The red and white machine has been on the market for more than two years, and the number of games sold on the red and white machine platform has reached more than 400.

Among them, there are less than 50 games released by the first party of Chiba Games, and the rest are all produced and published by third-party manufacturers.

However, compared to many games from third-party manufacturers, these games released by Chiba Games have led the trend of games time and time again.

Just like Tetris, which recently hit the market, it's not wrong to say it's a miniature game, and it's not wrong to say it's a blockbuster game of the year.

The reason why there are two vastly different evaluations is because they evaluate "Tetris" from two aspects. On the one hand, Tetris itself is complex, and on the other hand, Tetris is on the influence.

A simple game that has generated world-class buzz and influence, and that's the beauty of Tetris.

Of course, there will always be people who imitate excellent things. A game that mimicked Tetris, it didn't take long for it to appear.

Most of the imitators are released on arcade machines, or home consoles and handheld platforms other than the red and white consoles and Chiba handhelds.

Most of these organizations that publish parody games are relatively well-known manufacturers. Although they did not have permission from the Soviet laboratories or researchers, they did use a very flexible method, which was to change the shape of the block.

Isn't the shape of your Tetris cube like this, then my Fork Cubes are a little more and less than yours.

It looks similar, but it's plausible. Even if Chiba Games wants to sue these companies for infringement, even if it can win in the end. will also fall into the quagmire of lawsuits because of the vagueness of the evidence.

Not to mention. Even if you win, the money you win in the end will probably not be enough to pay the lawyer's fees.

Yuki Chiba has also become accustomed to this kind of imitation, after all, Chiba Games is now the well-deserved boss in the video game industry. As the boss, it can be said that he stands there as a target and gives all his peers a target to attack.

Imitation is imitation, as long as there is always innovation. Not allowing these imitators to surpass is the best way to solve the problem of imitation.

Moreover, if an enterprise does not have external worries, it will definitely deteriorate rapidly internally, resulting in enough lethal internal troubles. Therefore, it is also a good choice to keep these competitors alive and well.

Not to mention, in a country like the United States. There's also something called antitrust law. If only one company, Chiba Games, is sued for violating the antitrust law, it will still lose a layer of skin even if it does not die.

That's why there are so many companies in the U.S. that are the number one in their fields. They often inject capital into other small businesses in the same industry to prevent them from going bankrupt.

That's because these small businesses went bankrupt. It hurts them even more. Compared to the fines for violating antitrust laws, the capital injection is a small amount of money. It's not money.

Of course, this approach is also done to some extent. It can be regarded as raising tigers for trouble. There is a certain possibility that these originally weak enterprises will rise rapidly because of a certain technological innovation, thus challenging the quasi-monopoly position of the original industry boss and becoming a new giant.

However, this is not a problem for the capitalists. They were originally directors of this company and invested in this company to make money.

They are shareholders of several companies at the same time, and whoever is strong and who is weak is just the equivalent of taking out something from the left pocket and putting it in the right pocket.

Of course, Chiba Games is still a Japanese company after all. He has a strong smell of a family-run business. Although, the bottom is quite modern, and as long as you work hard, you will definitely be promoted. However, at a certain height, there is still a ceiling.

Because, a part-time worker can't always be a big boss, can he?

This kind of family-owned business has disadvantages and advantages. The disadvantage is that such enterprises often have relatively low vitality, and the so-called slow things are round, and they often give up some more radical operating methods in order to do things safely.

Of course, there is also an advantage, that is, it is stable enough. I don't like the kind of all-or gamble and use all your resources to do one thing. If you don't succeed, you will succeed.

In fact, in the Japanese social climate, there is still a lot of disgust with companies that always like to work hard. If you do this, it often shows that you lack the foundation and can't live if you don't fight. In other words, it's just that it's too nouveau riche.

Lin Yan can also be regarded as a relatively high-level staff member in the Chiba game. The pros and cons of the Japanese enterprise model are already relatively well understood and clear.

Still, for his part, he is not too opposed to this model. Because, this is the most suitable business model for today.

Those frizzy enterprises, even if they can win a bet and achieve great success, it is impossible to bet and succeed every time.

However, with the development of electronic technology and the continuous improvement of globalization, the exchange of information is becoming more and more convenient. It will also become weak, and thus be swept into the dustbin of history in the following development.

Today is the weekend, and it is a rare holiday.

Every weekend at the University of Tokyo is a holiday, and the reason why this weekend is rare is because Hayashi doesn't even have to go to Chiba Games to work.

Lie at home for a rare lazy sleep.

After Lin Yan got up, he always felt like he was missing some merits and was empty. Man is an inertial animal, and it is difficult to be diligent when he is used to it. And when you are used to being busy, you will feel uncomfortable when you are free.

Lin Yan finally changed from a lazy person to a more diligent person. At this moment, let him lie quietly at home for a day, he can't do it.

For many young people his age, perhaps they have little money and no independent financial means. Such a holiday, they will choose to be at home, in the evening for a day of game consoles.

However, this choice is not a good choice for Lin Yan. No matter how much you like one thing, you will get tired of doing it all the time.

It's like if you're a professional video game player, you ask them if they like the game. They will say yes.

If you ask them if they want to play all the time, they won't choose to do so.

Even if video games have only been around for a few years. Professional video game players have also emerged in Japan.

