Chapter 11: A Trip to Los Angeles

Jester's plan to market his American Cube-powered arcade machine in Los Angeles didn't start out so well.

At the beginning, the owners of the two arcade arcades heard Jester's intention, and even laughed at him for not even looking at "American Cubes", a nineteen-year-old kid who knew how to make games, and then directly let people push and scold him and blast it out of it.

This frustrated Jester, who had thought the plan would be foolproof.

Because he calculated a thousand things, he thought of a qiē possibility, but he didn't expect that the other party might make a conclusion without even reading the content of the game.

But there is an old saying that is good, woe is the blessing to rely on.

When he found a third arcade game store called 'Jedey's House' near Baldwin Park on West Covina Street, he was greeted with a warm welcome by the owner.

This feeling seems to make Jester feel like a big-name star, recognized by avid fans.

Jester, who hadn't figured out the situation yet, inquired carefully and found out that the owner of the game store called Jedi Sparker went to visit a friend of Costa Mesa a few days ago, and after hearing about the popularity of "American Cubes", he specially lined up to try it, but he was immediately deeply attracted by this game and became an avid fan of this game.

Originally, he planned to return to Los Angeles and order a few of this arcade machine called "American Cubes", in addition to his special favorite, as a professional arcade practitioner and a senior video game player in this era,

Coupled with the owner of an arcade game store, he undoubtedly sees a huge business opportunity in Tetris.

He felt that if he could be the first to launch the game in Los Angeles, he would definitely make a lot of money. As far as he knew, he hadn't heard of any arcade game stores in Los Angeles that had the game.

Because such a popular game is like a firefly in the night, it can't be hidden at all, and once it is launched, it is bound to cause a sensation.

But the problem came, and to his surprise, he returned to Los Angeles and inquired with the Schwell company he had been ordering, only to learn that they didn't have an arcade machine called "American Cubes" in their company.

This reply surprised him, didn't the makers of that game have Schwell & Co., California's largest seller of entertainment equipment sell it on their behalf?

It can't be!

Thinking of this, he quickly contacted several other sales companies, and got the exact same reply, they didn't have an arcade product called "American Cubes".

But that didn't stop Jedi Spark, who was going to go to Costa Mesa again to ask the supermarket owner with five American Cubes arcade machines where he got such a fun game.

Unexpectedly, Jester actually sent himself to the door.

When people doze off, someone immediately brought a pillow.

What does it mean to have a long drought and a rainy day? What does it mean to meet a native of another country?

That's it.

So Jester was very warmly welcomed by Jedi Spark, especially when he heard why he didn't let those big dealers quickly distribute the goods, he immediately scolded that those dealers were really a bunch of blinded SBs.

Of course, when he heard Jester say that he was paying the full amount in advance, he rolled his eyes, and the expression on his face was as uncomfortable as eating a fly, and the look in Jester's eyes was also like looking at an SB, but fortunately, he still wanted to buy an arcade machine from Jester, and there was no obvious leakage.

Jester didn't care, and he now realized that the price he had given was indeed very bad for him, an unknown designer.

No sales company would agree to his offer.

But he didn't regret it, because "American Cubes" was worth that price, and he never had the idea of selling gold cheaply and letting others pick it up cheaply.

Things were even smoother than Jester had expected, and Jedi Spike didn't even have to do those three days of trial operation to see how the game was, after all, he had seen for himself how popular the game was at Costa Mesa, so he immediately bought all five of them, and he assured that several of his friends who also ran arcade arcades would definitely sell American Cubes to them.

However, he also asked by the way, can the price be cheaper? For example, 3,000 US dollars, this price is also very high in the arcade, and 5,000 US dollars for a machine is really a little expensive.

Jester only smiled when he heard this, and then resolutely rejected the other party's request.

He'd said before that American Cubes was worth the price, he would never sell gold cheaply, and he didn't need anyone else to sell it.

But Jester also made a special statement that this time the price of $5,000 is a friendship price, and when this game becomes popular, it will not be just this price.

After hearing that Jester had no intention of lowering the price, Jedi Spike also agreed with a little reluctance.

After handing over the five machines to Jedi Spike and getting the full $25,000, Jester didn't go straight back, even though the time was very tight for him and he still had a lot to do, such as developing the next game, but then again, he wasn't too short of time.

