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Chapter 242 The first obsession with the block game

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    Beep, beep, beep!  Sailor Jiang Ze held the small cube game machine and stared at the LCD screen intently. He pressed the cross direction keys with his left thumb unskilledly to adjust the left and right movement of the falling cubes.  When the movement is in place, press the change button with your right thumb to adjust the rotation of the block.  He was so focused on playing that he shrank into the boss¡¯s chair and huddled together. ? One level, another level, and another level.  He was completely immersed in the game, and as the speed of the game increased, his concentration became more and more concentrated, and he did not notice the passage of time at all.  Bang!  Suddenly, he heard the sound of the office door closing, and he was excited. Without thinking, he muted the game console, put the cube game console into his trouser pocket, then threw himself on the desk, picked up a report, and pretended to read it.  stand up.  "What are you pretending to be?" Yu Dehai scolded in a funny and angry tone, "I haven't seen you for a long time, so I knew you must be hiding in the office playing games. It's just as I expected! Do you know  Knowing how many customers are outside, the salesperson is too busy. Lao Wang and I have gone out to help, but you are still playing here!" Jiang Zeshui took out the game console and took a look, and saw that it was almost there!  The square at the top of the screen said with some heartache and a little shame: "Well, I didn't mean to be lazy. The main reason is that this game is so fun that I accidentally fell into it" "Forget it, forget it! I  I'm too lazy to talk about you." Yu Dehai waved to him, poured himself a cup of coffee, brought it over and sat down opposite him, shaking his head.  When Sagitar was looking for a partner, he and Jiang Zeshui contacted Lao Wang, who opened a supermarket in San Francisco, and jointly raised funds to acquire 40% of the shares of Sagitar Trading in San Francisco, and rented a store in the most prosperous commercial center in San Francisco.  Relying on the hot-selling products of electronic building blocks, portable recorders, and arcade machines, it quickly opened up the local market and established a firm foothold.  As the portable recorder market gradually prospers, the variety of products gradually increases, and the profitability of shopping malls becomes higher and higher.  Moreover, the headquarters hardly diverted funds. Instead, it invested profits to completely buy out the property rights of the leased shopping mall, making it the self-owned property of the San Francisco branch, further increasing the profit level of the shopping mall.  ¡÷style_txt;The three shareholders Jiang Zeshui, Yu Dehai, and Lao Wang are even more grateful that they selected the project at the time, and they are more attentive in running the shopping mall.  In the past four years, this Sagitar electronics supermarket has become somewhat famous in the local area, and its business has become increasingly prosperous.  In terms of assets, the three of them are all worth millions. They have villas, luxury cars, wives and children in San Francisco, and they have entered the ranks of successful people.  You know, this was the early 1980s.  In this era, even with the number of wealthy people in the United States, millionaires are a rare and enviable animal.  However, Jiang Zeshui was obsessed with the new cube game console. He would play with the small game console all day long when he had nothing to do. He no longer managed the store as carefully as before. Most of the business in the store was left to him and Lao Wang.  This made him feel a little dissatisfied.  ¡°I really don¡¯t understand, is this game that fun?¡± He took a sip of coffee and said disapprovingly.  "It's really fun!" Hearing his inquiry, Jiang Zeshui's eyes lit up and he immediately became interested. He said with joy, "You may not think that this game is very simple, but it really has magic power and makes you addicted without knowing it. Every time  After passing the level for the first time, you will feel as if every pore in your body has stretched out, which is extremely comfortable. Then in the next level, the speed of falling blocks will increase, leaving you no more free time to immerse yourself in the joy just now.  So when you enter the state again, you must maintain a higher level of concentration to successfully pass the levels. Just like this, one level after another, time is passing by inadvertently" "It turns out that you also know that playing this is killing time.  !" Yu Dehai glared at him angrily and said with a straight face, "Lao Jiang, for the sake of our working together, I kindly remind you: this career is not only yours, but mine and Lao Wang's.  ! We won't say anything if you play games occasionally, but if you lose your mind by playing games every day and don't care about anything, then we have to ask the head office for instructions to change the general manager of the branch. " Jiang Zeshui Yilin, Yu De.  Hai's words finally woke him up.  To be honest, the three of them are partners in starting a business together. They have worked side by side for many years, and their personal relationship is not bad.  But the main link between them was this shopping mall. Yu Dehai and Yu Dehai only forgave him for his recent laziness because of his hard work in the past.  ¡°If they really pissed them off, it would be easy to work together to oust him from the position of general manager.  According to the company¡¯s shares, Sagitar Trading Corporation invested one million US dollars, accounting for 60% of the shares. The three of them??Jointly invested two million, accounting for 40% of the shares.  With 22% of the total shares, Jiang Zeshui held the largest share among the three and became the general manager of the branch.  Yu Dehai and Lao Wang serve as vice presidents, responsible for finance and shopping mall store management respectively.  "But if Yu Dehai and Lao Wang can't bear it anymore and apply to the head office and it is accepted, then they will have no power to resist and will be fired.  This is containment!  Therefore, he had to pay attention to the opinions of the other two shareholders, and he was able to get the mature and prudent Yu Dehai to criticize him in person, proving that he had indeed gone too far. That was why the two partners were so dissatisfied with him that they did not hesitate to replace the president  The manager is a threat.  This, after all, is not his company alone!  He lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said seriously: "I understand, I will work seriously during working hours from now on and will not play games anymore!" A smile appeared on Yu Dehai's face, he picked up the coffee cup and asked  He raised his hand and the two looked at each other and smiled.     Jingle Bell!  The phone on the table suddenly rang. Jiang Zeshui quickly picked up the phone and said in English with the same enthusiastic attitude as before: "Hello, this is Sagitar Trading San Francisco Branch. If you need anything, we will wholeheartedly help.  We can provide you with door-to-door service!¡± ¡°Excuse me, is this General Manager Jiang? I¡¯m Li Ling from the General Manager¡¯s Office,¡± said a female voice speaking Mandarin from the other side.  "Ah, it turns out to be Assistant Li! Yes, I am Jiang Zeshui. What are the arrangements for the head office?" Jiang Zeshui quickly changed to Mandarin, which was not particularly standard, and smiled heartily.  "Hello, Mr. Jiang, I have just received instructions from the general manager. The obstacles have been removed. The batch of goods you recently received with the bill of lading Kuner can be officially put on the shelves for sale! I will send you a fax soon, and then please  After you sign it, fax it back as a record." On the other side of the phone, the businesslike female voice softened a lot and spoke the notice that Jiang Zeshui had been waiting for.  "No problem! Please give me five minutes. I'll check the fax ink cartridge and thermal paper right away." Jiang Zeshui looked excited. He immediately put down the phone and waved his fist in the air.  He waited for almost a week and finally got the green light to put it on the shelves for sale.  Even a game that he is addicted to, he believes will be a great success.  "Is the cube game console ready to be put on the shelves?" Yu Dehai also heard the content of the call and asked with a smile on his face.  Although he blames Jiang Zeshui for losing his ambition in playing with things, he is also very optimistic about this portable game and feels that it is much better than the handheld game console launched by Nintendo last year. ?? Portable game consoles, also called handheld consoles, are not original to Taiyu.  The earliest handheld console was developed by an American game company in 1976. It was a racing game.  Due to technical limitations at the time, the screen scene was a racing track drawn in the form of stickers, and then light-emitting diodes were used to replace the racing cars. The accelerator and brake were replaced by constantly flipping switches up and down to drive the racing car controlled by the player to travel at high speed on the track.  This game was naturally extremely crude and its sales were not very good, which discouraged other companies from developing portable game consoles.  In the 1980s, Gunpei Yokoi, who was later known as one of Nintendo's three technical masters, was waiting for a train at a station when he accidentally saw a passenger waiting like him. He was bored and pressed the number keys on his calculator as a sign of boredom.  As a pastime, I had an idea to develop a portable game console that did not require much complexity and was specifically designed to kill time in my spare time. After asking the president for instructions, I received strong support from him and developed the first portable game.  machine.  Compared with that racing game, semiconductor technology has developed rapidly in the past four years, and this one is naturally much more advanced.  It uses Motorola¡¯s 6502 as the processor and two button batteries as the electric drive.  The biggest improvement is the innovative use of LCD screens on game consoles, instead of the backward spray-painted stickers and light-emitting diode display technologies of the past.  Although the LCD technology of this era has developed somewhat, the technology is still very immature.  Liquid crystal is a very special kind of crystal. It is usually a colorless and light-transmitting liquid. Once electricity is applied, the crystal will twist ninety degrees, thus blocking the passage of light, and it will look black.  To use it as a display screen, it is necessary to use horizontal and vertical anode lines and cathode lines to form a path at the intersection point to drive the liquid crystal dot at this position to twist and display a dot on the screen.  Come.  An image can be formed by countless closely arranged small dots.  But in this era, the development of liquid crystal technology is still very backward, and the research on anode and cathode power connection technology still exists.Large defects, mutual interference and leakage are prominent, and liquid crystal driving consumes a lot of power.  It's okay to use on a narrow strip-shaped LCD screen the size of an electronic watch, but if you want to use it on a relatively large screen, it won't last at all.  Nintendo racked its brains and came up with a solution.  The way they make the mold is to create images of scenes and characters on the glass pieces that hold the liquid crystal, and then inject the liquid crystal.  An image is driven as a point, so there are many fewer lines that need to be connected. The manufacturing difficulty is no more complicated than making an electronic watch or calculator LCD screen, and the power consumption is also greatly reduced.  The complete graphics make the scene much fuller, and it basically has the narrative background description required for a game. It can also drive preset LCD patterns at different positions to display moving objects by turning on and off power.  It can be said that this "Catch" game already has all the elements of all later portable game consoles, and the design is very complete.  But after all, it is the first portable game console launched by Nintendo. Due to the flaws of the display technology, the preset LCD pattern cannot be too complicated, so the gameplay is greatly reduced.  "Catch" game, the screen is just a little person, throwing the ball into the sky with one hand, and then catching it with the other hand, throwing it up again, and catching it again, it is very simple and boring.  The storytelling and entertainment of the game are not much improved compared to pressing the number keys on a calculator.  ¡° Such a boring game, but the price reaches 128,000 yen, which is one hundred US dollars.  And the final sales volume was actually pretty good, with tens of thousands of copies sold, which shows how monotonous the current entertainment methods are.  People have too much fragmented time to entertain themselves, but they can¡¯t find a way to pass the time. This also means that portable game consoles have huge potential application needs and are a very promising industry.
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