Time flies, after more than a month of testing and several optimizations by Wads, the final motherboard and internal software of Snake Arcade were decided, Chen Zhiwen immediately ordered the purchase of 300 sets of motherboards from related companies in the United States, and Hong Kong has also prepared all kinds of other hardware materials.

On April 15, 300 arcade machines were installed, of which 270 were shipped by sea to the United States and 30 by air to the United States, where they were quickly delivered to 30 large bars in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

These bars are all Red Bull customers, and they are very familiar with the Red Bull business team, and when they tell a company that they want to put an arcade machine in their bar for market testing, they can also get half of the profit from it, and naturally they are full of promises, there is no harm to them, and they can make a small profit, they will naturally do it.

Ted is the owner of a bar on Queen Street in New York City, which he has been running for more than a decade, and is the largest bar in the neighborhood at 2,000 feet, and most of the residents in the neighborhood are regular customers.

"Cheng, it's only afternoon, what are you going to do?" Ted was calculating the tax issues, and when he saw the people coming from outside the bar, he said with some curiosity.

"A gift for you." Cheng Weibin, a representative of Midea, said with a smile.

"What gift? You brought Red Bull puree? Ted asked.

"No, it's the game console I said last time." Cheng Weibin shook his head and said.

"Game consoles? Arrived so soon? Didn't you say last week that you were still in Hong Kong? Ted stood up, and he saw someone outside carrying a large object.

"It was shipped by air, plus I spent a few days at the customs, I got it this morning, and I sent it over." Cheng Weibin said.

"Oh my God, such a big and heavy thing, you are flying it? Is your brain watered? Ted was shocked, and he had to struggle for a long time whether to send a small box by air, because the price was too expensive, a few dollars a kilogram.

"Our boss is rich." Cheng Weibin shrugged and said: "And large air transportation is still different from small pieces!" ”

"Well, you're right, rich people generally don't care about money." Ted shrugged his shoulders and handed over a bottle of beer, even if it wasn't at night, as long as he came to the bar, he had to drink something, which was the habit of the whole of America.

The two watched the installer push the arcade machine in, there are universal wheels under the arcade machine, only when the height changes need to be lifted by several people together, under the arrangement of the boss Ted, the arcade machine was placed at the door of the bathroom facing outward about 2 meters, which is also a very large flow of people inside the bar, second only to the bar.

Power on, turn on, the relevant personnel have already been trained, and in a minute, the game interface has been opened.

"Greedy Snake?" Ted looked at the name of the game and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, the name of this arcade game is Snake." Cheng Weibin smiled, and then told the people around him about the general gameplay of the game.

"It's easy, I'll try." Ted understood, pulled out a wallet from his body, rummaged through it, found a 25-cent coin, and threw it into the game console.

"Let's go." Ted said with confidence, as a bar owner, he has also played a lot of arcade machines, and he is quite experienced, and after the new game, he naturally has to try it himself to know if it is good or not.

Cheng Weibin on the side smiled and said nothing, although they are Red Bull salesmen, but Red Bull has been in the United States demand has been greater than production capacity, and there is no worry about not being able to sell, and therefore, when the company decided to help the brother company promote new products, they were arranged to return to Hong Kong as early as last month, and carried out theoretical knowledge, practical operation and other learning and practice, and then were sent back to the United States.

Ted played very energetically, at the beginning, the snake body was relatively short, the space was large enough, and the food was relatively scattered, without the slightest difficulty, but what he didn't know was that this was a deliberate design of the game, and it was in the interests of the game to make the snake grow faster at the beginning.

There are also points in the upper right corner of the interface, which records the length of the snake, allowing players to have an intuitive understanding of their achievements.

A minute later, the snake body of the game controlled by Ted became longer and longer, and he also found the problem, that is, it was too difficult to operate, and the location where the food appeared became more and more remote.

After a while, Ted, who had made a mistake in control, hit the snake's head into his tail.

"It's a pity, no, I'm going to play another game." Ted, dissatisfied with his failed results, continued to take out his wallet to look for coins, but he couldn't find one.

"Here's the key, and inside is the coin you just had." Cheng Weibin opened a small door from the side and took out the coin.

