At this moment, such a photo is popular on the Internet in the United States.
The wife of the then President of the United States was fiddling with something attentively on the plane.
Players who are familiar with video games can immediately identify that thing. It is the GB game console sold by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.
This handheld console has a history of more than two years now. Thanks to its excellent game quality, durable manufacturing, and amazing battery life, its sales have reached an astonishing 20 million units.
Among them, Tetris is the most popular game, and this game is sold bundled with the game console. If statistics are strictly based on sales, Tetris now has a sales volume of 20 million, and it is the only one that can rival it.
Maybe it's the Super Mario Bros. 1 that was sold in a bundle on FC.
Even the president's wife can't resist the charm of the GB game console. This is the strongest publicity for game manufacturers, and you don't have to pay any advertising fees.
At the bottom of the photo, there is often a sentence attached, which is half-joking remarks made by the president's wife: "I feel like I need to go to the hospital to treat my Gameboy obsession. This thing is really fascinating."
In the governor's office of a certain state in the United States, Governor Colby was thinking hard about how to target this company from Japan.
Because this company is seriously threatening the lives of many people in the United States, this is not a good phenomenon.
However, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is currently a major taxpayer in the United States, and its U.S. branch headquarters in California is the umbrella of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
Half a month ago, Colby held a hearing against Youxing Electronic Entertainment, hoping to use his influence to curb the development of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
And this is not just because of the negative impact that Youxing Electronic Entertainment itself has had on the American people. The most important reason is profit.
Everything stems from interests. There happens to be an electronic game console company that is emerging in the state where he is located. Thanks to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, which has not released its own 3D graphics game console, this company also took the opportunity to occupy a certain market share of 3D games.
The market can be regarded as making a lot of money.
And the taxes he turned in naturally went to Colby's credit book.
It was under the advice of the CEO of this company that he finally decided to sanction this Japanese company.
As long as Youxing Electronic Entertainment is contained, the company developed in our own state will skyrocket and occupy more markets.
But the actual effect is not satisfactory.
California has protected Youxing Electronic Entertainment very well to ensure that there will be no unexpected situations anytime, anywhere.
In the end, he could only rely on his own influence and reluctantly restricted the Doom Slayer, who had the greatest influence on the American people at the moment.
The reason for restricting the sales of Doom is that it is too violent and will affect the healthy growth of children. Because Yuxing Electronic Entertainment alone advocates age restrictions, it has no effect. Those children who want to buy such games can still easily buy them.
, there is almost no obstruction.
This kind of very violent and bloody game should be subject to certain controls.
Colby then suggested that the United States immediately establish a video game review committee, specifically responsible for rating games for age groups, and then carry out policy suppression on major sellers.
Before the review committee is established, Doom will only be sold in a small number of regions.
This is the best Colby can do.
He quite understands the California governor's protection of Youxing Electronic Entertainment. If such a big taxpayer comes to his state, he will protect it to his death.
But at this moment, he seemed to have found a new attack point.
That's the photo of the president's wife playing a game console that's being circulated on the Internet.
The photos are not important, the important thing is the text accompanying the pictures.
Even the president's wife is saying that she is addicted and should consider going to the hospital to treat her addiction.
And just now, a scholar from a university in the United States has published a paper, which describes in detail some of the characteristics of video game addiction.
Of course, this scholar is just trying to gain popularity. Many of the theories in his paper have no basis and are completely immature. He has not even done a few experiments.
But this became Colby's treasure.
Finally found a place to attack Youxing Electronic Entertainment!
Colby was excited.
Then he immediately arranged for manpower to prepare information to attack Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Next, he was going to fight another big battle.
When the time came to the second half of 1997, another round of new hearings began.
This one was co-sponsored by Colby and two other co-partisan states, and included a number of academics as scientific advisers, as well as a number of people identified who said they were affected by video game addiction.
This hearing seemed a bit aggressive from the beginning. Even if California itself wants to protect Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, it will inevitably appear that some people are acting alone.
However, Youxing Electronic Entertainment is not someone to be trifled with.
In an occasion like a hearing, whoever says the most reasonable words will be recognized.
And Zhu Youxing has never been stingy with money in this regard.
He directly spent a lot of money and once again dispatched the royal team of lawyers, and also brought along several top lawyers from Europe for support.
Their expenses are naturally not low, but they are worth the price.
The hearing lasted for a full week, and the two sides were at loggerheads. From the initial argument that video games were harmful, to the negative impact of video games on people, Youxing Electronic Entertainment slowly changed from being passive.
Dozens of top business lawyers, plus a number of temporarily hired scientific team thugs from different fields, even if Colby has a lot of seemingly "conclusive evidence" information, Youxing Electronic Entertainment will not fall behind at all.
The hearing lasted for several days, and the two sides remained at a stalemate.
I have to say that sometimes money can really do whatever you want.
Zhu Youxing spent more than ten million dollars on the fees for this legal team, but Zhu Youxing didn't care about these expenses at all.
Until half a month passed, Colby's side was already a little overwhelmed, but Yuxing Electronic Entertainment seemed to be somewhat comfortable.
They can even add two or three top lawyers and scientists every two days, which seems to have become a competition for financial resources.
Of course, in addition to the financial competition, there is also the support of California to help withstand the pressure from the government, otherwise it still won't work.
The final result ended with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment banning sales in some states.
This was hard for Colby to accept, but there was nothing he could do about it.