Is Japan good?

not good.

This is Takahashi's answer.

Japan, Tokyo, Akihabara, at 5 pm, the setting sun is as bloody.

Takahashi, who was doing his fourth job today, was sweating profusely carrying a box. He squinted his eyes and raised his head slightly, his eyes crossing the skirt of the high school girl in the sailor suit, and landed on the crowd in front.

It is now 1985. The entertainment method called electronic games is popular in Japan and is in full swing.

But all this has nothing to do with Takahashi.

Not to mention making money with electronic games, it is purely a luxury to play.

He was poor, very poor. It was like the days when he traveled through the past North. However, unlike the current "East Drift", the experience of moving to the north was long overwhelmed in memory as the years passed.

"Get out of the way!" Pushing and rushing to the reality. The sound of conversation, the sound of cheering, the sound of car whistles, and all kinds of noises flowed into my ears.

Takahashi looked at the primary and secondary school students surrounding the arcade, then glanced at the office workers next to the arcade, wearing suits and holding small notebooks to record something. Finally, he used his light to confirm that his uncle was not around.

He held the box and left the box, put it into his pocket, and rubbed it over and over again. His only one, one hundred yuan coin.

Opportunity! This is an opportunity to change your destiny!

As long as you use technology to conquer the onlookers of primary and secondary school students, get their cheers, and attract the attention of game company recorders, you may change your destiny.

All porters and slums are gone!

Make money, make a lot of money!

With money, is Japan good?

good!

As long as you have money, the earth is heaven everywhere.

Takahashi put the box on his shoulder back to the truck and spread his arms and ran towards the crowd not far away.

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"Get out, loser!" The game winner, who was sixteen, seven or eighteen years old in front of the arcade, held his shirtless tattoo, held his air in the air, held his head high and sat next to him with his nostrils. The operator of another machine said arrogantly.

The loser shrugged his shoulders, lowered his head, and left without saying a word.

"Walk in front of me, do you deserve it?" The tattoo winner stretched out his legs and blocked the way in front of him.

The loser turned around silently.

The winner twisted his ankle conspicuously, kicked the loser in the ass, and staggered him.

"Who else?" The winner of the slumbered air stood on the arcade chair and looked down at the onlookers.

"Shida! Shimada! Shimada!" Although the primary and middle school students' voices were tender, they seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, pulling their throats and blushing their faces, causing waves of sound after wave.

"And, who?" Shimada asked arrogantly.

"I! I want to challenge you!" Takahashi stopped and gasped slightly, his voice was loud, and he overwhelmed the sound of dozens of people alone.

"Oh? You? Okay, come on, don't cry if you lose." Shimada squatted down on the chair, teasing Takahashi with a strange sound.

"No, I'm willing to admit defeat. If I lose, I won't cry. But if you lose, don't cry." Takahashi hung a sunny smile, showing a row of small white teeth, and answered harmlessly.

"Yes, yes. I'm very stubborn. I see how long you can be hard. Quickly compare, don't waste my time." Shimada scolded with a sharp voice.

Takahashi shook his head when he saw him, and did not answer again. He sat straight in front of the arcade, and put the 100 yuan covered with his sweat into the arcade with a sense of ritual.

Shimada, who was squatting on an arcade chair, looked at Takahashi disdainfully and threw a coin into the machine.

The game begins!

Star Force's English title "Star-Force" flashed by with a brief eight-bit style opening music.

Takahashi's left hand faces upwards, his middle finger and index finger are clamped with a rocker, as if he is holding a red wine glass. The thumb of his right hand falls on the round button and keeps typing.

The small plane on the arcade screen moved with the movements in his hands, constantly firing bullets and destroying enemy planes.

Logically speaking, this game is not very difficult, but Takahashi is extremely serious, especially when the fortress is blown up and a large "B" and small "b" are emitting, his eyes are almost shining.

Do you take it for granted that these letters B in upper and lower case are "BOOM!" or bombs?

childish!

This thing is used for calculation and splitting, and it must be broken. Moreover, the calculation method is not a positive bonus, but an inverse deduction algorithm. After each level is over, breaking all letters B is calculated to be 10,000 points, missing one by one, deduction is half, and then deduction is reduced by 1,000 in turn. As long as five are missing, there will be no points.

Is this crazy?

young!

The scores of the letter B of size are not calculated together, but are calculated separately.

