game trailblazer

Chapter 262 The First Tourism Expo
Fengyun Network is engaged in online games. In the eyes of many netizens, it should not have much to do with being a game console. As for the voting activities in the "homeless tribe", in the eyes of many people, it is just a gimmick. It is hard to do this year It is really possible to have a domestic mainframe, so wake up everyone, it is definitely just a dream.Although there are quite a few netizens who hold this idea, there are still many netizens who specially registered their accounts to participate in the voting activity of "Nationalization of Domestic Game Consoles", and solemnly cast their votes for their favorite names.

The voting activity of "Domestic Host Name" was even published in some well-known newspapers and periodicals, such as "Home Computer and Game Console", "Electronic Game Software", "Computer News" and so on. This voting activity, but I don’t know why, the URL of the voting activity is very prominently written in these articles, and readers are also explicitly or implicitly suggested to support it.As a result, more people with the conditions to surf the Internet flocked to the website where the voting was held. If it wasn't for the strong server performance and sufficient bandwidth prepared by Fengyun Network, it might have crashed on the spot.

Li Wenbo returned home after studying abroad, and habitually went online to see if anyone had approached him. As soon as he opened ICQ, the familiar "uh-oh" sound sounded. He pressed the hotkey, and a message sent two days ago The message popped up.

[Offline message from netizen "Zhanbuluo couch"] "Doctor, go to this website
"Zhanbu Luocha" is a game friend Li Wenbo met on the Internet. He would play two games in "Lianzhong Game World" when he had nothing to do on weekdays. Sometimes he would exchange game information or experience with each other. The relationship between the two is not bad. good.Li Wenbo glanced at the URL attached to the message, and ICQ gave a green shield mark, which meant that the address was safe, so he clicked on the link with confidence.

After waiting for a while, the browser that popped up automatically displayed the linked website. Li Wenbo browsed it, and it turned out that it was a voting activity for "naming the domestic game console". Vote for your favorite name.If it weren't for the striking words "domestic game console", according to Li Wenbo's habit, he would just look at it casually. Now that he is calling for a name for a future domestic game console, he has to make his own no matter what. a contribution ofAfter registering the user name and completing the login, Li Wenbo carefully analyzed the candidate names listed on the screen, then made his own choice, and pressed "DreamBox128 (English), Dream Box (Chinese) ” in front of the “Vote for me” button.

He Xiaoyu opened the latest issue of "Computer News" and turned to his favorite "Game Square" page. In "Little Student's Notes", he saw a passage "... Please all players who love domestic games go to this website
"Domestic game consoles?" He Xiaoyu muttered. For a veteran player like him, he has always dreamed of having a domestically produced game console in Chinese.At the beginning, he thought that the learning machine was real, but later he realized that it was a replica of the Nintendo Famicom. He once thought that the Taiwan-made A'Can console with dual 16 bits was real, but before he saw the real machine, he thought it was real. Gone with the wind.

Many years later, He Xiaoyu saw news related to domestic game consoles again. He also heard about the hot post in several game forums a while ago. Although he didn't know whether it was hope or disappointment this time, no matter what, He wants to make some of his own efforts for it.

He Xiaoyu came to the Fengyun chain Internet cafe he often went to, he habitually glanced at the bar first, but unfortunately the woman who made him so tempted was not there.He took out his membership card, found a computer that had just been vacated, and logged in according to the URL written in "Computer News", intending to take a closer look before talking.

After leaving the investment company in the United States, Ye Tianyu went back to China directly. He planned to find a company to develop his expertise, but he failed to do so.Recently, a friend recommended a newly established company to her - Fengyun Network Development Co., Ltd. Ye Tianyu planned to find information about this company first according to his own habits, and then judge whether it is suitable for him.

Fortunately, Ye Tianyu's friend gave her the website of Fengyun Network Development Co., Ltd., so she had a faster way to learn about this company, so she went to the Internet cafe "Fengyun Chain" closest to her home, Just ask for a computer, and then open the browser, ready to search for information.

