Seeing the data being loaded bit by bit, people in the room came one after another. Some teachers and professors even called and notified the R&D personnel who were not present. The people who received the call also arrived at the scene as quickly as possible.

"A very fun "Conra" is only a few dozen kbs, but now this game is as high as 5mb. I really want to know what is inside?" This kind of curiosity represents everyone's voice.

After all, the increase in size has increased by 160 times to be precise. Will the game it presents be 160 times happier than Conra?

If the content presented in the game is happy enough to make the game players less than 160 times this value. Will anyone really spend such an expensive price to buy this kind of game console?

After all, as a research and development worker, everyone knows that the cost price of this game console is more than 40 times that of a red and white machine.

The cost of a red and white machine, including the assembly cost of workers on the assembly line, the cost price of the entire game machine reaches RMB 200. The cost price of this arcade machine with its own TV even reaches RMB 8,000.

The most expensive thing about this arcade is not the 19-inch color monitor he brought with him, and the most expensive one is the chips on him.

The current purchase price of a Motorola 68000 chip is US$130 on the market, and this game console is directly used for two pieces. These two chips alone are worth RMB 1,300.

In addition, the 64kb memory chip is used in total, and there are as many as 10 running memory chips on it.

The image enhancement chip is also used to enhance the output of the image in parallel. The sound system has also been specially designed and optimized, and is not very direct and violent. Installing two speakers is done.

None of the most expensive things on it can be made in China, especially the Motorola 68,000 chip. Although it can be purchased from the overseas civilian market, it has been secretly taken back to China.

However, when large-scale procurement is used, it will inevitably trigger the technology embargo treaty imposed on China by the Western world.

There is no problem with bringing hundreds of chips secretly. After all, it is difficult for any country to prevent such things as smuggling. However, when it is necessary to use it at a large scale, smuggling is obviously not a reasonable solution.

Especially the price of a single block is as high as US$130. This far exceeds Lin Ping's control over cost.

I remember clearly that when the first 16-bit gaming machine was born, it also used the Motorola 68,000 chip. The purchase price at that time Motorola gave a market price of US$130, but such a price is obviously not acceptable to home consoles.

The final price of red and white machines is only $230 to $250, while a 16-bit gaming console costs $130 per chip, which is obviously impossible for both manufacturers and consumers to accept.

The negotiations were deadlocked at that time, and even delayed for two years.

During this period, due to the high pricing, Motorola 68000 chip sales were very bleak. No one was willing to purchase it, whether it was a personal computer or a game console manufacturer.

That is, some wealthy military departments are purchased at any cost. This high-performance chip is used in modern military equipment such as missiles, aircraft, radars, etc.

However, if a new film only relies on procurement from the military department, it cannot even make up for the R&D costs.

In desperation, Motorola 68,000 began to reduce its price significantly, and the first price cut was cut by US$100, making the selling price directly to US$30.

However, even the price of $30 is unwilling to bear for many game console manufacturers. In desperation, Motorola reduced the price to $20 in two years.

However, after such a long delay, the chips of other manufacturers have also reached the performance of Motorola 68,000.

Having ace in his hand, but ultimately playing badly. It has to be said that having the ability to produce high technology does not mean that it has the ability to operate high technology. If Motorola can make the price to a affordable price at this time, perhaps other manufacturers will suffer a fatal blow if they want to develop chips of the same performance.

After spending a lot of research and development costs, when it was launched, it found that what they were left was a small market. Because Motorola had eaten up the vast majority, the market using this high-performance chip.

It’s a pity that all this is only in Lin Ping’s imagination and calculation.

However, for China's semiconductor industry, this is indeed an opportunity.

However, Lin Ping is now in conflict.

If Motorola chips are purchased on a large scale, it will inevitably allow the other party to take advantage of the opportunity to gain more market.

If Lin Ping adopts a very vague attitude, or even a strategy of boiling a frog in warm water, only buying a small part of it is not in a hurry to let his arcade occupy the global market. Then as long as there is enough time, he will definitely wait until the domestic chips are launched.

It’s because there is Atari before and after Nintendo. If Lin Ping wants to continue to delay time, he may fall into a whirlpool.

If Nintendo takes advantage of the situation to grow bigger, and Atari takes the lead and takes out 16 home consoles, the global game market will undergo another change.

"Okay OK! Loading is completed." After all, it is only 5 megabytes, and the content is loaded soon after three game cartridges were completed.

Everyone couldn't wait to load the game cassette into the arcade, and then powered on and started running.

"Start, start!" A few seconds later, everyone saw the game's boot screen and the prompt for coin input.

"Dingdang Dingdang..." Lin Ping picked up a handful of game coins and put them in from the coin port.

After all, these three arcade machines are modified by purchasing mature products on the market. The original arcade machines have already been put into operation, and hardware functions such as coin investment are already carried.

The teachers and professors only need to read the coin data on the new arcade system.

Seeing Lin Ping start the game, everyone was very excited to come over to watch.

Professor Kingsoft took the initiative to become Lin Ping's deputy. The two of them started playing this classic "Alloy Slug" together!

"This picture..." After seeing the game, many people were surprised and said only three words.

After all, compared to the red and white machines, this picture is simply a product that crosses the ages.