Because there is no game that is very long-lived in the true sense of the word, so. They also play more games and are more miscellaneous.

There was a report in "Game Pass" that professional players have to play games for more than ten hours a day. The top players even train for more than 14 hours a day.

For the older generation, working more than ten hours a day may still be a commonplace.

After all, if you move back in time, during the Industrial Revolution. In British factories, very few workers survive beyond three months.

At that time, the factory was a real sweatshop.

The workers in the factory are really working with their lives. It is precisely because of this tragic fate that they will stand up and start fighting for their rights. Establish trade unions and fight for adequate welfare benefits.

It can be said that today's workers are able to work only eight hours a day, and the working environment has become more favorable, which is completely won by these ancestors with their own blood, sweat and body.

As the economy gets better. With the improvement of material life, there will only be fewer and fewer hard-working people.

And these people who play video games are not considered a legitimate profession in the eyes of ordinary people. Even. There are many professional players who do not have a stable salary.

Their source of income comes entirely from prize money from a wide variety of tournaments, large and small.

Fortunately. Many arcade halls or shopping malls, for the sake of popularity. There are always competitions big and small. Even if they don't have a fixed salary, as long as the level is relatively high. I can still fill my stomach with my own ability.

Of course, everything is constantly evolving from its emergence to maturity.

Just like Taiwanese Phantom game halls hire children, many Japanese arcade halls have also found that whenever these "bonus hunters" are in their arcade halls, business will always be much better than ordinary times.

So, these bosses used their brains. Or directly give these professional players a fixed salary, let him become an arcade staff, and his job is to play arcade in the arcade every day to attract other customers.

Or set up an entertainment department and invest a sum of money as a sponsorship to pay these professional players. The contestants, on the other hand, have to fulfill their obligations and play games in the arcade to attract customers.

These two models may sound exactly the same, but the differences are quite obvious.

That is, the latter is more formal and has more possibilities than the former. Subsequently, some of the more business-minded arcade owners found that this alone seemed to be not enough.

If some competitions can be held, it seems that it will attract more attention. As a result, there were some small competitions as a test of the waters. The effect is not bad.

However, what is more of a headache for the bosses is that the guests who come in this way do not seem to be very stable, and they come and go quickly.

In the end, more than 300 owners of more than 1,000 arcade halls in Tokyo came together and decided to hold a long-term league with a stable time.

The venues for each tournament are selected in these arcade halls. The system will be borrowed from the audition system of the "Video Game Players Conference".

In other words, you will be able to apply at each arcade hall and participate in the audition. After that, the winners will be selected and asked if they would like to be a pro, join a team, and join a professional league.

If he says he wants to, then good, will start having a formal contract waiting for him to sign.

With the gradual improvement of the entire tournament system, the tournament committee composed of these arcade owners found that in addition to being able to use this tournament to attract guests, there was also an unexpected surprise.

It's advertising revenue.

After all, the places that attract people's attention are the places that the ads like. As a result, the original version looks like a colorful arena, and after adding many corporate logos and product advertisements, it becomes even more colorful.

The uniforms of the players, which originally looked very handsome, also looked like racing uniforms, and when the players put them on, they became a humanoid self-propelled advertising wall.

Of course, in order to make the whole league more attractive, the owners of the arcade hall have determined that all the players must have a good appearance.

After all, the focus on game technology, and whether the game is good-looking, is mostly male. And in this world, in addition to men and women, for women, they can watch the game regardless of whether the game is good-looking or not, as long as the players are handsome and good-looking.

As a result, in addition to training on the arcade platform every day, the contestants also had an additional item - fitness.

After all, the ones that look skinny and have some muscles are more handsome than the chubby moving balls. Then, there will also be certain rules for hairstyles.

Even, the entire tournament league has also poached a group of people from Japan's well-known male artist company "Genesys", who are specifically responsible for cultivating the players' walking posture and usual habits. It seems that these professional players are a group of entertainment artists who have replaced singing, dancing, and acting with playing games.

Since Chiba Games has long since withdrawn from the arcade market, it is not too early to receive this information.

When Lin Yan got the report of this event system, his first reaction was to think that this event system was very mature, much like the "Casper System" of South Korean Interstellar back then.

If such a system can work well, it will become a behemoth.

However, since Chiba Games has withdrawn from the arcade market, there is no way to get a piece of the tournament system.

I can only watch others drink wine and eat meat.

Lin Yan felt that this event system sounded very interesting, so he also had a curiosity to see how it was being done and whether it was really as stated in the report.

Therefore, he gave himself such a day off, without informing anyone, and quietly came to the arcade hall alone to see what these things were like.

However, he already had some thoughts in his heart at this time. You know, recently in the world of electronic technology, there is an invention of a new gadget that is destined to promote the development of computer games. That is to strip away the CPU and motherboard of the discrete graphics card, the original intention of this thing was invented for computer graphics.

Later, however, he would become the fulcrum of computer games and make the entire computer game industry flourish.

Since Chiba Games can't participate in the league system generated by arcades, why not develop some computer competitive games and then come up with a new league system.

You must know that Lin Yan's head is not only filled with more than 30 years of revolution in console games. Including all the video games within the computer sports game, as long as it is a video game, it is in Lin Yan's mind.

Perhaps, it's time to develop a real-time strategy game.

Lin Yan looked up at the signboard in the arcade hall and thought. (To be continued......)