More than ten hours of slumber on the plane did not make Lin Yan's spirit full. He was indeed a little tired, and fell asleep on the hotel bed.

He actually felt a little crazy and said that he wanted to come to the United States, and within a week, he was really in the United States. This is completely impossible for the original him. Even, he may not even be able to pass the visa hurdle.

It's not because of anything else, it's because it's poor.

As soon as I slept until dawn, the sun rose in the United States as usual, and it didn't look rounder any more than Japan's.

John Kishimoto woke up very early, at least when Lin Yan went out, he saw that he was already waiting at the door.

"Let's go to Silicon Valley today. But will they let us visit? Lin Yan confirmed today's itinerary and asked as he stuffed breakfast into his mouth.

Fortunately, the hotel provides more breakfast styles, not oatmeal. Lin Yan once lamented that the United States is really a country full of commercial miracles, and even oatmeal, which is not so delicious, can truly replace the original breakfast and become the breakfast of hundreds of millions of Americans.

John Kishimoto, who was also eating, swallowed it and said, "No problem, no problem at all." We just have to say that we are an investment company, and there is no problem. ”

Lin Yan raised his head and looked at Kishimoto John Dao, "Investment company? ”

"Well, let's just say we're an investment company. Let's just pretend to be wronged and listen to how good our project is. We did invest, but they failed. They also have something to say, after all, is it risky to invest? All they have to do is spend their money. Then again, they are very fond of yellow faces now. Because. Japan's economy is so good now. Japanese people are far less knowledgeable than American investors. So they'll definitely let us visit, absolutely no problem. ”

Looking at what John Kishimoto said, it was the truth. Lin Yan nodded.

In the '80s, venture capital was probably a new business. Investors are like a lottery ticket, investing in several companies.

And even if 99 percent of these companies fail, there is no problem. As long as one survives, these investors will be able to make profits with the principal, and they will not be too happy.

Of course, there are some who are more unlucky. Invested in many companies. None of them make money. This has something to do with his vision when investing.

After all, when choosing, the better the vision, the higher the probability of making money.

Lin Yan said, "Then do as you say." Let's not play fake, if there is really a promising company, I will really invest money. ”

John Kishimoto looked at Lin Yan and said, "It's no problem at all, I already arranged it yesterday." It mainly depends on some small companies. Silicon Valley is home to the most small companies like this. ”

"Yes. No problem. Lin Yan replied with a smile.

Of course he knew what John Kishimoto was talking about as a small company. Let's put it this way, Atari was a company with an annual turnover of billions of dollars and an estimated assets of tens of billions of dollars. The start-up capital was only $500.

It has two founders, each with an investment of two hundred and fifty dollars. Machines that have just started to be manufactured. It's just a little bit of a machine.

Actually, before Lin Yan made "Space Invaders". The United States already has the concept of video game consoles. However, this video game console. Non-other video game consoles.

At that time, video game consoles also used a large number of mechanical structures.

Even. Some machines themselves are composed of several sets of films. The player completes a maneuver. The film is switched to a specific number of sheets. The result is a continuous animation feel.

This kind of game console, and even the beauty of the graphics, surpasses "Space Invaders". Before it arrived in the United States, it was also popular in American bars for a while and made a lot of money.

However, although it is said to be very profitable. However, it has a lot of problems, because it uses a large number of mechanical structures, so it is relatively prone to failure. So, with the boom of this machine, it's not just the bar owners who make money, but also the repairmen.

They are busy all day long, and they don't have too much fun making money.

Except, of course, for such consoles. The most mainstream game console in the bar. Or a gambling machine similar to that of pachinko.

This is also something that can't be helped, who likes to gamble, it is human nature.

However, when Lin Yan's "Space Invaders" was introduced to the United States, it did not become an instant hit like in Akihabara at first.

Because, at that time, Atari also happened to have just developed their new video game arcade machine and started experimenting. It's the kind of game that allows two people to interact and play table tennis.

Initially, this machine was not favored by everyone. However, this is not a problem, and the gameplay of this ping pong machine is simple. It's not as complicated as the games they used to make, just take a look, so, quite simply, Ping Pong won in the market.

Of course, it didn't take long for the fruits of its victory to be replaced by Lin Yan's "Space Invaders".

Because, compared with Atari's abstract "Pong", Lin Yan's "Space Invaders" is much more advanced. At the very least, everything can be seen and let people know what is inside. There is no need for the majority of players, and they can open their brains to make up for it.

During this time, there were also more interesting game consoles, which were similar to "Pong", but they were purely mechanical hybrid portable game consoles.

That's right, a hybrid portable console. Sounds very high-end, right?

However, its hybrid energy, to explain, may be considered very nonsensical by some people.

This portable game console needs mechanical energy, that is, winding. As the driving force, the mechanical structure in this machine is running.

And the second energy it needs is the battery.

The lighting provided by this battery is not for anything else, but to make that red light on. This allows the player to see the light-emitting diode.

In fact, even without batteries, the whole machine can run normally. The problem is that players can't see where the small ball that means table tennis ball is.

This console, although it looks very powerful. Actually, though, it's not that fun.

It has two disadvantages, one is the mechanical structure, as long as it runs, it will bring a lot of noise. The second is that its trajectory does not conform to the laws of physics and is random. A type of randomness based on mechanical structures. In other words, if you want to play this machine well, it is very difficult. Depends almost entirely on the reaction, and its regularity cannot be found. (To be continued......)