Chapter 10: Protest!

"Protest! 'Hot Blooded Hard-Boilers' Poisons Teenagers!"

"Protest! Violent games get out of the book!"

"Protest! Game manufacturers, don't your conscience hurt to give this kind of game to children!"

"Protest!"

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"Protest!"

"Protest!"

Parents gathered in front of the Tokyo government, holding banners and shouting slogans to protest against the recent hit action game "Hot Blood".

Why is this happening? The reason is simple. It was because of the game "Hot-Blooded Hardcore" that a vicious brawl occurred. More than 10 children were slightly injured. If it was just like this, it wouldn't be to this point, but among the dozen or so lightly injured children, one of them just arrived at the hospital and seemed to be fine, but he died immediately, and the hospital tried its best to rescue him.

The anger of parents, as well as the encouragement of well-intentioned people, has caused the current situation.

Although there has been no written punishment issued, in order to calm the situation, the machine halls on the main street have removed "Hot-blooded Hardcore" from the shelves. I couldn't bear the pain of sending the very popular arcade machine to the warehouse to eat ashes.

Takahashi had heard about it, and he even sent a few people with expensive Nikon cameras to take a few pictures on the spot.

It's not that he fell into trouble because he competed with Shimada, but as a media, although it is impossible to be completely neutral and objective, at least he should report all the big news in the field.

"Player's Heart" published Takahashi's account of the cause and effect of the "Hot-Blooded" incident just two days later. And, it claims to agree to a certain extent with the game rating system, as well as arcade norms.

It is recommended what kind of games are not suitable for children to play, and they should be marked in a conspicuous place to avoid the recurrence of such tragedies.

Shogakukan, who was working across from Takahashi, published an article titled "Is it a game that kills people?"

The whole of the article is an attempt to argue a classic question, "Is it the gun that kills the person?" or the person with the gun?"

The gun is just a tool, and if no one is to operate it, how can they go back and kill people? From this, the Shogakukan came to the conclusion that it is precisely because people have the intention to kill people that guns kill people. The gun is innocent.

This kind of rhetoric took over the Tokyo gamer circle for a while.

Slogans such as "You don't understand the game circle!" have also begun to be loud, and they even want to smash the heads of all those who dare to say that the game is a little bad.

Takahashi had actually heard such arguments for a long time. However, he felt that this was actually a rogue logic. It's not guns that kill people, but it's really nothing without guns.

He does not deny that anyone will have the urge to kill someone, but impulsiveness is impulse, and if you calm down a little and reoccupy the high ground, you will not want to kill again.

But you hand a gun to a guy who is angry, and in a fit of rage he shoots it, and then says that the wrong thing is that this person has nothing to do with the gun, which is a bit wrong.

However, Takahashi did not choose to refute it on "Gamer's Heart", even if there is a very obvious logical error in this statement, it is still very marketable.

The power of the media to deceive people is far stronger than ordinary people think, and even when you think you are an independent individual, in fact, every bottle of mineral water you drink and every pair of underwear you wear is a brand that the media wants you to wear.

However, Takahashi did not fully back down. Antidotes may not be useful, but it doesn't mean that fighting poison with poison is useless.

Takahashi echoed Shogakukan's remarks on Gamer's Heart, and added fuel to the list, citing many similar examples.

"The murderer kills with a knife, and the knife is innocent.

Women are raped on the street, and the rapist is innocent, who makes the woman who is raped so little. ”

One of the characteristics of the media is that ordinary people are not interested in advanced theories. On the contrary, those short and powerful paragraphs are more likely to attract people's hearts.

Takahashi's use of this kind of black and pink method did make some people understand the rogue logic of Shogakukan's speech.

However, there is only so much Takahashi can do, and the follow-up development of this matter, except for the usual attention on "Player's Heart", the entire Wanhu has not participated in this matter anymore.

After a month-long refinement and final optimization, "Bubble Bobble" is finally online.

In fact, this game is not intense or exciting in the eyes of players who have already played many arcade games, and it is not very exciting for them.

Even, there are some loyal fans of "Tower of Magic" who have begun to say that Takahashi's background is insufficient and his ability is limited, and "Tower of Magic" is just an accident.

What's more, some people who don't like Takahashi began to maliciously promote that "Tower of Magic" was actually Hudson's project, and Takahashi betrayed Hadison with the project. You've all been blinded by him before. When "Tower of Magic" came out, you praised it, and "Bubble Dragon" came out, you know what's going on!

Anything that doesn't match the mainstream of the industry will be sung, and "Tower of Magic" was at the beginning, and "Bubble Dragon" is still now.

However, Takahashi doesn't care too much about the opinions of these core players. Because the main audience of "Bubble Ball" is not this group of veteran players who are almost close to unemployed vagrants, but those women who are busy with the game.

A Chinese painter named Su Chang, after the training of "Tower of Magic", his skills have grown a lot.

Although there are restrictions on the number of hair colors, color swatches, etc., he dances with anklets. The dot matrix depicts the soft slimes and the cute bubble dragons.

"Bubble Dragon" did not directly enter the arcade hall, when the core players always used "Bubble Dragon" to launch so old that the arcade hall did not have "Bubble Dragon" to mock "Bubble Dragon".

"Bubble Dragon" has made crazy money in major shopping malls and shopping streets.

At first glance, the cute Bubble Bobble and Slime liveries on the arcade frame attract the attention of the girls.

This cute livery is so much better than the battleship cannons that those stupid boys love.

And then the weak reaction gameplay of "Bubble Dragon", as well as the painting style that is actually really cute, once again circled the girls.

Girls are never stingy with their money on what they like.

Look at those elderly girls, that is, housewives and aunts, don't they use their strong financial resources to raise a lot of spicy boy groups.

That is, those dead fat houses in later generations can buy dozens of albums for a handshake roll, and hold the albums of the young ladies to the clouds. In order to get rid of these terrifying and powerful aunts in seconds.

"Bubble Dragon", which has opened up emerging markets, once again made 10,000 households make a lot of money. Orders like snowflakes flew to 10,000 households as if they didn't need money.

The production capacity of Wanhu, which was not so stretched just now, has once again reached the point where it needs to be expanded.