Monday, February 23rd.

It seems that in the middle of the night, in the game halls of the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang, there is an arcade game called "Xiangjiang Cube", which has a very distinctive logo of the Kirin Game Company - that is, the very powerful Kirin.

The 1981 Xiangjiang arcade game was not so popular, but there were more than 100 of them, and the games were all American and Japanese, and there were not many types, far less prosperous than later, but it was enough to attract young people who had nothing else to play in this era.

Now this very beautiful arcade machine with a clear local flavor of Xiangjiang has suddenly made many young people who wake up early interested.

Next to the "Xiangjiang Cube" arcade, there is a piece of paper that explains in detail how it is played.

A few young people who like to try new things immediately invested in the game currency to see what it was.

As a result, as soon as they played like this, they immediately became addicted to it.

It wasn't just them, a large group of people gathered around, nervously watching how these players arranged the blocks to fall.

"Left!"

"No, no, right......"

"Quick, it's down again!"

"Change position, erect, erect!!"

"Oh, it's a pity, it's a pity!"

“……”

Usually such a group of people command randomly, and the novices are noisy in their ears, and it is easy to be distracted, and it will be over if they are distracted.

If you have a good temper, you can only shake your head and continue to invest in game currency to play.

The bad-tempered little thugs immediately became furious: "Grass! Get out of the fuck for me! Fuck me out!

But the gangsters scolded and scolded, and when they started fighting again, the people next to them gathered around again, and gave him random advice in the same way, so angry that the gangsters screamed when they lost.

The people next to them actually looked itchy, but there were too few machines, and they came too late, whether it was a gangster or an ordinary young man, they didn't let them occupy the machine, they had no way to play, they could only go to the boss to protest.

At the beginning, there were only 600 game halls in the urban area, which was basically three or five game halls.

This is still for the sake of the face of the Kirin Group, and it is free to use within a week, so the game hall owners are willing to put it in their own game hall.

But the bosses didn't expect "Xiangjiang Cube" to be so popular, it was only in the morning, and a smart boss called Kylin Games and asked them to quickly move five, eight, and ten units to their stores, and pay when the arcade machine arrived.

So at noon, all the game halls in Xiangjiang had at least 10 "Xiangjiang Cube" arcade machines, and the bosses made a hard rule that each person could only play for a maximum of three coins, which calmed the mood of many game fans.

However, the atmosphere in the game hall is still very hot, even a little gunpowder.

Originally, people who played other game consoles didn't pay much attention to this new game, but seeing so many people around, it was completely the machine that didn't stop for a moment, and they were also interested.

After walking over and thinking about it a little, they will understand the gameplay of "Xiangjiang Cube".

At first, they thought the game was simple, but as the player operated, they gradually integrated into it, and gradually yelled and commanded and cursed like other bystanders.

"It stinks, let me come!"

"No, no, let me play one more game, please......"

"Brother Lao Tzu is xx, who dares to ...... Yes...... You let me go......"

"Grass, come and see, this kid is playing so well!

"Brother Xiong, you are so powerful, can you bring a few sisters with you?"

"Grass! don't talk nonsense, there is a kind of heads-up, choose the highest difficulty, see who can play for a long time, and the one who loses is called uncle, do you dare?"

“……”

The popularity of the game hall directly emptied the warehouse of Kylin Games Company, and none of the 2,000 arcade machines prepared were sent out.

The developers of the game, of course, did not stop.

They waited in various cafes in the city, ready to fix the broken arcade machine.

As a result, what made them laugh and cry was that most of the "Xiangjiang Cubes" that they were hurriedly asked to repair were because there were too many game coins in a short period of time, and they were directly piled up in the slots, so they couldn't play anymore.

Only a small part of the board is indeed a little problematic, after they replaced the board, they noted the problem, and prepared to return to the company in the evening, and everyone will study and discuss together.

Mass production is like this, there will always be such and such shortcomings, and this is also an opportunity for these technicians to continuously improve.

Xiangjiang is also a very small market, and they just use this market to constantly improve the program of "Xiangjiang Cube" and make it as durable as possible.

