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Chapter 86 : If We Broadcast, We Broadcast in Prime Time
McCoy rubbed his chin, nodding repeatedly.
"I understand. Mr. Lin, you are planning to run a video game competition program, right?"
He had played Street Fighter and knew what a wonderful game it was, so he immediately understood what Lin Lixin wanted to do.
"Mr. Lin, since we are both sitting here, I will be completely honest with you."
"Your concerns are correct. The overlap between the audience for video games and television programs is indeed not high."
Е̄ n̆ um̄à
McCoy signaled his assistant to pull out a brief chart.
"Compared to watching television, young people generally prefer renting videotapes and playing console games."
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"Especially for our Channel 29, our main income comes from local car dealerships and supermarkets, and the average age of our audience is on the higher side."
He paused slightly and smiled self-deprecatingly.
"But look at us, we even broadcast prep school football games. We simply don't have the right to choose
If we can't find a program that can attract young people next quarter, our Channel 29 won't be able to keep running."
W е b̀n̆о̌ v̄е l E_n̆ u mà
As the saying goes, sincerity is the ultimate weapon.
This time, McCoy truly poured his heart out and said everything.
A partnership with GAMENOVA would definitely bring a massive wave of traffic, but whether they could catch it was another matter.
"We also want to do an experiment to see how the audience accepts this kind of program."
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Lin Lixin approached a small television station on the verge of closing down naturally not just because it was cheap.
"Mr. McCoy, shall we talk about the broadcast time slot?"
Ё ñǔma . іd̆
"Of course! Mr. Lin, when do you think is suitable? Late night? Or afternoon?"
McCoy brought over a few program schedules, which listed the ace programs of the major television networks.
He tried to find a perfect gap in them, avoiding the diversion of viewers by others while gathering as much viewership as possible.
To put it bluntly, with the current state of Channel 29, they could truly broadcast at whatever time slot they wanted.
"Why pick such an obscure time slot?" Lin Lixin shrugged. "Is your station's prime time already booked?"
Prime time usually refers to the hours between 8 PM and 11 PM on weekends.
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This is a time when the vast majority of families have finished dinner and gathered in the living room to watch television.
It is also the time slot with the highest advertising rates. Usually, the advertising revenue from just this one time slot is enough to feed the entire television station.
"Ah? You want to broadcast in prime time?"
McCoy was taken aback, then pulled out a few sheets from the program schedule and placed them in front of Lin Lixin.
"Mr. Lin, we can certainly arrange it for you, but I'm afraid the viewership might actually decrease."
Such a crucial time slot was not something a small television station like theirs could compete for.
Wеbnо v̂ e l Е ń u ma
The soap operas, variety shows, and movies of the three major television networks had long completely monopolized the audience during this time slot.
Even the WWF chose to avoid a head-on clash and occupied the weekend afternoon time slot.
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"The programs in this time slot are all elites!"
With the size of Channel 29, plunging into prime time would just be acting as cannon fodder.
"Elites? Elites are exactly who I want to fight!"
Lin Lixin waved his hand.
W̊ е bnо́vе l̂ Е̇ ṅ ú m̊ а
"Young people also need to watch television. Mr. McCoy, do you have the heart to let them soak their precious weekend time in soap operas?"
...
A week later, ElectronicGames published a new piece of news.
GAMENOVA had reached a partnership with a local California television station and would soon hold a game tournament named the "Evolution Championship Series," abbreviated as EVO.
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According to the introduction, this tournament was a professional fighting game competition organized by GAMENOVA. The competition events included Street Fighter, Pokemon, and a new arcade fighting game to be released in the future.
The first round of contestants would be designated by GAMENOVA themselves, and subsequent participants would sign up through local tournaments.
E nu m̌ а
Lin Lixin sat in front of the computer, looking at the sketch of Mai Shiranui drawn on the screen, lost in thought.
He had been so busy organizing the tournament that he forgot to solve the problem of the players.
Let alone the child prodigy born after '89, even the great senior Daigo Umehara was currently just a five-year-old child.
Those famous esports players of later generations that Lin Lixin was familiar with hadn't even started touching fighting games yet.
Sighing, Lin Lixin shook his head. At the very least, the visual effects had to be guaranteed: "We can only play exhibition matches."
Looking up, he saw Sam and Carmack engaged in a heated battle.
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"Overhead Swipe! Ah, why didn't it connect again!"
Sam slapped the joystick panel in frustration. This was the umpteenth time he had missed a golden opportunity due to a combo mistake.
To be honest, although combos were indeed addictive to play, the frustration brought by dropping a combo was also a bit too strong.
The inputs in The King of Fighters relied on high-speed decision-making and hand speed; hand speed almost determined everything.
Even though he had developed a bit of muscle memory now, he would still drop combos from time to time due to joystick precision issues or other reasons.
"K.O.!"
Wе b̆ñ о̌ v̄е l Е̂n ů m̄а
In the end, Carmack was a notch faster and defeated him.
Sam waved his hand, signaling to stop playing for now.
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He looked at the webbing between his thumb and index finger. Due to the high-speed friction just now, the skin there had cracked and peeled, rubbed raw and red.
Even the heel of his palm had developed a thick callus from the friction.
"I remember I wanted to make a simple fighting game..."
Sam always felt that the development path of this game was completely different from what he had originally envisioned...
W е̊_b n̈ о v е l̄ Еn̄û m̊ â
Lin Lixin laughed heartily.
The two of them were still playing that high-speed modified version of Street Fighter.
Although it already had a bit of the feel of The King of Fighters, there were still many fundamental mechanical differences.
Especially when Street Fighter was being developed, their hardware level was not particularly outstanding, so there were not many special moves.
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This made the input window for moves in Street Fighter very forgiving, and situations where one wanted to input a move but failed almost never occurred.
But The King of Fighters was different. With its commands already being lengthy and numerous, and the speed being much faster, an input system based on the original Street Fighter would inevitably produce the problems Sam encountered.
Ӗ ńǔ m_à
"Try this version. I added something."
Lin Lixin quickly finished typing the last line of code and called out to Sam.
...
"Hmm?"
After executing a combo, Sam and Carmack simultaneously let out an exclamation of surprise.
"How did you do this? It really became smoother."
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Sam hesitantly executed a few moves, confirming that the move list had not been changed.
"I call it 'input buffering'."
Lin Lixin walked over to the two of them, took the joystick, and quickly executed a sequence of moves.
"The current version allows the character to start accepting player command inputs in advance before completing an action."
He had observed that Sam's dropped combos were not due to a lack of reaction speed.
On the contrary, it was precisely because he inputted too fast and too early that the character could not receive the complete command.
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"It's that simple?" Sam was taken aback. He thought Lin Lixin had designed some high-end algorithm.
"It's that simple."
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(End of Chapter)
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