Ling Shizhe came to the gate of Wanda by car and found that the movie theater was very lively. ≥ ≥ ≥ Xiao ≥ said,

Two long rows of people stretched out from the entrance of the movie theater, lined up for forty or fifty meters on the street outside, and people kept coming out of the theater in twos and threes and joining the team directly.

Ling Shizhe walked into the theater hall, and it was even more crowded, and the front of the two Contra arcade machines was even more crowded, and there were bursts of regret and cheers from the crowd from time to time.

"Boss, you're here, look, our game has succeeded, look at these people, they want our Contra so much, it's crazy to the point." Benny. Secker walked over in a sweat and whispered to him.

"They're all here to play games, how many games are here?" Ling Shizhe asked with a smile.

"There's a cinema, a supermarket and one of our electronics stores in Raccoon Town, and there's two in each place, and they're all very popular." Benny. "In addition, in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Ottawa and several other places, I also put two units in each retail store, and I don't know how they are doing, I don't know yet, I think there should be news tomorrow." ”

Suddenly, the player's voice came from the front of the arcade: "Waiter, waiter is there, the machine is broken, come and see." ”

"No, this is a new machine that was just placed today, and it broke down in less than half a day, so find someone to fix it." Someone in the line shouted, and the people next to him shouted.

Benny saw that something was wrong, and said to Ling Shizhe quickly: "Sorry boss," and hurriedly stepped forward, "Let the children, I'm a maintenance worker, please let go." ”

As soon as everyone heard that the repairman was coming, they quickly made way for a space, and Benny walked to the machine and was relieved to hear the alarm sound of the game console. It's not that the machine is faulty, it's that the coin compartment is stuffed, causing the player to be unable to put in coins, so an alarm sounds.

"Mitte. Lee, hurry up and ask your waiter to bring a big basin over, the game console is full of coins, you need to take it out first! Benny shouted to the theater manager outside.

The key to the box inside the game console had already been handed over to the administrator of the movie theater, and the theater manager called the staff to open the game console, only to see that the coin box was stuffed with 50 plus cent coins. A cashier in the cinema poured all the coins into a basin prepared in advance, and the rattling sound caused an exclamation from those around her.

"Wow, with so many 50 plus coins, the boss should have made a lot of money, right?"

"It's only been just over two hours since it opened, and the coin locker is full, which shows how popular the game is, and Ambrera has dug up another big gold mine."

"My father works at Ambrera, and he will be very happy if he knows, long live Ambrera."

Hearing their discussions, Ling Shizhe couldn't help but feel a burst of pride, most of these players were the family members of Ambrera's employees, and they cheered for Ambrera, indicating that they had a sense of belonging to the company, and it was only then that Ling Shizhe felt that everything he had done was worth it.

"Click" a man with a camera on his chest recorded the second-by-second moment. Ling Shizhe looked up and saw that this person was actually a reporter. The reporter noticed that someone was paying attention to him, and turned his head and smiled at Ling Shizhe in a friendly manner.

Raccoon Town is already a famous town, it is the headquarters of Ambrera, and the beautiful scenery here has become a famous tourist town in Canada, so there are tourists from all over the world every day, and there are no shortage of journalists.

Ling Shizhe had long passed the age of liking to be in the limelight, and when he saw that there were reporters here, he was afraid that he would come to interview him, so he left on his own without waiting for Benny.

The next afternoon, Benny went to Ling Shizhe's office and handed him a report on the market reaction of the arcade machine.

As he expected, all the Contra arcade stores under the company were overcrowded, especially in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and other first-tier cities in North America, where the queue even exceeded 500 meters, and these cities had to send police to maintain order.

Every two or three hours, the staff has to take the key to open the coin box and empty the coins inside, Ling Shizhe roughly calculated, an arcade machine sells for 4,000 US dollars, at this rate, it will only take less than a week to recover the cost, it is really profitable, he now finally understands what the golden age of arcade machines is.

Continue to look down, Contra has also received a lot of orders, has exceeded 30,000 orders, the total value of this batch of orders alone is more than 120 million US dollars, the profit is more than 60 million US dollars, how much is the manufacturing cost of an arcade machine, including the shell, display, substrate The total cost is less than 650 US dollars, this is only the order received in one day, there will be more and more orders in the future, and what is the profit at that time? It's a huge profit.

"Why did Wanda Cinema Line place an order for 1,000 arcade machines?"

Benny explained: "Boss, I went to find out, and these orders were made by Madame. Wanda Cinema Line has been in a state of loss since its establishment, and Mrs. hopes to use it to turn losses into profits, and by the way, it will also attract a little popularity to theaters and drive consumption of other projects such as movies. ”

Wanda Cinema Line is still in a state of loss, Ling Shizhe did not expect it. He thought that since the successful release of "The Girl Cixi", the theater has completely turned losses into profits, but he didn't expect that it was still losing money, it seems that the pressure on Zhao Xiaoyun's side is a bit big, and he is going to go over tonight.

