Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 20 The Old Age and the New Generation

'The San Francisco Video Game Show? '

Mr. Foberle's words caused countless question marks to appear on Ethan's forehead.

Because in his memory, he didn't seem to have heard of such a rally?

"Mr. Forbele..."

"Call me Frank!"

"Alright Frank." Ethan changed his words very decisively, "Uh... I don't understand what you mean."

He pursed his lips and said seriously: "Can you explain to me?"

"Hey~" Ethan's curiosity made Frank on the other end of the phone laugh.

Although there was no face-to-face communication, Ethan always felt that the guy on the other end of the phone had already looked smug?
"I knew you didn't know!"

Frank's laughter got into Ethan's ears, "Actually, I didn't know at first, I even thought it was a liar's fair, but after I asked, I realized that this shitty video game exhibition is actually the original Arcade Fair!"

"Oh! Sxxt! These guys are so boring! Changing their names!"

"And when I asked them why they changed the name, they told me that no one has made traditional arcade machines in the past two years, and everyone has switched to video games, so they followed the times and changed their trade fair. name, and in their words, a video game expo sounds far more high-end than an arcade expo!"

After Frank's explanation, Ethan finally figured out what the San Francisco Video Game Expo was all about.

For people living in the 21st century, when it comes to arcades, video games such as Street Fighter and King of Fighters may appear in their minds. Even Du Niang Baike defines arcades as video games.

But in fact, before the advent of video games, the concept of arcade machines existed in the world. The kind of machines that are placed in the streets and can provide entertainment for people are arcade machines.

For example, claw machines, coin machines.

Since the arcade machine industry emerged in the era of underdeveloped communications, everyone developed in a single direction at the beginning.

You sell machines in San Francisco, and I pay protection fees to Al Capone in Chicago. Everyone will have a bright future.

But after occupying the local market, as each company expands abroad, friction also arises.

then……

These companies fought because of defending their own market share and encroaching on other people's business areas.

In this commercial war, many weaker companies have disappeared in the long river of history, and because the claw machines and coin machines they sold back then had no special technical content, they had to engage in price reduction promotions if they wanted to win the market Therefore, when many companies found out that they could only save consumers by killing them, they immediately ceased fighting tacitly.

Then it changed direction and focused on research and development, trying to kill all opponents through innovation.

And when they embarked on the road of R & D to win, in order to better promote and sell their new machines, related exhibitions were spontaneously organized by these businesses.

Of course, this trade show also has geographical protection. The exhibitions that include Illinois are generally held in Chicago, while the exhibitions that gather in California are generally held in San Francisco.

Since the 60s, these exhibitions have been held with great fanfare, but...

When Nolan Bushnell came out with "Pong" in 1972, the old-school traditional arcade manufacturers were swept to the brink of death by video games overnight.

Therefore, these traditional arcade machine manufacturers can only be forced to change careers, and they will naturally not give up on the previous channels, so they put the old-fashioned name of the arcade fair on the bright vest of the new era, and transformed themselves. It became a video game show.

After this period of history was told by Mr. Forbele, Ethan immediately understood why he had no image of this exhibition.

Because Mi Luohua never made arcade machines, he didn't pay attention to this matter at all, so he couldn't collect relevant information from Mi Luohua.

And video games have been around for a very short time, and the popular companies in the market are all newly created by electronic engineers, and have nothing to do with traditional arcade companies.

Therefore, Ethan didn't think about these guys at first.

But now...

Emerging companies are unwilling to cooperate, but traditional companies are eager to enter?

'This is a way of thinking. '

Ethan's eyes lit up.

"When is the fair?" he asked.

"Hey! Dude! I knew you'd be interested!"

Mr. Fobole laughed and said, "The day after tomorrow, April [-]th, will you come?"

Ethan glanced at the calendar next to the phone, NO.19 is Saturday.

"Come, address."

"You just come to my shop and look for me." Mr. Fobole on the other end of the phone was very happy, "Then, see you on Saturday."

Just as Mr. Fobole was about to hang up the phone happily, Ethan shouted again: "Wait, wait!"

"I want to ask, can you get the booth?"

"Huh?" The question came to Frank.

The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly disappeared, as if he was thinking about a problem, but the sound of groping was more like taking something. After a while, he said again: "Mi Luohua Marketing Manager... Ethan Jones..."

When this voice appeared, Ethan slapped his forehead!
He suddenly remembered that when Frank gave him his business card that day, he returned one without even thinking about it!
And that one, it seems that he used it when he was working in Mi Luohua!
Sure enough, when Ethan explained to Frank that he had resigned from Mirowa, and it was just a misunderstanding that day, there was a surprised roar on the other end of the phone——

"What? You have resigned from Mi Luohua?"

"Oh! Fxxk! Why didn't you say so sooner!"

"Dxxn! I've already filled out the hazardous chemical sales form!"

'...'

Ethan was just stunned for a second, and then he understood why this Mr. Forbele called him!
It is estimated that [-]% of the reasons are because I want to know if my number is real!

So as not to involve him in the event of an accident!
"Terrific... I thought he was a good guy..." Ethan cursed in his heart.

Ethan really admired Mr. Foberle's carefulness.

Considering that this guy really helped, Ethan didn't bother to care about it.

After a few simple words, he hung up the phone, and when he looked at his family again, he also had a smile on his face.

"It seems that there is no need to run around."

Since the traditional arcade manufacturers in and around California will gather in San Francisco, Ethan temporarily put down his road push plan. On the second day, April NO.18, he had a good rest at home. On the third day Today, in the early morning of NO.19, he set off directly and galloped in the direction of San Francisco.

After driving for an hour and a half, he arrived at the gate of the San Francisco Electronic Supply Company at around 07:30, and when he knocked on the rolling gate, the sound of "clang bang bang bang" elicited a shout——

"coming!"

In less than half a minute, the vigilant Mr. Faberle appeared in front of Ethan. After seeing the machine wrapped in oilcloth on the Ford pickup, his pupils also shone with peace of mind. .

"Is this the game console you mentioned yesterday?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, great."

Mr. Forbole gave Ethan a thumbs up, and then greeted: "Brother, have you had breakfast yet?"

"What do you think?" Ethan tilted his head slightly, pointing to the sky shrouded in smog.

"Hahaha~ So I made an extra sandwich and fried an extra egg this morning."

Mr. Faberle smiled and stepped aside, "Come in, brother."

　Note: ① There are three eras of arcade machines, the earliest is the mechanical age, purely mechanical game consoles, and the real engineering charm, which can be traced back to 1920.Then came the era of circuit boards, and the fascination of circuits was brought by Nolan Bushnell.The third era is the era of microcomputers, and its representative point is that arcade machines use CPUs.Therefore, the arcade machine written in Du Niang Encyclopedia was officially born in 1971. This sentence has certain limitations, and it has abandoned the mechanical age.And now, there are still alive, and there are also arcade players who have been making arcade machines since the mechanical age, such as Sega.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)