The development of "Xiangjiang Cube" was completed a week ago.

On the one hand, the logistics staff of the game company purchased various raw materials for the framework in Xiangjiang and entrusted the furniture company and electrical appliance company to assemble them, and on the other hand, Nakata Tomoyoshi personally went to Japan and found a familiar manufacturer who had been contacted in advance, and asked them to start the machine at a high price, producing 3,000 electric boards.

During the entire 18 hours of production, Nakata and his subordinates did not leave the production line until all the production was completed, and they counted all the number of electric boards before packing them and transporting them back to Xiangjiang.

After more than a month of product development and assembly, today, it is finally time to make achievements, but everyone at Kylin Games has changed from distrust at the beginning to full of confidence now.

Only after playing "Xiangjiang Cube" will you know how attractive this simple little game is.

Until now, they have been a little surprised that they can complete all the R&D and assembly sales tasks in one month.

But this is how the miracle happened, the big guy has to believe it, and he has to admire the biggest hero who created the miracle - the boss Yin Jun!

It's rare to have such a talent for game design, even in Japan.

The boss's "genius" name is indeed well deserved!

And the employees under them will also go down in the history of the world game with the game "Xiangjiang Cube"!

That's a great honor!

……

Compared with them, Le Yiling seemed more worried.

"I said, you don't recruit any people in Xiangjiang in terms of R&D talents, and let the team do it all in Japan, what do you mean?" Le Yiling frowned and said: "If this continues, how can we control this game company?"

"Sister, I wasn't going to meddle in the game company. Yin Jun smiled, "This team, at the right time, I will let them go back to Japan to develop it." We don't want to be this kind of company that desperately develops games, we should be creative companies that create games, and then give them ideas to bring them to life. And to be honest, when it comes to making games, I'm the best.

We just do what we're good at, and they'll do the rest. After all, our core industry is still an entertainment media group! This game company is just an incidental existence, which can be used as a profit growth point and the development of derivative products, but if too much investment and attention are paid to it, it is completely unnecessary. ”

Yin Jun can't tell Le Yiling that the current games are very simple, but its prime time is the past ten years, and then the game will start to fight for all kinds of soft and hard power, to put it bluntly, it is a competition to burn money, many good game manufacturers have all suffered serious losses because of the competition to burn money, and finally went out of business.

If it is the era of online games after 2000, it will be 20 years later, and by that time, the Kirin Group has been deeply rooted in entertainment media, and it is not too late to see the right time to enter.

"Then when they return to Japan, will we increase our investment?" asked Le Yiling.

"It should be in three or five years. Yin Jun said, "After all, we still have comics such as "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider" that are suitable for adaptation into games, and then I also have some good small game ideas, which are similar to this "Xiangjiang Cube", which they have developed in the past few years, which is a great supplement to our business." ”

"Can you replenish the $2.5 billion you borrowed?" asked Le Yiling.

Yin Jun's old face flushed, "Sister, how is this possible? Three or five billion US dollars should be fine, but our most important profit still depends on Transformers toys and making movies." ”

In addition, when the land market and real estate market in Xiangjiang collapsed, they hoarded a batch of land resources and sold them after the price rose.

Even so, it should take five years to pay off all the loans, and if you're unlucky, it may take longer.

"You're also bold!" Le Yiling shook his head, "Forget it, anyway, Hollywood is not the most important thing, we can get Xiangjiang here, but if we can't do it there, we will lose hundreds of millions of dollars and throw it out, and it is estimated that there will be no problem." ”

"I didn't buy the company to lose money. Yin Jun smiled and said, "Sister, just wait and see! Starting from this "Xiangjiang Cube", the speed at which we make money will soon be accelerated!"

At this point, Le Yiling did not doubt it.

She watched people play "Xiangjiang Cube" two days ago, and it was much more interesting than the current arcade games.

Xiangjiang is just a small place, and it can't support the arcade game market at all.

But Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe are different, and it's a paradise for arcade games.

Any game can sell more than 10 million units, "Xiangjiang Cube" has won unanimous praise and has been recognized by game fans today, selling 20 million copies, is not too much, right?

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