Chapter Seventy-Three: The Phantom Game Hall

Shiraishi rarely encounters someone as stubborn as Lin Yan. Among the people he came into contact with, the price for not agreeing to the conditions was often not enough. As long as the conditions are good enough, it is easy to complete the "equivalent exchange". However, Lin Yan is obviously not that kind of person. He is very strange, to say that he has no desires, that is not right, the arcade he makes is completely in accordance with the laws of the market, how to save costs, how to make them. The same goes for the games he makes, not at all for self-esteem, but for the taste of the masses.

However, such a guy who makes products and completely conforms to the laws of the market is difficult to talk to. Shiraishi also felt that he was unlucky. This kind of misfortune is probably equivalent to the misfortune of the dog, and it may also be equivalent to the misfortune of his future wife being dog.

However, there are so many dog lovers in the world, there is no guarantee that they will be recruited. What this world needs is a good man who doesn't care, raises children when he has them, and doesn't casually visit the neighbor's door.

In the end, it was no end again, and Lin Yan came out of Baishi without gaining anything or losing anything. And Shiraishi was the same, but his expression was ugly. Because he is responsible for explaining to the directors why he didn't handle this well. Why have the expected returns of the directors been reduced so much?

Less than five minutes after Lin Yan left, Shiraishi received a call from the board of directors and immediately had a meeting. Shiraishi left the building of the video game alliance headquarters and walked into the taller Totachi building behind him.

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Ke Mingxiong's group, who had just returned to Taiwan, was undoubtedly busy. They're so busy that they don't even have time to think about it and make new games.

Taiwan is not big, but the market is not small. With the intensive labor brought about by industrial transfer, the people of Taiwan are generally somewhat wealthy. However, it is very unreasonable for wealthy people to have no corresponding level of entertainment. And the arcade machines they produce inadvertently fill this gap. It became popular in an instant, making everyone think it was incredible.

Ke Mingxiong's responsibility is only responsible for negotiating orders with external parties, while Ma Congyuan's responsibility is to be responsible for planning, designing and producing production lines, and the remaining few people are responsible for training new employees and responsible for quality supervision. Each performs its own duties, and the prototype of a small, but well-equipped company has been completely built.

Everyone is very busy and happy, and the kid in the Phantom Theater has not only been in the newspaper recently, but also on many TVs. As the concept of video game arcades became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, he also called a very popular person. Recently, it is said that there will be a variety show with the theme of video games, arcades, and children. Let the public see what the daily life of a child is like, and what impact video game arcades have on him.

Ke Mingxiong wasted a lot of effort in this matter, when he found out that the child's grades had always been the first in his school. I felt as if I was going to faint with happiness.

No matter how the world develops, most parents are afraid that their children are too playful. Don't lose your mind when you play, don't study hard. Later, in the mainland, video games were called electronic heroin, and those who liked to surf the Internet were called Internet addiction, which is not groundless.

This is like China's territorial issue, which has historical roots. In this world now, it is not as good as in ancient times, and it is impossible for Meng's mother to move three times. No matter how much modern society moves its address, it is impossible to completely abandon its status as a symbol of modern civilization.

Mr. Ke spent what he thought was a huge amount of public relations costs, asking the station to focus on the relationship between children's grades and video game arcades.

In fact, in Ke Mingxiong's view, there is no inevitable causal relationship between the two. If there is, it is that people are smart and can do everything quickly.

However, what he hopes is to make children a benchmark and let people who watch this episode of variety shows have such a concept.

The reason why a child learns so well is inseparable from his playing video games and arcades. Video game arcades are not a flood of beasts, but an effective way to exercise people's thinking ability, improve concentration, and improve academic performance.

Ke Mingxiong's marketing method is the same as the routine of promoting the use of home game consoles in Japan, Taiwan, and mainland China. Although the machine is used to play games. But it is called a learning machine.

In this way, if the child wants a home game console, it does not seem so rebellious, but justifiable. The mystery of this is the crystallization of the wisdom of marketers.

When parents hear their children say that everyone in their family has a "computer learning machine", it is very unreasonable for their own family to have it. After purchase, the machine usually comes with a cassette. There are usually typing exercises or other boring games in the cassette, but there are games about learning. Although parents don't understand it, they feel that it's the same thing, and they are satisfied.

As a result, the parents are happy, the children are happy, and the manufacturers who sell and produce game consoles are also happy. The world is so wonderful, the world is so harmonious. It can be called the real same world, the same dream.

Ke Mingxiong's public relations expenses were actually spent a little "wrongly". Because, everything the child has is a real thing, even if he doesn't spend these expenses. As the show's investigation deepens, you can also understand what kind of child he is. At that time, it may be more convincing to let the audience reason and summarize the content by themselves, rather than directly stating that video games will enhance learning ability.

Sometimes people are like this, and often the result of their own inferences is a fallacy. However, if this is his own deduction, he will feel that this must be right.

After a day off, Ke Mingxiong and the others received a fax, and the content of the fax was naturally the source code of the video game League, the latest arcade game "Butt Car", and provided it to several of them as research.

In the eyes of people in the video game league, Ke Mingxiong is more suitable for a company than a technology studio. The guys in the video game league who study games think that these guys from Taiwan, like themselves, are all people who are engaged in game design. And the relationship between the designs is very special, sometimes they hate each other to death, and sometimes, they love each other to death.

