Kun Er's goods, and they can be officially put on sale!" I will send you a fax shortly, and then I will ask you to sign it and fax it back as a document for your records. On the other side of the phone, the official female voice also softened a lot, saying the notice that Jiang Zeshui had been waiting for for a long time.

"No problem! Please give me five minutes and I'll check the fax cartridge and thermal paper. Jiang Zeshui looked excited, immediately put down the phone, and shook his fist in the air.

He waited for almost a week, and finally waited for the green light signal that he could be put on the shelves for sale.

Even the game he is addicted to, he believes that it will be a great success.

"Is the block console ready to be shelved?" Yu Dehai also heard the content of the phone call next to him, and asked with a smile.

Don't look at him blaming Jiang Zeshui for being discouraged, but he is also extremely optimistic about this portable game, and feels that it is far better than the handheld game console launched by Nintendo last year.

Portable game consoles, or handheld consoles, are not unique to Taiyu.

The first handheld was developed by an American game company in '76, and it was a racing game. Due to the technical limitations of the time, the screen scene was a racing track drawn in the form of stickers, and then light-emitting diodes were used instead of racing cars, and the player-controlled car was driven to drive the player-controlled car at high speed on the track by constantly flipping the switch up and down instead of the accelerator and brake.

Naturally, the game was extremely rudimentary, and sales were not very good, which discouraged other companies from developing portable game consoles.

In the 80s, Yokoi Gunpei, who was later known as the Three Masters of Technology at Nintendo, accidentally saw a passenger waiting for the train like him at the station, and pressed the number button on the calculator in boredom as a pastime when he was bored.

Compared to that racing game, four years have passed, semiconductor technology has developed rapidly, and this one is naturally much more advanced.

It uses Motorola's 6502 as the processor and is powered by two coin cell batteries. The biggest improvement is the pioneering use of LCD screens on game consoles, instead of the backward inkjet stickers and light-emitting diode display technologies of the past.

Although the liquid crystal technology of this era has been developed, the technology is still very immature.

Liquid crystal is a very special crystal, usually it is a colorless and translucent liquid, once electrified, the crystal will be twisted 90 degrees, thus blocking the passage of light, and it looks black.

In order to use it as a display screen, it is necessary to use horizontal and vertical anode lines and cathode lines to form a path at the intersection point, so as to drive the liquid crystal dot located at this position and make it twist, so that a point is displayed on the screen.

An image can be formed through a myriad of finely arranged dots.

However, in this era, the development of liquid crystal technology is still very backward, and there are still great defects in the research of anode and cathode power connection technology. It is acceptable on a narrow and long LCD screen the size of an electronic watch, but it is simply not sustainable when used on a relatively large screen.

Nintendo racked its brains and came up with a solution.

The way they make the mold, on the glass piece that holds the liquid crystal, they make an image of the scene and the character, and then inject the liquid crystal.

An image is driven as a point, so that there are many fewer lines to be connected, and the manufacturing difficulty is no more complicated than making an electronic watch or calculator LCD screen, and the power consumption is also greatly reduced. The complete graphics make the scene much fuller, and it basically has a narrative background description required by the game, and it can also drive preset LCD patterns in different positions by powering on and powering off to show moving objects.

It can be said that this game of "Catch the Ball" has all the elements of all the portable game consoles of later generations, and the design is very perfect.

But after all, it is the first portable game console launched by Nintendo, limited to the defects of display technology, the preset LCD pattern cannot be too complicated, so the gameplay is greatly reduced.

In the game "Catch the Ball", the picture is a villain, throwing the ball into the sky with one hand, and then catching it with the other hand, and then throwing and catching it, which is very simple and boring. The story and entertainment of the game are not much better than pressing the number keys of the calculator.

It's such a boring game, but it sells for 128,000 yen, or 100 dollars.

And the final sales were actually good, selling tens of thousands of copies, which shows how monotonous the entertainment is now. People have too much fragmented time to spend but can't find a way to pass the time, which also means that portable game consoles have huge potential application needs and are a very promising industry.

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