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Chapter 16 Down to the Basic Level

The snowflakes falling in the sky and the cold wind blowing through the streets cannot stop the players from playing arcades.

From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Japan's arcade industry has become more and more developed and more game types have become more and more. To be honest, this popularity for six or seven years has almost influenced a generation.

Over such a long time, manufacturers have actually explored a lot of arcade games.

The sports comic "Football Boy" that began to be serialized in the 1980s caused a football craze in Japan. The country, which originally regarded baseball as the "national ball", actually brought the entire football industry chain to life because of a comic.

From comics to animations, countless children imitate the movements of "Football Boy" on the court. When the penalty kick is taken, if you don't pretend to be pose for a few minutes, you're simply sorry for this penalty kick opportunity.

Although there is not a clear concept of IP copyright expansion these days, arcade manufacturers understand the importance of popularity to games.

Therefore, different versions of "Football Boy" produced by various manufacturers can be seen from time to time in arcade halls.

Although these adapted games are as playable as most adapted games are more urgent, there are many people who can't help but play.

Based on this trend, many manufacturers with average technical strength and want to make more money and sell more arcade machines have begun their adaptation journey.

Unfortunately, the first-line adaptation resources are all held in organizations such as Bandai, Toei, and Shueisha. Small arcade manufacturers negotiate with these hegemonic companies, not just a wolf, but it is purely a dream to say that they can get the adaptation rights if they are not gnawed off a large piece of meat.

But even so, there are still a large number of arcade manufacturers who send them to chew on them, and they are afraid that they won’t be able to chew on them. They all said that their meat is tight and the water is so tender and delicious. Come and chew on yourself!

Look!

This is a capitalist society. What is integrity for money? You can do without chastity.

Seeing these adapted games selling one by one, many manufacturers with insufficient strength are in their hearts and anxious.

Since you can't get the right to adapt the first-tier works in your country, then take the second-tier. If you can't get the second-tier works in your country, you can go to other countries to get the right to adapt the first-tier and second-tier works in your country.

Foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures, and perhaps adaptations of foreign second-tier works can really set off a whirlwind in Japan.

CAPCOM, called Capsule Computer, is such a company.

Capcom was founded in 1979 and was originally named "I.R.M". It is an electrical appliance retailer.

In 1983, it was renamed "Capcom" and at the same time it transformed into software sales.

Its first game in the arcade market followed the frenzy of flying shooting games at that time. However, it moved the background from illusory space to a more realistic history.

Although this game, called "1942", is promoted to promote itself in an anti-war situation. In fact, it can be regarded as a "Long Aotian" shooting game.

However, the background settings of electronic games are just Huatou, and the game is just fun. "1942" has achieved a good upgrade in the arcade market because of its excellent gaming experience and gorgeous visual style different from other design games.

Shortly after the first game was launched, Capcom's new work was released again in the following month of the second year, and this time it was not a flying shooting game.

It is a war game "Wolf of the Battlefield" that is a prefixed historical theme and has a downward perspective.

Although the game is still very fun, compared with "1942", he did not keep up with the trend and his game quality was not as good as the realm of every second. Therefore, the sales and popularity of this arcade are not as good as their debut work "1942".

A few months later, "The Demon World Village" released not long ago caused a sensation in the arcade game industry.

Some people even say that the game "Demon World Village" and "Magic Tower" are mutually exclusive.

"Demon World Village" is a horizontal scroll game that warriors save the princess and emphasizes operational ability and reaction ability.

The picture is smooth and gorgeous, and the mysterious style is extremely attractive. But the fragile brave man died like a crisp ice cream cylinder.

The difficulty of madness is both a powerful tool for money and the reason why players are crazy about it. The core players of this era are just like the core players of later eras. The more they abuse their game, the more they love to play it.

After all, I can pass the level with one coin, but you can't. This way I can show that I am a high-quality player.

Only in this way can you feel superior.

Whether it is practice or itchy hands, it costs a lot of coins.

Such difficulty is very topical in an arcade hall, a place that can be called a social place. Therefore, the popularity of "Demon World Village" is also closely related to this environment.

In the future, the fighting games will allow flourishing flowers to bloom on the arcade, which is because there are many people in the arcade hall, with acquaintances and strangers.

The confrontation between players can arouse the anger between players and the spirit of unyielding.

Those who win want to continue to feel the pleasure of crushing people, while those who lose want to win back and win back.

If you want to win, you need to practice a lot, so fighting games will naturally be very profitable.

I don’t want to be too far away. Before leaving, Takahashi wants to write the last batch of manuscripts. How to write these manuscripts is down-to-earth and liked by readers, it is naturally necessary to "go to the grassroots level" to write them.

The arcade hall is almost always a place of crowds of people.

Due to the emergence of various security incidents, the current arcade hall has also changed a lot.

In a regular arcade hall, the smell of smoke is gone, and although there is a smell of sweat, it is acceptable.

And those gangsters who don't seem easy to mess with won't do anything excessive in the regular arcade hall.

Even if it's a robbery, it's basically outside the arcade hall.

In fact, most arcade hall owners don’t want to have gangsters in and around their arcade hall.

However, this kind of thing cannot be eliminated.

First, they cannot drive them out without doing anything illegal. Even if they do, they must be prepared to be retaliated when they are driven out.

Second, these gangsters are originally unemployed vagrants, and electronic games themselves attract people who are idle and relaxed.

Although the gangsters have no money, they have no formal job but have free time. The arcade hall really has no way to prevent these people from coming to the arcade hall. After all, the people who come are all guests, and they cannot be driven out without making any trouble. So they can only try their best not to disturb other players.

Takahashi did not disguise himself, and he actually had little influence on older players.
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