In addition to the statistical reports, there were also several newspapers, with front-page headlines about thousands of people queuing up to play games at Wanda Cinemas and Ambrera retail stores yesterday. The off-duty section of the front page is a half-page advertisement for Ambrera's arcade game.

The advertising price of North American newspapers is not cheap, especially the front-page advertisement, Ling Shizhe bought it for a week in one go, and the newspaper used a front-page news in return. News and advertising complement each other to achieve such great results.

"Let's put it here first! Your game department has worked hard these days, and this month you will give you a triple bonus, and you will call the viesftl hotel to order two tables of seafood dinner, and ask for the best red wine, so that everyone will be happy. ”

After Benny went out, Ling Shizhe quickly heard a cheer outside, got up and looked at the window, it turned out that everyone in the game department was waiting outside.

This is a typical oriental reward method, North American companies will not reward their employees so much, generally wait for the end of the year, will send a big red envelope to everyone, after Ling Shizhe came, he brought this kind of reward to come.

Receiving so many orders in one day, you must arrange it immediately, otherwise it will affect the company's profits, and now every minute and second is money!

With the fermentation of time, Contra is becoming more and more popular in North America, at this time, whether it is an arcade machine, or a home game console, its games are very rough, the appearance of Contra immediately changed all this, exquisite pictures, beautiful music, plus Contra is very suitable for arcade this game mode, so soon set off a Contra whirlwind throughout North America, orders snowflakes flew to Ambrera, in just one month, the arcade orders exceeded 100,000 units.

And that's just the number of North Americans, with the landing of Contra in Europe, it soon set off an even bigger storm, and then orders from Europe also flew in a steady stream.

Europe has a big market after North America, and even his market is larger than North America, because the population of Europe is much larger than that of North America, so his orders are not less than those of North America, and soon the total global orders of Contra exceeded 300,000 units.

The two foundries in Hong Kong worked day and night, working overtime to produce, and a month later, the first batch of 10,000 arcade machines were packed and shipped to North America.

The huge positive made the two factories choose to expand the scale, and the arcade assembly plant has little technical content, and the expansion was completed quickly. The two plants have a monthly production capacity of 30,000 units.

Ling Shizhe doesn't have to worry about these two factories at all, and there will be overcapacity, because Ambrera's second arcade game "Double Dragon" has been officially launched, along with "Squirrel Wars" and "Tank Wars".

These three games are all famous classics in history, and they are enough for these two foundries.

The huge success of the arcade machine made Benny very excited, thinking that since the arcade could be successful, what about the home game machine? Is it possible to make Contra a family version more successful? Bringing the arcade machine to his home, Benny was immediately excited when he thought about it. Immediately found Ling Shizhe, hoping that the home game console could be put on the market as soon as possible.

But Ling Shizhe poured cold water on him: "If we move Contra to the home game console too early, then what about the arcade machine?" In this way, will no one play arcade? ”

Benny was petrified instantly, and then a cold sweat broke out on his back, thinking, why did he be careless, the machine had just succeeded, and this family game console with the same performance as the arcade machine was launched, didn't this rob the original arcade market? Isn't that a big loss of profit? I lost my mind and went crazy, why did I come up with this bad idea to the boss recklessly, and now the boss doesn't know what to think of me?

Seeing Benny with a miserable face, Ling Shizhe nodded secretly, Benny has always seen the changes in Benny these days, since Contra Douluo succeeded, Benny has been a little fluttery, he has always wanted to find an opportunity to knock him well, don't his tail so high.

Two days ago, Ling Shizhe made the game department independent, established Ambrera Games Company, and let Benny. Seck served as president of the gaming company.

He is two years younger than Ling Shizhe, and it is inevitable that he will be fluttering at such a young age to control a large company with annual sales of hundreds of millions of dollars. Ling Shizhe is a person who has come over, and he understands his mood at this time, but understanding is understanding, but when it is time to beat, he must beat, otherwise such an excellent young man will be ruined, which is not what he wants to see.

"Do you know where you are wrong?"

Benny nodded silently, his face full of frustration, and lowered his head and said to Ling Shizhe: "Boss, I'm sorry, I don't know myself a little anymore these days. ”

"yes, it's a bit of a flutter to get such a high position at such a young age. Don't say it, just recognize it clearly, after you go back, think about the company's future development path, and think about what you should do next. ”

Benny is not stupid, he knows that this is an opportunity given to him by his boss, and if he doesn't grasp it, what awaits him is to get out.