Video Game Empire

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The acquisition of a medium-sized bank with total assets of more than HK$6.5 billion is by no means something that can be accomplished overnight. (First issue) The Lin family made an offer of HK$650 million for their 75% stake in Jiahua Bank.

This price is by no means low. According to the information provided to Li Xuan by Standard Chartered Bank, Jiahua Bank's net asset value is around 727 million, which means that the shares in the Lin family's hands are only worth 545 million. Therefore, the counteroffer offered by Standard Chartered on behalf of Li Xuan to the other party was 560 million.

The price gap between the two sides is a bit big, and the rest is the process of negotiating representatives slowly wrangling each other. Li Xuan's bottom line for Standard Chartered is 600 million Hong Kong dollars, hoping they can get things done in about a month. Apart from asking about the progress of the negotiations every few days, Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to this matter.

"Mario Brothers", which has been in the project for almost a year, is finally going to be released, which makes Li Xuan feel that it has been long-awaited. There are many reasons why this game has dragged on for so long. First of all, Li Xuan didn't open his golden fingers enough. He only gave a general idea at the beginning, and then he was busy with other things. The rest of the work was let go and let the R&D team figure out a solution.

The whole game development process has encountered numerous difficulties, the first of which is the problem of scroll translation. "Mario Brothers" is a game where the background picture advances layer by layer, which is much more complicated than the fixed map of the previous "Tank Wars". The algorithm of the program must be able to render the game map perfectly without causing the game to freeze.

The R&D department spent half a year just to solve this problem. In addition to this, new problems are encountered almost every day in the game development process. For example, Li Xuan asked to be an uncle whose protagonist was a friendly image.

Light is a character design drawing for the character Mario Bros. Several game artists have drawn no less than 200 pictures. Several artists were also asked by Li Xuan to absorb the advantages of learning Japanese manga, and finally came up with a work that satisfied him.

Satisfying Li Xuan is not enough. Also make programmers happy. Limited by the computing power of the 6502 processor, the resolution of the game screen cannot be very high. In order to be able to in low-resolution pictures. For players to remember the game image at a glance, it is necessary to design easily recognizable features for the Mario Brothers. So Mario with a big nose, a mustache, and a hat appeared.

Li Xuan couldn't remember whether the Mario brothers were wearing overalls with suspenders, but the designer chose this style of clothing in the end. Because of wearing overalls, the arm movements of the protagonist of the game can be well presented in the game screen, making the body language of the Mario brothers more vivid and rich.

The slow progress of Mario gave the hardware department plenty of time to design a brand new arcade motherboard. The new generation of gaming motherboards still use the 6502 processor, but in order to better enhance performance. A dual-processor parallel design is used.

In addition to this feature, another highlight of the new motherboard is that it is the first general-purpose motherboard in the true sense of Dongfang Electronics, and it is also the first arcade motherboard for public sale. The development progress of the new motherboard was slightly faster than that of Mario, and the first game to use this arcade board was a game called Zoo Adventure from another company.

The success of Dongfang Electronics has made arcade a household name in Hong Kong, and it has also attracted countless followers of capital into this market. The most expensive and most technical part of the arcade is the arcade motherboard.

These new arcade companies emerging in Hong Kong naturally do not have the ability to produce and develop motherboards by themselves. Only go to Japan to buy. The main board factory of Dongfang Electronics has been put into operation for more than half a year, and the second-phase expansion is almost completed. On the premise of ensuring their own supply, motherboard manufacturers are naturally unwilling to give up this profit and begin to supply game motherboards in small batches.

"It's hard for you to confirm this pirated copy?" Li Xuan asked, looking at the arcade board in front of him. He still has some issues with selling arcade boards out. For fear of being used by the copycat factory to directly pirate Dongfang Electronics' own games.

"Lisheng, we have adopted a modular design for the new arcade version. Although the main board for export and the main board for self-use are roughly the same in structure, some detailed modules are still different. The design has already taken precautions against piracy!" The new hardware department Liang Tian, ​​the director of the company, explained to Li Xuan with a smile. He is one of the harvests of Dongfang Electronics' poaching operation from the United States. He is a great engineer who has been engaged in motherboard design for more than ten years.

"Little Lisheng. It's almost time, it's time to set off!" Lizhi ran over and said pretty.

Today is the day when Oriental Games held its first Hong Kong Purchasing Conference. The meeting is held in a conference room of a 4-star hotel in Central.

Li Xuan and Du Wenqiang, president of Dongfang Games. And Han Peng, president of Dongfang Electronics, walked into the conference room together. The large conference room was already full of large and small suppliers. Said to be a procurement conference, in fact, it is more precisely a communication meeting between Dongfang Electronics and its cooperative suppliers.

The meeting started at one o'clock in the afternoon, and it was only 12:50 now. Several senior executives of Dongfang Electronics were not in a hurry to sit on the rostrum, but communicated with the bosses at will in the venue.

"Little Li Sheng!" The two young men walked over to Li Xuan very cautiously and greeted him.