"It seems that the content of this 5mb game is indeed rich enough. So many props and game mechanisms can indeed attract more gamers. But isn't this too difficult? From the beginning to now, Professor Kingsoft has invested five coins. Each time he puts three lives, it's too fast to die. "The game is very fun, and it conquered almost everyone present. But judging from the frequency of Professor Kingsoft's coin investment, it's too difficult!

"This game and "Contra" are both games where two people work together to pass the level. Once it is launched on the market, everyone will inevitably compare this game with "Contra". If the two are really compared together, if I am a consumer, I would probably prefer "Contra". Because in terms of game difficulty, money consumption, and game environment, "Contra" on the red and white machine of the home console is more suitable for me. After all, if you want to play this game, you can only go to the game hall. Not every consumer can afford such an expensive price, and place it in your own home." A teacher prefers one or two people to play quietly at home, rather than the extremely noisy arcade hall.

After hearing such remarks, Lin Ping spoke while playing the game: "It's normal for you to have this idea! But you forgot who is the consumer subject of our launch of this game? You are at least 45 years old now, right? The consumer subjects of this game are generally young people aged 15 to 30. Many of them don't have to support their families, so they have more spare money and plenty of time. In addition, from the perspective of human physiological and physical fitness, when you are at your age, they naturally like to live a quiet and light life. But for young people, they have a lot of energy to consume.

They prefer to call friends, gather, drink and play games, or even play games all night long. And at your age, how long has it been since you played and had a meal or party with your former childhood friend?"

After listening to Lin Ping's words, although Lin Ping did not point to the game itself, everyone obviously understood that different ages mean that needs will be different.

A three or four-year-old child had a great time peeing and mud, but for an adult, letting him pee and mud into mud was simply an insult to him.

A little older, a teenager likes to climb trees, dig bird nests, and even go to the orchard to steal apples, peaches, pears, etc. Even these teenager ride bicycles and run for more than ten kilometers just to pick some apples in secret for a few people.

If this happens to adults, riding a bicycle for a few apples for more than ten kilometers is simply a brain disease.

Isn't it good to lie at home for a while and rest quietly? If you don't eat these apples, you won't lose a piece of meat.

This desire will decrease as you age.

But the children are different. They have enough energy to dominate them, even if adults seem to be so ridiculous.

"Professor Lin, this is right. If it were me, I would rather take a rest at home. Make a pot of tea, listen to music, and listen to the radio. Let your brain relax and the body relax." Lin Ping's words were recognized by most people present. At this age, although many people have just entered the age of 40, their lazy thoughts have already come to their hearts.

However, just as everyone was chatting, someone asked Lin Ping with a serious expression: "Does Professor Lin only plan to operate this device as a gaming machine? The overall performance of this device is far superior to that of the Apple computer in the room. Even looking at the world's sized devices can be said to be the most advanced in performance. As long as we develop the corresponding operating system, we can transform this device into the best personal computer.

The 21st century is coming, and I believe it is a highly intelligent society. In such a society, there may be a large number of computers doing basic computing, and then thousands of households will be the standard configuration. Now that we have taken this step, can we take another step? We will completely improve this game console and change it to a personal computer brand. What I really don’t want to see in the future is that all the families in our country use foreign computers.

Although the chips used by this game console are all from abroad, as long as we bravely take this step, I believe that other domestic peers will follow our footsteps.

Since Professor Lin has the ability and funds, I hope Professor Lin will not only focus on gaming equipment."

For R&D personnel, especially as the deepening of R&D, people are excited to see that the potential of this device is getting greater and greater, and after they have successfully developed a game console, they can get the R&D funds for the projects they lead, and become the most powerful personal computer for this country.

And with someone's suggestion, the teachers and professors present immediately responded.

"We have sufficient data here. Professor Lin can take a look at the comparison. Apple's personal computers are mainstream products abroad, and the game console we are developing now has complete intraocular pressure in all aspects, except for software and systems. If Professor Lin is willing, he hopes to provide an additional fund to jointly promote the implementation of this computer."

After hearing everyone's words, Lin Ping stopped the operation.

Watching his game characters dazed to death.

"I can provide you with funds. We will issue collaborative research and development requests to universities across the country in the name of the electronic departments of Tsinghua and Peking University. As long as there are universities that respond to our project and send qualified R&D personnel to participate, our company will donate 1,000 computers to each participating university after the computer is completed. However, we also have requirements. The hardware configuration does not need to be kept confidential. After all, once this thing is launched, there is no secret for anyone. But in the software system, I require every participating university to sign a confidentiality agreement and promise that its patent belongs to our company." 1,000 computers are worth at least seven or eight million. This is a very attractive project for universities in this era. As long as you participate, you can get 1,000 personal computers that can be said to be the world's leading personal computers. Such a transaction is very worth doing.

When everyone's nervous expressions were instantly relieved when they heard Lin Ping's agreement.

After all, a company specializing in gaming consoles wants to do some pure technological research and development. Everyone is not sure whether Lin Ping is willing? But this kind of thing cannot be done behind Lin Ping's back. After all, everyone has an agreement in advance.

Everyone shares all R&D patents. Since Lin Ping has half of the patent rights, it is impossible for these people to do R&D secretly behind their backs.

Moreover, without Lin Ping's capital injection, these people could not start subsequent system development and various software development.

"Professor Lin, your decision today is likely to change our country's strategic position in the 21st century. Thank you very much!" An old professor stepped forward to hold Lin Ping's hand and said excitedly.

It is likely that this is the first time for these old professors to say such stingy words to a capitalist.
Chapter completed!