Enter the company domain name of "Fengyun Network", and the browser quickly opened the homepage of the website. This homepage alone gave Ye Tianyu a lot of shock.When she was abroad, she often searched for information on the Internet, and it was common to browse the websites of large companies. After returning to China, the companies she found either had no websites, or were simple and inferior to personal webpages, but the one in front of her The website of "Fengyun Network" is very well designed, concise but not crude, beautiful but not fancy, and more importantly, the website is very informative.She has seen many websites after returning to China. At first glance, it seems that there are quite a lot of columns, but when she clicks on it, it is either still under construction, or there is no response at all. Like "Fengyun Network", each column is full of content, especially It's the news that is updated every day, and she has hardly seen it.

After casually browsing through various columns of the "Fengyun Network" website, Ye Tianyu felt that she had gained a lot. At this time, she discovered that there was a friendship link under the "About Us" column. Horde" game forum, there is also a striking "domestic game console name" voting activity on the homepage, she is not interested in this, she just clicked the fork in the upper right corner, and then went back to study "Fengyun Network" .

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On October 10, shortly after the National Day, it was co-sponsored by the General Administration of Press and Publication, the International Trade Promotion Committee, the National Copyright Administration, the Ministry of Culture and the China Game Industry Association, and BJ Hengxin Exhibition Co., Ltd. and the China Game Industry Association promoted the work The first "International Digital Interactive Entertainment Products and Technology Application Expo" (Game Expo) hosted by the committee kicked off in BJ Exhibition Hall.

The first day of the exhibition is the so-called "ClosedTestDay", that is, the internal test day. Only audiences with invitation letters and a few media officially designated by the conference will be received. According to prior statistics, the number of visitors will not exceed 1000. The least crowded day during the fair.Zhang Lexing, who has been paying attention to the progress of the game expo, also chose this day to come to BJ to watch the exhibition. He originally wanted to bring Chen Zishan along, but unfortunately, something happened to her biological research institute and she needed to deal with it, so She failed to make it.

The official opening time of the exhibition is 45:[-] am, because it is "Closed Test Day" and it is said that there will be leaders coming to the exhibition site, so in order not to delay the entrance, Zhang Lexing arrived at the venue at [-]:[-] with Wang Mengyao and two bodyguards Outside.After parking the car and walking out from the parking lot, Wang Mengyao took out the badges that Zhao Haiguang had sent in advance from her bag and distributed them to everyone, and then took out the invitation letters for the four of them.

The four people walked out of the parking lot, and then turned to the gate of the BJ exhibition hall. Zhang Lexing found that there were indeed many security guards and policemen standing at the gate, and several temporary checkpoints were set up, checking the IDs of the people waiting to enter the venue one by one. , and the spectators and media waiting to enter the venue formed quite a queue in front of several checkpoints.

Perhaps the badges sent by Zhao Haiguang were of a relatively high level. Wang Mengyao did not go to those temporary checkpoints, but turned to a side door not far away, where there were also people checking the certificates, but judging from the clothes Unlike the security guards and police over there, it's a bit like special police or armed police.

Wang Mengyao handed over the invitation letter in her hand, and then said with a smile, "There are four of us."

After finishing speaking, Wang Mengyao gestured backwards, pointing to Zhang Lexing and the two bodyguards who were following her.The inspector took the invitation letter from Wang Mengyao's hand with a serious face, looked at the photo on the attached page of the invitation letter, then looked at Zhang Lexing and his party, and then carefully checked the badges on everyone's body. He smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, you can go in now, I wish you a pleasant visit!"

Zhang Lexing nodded towards the inspector, and walked inside, followed by two bodyguards, and Wang Mengyao immediately followed after taking back the invitation letter from the inspector.As soon as he walked into the venue, Zhang Lexing felt a lively but not noisy atmosphere coming towards him.

I don’t know whether it is the experience learned from the E3 exhibition or Zhang Lexing’s persuasion. In short, there is such a rigid rule in the first game expo. If any booth is to play directly through the speaker, the sound must not exceed 60 decibels, and it must not be placed. on the outermost side of the stand.At the same time, in order not to affect each other between adjacent booths, sound-absorbing materials must be added to the partitions between booths.In order to ensure that the regulations will be implemented, staff with hand-held decibel testers will be arranged to inspect each booth today.

Under such circumstances, many companies wisely put away the large speakers they had originally planned, and either replaced them with smaller power speakers, or simply connected headphones to the computers that were put out for trial play, so the noisy venue changed. It was relatively quiet, at least Zhang Lexing felt so.