After Ke Mingxiong and the others got the source code, they quickly restored the game. The gameplay of the game is lackluster, but the use of perspective has opened their eyes.

It's no longer like the previous game, always a flat and straightforward, unchanged perspective, but a perspective full of human touch. When people should have a sense of accomplishment, there is a sense of accomplishment, and when they should have a sense of the overall situation, give a global perspective. It looks very user-friendly, and it seems to be a perfect solution.

Ke Mingxiong and the others are also smart people, and when they were making "Arkanoid", they learned a little trick related to the game. Players will never like to be told in a flat and straight way, without any waves. This kind of problem is not very obvious now, because the content of the current game is extremely limited, and they are all short and fast games.

When it comes to the era of side-scrolling, this concept similar to "the text seems to look at the mountains but not the flat" has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of game developers.

Even if it's just a clearing lot that is used to pass through the scene, it can't be very flat, there is nothing, and there must be some slope that allows the player to go up and down to manipulate the character to jump over.

In the final analysis, it is necessary for players to maintain a relatively nervous mental state all the time, otherwise as more and more games are played, the situation of players "abandoning the pit" will only become more and more serious. In order for players to enjoy a game, you must go out of your way and spend all your energy to make players feel dependent on a game.

Children don't have a strong sense of dependence on a particular video game. He is now not only the pillar of the Phantom Cinema arcade department, but also the benchmark for video game arcade players in Taiwan. Every day, many people come here to challenge the children.

Due to the continuous promotion of arcade machines, the fame of children is increasing, and more and more people come to take on the challenge. As a result, it is no longer a system of casual warfare.

The operator of the Phantom Cinema has hired several players with strong video game strength. The "Four Heavenly Kings" and the "Eight Divisions of the Game" are formed, and only the players who have stood out in the challenge can challenge the children if they win the challenge.

It is not surprising that after the launch of this plan, the name of the game department of Phantom Cinema became even more famous. Although, it has not been two months since the first arcade machine was purchased. The Phantom Cinema has decided to set up a separate one, the Phantom Game Hall.

With its unique gamer "stardom", it has always challenged the system, and the popularity and income of the game department of Phantom Cinema have made those bosses who have also purchased arcade machines red. At the same time, it has also become a benchmark store for video game arcades in Taiwan. If time permits, it is believed that it will launch a chain store as soon as it completes its first Phantom arcade.

The model of chain stores may be a self-operated system of dispatching store managers, or it may be a franchise system, but it is certain that the Phantom Game Hall will definitely sweep the whole island like a typhoon.

1980 is known as the year of video games in Taiwan, and June of this year was the month when Taiwan's video game store giant, the Phantom Game Hall, rolled out all over the island.

Although the video game alliance has encountered problems in the development of peripheral copyrights, its overall strategy is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Specialized analysts, after analyzing the characteristics of video games. It is determined that the popularity of video games in Japan and Taiwan is not an accidental phenomenon, but a common phenomenon that can be traced. As a result, the video game alliance, the global strategy of making video game street machinery dominate the world, came into being.

If you want to make video game arcades popular in the world, there is a market that needs to be developed as soon as possible, and this market is North America, more precisely, the American market.

As the most developed country in recent years, the United States will surely become popular all over the world once something becomes popular in the United States. It's like basketball.

Therefore, the video game alliance decided to open up the American market first, as long as it has a firm foothold in the United States, it is only a matter of time before it succeeds in the world.

However, in the United States, there is an important problem with the hair video game arcade, which is piracy from no manufacturer. Although the United States claims to be free trade, this kind of free trade is more often than not, when it has advantages for domestic enterprises. When the rights and interests of foreign companies are infringed upon, it is completely free trade. And when domestic companies suffer losses, it is a kind of free trade with protection.

Who let those parliamentarians, and even the president, be not elected by the consortium? The presidential election, which is held every few years, is like a fixed star draft. Heroes from all walks of life dance wildly, those who have money throw money, and those who don't have money talk about ideals to attract money, in short, it is a duel between a group of local tyrant agents.

The father of the president of the United States in a certain world once said that the money I invested in this kid was put into the body of the dog who has always been the dog, and it was enough for the dog to become the president of the United States.

Therefore, in view of this condition, the video game league decided to sell arcade machines in North America with special packaging. The game's substrate is completely imported from Japan.

This method has two advantages, one is that it can reduce costs, after all, labor in the United States is incredible in the eyes of the Japanese. Second, it can slow down the rate of technology leakage.

Technology diffusion is an unstoppable thing, and it is indeed possible to slow down the speed of technology diffusion. The only thing needed now is a strong CEO in North America.

As for who is the president in the middle of the video game league, there is still a lot of controversy. Because, every director, has his own interests. It is impossible to fully agree with the role of others. After a long period of discussion, the candidate was finally decided.

However, to be honest, this process doesn't look high-end at all, just like an aunt buying vegetables in a vegetable market.

Compared with the ups and downs of the video game league, Lin Yan's life is not so exciting, his daily life is very simple, he still eats and sleeps, and writes a "rebirth notebook".

The Three Kingdoms series "Destiny Game", which is a collaboration between the game club and instant noodles, has also been officially delivered. Now that I have purchased the brand's crispy noodles, I can already see the corresponding card. This distribution method has been very successful, and the sales of crispy noodles have been increasing until they are out of stock.

This is undoubtedly a miracle in the eyes of the crispy noodle company. And from this point of view, the value of "Game of Destiny" is also very gratifying. (To be continued.) )