The Industrial Giant Reborn

Orders from some of Red Bull's bar customers have made the arcade machine factory in Hong Kong busy. There is no need to worry about orders, and the market is also rising rapidly. Naturally, Chen Zhiwen no longer needs to pay too much attention. As long as there are no quality problems, then this year's It will be a year of great returns. Even Red Bull, which is also popular, needs to continuously place advertisements. In terms of net profit, it is far inferior to arcade machines.

However, the lifespan of arcade games is very short. Generally, a blockbuster can only last for about a year, and then it will enter a downturn. For other popular games, the old games will be discarded immediately, because arcade machines cost money to play, which is very distressing. What Midea has to do is to ensure that the popular games every once in a while are its own games.

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During this period of time, Woz often travels between Hong Kong and the United States. The boss gives the highest benefits. The cabins are all first-class. He can lie down and sleep on the plane, and there are all kinds of food, which makes him no longer hate transcontinental travel. Flying, coupled with the increase in the number of American teams, he tends to transform into the boss of a technical team, specifying the direction for his subordinates, no longer locking himself up, 24 hours a day either sleeping or researching technology.

After a lot of actual testing, the optimized combination of software and hardware was confirmed and mass production began. The main energy of the Woz team turned into how to ensure the ability of the workshop workers to solder on the circuit board, and the development of full-test equipment. After about a month, the equipment was gradually completed, and the Woz team began to let go slowly, letting the production and technical team in Hong Kong take over the production tasks. However, two people were left to watch the production line every day to prevent quality problems.

"Woz, come and sit down." Chen Zhiwen specially invited Woz to his office, this is his own money boy, without his top technology, no matter how creative he is, it's useless, there is no way to suppress the number of chips Going down, which bar would dare to buy an arcade machine worth six to seven thousand dollars?

"Thank you, Eric." A technical nerd like Woz is not as cautious with his boss as the management. In addition, Chen Zhiwen's personality is more easy-going, so he is naturally more easy-going.

"Snake's success, I am very grateful for your team's efforts. This is a reward for your team. You can choose where to play." Chen Zhiwen handed over a stack of envelopes, which contained many small colored cards.

"This is a travel promotion card?" Woz took the envelope and pulled out the card inside.

"Yes, there are Nordic skiers, some went to Africa to watch the great migration of animals, some went to Egypt to see the pyramids, and some went to explore South America. Your team can go wherever you want, but the time must be fast, waiting for you After returning, there are other new projects." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

For this American technical team, Chen Zhiwen has already given a lot of funds, at least much higher than the average American technology company, and it is meaningless to give money rewards. After all, in the United States, many people are pursuing the fun of life. It may not be so important. Paying them to travel may be more effective and save money.

"I want to go to Africa to see wild lions, but I don't know what other people think." Woz looked at a few promotional cards in his hand and said.

"Watching lions is really good." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. Technical geeks generally don't like sports, and they don't like to go to commercial places. Skiing requires skill and courage. South American exploration seems to be more dangerous, and the pyramids are more tiring. The lion is the easiest. A large car armed to the teeth drives to the remote area of ​​the lion. As long as you don't die, you will basically be fine and not tired.

"What's the next project?" Woz asked after putting away the envelope.

"Don't wait until you come back?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile.

"When I travel, most of the time I don't play. If I know the content of the next project, I can also spend a little time every day to prepare the materials, which is easy and will not waste time." Woz said.

"Okay, this is a game about the combination of 7 shapes and cubes." Chen Zhiwen said.

"7 combinations of cubes?" Woz didn't understand at once.

"Let's draw it for you." Chen Zhiwen took out a blank piece of paper. He planned to write out the plan for the next game after Woz and others left for a trip.

This game is naturally the most famous Tetris in later generations.

Speaking of Tetris, it is almost unknown to future generations. This cube was born in the hands of an IT engineer in Polar Bear. The original design purpose was to test the performance of personal computers. Later, it was accidentally adopted by a British game company. The general manager noticed, but because of some aspect of the polar bear law, the copyright was not bought, so the British game company plagiarized.

Although the method is inappropriate, it did succeed in turning Tetris into a world-famous game.

The content of the game is very simple. There are seven different block structures that slowly fall from above. Players need to use the control keys to change directions. Then the blocks below will disappear when a line is filled and form scores. The higher the score, the better the game. The more successful it is, and if no full line is formed, the height of the box will become higher and higher, and finally it will be stuck.

"This new game is also very interesting. You need to use your brain when playing it. It is similar to eating snakes, but it is more demanding." Woz became interested after listening to it, and he found the fun in it. , you must consider where it is placed, and at the same time consider whether the next few will appear what you need. If it appears, it is naturally good, but if it does not appear, it may have a great impact.

At the same time, the disappearance of multiple lines together will generate exponentially multiplied points, which will make players take a risk to gamble big, but the discovery is very big, but it is very exciting, and for the game machine, the more players invest, the higher the income.

"Basically, if you want customers to have fun, you still need to let them use their brains properly." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile, games without brains, or games that don't allow players to calculate, will soon become boring, even The simplest mobile games in later generations, such as Fishing, Plants vs. Zombies, and Angry Birds, actually make users use their brains, while the other ones stimulate users' reaction speed, such as Temple Run and Fruit Ninja. Rules cannot be realized in this era when chips are just starting.

"Then what's the name of this game?" Woz asked.

Chen Zhiwen said, "Let's call it a wonder square?"

In later generations of China, this game is called Tetris. Why it is named so is no longer known, while abroad, its name is Tetris square.

Tetris is in Russian, which is actually not easy to remember. It is much more convenient to change it to simple English. As for the names of places, Chen Zhiwen can’t even use them. One is that it is easy to have copyright disputes. Many names of local governments cannot be registered as trademarks. Yes, there may be a lot of troubles after registration, the second is that it will make many players unhappy, and the third is that it is really on the cusp, which may cause ZZ problems.

If it is changed to a magic square, there will not be so many things.