The arcade hall is even more lively than Kazuhiko Arakawa imagined.

When at the door, there were actually not many people. But as soon as he entered, he heard cheers coming from inside.

Many people gathered in front of a huge projection screen and watched the game above.

- It's Street Fighter.

More accurately, the arcade version of Street Fighter EX3.

Because of his own PS2 relationship, Kazuhiko Arakawa played this game - this game was launched on PS2.

"Is this a game?" he muttered.

"It's a match against the Toyama Arcade Hall in Kyushu. A young man next to him, who seemed to be a high school student, said, "We've just won two games!"

The other party seems to be quite happy.

"That's ......"

Kazuhiko Arakawa nodded with a confused expression.

Can you still play games in the arcade?

Although Kazuhiko Arakawa played games, he didn't pay much attention to the news from the outside world, so he only vaguely heard what was going on in the arcade, but he didn't have a good idea.

"The people from Kyushu are coming?" he was a little surprised.

"Uncle, you're too outdated. We're using the Internet, the Internet!" "High school students seem to dislike middle-aged people like Kazuhiko Arakawa, who are already outdated.

"Uh...... The arcade also has an Internet?" he was really confused. He'd heard something like that before. But I didn't expect it to be such a thing.

"Yes, arcades across the country are connected to the Internet, and you can see the rankings. Our Akihabara arcade hall is a platinum arcade hall!"

Platinum arcade hall, that is, the top arcade hall.

This kind of arcade is not the kind that can be obtained casually.

In fact, it was awarded based on the ranking of arcades across the country.

The so-called platinum is also a system similar to achievement. All achievements are called platinum, and here, the arcade hall, which is at the top of the country, is called platinum.

Originally, it was just a very ordinary ranking system.

But as arcades began to evolve, this ranking system began to change.

One of the most important reasons for this is because players like to go to those "platinum arcades".

Because in the eyes of these players, whether the arcade is interesting or not, there is generally no fixed standard, mainly the number of arcade machines in the arcade, the number of players or the decoration or something.

However, when this ranking appeared, players began to have a standard of measurement.

At this time, players naturally want to go to more interesting arcades.

And a real platinum arcade hall, wouldn't it be able to meet more and better "high play"?

This is not uncommon.

It can even be said that it is very common.

For example, in many online games, many players like to go to the so-called "one server", which is the first open server in the game, when choosing a server.

For arcade players, the "platinum arcade hall" is the first brother in the arcade hall.

"Looks like the people who come here to play games are pretty good. ”

After listening to the high school students' explanations, Kazuhiko Arakawa here also probably understood.

"Of course, our Akihabara team is the strongest!" the other party was proud.

"Huh?"

Clan?

What's that?

Kazuhiko Arakawa noticed the other party's gaze looking at him, as if he was looking at a bun.

He was a little embarrassed, but he couldn't help but be curious.

Fortunately, this young man who looks like a high school student does have the psychology of showing off, and he is showing off at this time: "Many arcade halls have their own teams. Especially in the platinum arcade hall, there must be a team in it. These scores are scored by the arcade teams. We, the Akihabara team, are the entire Nippori...... No, it's the strongest team in all of Tokyo!"

"I see. ”

Kazuhiko Arakawa was still confused.

Although the "team" thing has existed since the WCG era, the team at that time was still a pure competition team.

But the arcade team is actually a derivative of the appearance of these arcade rankings.

It's easy to understand.

Because the average gamer, the time is very volatile, and they don't necessarily go to an arcade all the time, or even in a city.

Therefore, if the arcade wants to "score points", it is unrealistic to expect passers-by to play a game. At times like these, it is necessary to have professionals.

And where are the so-called professionals?

Some bosses start out by just hiring regular players to help score points.

However, some bosses suddenly noticed the esports team over there.

They suddenly had a whim: yes, why don't we also form a team of our own?

Of course, it costs money to form a team itself, and the average arcade can't afford to play it, so everyone just forms an interest team. But in the large arcade halls, that's another story.

It just so happened that Shoichiro, the Irito of this world line, did not leave as gloomy as the other world line, and this benevolent brother is now sitting in a secure position.

After learning about this, he discussed it with Senxia, then helped the arcade to match, and then helped them find a sponsor.

Some of the sponsors are beverage vendors, some are game vendors, and some are even local specialty vendors.

Then, the names of these sponsors will be displayed during the Platinum Arcade Team Rankings.

In other words, if a team can always be ranked in the ranks of the platinum arcade, then the corresponding sponsor will be able to radiate their name to the arcades across the country - because the arcades that are now connected to the Internet are all hi priority when displaying the rankings of the platinum arcades.

Of course, if it's just an ordinary arcade, it doesn't mean that money is useless, because rankings are not limited to just one national term, and there are local rankings in every place. Even if you can't radiate the whole country, you can radiate one place.

At the beginning, merchants were still a little skeptical about this model.

However, with the completion of the network of arcade halls, many businesses have seen the value.

For example, many players feel thirsty after a long game and will subconsciously buy a drink that has been drunk by a Platinum sponsor.

After that, the sponsorship of arcade halls began to grow.

Many arcades started out with teams just for the name of the platinum arcade hall and their own development, but by this time, they found out that the sponsorship fees of these sponsors were ...... In fact, it is already a fraction of their daily income, and in some places that are not very prosperous, sponsorship fees can even occupy a large part of their net profits.

This situation, in turn, has prompted more arcade halls to invest in it......

