Chapter 186： Fight again at the Los Angeles Electronic Technology Exhibition 5

March 5, 1979, 8:30 am, Los Angeles Convention Center.

All exhibitors began to enter the venue in an orderly manner, and they had to enter the venue half an hour earlier than buyers to prepare. The male employees of Heiyun Group are still fashionable suits as always, always leading the trend of this era; it can be said to be a landscape at the exhibition. However, compared with male employees, although the female employees of Heiyun Group can dress well, they are really not good at what they look like.

Still adhering to Heiyun's corporate tradition, none of Heiyun's female employees are good-looking. As Heiyun became more and more famous, many beauties went to interviews, but they were all brushed down. Among them, there are also many capable and beautiful women who come to interview, but these people can't even pass the first level. This is also a kind of exclusion of Heiyun female employees, and it has even become a corporate culture.

There is no soil for beauties to survive here, but it does improve men's work efficiency a lot, and also makes their wives or women support the tradition of Heiyun very much.

As soon as 9 o'clock arrives, the exhibition hall is open to the public. As soon as you enter the door, you can see the exhibition hall of Heiyun Group. It is indeed a bit irritating to the peers, which is too unreasonable. Compared with the Heiyun exhibition hall, it is simply the comparison between the palace and the thatched cottage, which makes these enterprises that have developed for about a hundred years very unhappy.

But for buyers, they must go in and see what products Black Cloud Group has developed this year. They are looking forward to it very much. If there is a suitable one, they should place an order as soon as possible. If they get the goods one day earlier, they can make money earlier.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the lights in the exhibition hall of Heiyun Group were all dimmed, and the brightest place was the stage at the back. Everyone knows that Heiyun Group will announce and release new products. After all, there are detailed introductions in the Heiyun exhibition guide manual.

Yokoi Junhei and Miyamoto Hat came to the center of the stage, and the table above the stage was covered with red cloth. It should be the new product to be released this time, and many reporters have already set up cameras and started shooting. At the same time, abc TV also made a live broadcast to the United States.

Yokoi Junpei picked up the microphone and said, "Thank you to all the reporters and buyers for coming. I'm Yokoi Junpei, general manager of Black Cloud Games and director of the hardware development department."

Miyamoto Hat: "I'm Miyamoto Hat, Deputy General Manager of Black Cloud Games and Director of Game Development Department."

Yokoi: "After a year and a half of game consoles developed by our Heiyun game engineers, we finally meet you today. We named this home console the fc red and white console."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the red cloth on the table. Everyone could clearly see a game console in red and white on the table. At the same time, the photographer gave a close-up of the game console. All the children on the TV were can be seen.

Yokoi: "The performance of this game console is very advanced, CPU: 6502 chip, CPU frequency: 1.8MHz

Screen: The total number of hair colors is 52, and the same screen can display up to 13 of them

Sound source: mono, 2 rectangular waves, 1 triangle wave, 1 noise, 1 PCM synthesis sound source”

"The function of the red and white machine-FC FC uses an 8-bit central processing unit made by a black cloud chip, and the memory and video memory are 2KB. A graphics controller (PPU) that can display 64 colors, and the screen can display 2 layers of scrolls. and 5 pages, of which 2 background pages occupy 1KB video memory each, due to the limitation of video memory, only 16 colors can be displayed at most. A programmable sound generator (PSG) can provide 4 analog channels and 1 PCM digital channels, PCM digital channels represent continuous background sound.”

"After introducing the product performance, we are now going to try it out. This game console has a lot of games to choose from, including Xiangjiang Cube, Pac-Man, Snake, Legend of Senna, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and other games."

"Miyamoto-kun is an expert in this regard. It would be better for him to choose what game the two of us play."

Miyamoto Hat: "Then play our classic game Donkey Kong. After all, this is the first game I have opened."

After speaking, the two picked up the Donkey Kong game cassette and inserted it into the FC red and white machine card slot, and the Donkey Kong game screen immediately appeared on the TV screen behind.

The two of them played on the spot and saw the smooth cooperation between the two. As well as the clear picture and texture, everyone on the scene was shocked.

Just when the two were showing the game console to the world on stage, two RB men were whispering in a low voice not far from them.

A man said, "Yamauchi-kun, how does our game console compare to the FC red and white console from Heiyun?"

The man called Yamauchi-kun said: "I have to admit that our game consoles have not been released yet, and we have fallen behind. Now we are at least one level behind Black Cloud Games in the field of home game consoles."

"At that time, I really shouldn't have let these two traitors go. Even if they die, they should die in Nintendo."

These two men are Akio Morita of Sony and Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nintendo, and they are now seriously observing the black cloud fc red and white machine.

Akio Morita: "Yamuchi-kun, it's useless to say these things now, let's think about how we can improve our products! Also, our game consoles should not be launched on a large scale, games without games; performance without performance; now only Can be promoted as an excessive product.”

Bao Zixuan didn't know what the two old guys were talking about, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care; he was watching the situation on the stage seriously.

Yokoi: "As you have seen, our game console is sold for $99. At the same time, 2 game cartridges are given away, and you can choose any game cartridges. If you sell the game cartridges alone, it will cost $10."

"Next is the reporter's question-and-answer session. We invite three reporters to ask questions. The remaining questions will be answered by the workers."

A beautiful reporter asked, "Mr. Yokoi, when will the fc red and white machines be released?"

Yokoi: "It will be listed after the exhibition, and now the manufacturing center in Xiangjiang is stepping up its time to stock up."

Another reporter asked: "What kind of TV is suitable for this game console, or you must buy the Black Cloud TV Festival."

Yokoi: "Theoretically, any TV can be used. We have designed 3 different interfaces. The interface can meet the needs of most TVs on the market Unless the home is a special customized TV festival, all of this is not a problem."

Hearing that many TV manufacturers are relieved, if it is really incompatible with the Black Cloud game console, it will also be a big loss for TV sales.

The last middle-aged man reporter asked, "Mr. Yokoi, does this game console copy the design concept of Atari 2600?"

This question is a bit troubling, but fortunately, Yokoi is well prepared.

Yokoi Junhei: "I want to explain this point, the home game console is a feeling, and no one can register the brand and patent. This is just a general term. As for you saying that the fc red and white machine copied the Atari 2600, it is even more ridiculous. talk."

"From the gamepad, we use the cross key, which is the patent of Heiyun, and they use the directional override stick. The performance of the game console is even stronger in the Heiyun, so why copy the statement. Your question. It's an insult to Heiyun engineers, please investigate and ask questions next time, after all, you haven't fully understood the performance of this game console."

In the case of not being very friendly, the first product of Heiyun ended the recommendation. This is just a small episode. Even Atari cannot find evidence of plagiarism. At the beginning of the design, Bao Zixuan asked engineers to avoid all possible patent barriers.

After Yokoi Junpei and Miyamoto Hat walked off the stage, many buyers gathered around to start business negotiations. Everyone wants to get this game console as soon as possible, after all, this is a product that can make money when you get it.

After a period of rest, the representative of Panasonic came to the stage to introduce the refrigerator. This energy-saving refrigerator is still very popular. It is more energy-efficient than the product launched by Siemens in September last year. It seems that Panasonic has really improved its research and development this time. blood.

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