"Senior Kong, Senior Yang, how is the construction of the factory!" Li Xuan asked with a smile.

These two are students who just graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong last year, and they are both seniors of Li Xuan. The surnamed Kong is Kong Zhang, who is studying mechanical design at CUHK, while the other is Yang Zetao, who is studying business. The two are roommates in college.

The birth of Li Xuan has changed the fate of many people. According to statistics, among the graduates of CUHK and HKU last year, the number of people who chose to start their own businesses was significantly higher than in previous years. Kong Zhang and Yang Zetao are one of them.

Kong Zhang's father runs an arcade game hall. If the game machine is broken, he will first fix it by himself, a college student. After a while, Kong Zhang dismantled and repaired many game consoles. He knew the structure of arcade machines like the back of his hand, and slowly began to become interested in coin-operated machines.

Dongfang Electronics uses a comparative coin-operator with better accuracy. It basically eliminates the possibility of players using counterfeit money to pass the test. Kong Zhang spent half a semester studying the structure of the coin-operated gate relay, the induction seat, the coin-operated stacker and the coin-operated seat. I designed a brand new coin-operated device myself.

Yang Zetao felt that his roommate's invention was very promising, so he instigated his roommate to sell this coin-operated device. The two took out their savings. Made a batch of samples and started selling them around. Unfortunately, the application of coin-operated machines is relatively narrow, except for coin-operated game machines, that is, vending machines, coin-operated washing machines, etc. can be used. There are no factories in Hong Kong that produce these devices locally, and they naturally have no way to sell them.

After some thinking, the two finally decided to lock the target customer on the game console of Dongfang Electronics. The cheeky Yang Zetao went out in person, ran to the headquarters of Dongfang Electronics, and made an appointment to meet with Li Xuan in the name of senior Li Xuan.

At that time, Li Xuan was confused and thought it was a friend from CUHK who came to the door. As a result, it turned out to be a door-to-door promotion of products. Now that they have met, Li Xuan is not angry, and simply gave them a few minutes to demonstrate their products.

The coin-operated device designed by Kong Zhang worked well. Li Xuan let the people in the arcade department think it was feasible after testing, so he gave him a favor and was willing to purchase a small batch.

This made them happy, and they thought that their career had begun to hit the road. But things are not as simple as they thought, and they need to produce after getting the order.

Their first idea was to find a factory to produce it for them. But don't look at the size of the coin-operator. The design is also quite complicated, and the defect rate is very high in general small factories. Not only did they make no money on their first order, but they suffered a slight loss.

So Kong Zhang and Yang Zetao considered building their own factories, but they didn't have enough money on hand. The only option is to seek bank loans. In the face of two fledgling college graduates, most banks felt that the risk was too high and directly chose to refuse.

The two went to many banks. It was only under the guarantee of Dongfang Electronics that he obtained a loan of 500,000 yuan from Standard Chartered. The first small factory was built. Although Hong Kong's financial industry is very developed, the property market has boomed in recent years. A large amount of loan capital is invested in the profit margin real estate industry.

Even if industrial enterprises have good profit prospects, it is not easy to obtain loans, which is the fundamental reason why Li Xuan wants to directly control a bank.

The atmosphere of the entire procurement meeting was not serious at all, but very relaxed and harmonious. The real procurement bidding work has already been completed, and today is the time to sign the contract and answer some doubts from the supplier.

Dongfang Electronics has established a very good reputation in the Hong Kong industry. As long as the partner does not have product quality or supply delay and other breach of contract issues, Dongfang Electronics has always been very refreshing and timely in payment for goods.

Looking at the fifty or sixty bosses who were discussing heatedly in the audience, Li Xuan was still a little proud. The procurement of Dongfang Electronics has gradually begun to be standardized. In the procurement list of arcade projects, there are more than 100 large and small projects, and more than half of them have achieved local supply.

On the premise of ensuring quality, Hong Kong suppliers have obvious price advantages compared to purchasing from Japan, which is the fundamental reason why Dongfang Electronics strongly supports Hong Kong enterprises to enter the supply chain~www.readwn.com~ It is a pity that Hong Kong bosses The happy time will soon come to an end. The Hong Kong government revised its immigration policy at the end of last year, and adjusted the original arrival policy to release upon arrest. In the past, mainland immigrants who entered the country illegally only needed to arrive in the urban area safely without being picked up by the police.

Since the 1960s, a steady stream of stowaways from the Mainland has brought abundant cheap labor to Hong Kong factories, which is also an important foundation for Hong Kong's industry to take off.

But as Hong Kong's population reached its limit, the British government had to implement tougher immigration policies to ease the pressure on the city. Since then, Hong Kong has no longer imported cheap labor, and labor costs have continued to rise, eventually leading to the northward shift of the entire industry. (The novel "Rebirth of the Electronic Empire" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign on the upper right to "Add a friend", and search for the public Number "qdread" and pay attention, hurry up!) (To be continued..)

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