"That's amazing......"

While the two were talking, there was already a cheer in front of them - which meant that the Akihabara Arcade Hall had won.

The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, some left directly, and others began to sit down and play games.

And Kazuhiko Arakawa began to find an arcade machine for "The Road to Survival".

- except that he has no place because it is already overcrowded.

So he became a crowd of onlookers.

There are a total of eight arcade machines for "The Road to Survival" here, and he hasn't seen them anywhere else, but the eight machines here can be combined into two teams of four against four.

However, he noticed that these people didn't seem to be in a team, but were playing together, but the players over there ...... It seems to be ...... Internet?

He walked over.

He found that there were actually teams here, but they had formed two teams and played two games - they were not fighting against each other.

Kazuhiko Arakawa immediately understood - they were playing against players on the Internet.

Or in other words, it's a confrontation with other arcades.

"Strange, isn't this game possible to be played at home......

Kazuhiko Arakawa was a little confused.

This kind of game should be able to be played on the web, and at this time, the experience of home consoles is definitely better. But they came here to play, why did they bother?

"Of course, the internet speed is good! The internet environment in our Akihabara arcade is definitely the best. "It's still the same young man just now, and the other party is over here......

"Internet speed?" Arakawa Kazuhiko was a little strange, "What's wrong with the Internet speed?"

Actually, the two of them are talking about the "delay" of the game, but the young man and Kazuhiko Arakawa are half-, so at this time they are talking about "Internet speed".

But because it's all half a bucket of water, they're really on the airwaves......

The network of the arcade hall uses a dedicated line, and it is done by Sega matchmaking, and the network environment can be said to be very stable. Moreover, the servers used by Sega for these arcade halls have been optimized as a whole.

Therefore, playing online games in arcade halls is often a better experience than home consoles.

This is especially true when it comes to shooters and fighting games that require low latency.

After Kazuhiko Arakawa heard the other party's explanation, he also suddenly realized.

Because Kazuhiko Arakawa has had such an experience. Sometimes when he plays games on his home computer, he will encounter players whose network signal is yellow or red, and these players with bad signals often make some strange actions during the game, which makes the game experience very bad.

And at that time, the network signal on Kazuhiko's own side will also become very poor, so sometimes when he reacts, his whole person has been given to the other party in vain.

Especially once he played a game called "Hero's Trajectory", which was originally a good situation, and he got the "five kills" and wiped out the other party, but Kazuhiko Arakawa dropped at this time. And by the time Kazuhiko Arakawa went online, the opponent had already fought back, and directly pushed back Kazuhiko Arakawa's main base, so that the game that was supposed to be won was directly lost.

At the thought of that, Kazuhiko Arakawa lost his temper a little - who made him connect to the server of the Lighthouse Country?

Well, because "Hero Tracks" also has a Japanese server, but this game is not a popular game here, so the number and quality of players are relatively limited, so Kazuhiko Arakawa went to the lighthouse country where the situation was better.

But because of this, he occasionally encounters this situation of bad signal.

The word "network environment" is too poking at Kazuhiko Arakawa's needs.

He looked at the players' screens carefully.

He found that the latency of these people was below 50ms, which was a very smooth type.

When these people are playing the game, the speed of the game does not affect their gaming experience, although they are playing on the Internet, but it is no different from the feeling of playing against the other side.

It was a very interesting experience.

He looked up, then looked around.

The cards of the Akihabara arcade hall are not large, but the space inside is not small, and it can be said that there are all kinds of arcade halls.

"Huh, what is that?"

And it was at this time that he noticed a huge machine.

- It's a dance machine.

He understood it right away.

Placed here is a dance machine. At this moment, there is a flexible fat man of about one hundred and sixty pounds, who is twisting and twisting here, and as he twists and twists, the green-haired double ponytail girl on the screen is also dancing.

- This character, Kazuhiko Arakawa knows.

It's called Hatsune Miku.

Kazuhiko Arakawa knows Hatsune Miku because of the animation "Black Rock Shooter", and the singer of this animation is the so-called virtual idol of Hatsune Miku. After knowing this, he began to understand Hatsune's situation, and finally found out that Hatsune Miku ...... It's really cute.

Well, it seems a little subtle wrong.

That's not the point, though.

The point is that at this moment, this flexible fat man, twisting up is also very powerful, and there are many people around him who are cheering.

There is no doubt that this brother seems to be playing against other players on the Internet now.

The flexible fat man is very powerful, he plays with zero mistakes all the way, and the player opposite is not his opponent at all, and he is being crushed all the way from beginning to end.

Not bad, really good......

He looked at it twice.

And then he was gone.

No way, although Hatsune is very loving, but that flexible fat man...... It's just too much of an eyesore.

In order to avoid more pollution of his eyes, he chose to go to other places.

For example...... Metal slug over there.

Metal Slug is already a relatively old game.

There are exceptions, though.

After the renovation of the arcade hall management, the game also took advantage of the trend to launch a "network co-op version", which allows players to play online battles.

Well, the truth is, this mode is available on both GS and DC-P, and this version of Arcade is a reverse port.

It was very comfortable to watch.

But Arakawa Kazuhiko gradually felt that something was wrong.

"Ahh......h Where did I go?!

……

Today's two-in-one.

The arcade machine is really a memory of the generation of the year, nostalgic for the days when a soft girl coin was twenty game coins......

。 Writing Chinese Network M.