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Chapter 276 Agency Alliance

A. H. Albert is a reporter from a video game magazine in the UK. He has just successfully applied for the "RetroGamer" magazine. A·H·Albut was only in San Francisco for vacation.

A·H·Albut heard the news of the San Francisco Western Electronics Fair, so he rushed over to have a look.With his press card, he successfully got the admission ticket for the electronics exhibition.When he visited the game exhibition area, he found that there were a lot of people in one booth.

With his keen sense of smell as a reporter, A.H. Albut felt that there was big news. He went to this exhibition hall with great effort, and found the news he wanted. Two models that have never been released yet are very interesting. The game, let him put it down in front of the arcade in this showroom.

The people in the queue at the back waited impatiently and pushed him away forcibly.It was only then that he remembered that he was a reporter. Apart from playing the game, it was more important to obtain news materials.

A·H·Albut felt that with these two classic games, he would be able to write a manuscript that would shine in the magazine, which would be enough for him to gain a firm foothold in the magazine. A·H·Albut found the person in charge of the booth of Dingtian Game Company to reveal his identity, and he was brought in front of Bai Zirui.

Bai Zirui took the business card handed to him by A.H. Albert, a reporter from the British "RetroGamer" magazine.This magazine introduces the stories behind classic games, including developer interviews, development background, etc.

In Bai Zirui's memory, Britain has never left any outstanding masterpieces in the field of arcade machines or computer games, but he did not expect that there would be a professional game magazine. The British media industry is well-deserved.

Bai Zirui remembered that there seemed to be a magazine called "Home Computer and Games" in China. He read it in arcades back then, but he didn't pay attention to foreign game magazines.

He focused on A·H·Albert's question, who came up with the idea of ​​"Tank War" and the Great Wall Cube?Why such an idea?What's the story?
Bai Zirui can't tell A·H·Albert that I am a reborn, I have played these two games before, and let my subordinates restore and develop them.So he said that he lived in the mainland since he was a child, and he liked to play with building blocks when he was a child, but his family was poor and his parents had no money to buy toys for him, so he could only use a pencil to draw piece by piece jigsaw puzzles as a game.

After coming to Xiangjiang to study abroad, he started to get in touch with computers. He thought it would be very interesting to turn the pictures he drew when he was a child into computer programs, so he came up with the idea of ​​the Great Wall Cube.A very inspirational story was concocted by Bai Zirui.

As for the tank battle, it is easy to explain. It is directly said that it was inspired by the shooting games of Space Invaders and combined with the confrontation between Soviet and German tanks and steel torrents in World War II, and came up with an idea.

Bai Zirui was seriously answering A·H·Albert's questions, and he was also considering whether the development of the European market should be put on the agenda.The European market is second only to the United States, and the sales volume is definitely larger than that of the Japanese market. However, there are many European countries, and each country has its own language, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty and cost of market development.

The San Francisco Western Electronics Show started from the third day, and a large number of ordinary audiences began to pour into the exhibition. Unlike electronics practitioners who pay attention to the latest technological advancements, they prefer to chase those things that are beneficial to them.

Motorola's mc68000 processor, manufactured using 3.5 micron hmos technology, is one of the fastest commercial cpus on the market!Except for a few electronics enthusiasts who will care.

Most of the general audience came to the video game exhibition area, and the video game exhibition area became the most popular place in the exhibition.The booth of Dingtian Game Company was full of voices, and a large number of people surrounded the entire booth.

Dingtian Game Company and many arcade machine agents who came to participate in the exhibition started negotiations from the first day of the opening of the exhibition.The price quoted by Dingtian Game Company is that the ex-factory price of the Great Wall Square arcade machine is 25 US dollars each, the licensed game copy is [-] US dollars each, and the ex-factory price of the handheld machine is [-] US dollars each.

The ex-factory price of the complete arcade machine of "Tank Battle" is [-] US dollars each, and the authorized copy of the game is [-] US dollars each.The price of the Great Wall Cube is acceptable to everyone, but the high price of the tank battle really scares a group of people.

For big agents, they value the quality of the game more than the price of the game console.Therefore, although the negotiations between Dingtian Game Company and several major distributors reached a stalemate on the price issue on the first day, the two sides did not talk about it.Bai Zirui believed that as long as his attitude continued to be tough, these agents would definitely bow down in the end.

They are full of intrigue within themselves, as long as one person submits, the others can only submit.Bai Zirui is now a rare commodity to live in. With a good game in hand, he doesn't have to worry about buyers.

Things began to undergo some subtle changes from the afternoon of the third day. Several agents who were not in harmony with each other seemed to have become in step with each other, and united together to put strong pressure on Dingtian Games Company.

Bai Zirui invited Square-Enix to visit the booth of Dingtian Game Company. Bai Zirui looked at the dense crowd in front of the company's booth and said with a smile: "Mr. Square, this is the charm of our company's games!"

Square said: "Andrew, I admit that the two games of your company are classic games, but who knows how long they will be popular? The ex-factory price you set is too high! The owners of those game halls and stores will not bear it. High stakes!"

Bai Zirui said: "How long has it been popular? Space Invaders has been popular for more than a year. How long do you think our company's two games that have completely exploded Space Invaders will be popular? As long as these two arcade machines are popular for two or three months, it will be enough to buy them." The boss recovers the cost, and all the next profits are profits. In my opinion, this is a thing that is more profitable than robbing a bank, and there is no risk at all!

Mr. Square, you are the first one to come to me for negotiation, and I have always regarded you as a friend!We Orientals are always the most sincere to our friends, and I can give you a profit of one hundred dollars in price! "

Seeing that Bai Zirui's attitude showed signs of softening, Square said with a smile: "Andrew, the conflict between us is not something that can be resolved with a hundred dollars. The highest price I can accept is the "Tank War" complete arcade machine that leaves the factory." The price is the same as the Great Wall Cube, 2500 US dollars per unit, and [-] US dollars per copy of the game!".

Bai Zirui looked at Square, who was showing a greedy face, and said sarcastically: "Mr. Square, do you know that the president of Sega, Zhongshan, came to negotiate with me last night, and did he give me any quotation? "Tank Battle" arcade machine $[-] per unit, $[-] per copy of the game! Do you think I should agree to them? After all, Sega’s sales network can cover the entire United States and Canada!"

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