"Your game is much more interesting and operable than playing Arkanoids." Ted returned from the state of the game to the state of the merchant, he has played a lot of arcade games, the best before belongs to the arkanoid, its characteristic is that it can control the position of the ball to control the direction of the ball's movement, but this is still indirect control, and the operation of the snake is obviously a direct operation, which can give people stronger stimulation, more refreshing, and stronger competitiveness, especially under the urging of alcohol and a bunch of fox friends in the bar, it is estimated that the coin is thrown as if it is not money.

"How much does this arcade machine cost?" Ted then asked.

"I don't know, I really don't know the price." Cheng Weibin shook his head and said: "The above order is to put it for free for a few days in each bar, and the profits obtained will be shared with the bar owner." ”

Midea's senior management really didn't tell them the price, in fact, a little brain think about it, and know that the company's senior management spent so much money to air dozens of equipment this time, just to know the market feedback in the shortest possible time, even if there is a price now, it can only be estimated, and the specific test results will definitely have to wait until the test results come out.

"Okay, then leave it for a few days, and I'll buy it if it's fun." Ted thought for a while and said, if he doesn't agree, the person in front of him will also find other people, there are many hotels in New York City, there are many bigger than his house, and the building near the water has the first month, if this arcade machine will really attract a large group of people, then how to buy it first, one is that he can make more money, and the other is that maybe he can attract more customers to come.

"This is a short-term storage contract, only one page, the content is relatively simple, you see." Cheng Weibin handed over a page.

Ted took the page and glanced at it, basically the content is relatively simple, the ownership of the equipment belongs to the company of the United States, it is placed in the bar for 3-5 days, the electricity bill is the responsibility of the bar, and the coins obtained also belong to the bar, the main role is to avoid causing some disputes.

"How much does this thing cost?" Ted frowned.

"750W, not much, just a TV." Cheng Weibin said.

"That's fine, it's not a problem." Ted also didn't care, electricity in the United States is not expensive, and even after the oil crisis, the impact of electricity prices is not great.

Cheng Weibin glanced at his watch and said with a smile: "Ted, you have to prepare a large batch of 25 cent coins." ”

……

"Ding Ding Ding" A phone rang, Cheng Weibin immediately put down the newspaper in his hand, picked up the phone, and said after hearing the voice on the other side: "Hey, which one?" ”

Ted's voice came over the phone, saying, "Cheng, your machine seems to be broken!" ”

"What? The machine is broken? ”

Cheng Weibin was taken aback, he had only been away for half a day, and the equipment was broken.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately called the engineer from Hong Kong, and then went to the bar himself.

"What's the problem?" After seeing Ted, Cheng Weibin hurriedly asked.

"Over there, it's useless to put a coin in. It seems to be blocked. Ted said, pointing.

"Blocked?" Cheng Weibin frowned, in last month's training, he probably knew the entire structure, and the coin recognition device was the most problem-prone place on the equipment, because this technology was directly borrowed from Japan.

The two walked to the side of the arcade, and at this moment, there were still a few blonde young people standing around, Cheng Weibin leaned over to open the lock of the coin door, and suddenly felt a weight pressed down, and countless 25-cent coins fell from the box.

"So much?" This is everyone's thoughts at the moment, Cheng Weibin was also shocked, the box inside is fixed, and it can be stored neatly for almost 1,000 pieces, and the coins rolled down from it, because they are not neat, discount it is almost five or six hundred.

It's only 11 o'clock, the nightlife has just begun, and this arcade machine has made more than $100?

Ted was also shocked, he had only seen that there had been people on the arcade side before, but he didn't care too much, after all, in the bar, the most important thing is to drink, and a few hours later, he heard someone report that the arcade was broken, and the coins couldn't be stuffed, so he subconsciously thought that the hardware inside was broken, but he never imagined that it would be a box full of coins.

"I have to suggest to the Hong Kong side that the box for storing coins should be bigger." Cheng Weibin said secretly in his heart.

The other people around "Wow Wow Wow" cast curious glances, and although they were not short of money, they were still shocked by the appearance of hundreds of coins.

"Put it away first." Cheng Weibin began to gather the coins, and Ted went to the front to get a basket and put the coins at the front desk.

