Chapter 8: The Patent Rights of Tetris

  Is there anyone who buys things with a bag containing 2 million in cash?

  If Yang Yun saw this scene, he would definitely sneer and say: "What's the big deal? I've seen news about people buying cars with tons of coins in the future and carrying several bags of 100-yuan bills to buy houses!"

  But these people from Hua Mao Electronics Factory really haven't seen such a scene before.

  Ma Dajun quickly collected the cash and Zhao Yongping and the cashier stamped and handed over six receipts.

  Mao Dasheng was overjoyed and quickly ran out, standing at the factory gate, seeing a fellow wholesaler coming over, it was Old Liu who mainly dealt with learning card business. He rushed up, waving the delivery order in his hand, and said proudly: "Huamiao's production plan has been scheduled for next month, Old Liu, you're too late! Do you want this month's delivery order? One sheet is 1000 boxes, 33,000!"

  Lao Liu was skeptical and ran to the factory department to ask, and it was indeed the case. Some people followed Mao Daxin's lead and grabbed a few more, and Hua Mao's plan was actually scheduled for a month later.

  Everyone is anxious, a month later is mid-June, the summer business is the busiest season of the year, receiving goods and displaying goods all take time, publicity can't wait, delaying one day is money!

  Old Liu turned back and pulled Mao Daxin to buy: "33,000! Give me the fastest one!"

  Ke Mao Da Xin frowned and rolled his eyes, saying: "35,000 for the first 10 days! 33,000 for the last 10 days!"

  Old Liu was anxious: "How can you do this? Didn't we agree on 33,000 per piece?"

  "Love it or leave it!"

  Look, several colleagues came again, also doing learning cards, old rivals. Old Liu gritted his teeth: "Give me 3 of the top 10 from the past few days!"

  Money and goods are clear, Mao Dashen is happy to count the money, turned over his hand, and made a net profit of 150,000!

  Just the next second, he saw Old Liu rushing towards the new colleague, waving the delivery list in his hand and shouting: "The latest batch of cards, pick up in 10 days, first batch! 40,000 yuan per piece! Three pieces for sale in a package!"

  Ma Daxin was stunned, and suddenly understood that Old Liu's idea was great. If he sold the 40,000-yuan card for 15,000 yuan, he would make a profit of 1 million, and also increase the cost of his competitors. If he couldn't sell it, Old Liu could still monopolize the market for ten days before others could stock up.

  Ma Daxin hurriedly ran towards the Huamao factory because he now had 1.25 million in his hands!

  No goods were seen, and delivery orders were resold. This is a Chinese characteristic of that special era!

  The distributor is temporarily not mentioned, Huamao Electronics Factory did not go out this time and sold an order of 15,000 boxes of cassette tapes, with a total amount of 450,000. The whole factory worked hard to start production at full capacity!

  The technology of burning lives in the hands of core personnel, and producing cassette tapes becomes uninteresting. It's nothing more than adding a few capacitors to the welding class, purchasing cheap cassette tape motherboards from outside, and being a porter.

  Zhao Yongping was preparing to put another set of operational platforms, unfortunately, after contacting several houses, they couldn't be bought, and could only watch as orders continued to increase, while their own production couldn't keep up, feeling anxious.

  Mass production of goods before the peak season is the top priority for Huamao Electronics Factory!

  ……

  ……

  Yang Yun did not enter the workshop, thinking for two days, and found Alexei, bringing him to his own research workbench, carefully asking: "Alexei, are you interested in developing a new game with me?"

  Aleksey looked at Yang Yun with some oddness: "You still haven't given up on Mario?"

  Yang Yun shook his head: "Mario is a horizontal scrolling game, and it requires good art. Look at the state of our factory now, without Director Zhao's support, we don't have the capability to develop it yet. I have another game in mind, want to discuss it with you."

  Yang Yun said this game is a game more awesome than Super Mario, Tetris!

  Tetris is called this name because its developer and designer are Russians.

  But since Yang Yun was reborn, the Russian block may not be called that name anymore. As long as he is willing, the Russian block game will probably become Chinese block or Cloud block.

  These two days while programming games, when he had some free time to think, Yang Yun mostly thought about Tetris.

  What are the rules of rebirth, no one can say clearly, what things can be done and what things cannot be done. If something that cannot be done is forced to be done, changing history, who has no experience.

  He knew some things about later generations, but it doesn't mean history will develop in exactly the same way.

  For example, if Yang Yun hadn't arrived, Zhao Yongping might not have made up his mind to switch to game consoles so quickly. In real history, Zhao Yongping's transformation didn't occur until after 1991 and would never have happened this early.

  For example, if he pirated Super Mario, Nintendo would very likely sue him.

  Butterfly effect Yang Yun had heard of it, so as a person who had just been reborn not long ago, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous. Zhao Yongping gave up Super Mario, and he also struggled slightly to show his protest, but didn't argue anymore.

  As for whether Tetris should be renamed Chinese Tetris, he didn't plan to argue about it anymore. If it really had to be called Chinese Tetris, considering the terrible domestic environment, it's likely that this name wouldn't last either.

  Let's just call it Tetris, Alexey is a Soviet man after all, isn't this the right thing to do? It's only natural! So Yang Yun came knocking on his door.

  However, Yang Yun had a small request, he first opened the game interface and gestured for Aleksey to play a few rounds.

  "This is..."

  Alexei's eyes lit up, although the screen was full of black and white light spots, but there were seven changes in the squares. The previous square had just landed, and the next square appeared, slowly falling down bit by bit.

  Once a layer is cleared, it disappears, the top drops down, and the bottom clears out. It seems like an endless game with no ending, but the speed of the falling blocks gets faster and faster, leaving less and less time for changes, making it more and more exciting, with high playability.

  Alexei plays with the essence of the gods.

  Tetris is too famous, it's on almost any machine that can run games, and Yang Yun still remembers playing it with a remote control on the color TV.

  This game is suitable for all ages, relaxing and pleasant, with not too much difficulty, the music is nice to listen to, the melody is beautiful. Later it developed into a two-player battle mode, cooperating with friends, or even 3D interface, really too many applications. Even US soldiers on the battlefield use Nintendo GameBoy playing Tetris to pass the time, this is a must-play game to kill time.

  Alex played for a while and soon realized something, excitedly saying: "Yang! The value of this game is no less than Greedy Snake! This game must have market! I dare to guarantee that it will definitely sell crazy!"

  Yang Yun smiled faintly and said, "Of course I know its prospects are good. I'm not asking you to estimate its market value, but rather, do you want the copyright and patent rights for this game?"