The consequences of doing this are obvious, and the gap between masters and low-level players will be widened.

This is also the reason why the gangster boy Shimada has been winning all the time. He can beat all the letters B with just one mistake.

Takahashi, who was highly focused, was not as relaxed as Shimada next to him, and sweat was oozing from his forehead.

Compared to Shimada, he has a great disadvantage. This disadvantage does not come from operation, but from the familiarity of the game.

Early electronic games lacked changes, and game experts generally had the ability to write down the game flow - "backboard".

Takahashi has never played "Star Power" before, and Shimada has played it hundreds or thousands of times.

Therefore, when Shimada even raised his hands and clamored to stir up the atmosphere, Takahashi was still staring at the arcade display screen with all his attention.

In this game, he not only needs to get high points and pass Shimada, but also needs to remember the location of each small plane, optimize the entire offensive route, maximize the output, and try to avoid leaking small planes. Because, in the duel between experts, 10 points can determine the outcome!

There are more than twenty levels in "Star Power", each level is represented by Greek letters. When the score reaches a certain standard, a BOSS will appear, and if you defeat it, you will pass.

Shimada's score reached the critical point, and the boss of the first level appeared!

Takahashi missed a few small planes because he was not familiar with the game, and was behind for a few seconds before he refreshed the boss.

The boss is not difficult to fight, and both Takahashimada and others can easily solve it.

The first level "Alpha" level ends.

The second level "Beta" passes through.

The third level, the fourth level...

The last level, "Omega Omega" level...

The contents of each level are similar, with little changes in the scene, enemies, bosses, and bosses.

This is a common feature of early plane-mapping games, which are generally weak in playability, but even so, they are still popular.

Get high scores and leave your name on the scoreboard, which is the glory of every player.

"Boy, you are not weak to follow the last level! But at this level, you are still far from it. You missed so many small planes, which made me 100,000 points. Want to beat me? Dream! Give up and give up, I will give you a decent face." Shimada said leisurely.

"I don't admit defeat. I'll talk about the winner now, it's still early!" Takahashi answered Shimada's provocation for the first time, and after answering, he put all his energy back on the arcade.

The reason why Takahashi dared to leave his job and came here to play games and make a desperate bet, really think he was blinded by the passion?

He has a magic weapon to win. After the last fortress in the last level of "Interstellar Power" is exploded, a hidden element will appear, the head of Cleopatra VII. If you blow up this head, you can get one million points.

This million is Takahashi's magic weapon to win!

Shimada, whose total score was as high as three million, thought he would win. He looked at Takahashi who was planning to challenge Cleopatra and almost turned off the chair with a smile.

"Are you crazy? You actually challenged Cleopatra? Even if I have never succeeded, you?" Shimada decided that Takahashi was overestimating his abilities.

In the 1985 arcade machine, there were no continuous buttons, and the attack speed was completely related to the speed of hand rubbing.

The reason why Cleopatra is one million is because it is difficult, and requires the player to click at least forty attack buttons in three seconds. Otherwise, the plane will be destroyed and the people will be killed and all previous efforts will be wasted!

In order to pursue safety, Shimada directly gave up the hidden reward of Cleopatra and passed the level directly.

“3480000!”

The final score flashed on the arcade, which ranked sixth on the ranking list!

The first five scores are also marked with the English abbreviation of Shimada's name.

His achievements can make him say that he is the ruler of Akihabara's "Interstellar Power" and the king of Akihabara's "Interstellar Power"!

Takahashi ignored Shimada's strange appearance after passing the level.

His elbow was pressed against the arcade operation table. As the strength increased, the muscles on his arm were pulled a lot, and the thumb on his right hand trembled extremely fast!

The small plane on the screen poured out firepower frantically.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Cleopatra's head exploded! One million words burst out!

Takahashi's points suddenly reached 3.9 million!

Takahashi clearance!

“4380000!”

Ranked No. 1 in the ranking!

Shimada, who was cheering, saw the words flashing at the top of the rankings, grew up and said in disbelief, "This is impossible!"

Takahashi moved his sore fingers and stood up and said to Shimada, who was half shorter than him, "I'm sorry, I won."

A strange silence.

Although the primary and secondary school students watching did not know Takahashi's name, they had already started to cheer on the pinyin abbreviation of the name left by Takahashi on the ranking list.
Chapter completed!