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Chapter 274 Participating in the Electronics Fair

Square said: "Andrew, how big is your factory in Xiangjiang? In my opinion, the potential of the two games "Tank War" and Great Wall Cubes is very great, and they are good enough to crush the games of other game companies.

If your factory is too small, it will certainly not be able to meet the needs of the US market.According to my professional vision as an agent of games, the sales of these two new arcade machines can reach at least 20 units!Is your factory capable of producing so many game consoles?

How about your company authorize the production of these two games to our Square Enix Entertainment Company, I will definitely give you a good price, so that your company's profits can be maximized! "

Bai Zirui took a sip of coffee, and asked calmly, "Mr. Square, how much licensing fee are you going to pay our company?"

When Square heard that Bai Zirui seemed to let go, a gleam of joy flashed in his eyes, and he said with joy: "Andrew, our company will pay your company a licensing fee of US$[-] for every arcade machine produced. This is what our company can give you. What do you think of the highest price of

Bai Zirui showed sarcasm, shook his head and said, "Mr. Square, it seems that your sincerity is not very great! The licensing fee for each arcade machine is [-] US dollars. If you can accept it, we can sign a licensing contract!"

After hearing Bai Zirui's quotation, Square raised his voice and said: "Impossible! This price is too high, no one in the United States will accept this price!" There was still a bit of anger in his voice, making the coffee shop Everyone else in the room looked at this side with different eyes.

Square realized that he had lost his composure, and took a sip of coffee from his coffee cup to cover up his gaffe.Bai Zirui said with a slow smile, "Mr. Square, let's talk about the arcade agency! The "Tank War" arcade machine costs [-] US dollars each, and the Great Wall Cube costs [-] US dollars each!"

Square said: "Andrew, it's impossible, the price is too high, you're robbing money! Nintendo's "Donkey Kong" arcade game is only two thousand dollars each!"

Bai Zirui said: "Mr. Square, as you said before, our company's arcade game is enough to crush it, and it's normal for the price to be a little more expensive than it!
You can just imagine, after young people in the United States have played our company's "Tank War" and the Great Wall of Cubes games, are they willing to play rough games like "Donkey Kong" again?Maybe at that time, Nintendo lowered the price of "Donkey Kong" to one thousand dollars a piece, and you were not willing to represent this game! "

Bai Zirui knew that the enthusiasm for the "Donkey Kong" game was slowly fading, and American players needed new and more fun games to arouse their enthusiasm.

Bai Zirui said with a smile on his face, "Mr. Square, you can go back and think about it! I will be busy with the upcoming Western Electronics Show in the next few days. If there is a price difference between us, we can continue to negotiate after the Electronics Show is over!"

Bai Zirui ended this negotiation, with a good game in hand, the initiative of the negotiation is now on his side.

"Square walked out of the hotel, cursing secretly in his heart: "Shit!The nasty yellow-skinned monkey!How crafty! "

He just wanted to take advantage of these two popular games before the opening of the Western Electronics Show, but his attempt was unsuccessful. The excellence of these two games is enough to easily capture the hearts of those arcade fans. Electronics Fair will surely shine.

Square will face the competition of a group of hungry wolves at that time, Romansky with a big belly, and the country guy Thomas from Texas. Thinking of those vulture-like guys, Square feels a little heavier point.

The protagonists of the Western Electronics Show in San Francisco are those big companies, such as IBM, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba, Calendar, and NEC from Japan.The first day of the exhibition is not open to the general public. The most eye-catching star exhibit is undoubtedly the mc68000 processor brought by Motorola.

英特尔在1979年就开发出16位元处理器8088，而摩托罗拉比竞争对手晚了两年才开发出mc68000。摩托罗拉之前发布的只是实验室工程样品，而这次带来的mc68000才是即将大规模投产上市的产品型。

摩托罗拉的mc68000直接跳过了16位元处理器，mc68000是一款16/32位混合型cpu，用卓越的技术捍卫了摩托罗拉在处理器市场的领先地位。英特尔要等到1985年发布的80386才会过渡到32位元时代。

For arcade fans, mc68000 should be a very familiar CPU. A large number of arcade machines launched from the middle and late 80s to the 90s use this processor as the main CPU of the arcade board.

When you disassemble familiar arcade machines such as King of Fighters and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you can find this mc68000 or its later improved 68hc000 inlaid on the arcade board inside the frame.

Bai Zirui stayed at Motorola's booth for a long time. Apart from processors, there were many other electronic exhibits, such as bp machines. This was the beginning of many Chinese people getting to know Motorola.

The video game exhibition area only occupies a small area of ​​the entire electronic exhibition area.Bai Zirui was surprised to find that the computer booth was also arranged in the game area.He thought about it again, the current personal computer is just a bigger game console in the eyes of practitioners in the mainstream electronics industry.

In order to cope with the competition of personal computers, Atari also specially developed an 8-bit computer——Atari 800. In fact, the main function is to play games.There is also the well-known Commodore 64, which was launched in 1982 and sold 80 million computers throughout the 1700s. It is actually a game console under the name of a personal computer.It wasn't until the emergence of IBM's PC that personal computers really began to show their strengths in the business office field, gradually throwing off the reputation of game consoles.

Next to the booth of Dingtian Technology Co., Ltd. is Sega, which is tied with Atari to dominate the American video game market.This time Sega brought two new arcade machines that have just been developed, "Zaxxon" (three-dimensional fighter).

The two bosses of Sega were not happy at all. David Rosen, an American Jew, established Sega in Japan in 1954. At that time, Sega's main business was to sell pachinko machines to the U.S. military stationed in Japan. Private Entertainment.

David Rosen sold most of the shares in Sega, which he founded, to Gulf&western Industries, an American company.In 1979, Sega's major shareholders intended to sell their shares, and David Rosen, with the support of Japanese entrepreneur Hayao Nakayama and several other investors, completed an mbo (management buyout) for Sega.

David Rosen is back as the chairman of Sega Corporation and is in charge of Sega America's business.Hayao Nakayama became the president of Sega Corporation and the person in charge of Sega in Japan.

Both David Rosen and Hayao Nakayama took Sega's first game, released in 1982, seriously.The development of Sega in the previous two years was not smooth. In 1978, Taito Company relied on a "Space Invaders" and rose rapidly.Although Sega obtained the North American sales rights of Space Invaders from Taito by virtue of Taito's lack of complete North American sales channels, and made a fortune by hitching a ride.

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