The red and white machine is already behind this era, of course Fu Zan knows, but he has no way, with the current consumption level of the Chinese people, it is not easy to be able to consume the red and white machine.

You must know that a person's salary is only one or two hundred yuan now, and the price of a game cartridge is at least fifty or sixty.

Hundreds of game cartridges are not uncommon in this era, and a red and white cassette is half a month's salary.

If this is a super red and white machine, or a new super red and white machine, then there are still a few people who can afford to play it.

It's not that no one knows that these machines are new, and these machines are more fun, but they can't afford to spend them at all. Moreover, these game consoles cannot be imitated in China, they cannot be imitated, the cost cannot be reduced, and they can only become the playthings of a few wealthy families.

This has led to an interesting phenomenon in which video games are the entertainment of the poor, and games in Japan sell well during the holidays because they are already the cheapest entertainment compared to various entertainment activities.

And on the Chinese side, it's very interesting, the cost of going up the mountain and down the river is not high, and most of the children in the countryside play this. On the contrary, video games have become a luxury entertainment, and only those whose family conditions are above the standard can buy a game console and play alone during the holidays.

"Of course." Fu Zan said.

Lin Yan nodded, and he said, "The copyright of "Tank Wars" is in my hands, and I will authorize you, so your "Smoky Mountain Tank" is not infringing, I need you to prepare all the codes, as well as the cassette that can be played, and then mail it to the 'Mario Club' of Chiba Games." After the review is passed, it can be listed.

But. It's up to you to decide how much cassette you want to make. And. All companies pay in full, and you are no exception.

You don't have a lot of money, right? Chiba Games China will provide you with a welfare interest-free loan, which you can use to pay in full for the card. ”

After Fu Zan heard Lin Yan's words, he didn't agree immediately, he thought for a while and said, "That, can I go back and talk to the people in the school." Smoky Hill Studios is not my own studio, and I can't make my own decisions.

Well, can you please wait a few days? ”

"Yes." Lin Yan nodded.

After a while, Fu Zan left the room where Lin Yan was. rushed to the train station as fast as possible, the matter that Lin Yan talked to him about was too important, no telegram or phone call would work, only go back and make it clear to the people in the studio face to face.

Lin Yan looked at Fu Zhan's back and thought, this can be regarded as feelings.

I used to play the games they made, and now I'm here. You can use your own strength to help them avoid their original predicament and put them on the right path.

Perhaps, if you do. Let China's video game industry develop in a healthy and orderly direction.

After a while. Lin Yan met with the people of the "Hidden Scripture Pavilion" again, and they didn't make their own games. Just porters, who do the translation work.

There are not many employees here in the Chiba Games China branch. So,The sinicization of the red and white machine game,Contracted to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.。

The last person to meet is the person in charge of Alien Technology, which is the last company on the entire planet to make a game of red and white machines.

This company is very fond of making role-playing and strategy games, and it is also very popular and prestigious among domestic players.

When the cassette was inserted, the words alien technology that appeared on the screen were also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Of course, this business has its own problems.

Maybe it's because of the lack of developers, or because of the cost, so many of the models used in games are all cut from other games.

Strictly speaking, this is also an infringement, but this country has not yet joined the International Copyright Alliance, and other countries can't control it even if they want to.

Lin Yan talked with the person in charge of Alien Technology for a while, and finally the person in charge of Alien Technology also decided to try to join the system of Chiba Games.

After they finish the game, they will also send it to the "Mario Club" for review. If it is approved, the game they made will be transformed from a pirated game to a genuine game.

There are only a few really big and influential companies and studios in China. The rest is a few people or a little fight on their own.

Because the principle of the red and white machine is too simple, as long as you have a little basic, you can make corresponding changes to the game.

Therefore, there are also corresponding magic games on the market.

For example, the protagonist of the game "Three-Eyed Boy" is the three-eyed clan's Writer Hosuke, and the pirate manufacturers want players to think that this is a new game.

It will replace it with a new model, for example, with Charizard from Pokemon, and the progress of the game can also start from the second level.

This way, you can print a new sticker saying that this is the latest Pokemon game.

Players spent more than 50 yuan, and after buying this "new" game, they will scold that their money has been cheated by traitors.

Isn't it familiar?

This is what people in the American game industry did in the Atari era.

Therefore, this kind of thing has nothing to do with the country or quality, and it is purely because the market is too chaotic and too unstandardized, which will cause such chaos.

For the following week, Lin Yan spent most of his time at school.

Because of his face and name, most people don't think he's a foreigner when they see him.

Therefore, he naturally can't attract bees and butterflies like those white-skinned boys, and there are many female college students, and these foreign friends go to the park and the woods to exchange friendships between the two countries.

This is also a good thing for Lin Yan, he doesn't have this hobby.

I already have my own business I want to do, and it's not a waste of time to do these things.

It didn't take long for Lin Yan to settle into living in Beijing.

As the days passed, Fu Zan had already mailed out the required materials. Lin Yan also said hello here. It is estimated that there is a chance that it will be able to pass the audit.

And Lin Yan has not been idle these days. He wrote a manuscript entitled "On the Video Game Market in Third World Countries".

Take China as a template. I guess I imagined the development of video games in third world countries.