The two put the coins away, put them in again, and the machine started running again as normal, and the young people around them suddenly gathered again.

After the coin was put back at the bar, Ted frowned and said, "Now that this coin has been taken out by me, how can you determine the actual profit of the arcade at that time?" ”

"Don't worry, the device has actual data every day in the background, and it will also record how many coins are invested in a day." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"That's good." Ted was stunned in his heart, with this function, it will be convenient for him to manage in the future, after all, the arcade income of the bar is only a small part of the arcade, and the counter is the focus, and he can't always keep an eye on the arcade side, and the daily income in the past is only a rough estimate to compare, if someone takes away a 5% or 10% daily income, he doesn't know.

When the people around saw that the equipment was ready, they immediately asked impatiently if they could continue to play, and Ted naturally got out of the way.

Cheng Weibin also went to the bar, and Ted gave him a free beer and asked, "Chen, what is the price of this arcade machine?" You really don't know? ”

Cheng Weibin took a sip of beer and said, "Okay, I heard that the price is about $3,000, maybe it's not only, are you interested?" ”

"$3,000?" Ted couldn't help but be stunned, the net profit of a month for such a big bar is about this number, and such a simple device costs $3,000, the price is really outrageous, you must know that an ordinary car is almost $2,000 now.

However, looking at the coins that had just been recovered, Ted was still very excited to calculate in his heart, he could earn more than a hundred dollars a day, it was true that it was the first day, and there were more people playing, but his bar traffic was still not small, even if he earned thirty or forty dollars a day in the future, he would earn back the cost in three months, and then it would be pure earnings.

"Ted, we've known each other for over a year, and I can tell you a piece of data from our interior." Cheng Weibin suddenly whispered mysteriously.

"What data?" Ted suddenly became interested.

Cheng Weibin said: "In the past two months, the Hong Kong headquarters in Hong Kong invited thousands of students and adults to play this game, and also bought the recently popular Arkanoid, the data obtained is that most people are far more interested in Snake than Arkanoid or other arcades on the American market, and the patience for the game is much stronger, many people can continue to play for a long time, and it is far more than Arkanoid, but that is in the case of free play, if you charge it, it still depends on the data tested in the bar now." ”

"The free charge only affects the number of times everyone plays, and the interest should still be the same." Ted said.

"Well, that's what we guessed." Cheng Weibin nodded and said.

"And how many days are you going to spend in my bar?" Ted asked, he didn't care about it before, but now that he is so profitable, he naturally needs to understand clearly.

"3 days, you also know how big New York is, how many bars there are, we were only allocated 10 bars, a bar is open for an average of three days, and you can only choose 100 bars in a month." Cheng Weibin said.

"Three days!" Ted was a little reluctant, but it was also true, there were too many bars in New York City, and this is where Americans pass the time when they were bored, and there would be several bars in a town, while in big cities such as New York and Los Angeles, there might be one on every street.

"Large-scale production has already started in Hong Kong, and it will be available in the United States in a while." Cheng Weibin said with a smile.

"Then if you have the goods, you can give it to me first." Ted hurriedly said, based on the interest of today's crowd, he concluded that this game will definitely be popular, because now the Arkanoid and Ping Pong near the Snake Arcade are almost no one cares, and a bunch of people are surrounding the Snake Arcade watching the players play, and at the same time, there are several people who are constantly instructing how to go.

"No problem, you want a few, I'll remember it first." Cheng Weibin asked.

"How many?" Ted twitched in his heart, one is 3,000 dollars, and a few will cost tens of thousands of dollars, which is not a small amount, but if you buy less, isn't it also a loss to make less money?

"Ted, if you are under pressure on funds, you can apply for a loan from Citibank, our company has negotiated with Citibank, you can go directly to the loan, and the bank will provide seventy percent of the funds." Cheng Weibin said preparedly.

"It's the same as a car loan?" Ted asked.

"Yes." Cheng Weibin smiled: "That's it, I'll write it down first, and when we set the price, you can decide to buy a few." ”

"Okay, thank you, brother." Ted patted the other man on the shoulder and laughed.

PS: That's all for today!

(End of chapter)