Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 823 Holding a Game Competition

   The next morning

  In the villa

  Yu Chenghui, who had been waiting in the living room for almost all morning, finally saw the figure of Boss Yang when it was almost lunchtime.

   I saw Boss Yang coming downstairs, looking a little tired and lethargic.

"boss"

   Seeing Yang Chen appear, Yu Chenghui hurriedly got up to say hello.

   "It's Lao Yu, when did you come?"

   "Sit down first, don't stand, I drank with people last night, and I drank too much, which made you wait for a long time."

   "No, I just got here too."

   Yu Chenghui was very discerning, seeing Yang Chen wanted to drink water, he quickly picked up the cup from the table, helped pour a glass of water, and delivered it to Yang Chen

   Yang Chen took the cup, drank the water in one gulp, quenched his thirst, and said, "I came from San Francisco, I haven't had breakfast yet, let's have lunch together today."

   "Okay, boss" Yu Chenghui nodded in response, and continued to pour water into Yang Chen's cup.

   "By the way, what about Kelly?"

  Yu Chenghui glanced at his watch, then glanced at the door again, and said, "It should be coming soon. In the past two days, the film you invested in, boss, has been released, and she has been accompanying a few leading actors to promote it everywhere..."

  Yang Chen: "Whether our home appliances can enter the U.S. market in one fell swoop depends on this opportunity, have the TV stations been contacted?"

  Yu Chenghui: "We have already contacted. It will officially start on January 5th. As the first game competition, the whole process will be broadcast live. I believe that it will definitely attract the attention of many gamers."

   In order to make Super Mario Bros. a hit, Yang Chen thought about it, and finally felt that it would be better to directly hold a game competition in the United States.

   When online games were popular in later generations, various e-sports competitions emerged one after another.

   In order to attract enough people to participate, Yang Chen even increased the reward for the first place to one million dollars.

  In a capital society, the bottom people only value their interests, especially when it comes to their own interests. As long as it is profitable, everyone will actively participate.

  Although Orange Technology’s home computers have sold less than half a million units in the United States, it is very easy to select hundreds of them to participate in the competition.

  Especially, there is more than one competition.

   In this game competition, Orange Technology put out a total of 10 million US dollars as a reward for winning the game.

  Once the US side of the game is successfully held, then in the island countries, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and other regions, game competitions will be held one by one.

Of course, in addition to Europe, the bonuses in other regions will definitely not be as high as those in the United States. It mainly depends on the sales in various regions. In regions with high sales, the bonuses will naturally be higher. It is like Southeast Asia, where several countries and regions join forces to hold game competitions.

  Tada—

   Just as the two were talking, the blue beauty came downstairs wearing a nightgown.

   "I'm so thirsty" Lan Meiren with wet hair walked over to Yang Chen and sat down, licking her lips.

   "Give" Yang Chen a glass of water with his own hands, hand it to the other party, and said softly, "Why did the hair come down without drying it, it's easy to get sick, you know?"

  The blue beauty didn't speak, she took a small sip from the water cup, and didn't care whether the water from her hair dripped on her body.

   "Aunt Xu, bring me a towel here."

   "Are you still thirsty?"

"Press"

   "Sir, towel"

"thanks"

   "Come on, don't move, I'll dry your hair for you."

   The two of them acted like a bitch, making Yu Chenghui, who was sitting opposite them, feel uncomfortable, and even felt like a needle felt.

  It would be a pleasure to see a beautiful woman like Lan Meiren on weekdays, but now Yu Chenghui is keeping his head down, and his eyes don't dare to flutter.

   "Okay, you go upstairs to change your clothes and come down, there will be people coming to the house for dinner later."

   "Oh" Lan Meiren replied, without even looking at Yu Chenghui, who was walking straight upstairs with slippers.

   After Lan Meiren went upstairs, Yang Chen asked Yu Chenghui again: "By the way, Lao Yu, how is the investigation of the things I asked you to pay attention to?"

   Yu Chenghui said, "Is the boss asking about the ET aliens that Atari launched before?"

   Yang Chen nodded and said, "Yes, how is the player feedback?"

   "It's not good. I've watched the movie ET Alien several times. The ET Alien game produced by Atari can be described as shoddy. It's not an exaggeration at all.

   I heard that Atari completed the entire game production process in just six weeks. Since everyone had high expectations for the Atari game, many players bought it when it went on sale.

  Due to so many people buying it, the game is not fun now, so that not only players are scolding Atari for cheating money, but even some American media are complaining that Atari treats everyone as a fool. "

   "Boss, I'm not worried that Atari will continue to block us. What I'm most afraid of now is that everyone will resist our game because of Atari.

   Now many media are reacting to the harm of games to children, arguing that the government must completely ban games to prevent everyone from being defrauded by game companies. "

   Yang Chen waved his hand and said, "You don't have to worry about this, the US government will not ban the game. What we need to consider now is how to take this opportunity to push Atari into the abyss and make it never get up."

  To say that the United States has one good point is that as long as it is an industry that can make money, does not affect everyone's normal life, and pays taxes legally, then the US government basically will not prohibit this or that because of the opposition of the bottom people.

  Games and computers are emerging industries, even if the US government does not support them, they will not vigorously ban them.

   After all, game companies also need to pay taxes, and the tax rate is higher than that of ordinary companies.

  The country needs tax and can collect more tax. This is what the U.S. government is most willing to see, especially in high-profit industries like games. High profits mean high taxes.

   With money, American soldiers can use the best weapons and equipment, and with money, Americans can continue the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

   "Boss, what do you mean?"

   "Dig people" Yang Chen said lightly.

   "Poaching people?" Yu Chenghui was stunned when he heard the words.

   "That's right, it's poaching people. As long as all the talents of Atari are poached, they won't think about further development in the future."

  Games and the Internet are the same, and a person who can make games will definitely be able to fill the positions required by the Internet.

   The talents that Atari had flowed out before were not only poached with high salaries by other game companies in the United States, but also a large number of talents joined the computer industry.

  For example, the famous Steve Jobs of later generations, he once worked at Atari.

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   (end of this chapter)