As a game enthusiast, Zhang Lexing once participated in a domestic game exhibition. Coincidentally, that exhibition was also held at the BJ Exhibition Hall.He remembered that it was in mid-January 2004, and it seemed that the Spring Festival was only a few days away. Perhaps the epidemic situation in the previous year disrupted the plan for this game exhibition, so he chose such a cold day close to the Spring Festival. to hold.

Zhang Lexing remembers that the first feeling when he walked into the venue was that it was lively, and the second feeling was that it was too lively.Perhaps due to lack of experience, or due to habit, the organizer of the exhibition did not make regulations on these aspects.So the exhibitors in the venue are trying their best to express themselves. If you use 200W speakers, I will use 300W. If your music is loud, then my voice will be louder. In short, I will do my best to overwhelm others. .As a result, a good exhibition was made like a noise generator. Even in the city, people were fortunate enough to experience a life in the mountains where "traffic is basically based on walking, and communication is basically based on roaring".

At that time, Zhang Lexing went with a few colleagues, but after entering the venue, it was basically impossible to say hello to each other. It is not clear what it is talking about, especially when it is relatively close to the booth of some manufacturers.What's even more annoying is that the handbags sent by the exhibitors are bigger and wider than the other. They all hope that other companies' materials will be stuffed into their own bags, but they never thought that the audience would carry a bag with a width of more than 1 Mi's handbag is inconvenient to walk around.

"boss……"

Wang Mengyao's voice came from the side, pulling Zhang Lexing out of his memory, he turned his head and looked at Wang Mengyao: "Well, what's the matter?"

"Boss, look, it's still so big here, why don't I introduce you to the distribution of exhibitors' booths first."

"Okay, let's talk about it first." Zhang Lexing nodded, and turned his gaze to the stage not far from the gate. Several people were busy on it, as if they were preparing for something.

Wang Mengyao took out a notepad from her bag, and flipped through it while introducing: "Boss, as far as I know, there are a total of 37 game companies participating in the exhibition this time, including EA, Ubisoft, Eidos, Activision, Asia Interactive, Fengyun Interactive, Creative Workshop, Tianzhiyuan, Blue Dragon Games, KF-Panda, Capcom, Konami and more than a dozen internationally renowned game companies, in addition to 25 domestic game companies participated in the exhibition, including Several game companies and game studios, such as Shanghai Hongjun and Guangzhou Tianyou, which were spun off from the creative workshop..."

"...The layout of the entire venue is like this," Wang Mengyao closed the notepad and put away, then gestured to the venue with his hand: "The aisle along the middle is divided into Area A and Area B, and Area A is slightly smaller. , mainly domestic exhibitors, Area B is relatively larger, including the booths of EA, Ubisoft and other game companies here..."

"...The performance stage is next to the entrance of the gate." Wang Mengyao raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and then said, "There should be a performance in a moment. According to the introduction in the information, it is a cosplay show of game characters... The stage is facing The past end is the LAN online game exhibition area, and several game battles are arranged every day, the games seem to be "Supreme Alert" and "Fifa98 World Cup Road"..."

After listening to Wang Mengyao's introduction, Zhang Lexing waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go and see the domestic exhibitors first."

"Okay, boss, please go this way." Wang Mengyao nodded and led the way first.

When passing by the stage near the gate, the same restrained music sounded just in time. A dozen young men and women in different dresses walked onto the stage slowly in rhythm, and then kept posing in various poses in twos and threes. It was just Zhang Lexing After watching for a while, I was stunned to see what kind of characters these people were pretending to be.

At first glance, most of the booths in Area A are very "small and exquisite", basically a few tables, a few chairs, a few staff members, and two or three computers, or display their own games, or for players Try it out, if it wasn’t for the fact that the organizer of the exhibition had already set up a partition in advance, Zhang Lexing even suspected that some game companies might use a few pieces of white cloth to surround them and hold a big umbrella. After all, stand-alone game companies at this time mostly Life is not so comfortable, and some can even be said to be precarious. These game companies that have the energy to participate in the exhibition are already doing relatively well.

(End of this chapter)