Jester had never been to Los Angeles in his previous life, and he didn't know how charming this place was known as the most beautiful city on the West Coast, and in order to make up for the regrets of his previous life, Jester planned to take a good tour. And he also wants to go to his alma mater in this world to take a look, the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, a world-class school that shines in the entire world university rankings, when Jester was still Li Ming, he could only watch from a distance and could not be played with.

I think he also dreamed about the photos of the blue bear statue at UCLA countless times, but he didn't expect that he would be a UCLA student after he was reborn.

It can be regarded as the fulfillment of his dream of another world in disguise.

Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second largest metropolitan area in the United States. In 1769, while searching for Puerto Monterey along a river, the Hispanics entered a natural harbor and named the river they crossed the "Queen's River of Angels," the Los Angeles River, where 12 Hispanic families settled 12 years later; After a few years, they named the place "City of Angels".

That's where the City of Angels in Los Angeles comes in.

Truth be told, Los Angeles is a difficult place to visit if you don't have time, because there are many iconic and classic attractions here, from east to west, from south to north, spanning a lot.

Whichever one is missed, it feels like a visit to Los Angeles is incomplete.

Not convinced? I can name a dozen names at will, all of which are Los Angeles attractions with a lot of fans.

Walk of Fame, Chinese Theatre, Madame Tussauds, Griffith Observatory, Disney Concert Hall, Grammy Museum, Staples Center, Getty Museum, Venice Beach, Santa Monica Beach, Beverly Hills, Roddell Street, Universal Studios Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, ......

Need more?

Jester wanted to go to a lot of places, but he didn't have enough time, so he could only choose the sunset boulevard he wanted to go to the most, and the rest could only be next time.

But fortunately, he plans to return to Los Angeles after a while, so that he can also visit again to make up for his regrets.

This year, because of the Los Angeles Olympics, many dormitories of the school will be given up for the use of delegations from many countries, and the school holidays have been extended by nearly a month.

Instead, his grandfather is going to organize some Chinese gatherings on the West Coast, and when the Olympics come, he hopes to cheer for the Chinese delegation together.

This is a good thing, and it is also incumbent, and it is in this Olympic Games that Xu Haifeng shot down China's first Olympic gold, and the March of the Volunteers resounded at the top of Olympus for the first time.

Jester, who wanted to witness this historical moment, did not hesitate to promise his grandfather that he would definitely participate when the time came.

Time doesn't seem to be able to take anything away from here, and Jester, who had seen pictures of Sunset Avenue in later generations, stood on the streets of Sunset Avenue and suddenly had this kind of exclamation.

In the 80s, Sunset Avenue in Los Angeles was as bustling as it was 30 years later, with a lot of traffic, people, and bustle.

The whole sunset boulevard is very long. This famous street passes through Echo Park, Lake Sylvie, Luce Ferris, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Homeby Hills, Bel-Air Bay, Brentwood, and Braemar Hill Gardens.

It stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway in Braemar Hill Gardens. The street has long since become an icon of Hollywood's celebrity culture, and Sunset Boulevard has long been synonymous with Hollywood's star-studded stars.

After Jester was reborn into this world, he has been in the small town of Costa Mesa, which is characterized by tranquility and serenity, and he has not yet felt the bustle of the cosmopolitan metropolis of this era, but in Los Angeles, when he is on the sunset boulevard on the sightseeing bus, he really feels it.

Although he looked at the cars, billboards, people's clothing, words, shop costumes, etc., he had a wonderful feeling, as if he had traveled through time and space, compared with the scene in his mind thirty years later, it was like an old photo in a movie, with a strong sense of historical accumulation.

It seems that the word history is no longer an illusory concept before him, but a real being.

That's it, sitting on the bus and visiting the most famous Sunset Boulevard on the West Coast in 1984, even though it's impossible to appreciate the charm of this place.

Jester's eyes looked at the scenery outside, but deep inside, it was like the waves of the ocean, and the waves were turbulent.

For the first time, after he was reborn, an idea came to him that he had never been able to have before. Although, he has also made copycat Tetris before, and plans to make a super Mario in hell in advance, and even wants to create his own game empire...... But it seems that all he is doing is repeating the history that has already happened in the footsteps of history, like playing a game that simulates history.

But at this time, it was here that he clearly realized that this was a real, living world.

It's a completely different era, it's not history here, there's it, it's just the future.

Tilting his head slightly, facing the sky, the slight wind blowing across his face, even on a hot summer day, made him feel a touch of refreshing coolness.

Jester's eyes were slightly closed, and his hands were clenched into fists.

This is a new era for him, Jester Lee.