Despite the rave reviews, there wasn't much money that really went into Lin Yan's pocket. The price of 50 dollars per copy can be described as cheap, and it is not a problem for medium-sized enterprises in the United States to buy 180 copies. Not to mention the children in individual families, as well as the adults who come home to get acquainted with new things. That's how it is, it's really not a small amount. Within two months of its launch, sales reached a staggering 30,000 copies, and the number of computers in the United States at that time was only several times that number. After all, the computer at this time was far from having as many functions as it did later, and it really had no other purpose except as an office tool.

Americans have money, they have VCRs for watching videos, they have record players for listening to music, all kinds of entertainment equipment have filled their living rooms, and they really don't really need computers as the middle end of entertainment. For them, computers are just tools to increase productivity. These are two worlds from the less developed developing countries. In the next twenty or thirty years, the computer will be a family in a developing country, integrating all entertainment equipment. Movies, TV, games, social, and more. Even, many people don't know that computers are tools used to improve productivity, and only treat them as game consoles or movie consoles.

The sales price is like an onion, and the money in Lin Yan's hands is equivalent to the onion peeling off layer by layer. In the end, there was only an onion core.

Lin Yan actually didn't care so much about how much money he made, for him, more money was useless, just enough to spend. But people just can't compare people, Ren Hell's "Donkey Kong" sold 5,000 units within a month of landing in the US market. Each unit costs $3,000, and the profit is as high as $15 million. That's right, fifteen million dollars. It is equivalent to selling an unknown number of game watches, and if the sales continue to increase according to this.

Donkey Kong is an arcade game that is likely to surpass a gaming watch as the best product of the year in any hell. And when the one-month sales report came out, Shigeru Miyamoto's status improved a lot. Just like a game watch is to Junhei Yokoi, "Donkey Kong" has such a great influence on Shigeru Miyamoto.

He was directly transferred to assist Gunhei Yokoi, intending to release a special game at the same time as the home console to escort this new product.

The entire video game industry, because of the hot sales of Ren Hell's "Donkey Kong", still pays attention to the American market. Although the sales of the video game alliance in Japan have started to be very good, there are not enough new games to provide software support, so that the members of the video game alliance also have a small haze in their hearts when they are happy with the sales performance.

The arcade market for video games in the United States used to be sold by American garage companies and small domestic manufacturers. There are no statistics, and no one knows what the market is really like. After Ren Hell's sales report came out, the video game league began to pay attention to the American market. At the same time, those directors who participated in the decision-making also began to complain about Shiraishi's decision to suspend the expansion of the American market and authorize small businesses to produce arcade machines. They seem to have completely forgotten that they had pushed Shiraishi to do all of this in the first place. In any case, directors are economic creatures, not rational creatures. Their skillful skills are so skillful that few of the human beings on the entire planet can match them.

Lin Yan was a little sad, but he was still very happy. Because, with enough profits as an example, there will be many companies entering the field of video games, and video games are just around the corner.

In these days of summer vacation life, the more meaningful thing is that Lin Yan's record in the arcade "Pac-Man" has been broken.

This is a reasonable thing, Lin Yan is playing a game with a casual mentality, and the long-haired young man is obviously playing a game very seriously.

There are many people in the arcade hall who have seen the notebook that is inseparable from the long-haired youth, and the hand-drawn "Pac-Man" route on it is so complicated that many people who see it give up without digging deeper.

Lin Yan can understand it, and he also appreciates this game spirit. However, since Long Hair is a challenger, Lin Yan naturally has to respond to the challenge. Otherwise, his mythical dominance in the arcade hall was destroyed by the long-haired young man in front of him.

"Then I'll get started." Lin Yan said softly.

Under the attention of many onlookers, Lin Yan started the game "Pac-Man".

Lin Yan said with long hair while playing, "Do you think there is a limit to the game of Pac-Man." ”

Long Hair was asked and fell into deep thought. It stands to reason that Pac-Man is a never-ending video game. Because, each level is actually a slight increase in difficulty.

And the long-haired young man broke Lin Yan's record, which was manifested in the form of points. However, perhaps there are some problems with his route on paper, and he is still forced to give up eating the last fruit in some levels.

He has passed a total of 100 levels, and his points have surpassed Lin Yan.

Lin Yan knew that he would definitely be able to break the record of a long-haired youth, so his mentality and posture were quite peaceful. He's not Superman, and he didn't play the thrilling dodge route that he used to show off his skills today. That kind of gameplay is only suitable for performances to increase the effect of the program, and is not suitable for occasions that need to break records.

Because, even if you are a big master, you often walk by the river and sometimes get your shoes wet. Lin Yan was in a leisurely state, using the safest way to eat every bean and every prop.

Lin Yan's question seemed to stump the long hair, he didn't say anything, even if he raised his head, he just silently watched Lin Yan play "Pac-Man", silently recording the route Lin Yan had walked and the operation method in his heart.

To be honest, this kind of game that isn't thrilling at all looks quite boring. However, for these onlookers, it is not boring at all. They looked at the big mouthful of yellow mosaics on the screen with relish, eating the beans one by one. There are also occasional exchanges with each other, discussing their experiences. Apparently for them, this boring picture is interesting, very interesting.

This is also a major feature of video games, people who don't understand a game, no matter how wonderful the game is, they can't see that they have played the game, and people who know where the fun of this game is, get more viewing fun.