And it is recommended that the factories of red and white machines be established in these third world countries for local production and sales, so as to avoid huge tariffs.

In terms of policy, these countries will also have more support.

Moreover, the production line of the red and white machine has already been eliminated, and it is better to sell it to these third world countries if it is scrapped.

Of course. The production technology of the red and white machine is not complicated, so as long as you have the heart, you can also produce it in your own country.

However, the whole world is not like this, as long as the money is delivered, everything is easy to say.

Although Mr. Lin is in China, he recently heard about a scandal involving a Japanese video game company.

As everyone knows. Most Japanese companies have a lifetime employment system, which means that companies cannot dismiss employees.

So. What should I do if I want to lay off a worker?

The obvious answer is to make them resign "voluntarily". In fact, very few employees quit voluntarily, right?

After all. The company is like home to them, and the business owner is equivalent to the head of the house. When they resigned, weren't they betrayers of the company?

Other companies are basically reluctant to ask for it. In the Japanese workplace, even if you want to be a slave with three surnames, it is very difficult.

If you want to be, you must have Lu Bu's ability.

Therefore, some companies, in order to let their employees "voluntarily" resign, set up a department called the "Vocational Enhancement Room", also known as the "Dismissal Room".

This department does not use physical punishment as a means of persuasion. It is mainly based on mental torture.

For example, there are hours of monotonous and meaningless work every day.

For example, move a brick from a table to a chair and from the chair back to the table. Be serious, don't slip away, be attentive, and can't be lazy.

As long as there is a slight problem, it will be loudly reprimanded by the supervising personnel.

In addition to this course, there is another course that looks like this.

That is to arrange these employees in the "vocational strengthening room" to expose and abuse each other, and scold each other, so as to achieve the purpose of destroying the personality of employees.

In this way, day after day, month after month, someone can't stand it anymore, and they will take the initiative to resign, and the company will approve it. In this way, the company does not violate the lifetime employment system.

Of course, although this matter is not illegal, it is not in line with the cleanup, so go, as long as it is exposed, it is a scandal, and when companies do these things, they are doing it secretly.

Why did this video game company do this to "dissuade" its employees?

That's because they weren't video game companies in the first place. It's a toy company. The products produced include poker, as well as a wide variety of toys for children.

However, due to the high competition, coupled with the fact that there are fewer and fewer new children, the entire market is shrinking.

So, it's getting harder and harder to make toys for young people.

At this time, video games were like a whirlwind, so the company decided to change careers and make video games.

In fact, they didn't change careers blindly. Prior to this, countless toy manufacturers had turned to the development of video games.

After a period of rigor in Chiba Games, the company's video game business was on the right track, with more than a dozen games selling more than 100,000 copies, and one selling more than 1 million.

This side made money, but the original toy side began to lose money gradually.

So, on the business owner's side, it's like canceling all the departments related to toys. Including the toy development department.

Because some ordinary positions are actually temporary workers, not regular employees of the company, and there is no protection of lifelong employment, so dismissing them will also dismiss them.

Even if they complained, there was nothing they could do.

And for those who were originally in the development department, which is more of a core department, they are protected.

The toy department doesn't want it anymore, and they're not young anymore, and if they want to learn how to make video games, they probably won't be able to learn it. Even if you learn it, what's the use?

Their salaries are much more expensive than a new college graduate, and those college students can be trained a little, and God knows how long these old guys will have to study.

Since it is not needed, then discard.

So, the "Vocational Enhancement Room" appeared.

All the people in the game development department have entered the professional reinforcement room, and what they do every day is a lot of meaningless repetitive work and verbal abuse to each other.

Gradually, some left.

Some of these people submitted their resignations, while others did not say goodbye.

In short, most people chose to leave.

And some "hard bones" say that they will not leave anything, and as soon as they tell them, they say, "I love the company like I love my family, the company is my home, and I don't want to leave." ”

To put it nicely, you can't make money for the company, and the company still has to pay you a salary, so you're a money-loser. You say that the company is your home, and the company doesn't want you.

So, no one listened to them either.

Some people here have come up with a way to leave the "career enhancement room", and now the company is not making video games.

Then we'll submit a proposal for the video game.

So, these people still used their spare time from meaningless repetitive work, and worked hard to come up with a game plan.

Hopefully, they handed over the project to the video game development department.

The leader of the development department, seeing the toy pattern on it, sneered, "What age are they, these old-fashioned things also want to be made into video games?" ”

The minister also came to take a look, and laughed at it, saying that these old fellows are really inadequate.

Then, after only one cover, the leader sent the plan to the shredder.

Several old people who saw all this outside the glass window felt very painful in their hearts.

They are lonely on the road of the company, no one pays attention to them, for others, they are already people who should have been eliminated a long time ago.

Because they have been "working" in the "vocational reinforcement room" for too long, their minds are already fragile. And this video game project can be said to be their last straw.

And this life-saving straw has been shattered at this moment.

What hope do they have for survival?

The companies they have worked for decades say they don't want them and abandon them.

So, each of them wrote a suicide note and took it with him. When they met on the rooftop of the company's headquarters building that they watched rise from the ground little by little, they jumped lightly, and there were no worries. (To be continued.) )