The owner of the arcade hall, although he saw that there were too many people watching around Lin Yan's machine, blocking several machines around. However, he was not unhappy at all, because he knew that after Lin Yan finished playing for a while, these onlookers would definitely spend a lot of money. Because, they will definitely watch the blood boiling. Their operations were not at the level of Lin Yan, or long hair, or the Four Heavenly Kings and Eight Dharma Protectors. These people are ordinary players, and they can play for three or two minutes with one coin, and the money is very profitable.

However, despite the idea, the arcade owner still misses the 500 yuan era. Although there is a profit of 100 yuan now, it is much lighter than the windfall profits of the past.

The owner of the arcade hall also went to see the original video game arcade that day, and it is also the only arcade machine that still charges 500 yuan. There were so many legends about this arcade machine and its maker that the boss was very enthusiastic when he heard it, and he thought what a wonderful situation it would be if he could build the first arcade machine.

It's a pity that the owner of the arcade doesn't have any technology himself, and he will only be responsible for collecting money. In fact, if there is a problem with these arcade machines, which are highly used every day, he also asks those specialized people to fix them.

Although the maintenance fee is a bit dark, but he still thinks it's worth it, after all, the arcade hall is open 24 hours a day, and every arcade machine is almost 24 hours a day, if it weren't for the money now, he can't buy an arcade machine, and he also wants to expand the size of his arcade hall.

This is really an era of lying down and counting money. The owner of the arcade was counting the money when he suddenly heard a crowd of people not far away, and burst into cheers.

It seems that the kid has kept his position, the boss raised his head, lowered it again in an instant, and continued to count the money in the cash box.

When Lin Yan played to the 100th level, his points had already surpassed that of Long Hair, but he passed another 10 levels before he pretended to miss and died. He eats every prop, so it can be regarded as a perfect clearance, and the long-haired ones that have props but don't eat them, of course, are considered imperfect clearances.

Amid the cheers of everyone, Lin Yan left the arcade hall, and before leaving, he deliberately repeated to the long-haired young man, "Do you think it has an end?" ”

The real answer is that "Pac-Man" has an end. It ends at level 256, and half of the game's screen will be garbled. When Lin Yan wrote this game, he didn't want to completely copy the code of memory, in fact, his memory was not good enough to remember all the code. He's not a humanoid self-propelled computer, von Neumann.

There will be garbled characters in the 256th level, which should actually be solved from the hardware aspect. However, then the cost will increase quite a bit. So, in the end, he left this loophole.

This loophole is not a vicious loophole, because among thousands of players, a few people can see the change of the 256 levels, and they are even more afraid that they will play this level.

He asked the long hair a question, but it didn't really mean anything too deep about his wife. He's just too idle, and he's idle, so it's better to make some trouble for others.

After coming out of the arcade hall, Hayashi Yan wandered around Akihabara. His purpose for today's stroll was to visit a few newly established video game development companies in nearby office buildings.

Just like the history of video games themselves, the members of these companies are very young, so Lin Yan does not seem to be in harmony with them.

That's right, he just got in. Maybe it's his own temperament, he thinks he's a programmer too much, but he went to a few stores, but he didn't find out. This kind of thing can almost be described as magical.

Lin Yan also feels that it is more fun to "sneak in" like this. However, after this round of shopping, he was still disappointed, because the game projects carried out by these new companies are not so interesting. Even, there is a relatively undisciplined working group, which is to change his "Tank Wars" to "Spider Tank" with a different layer of skin. Although he felt that the level of this studio was almost catching up with him, Lin Yan also knew that their work could still be sold.

The arcade market for video games is nothing like it was a few months ago. It's developed to a level of wind and fire. With Nintendo's sales feedback in overseas markets, countless companies that had never seen the video game industry before entered the arcade manufacturing industry.

In fact, they themselves may not have much idea of entering the arcade industry. But, after all, try it, just try it, and the discomfort is not in vain to blind this opportunity.

There are several companies that have directly set their sights on the European market, and they feel that it must be a good market, and they have already made preparations.

Similar to the Japanese companies that are already going crazy, Ke Mingxiong and the others have also made enough money. They have already started to sell their products to places around Taiwan. Boss Kagawa is still their shareholder and can get good dividends. And Kagawa's boss's street factory no longer produces video game arcades, because for him, this market is too prosperous. Behind this boom is the vicious competition of a large number of small manufacturers. If he still does this, it is better to produce the electric baton he got from Lin Yan.

Now that the first batch of products is about to go on the market, he is still relatively confident in the sales of electric batons. Both men and women can buy a weapon for self-defense. And whether those gangsters and bad teenagers will use this thing as a tool to blackmail people, he can't care so much.

As a capitalist, he can still do this for himself. There are two sides to any product, kitchen knives can be used to cut vegetables, and they can also be used to cut people. If a kitchen knife producer is at risk of being used to cut people, he will not make kitchen knives. Isn't that a fool who chokes on food?

"Kid, do you want to go to Japan for the Gamer's Tournament?" Phantom Cinema, manager Zhao in charge of the video game department, followed the instructions of his superiors to inquire about the children. His inquiring tone was calm, and he seemed to be the same as the director who reprimanded his subordinates for spitting.

This is also something that can't be helped, arcade halls are opening more and more, and the importance of children is becoming more and more prominent.

"Go." The child replied. If he can compete with more masters, why doesn't he go? (To be continued.) )