Gantry cranes are roaring, and workers in yellow overalls, yellow hard hats, and earplugs are constantly moving. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Port of Tokyo, Tokyo Bay.

One by one, the containers are unloaded from the giant ship and loaded onto trucks and transported to downtown Tokyo.

"Is this Wanhu's new arcade?" said a middle-aged, bald man with a cigar in his mouth and a tall wooden box wrapped around him several times.

"Yes, boss, this is Wanhu's new arcade machine, which has just arrived from the port and is said to be produced in China. Said the man in the blue overalls with white work gloves.

Three years ago, the bald man was just a low-level gangster in a tracksuit in a nearby community. In addition to serving tea and water to the big guy every day, he also went to the street to collect protection money.

To be honest, there are very few people of his age who are at the bottom and engaged in the most basic work.

The older members of the low-level gangs are either dead or promoted, and they are either doing some small business and starting to settle down.

The bald man was the same at that time, he finally married a daughter-in-law, gave birth to a child, and wanted to get out of the front line and do some stable business.

At the suggestion of his wife, he used the money he had saved for many years to open an arcade. And this became the beginning of his take-off.

Because of the relationship with the community, he got a fairly good location. In the first year, he also had a small western-style building and a car. By the second year, he had already driven a luxury car and lived in a high-end apartment. In the third year now, although it is not as rich as the real rich, it is already an existence that ordinary wage earners can look up to.

Under the protection of the gang, he opened several more arcade halls, and the business was still very good. And he is also quite righteous, those older club members who want to get out of the front line, he does not refuse, he once released a bold statement, "As long as my arcade is still open for a day, I will not let the brothers in the club go hungry." ”

Several of his arcades are well organized by gang members, and he spends his days traveling and shopping around the world when he has nothing to do.

However, he must go to the arcade only when there is a new machine in the arcade.

Unwrapping the wooden strips, Wanhe's latest arcade machine reveals its appearance, which is no different from an ordinary arcade machine. The console is 70 centimeters above the ground, and you can sit on a chair just enough to put your hands on it.

The livery of the machine also adheres to the very eye-catching style of the current arcade red and green, with a slight difference that there are a few plausible English subtitles painted on it.

"Tetris? Is this a Russian game? I haven't heard of any video games that were popular in the Soviet Union!" Although the boss was a low-level gang member for the first half of his life, after he became rich in the past few years, he has never been to the developed capitalist country in the world. If he hadn't been afraid of being shot, he would have planned to go to a socialist country for a walk. Therefore, he also has a concept of Russia, unlike most people in this era, who think that the Soviet Union is the Soviet Union, a huge country born with it.

"I haven't heard of it either, but the sales representative of Manho patted his chest and said that this was a game that the president of Manho personally went to the Soviet Union to dig up. Even, there are rumors within Wanhu that this is the most 'money' game in the history of Wanhu. The man in the blue overalls replied.

"Qiantu? What is the power of the game here? The bald man said loudly.

For the bald man, although he runs an arcade, he is just a business. It's not like some new arcade owners nowadays, who always talk about their "love for games".

The bald man himself understands these simple games very well, and they are tools to make money on his own. Would a pig farmer have feelings for his pig and want to keep it all the time? Of course not. The owner of the pig factory who did that, unless he went to the Internet, he didn't know what posture he would starve to.

The workers skillfully pulled out the wires and connected the power supply. The headlights of the number of cars illuminate the open space here like daylight, and then look at these second-line community members who don't look like good people even if they wear serious clothes, if there are more policemen, some cameras and no makeup, you can shoot the scene of a police film cracking a major crime transaction.

In the middle of the venue is the latest arcade machine produced by 10,000 households.

The sound of the diesel engine is quite disturbing, and in this sound, the famous Russian folk song "The Merchant" with an electronic flavor sounds.

One of his subordinates was very attentive to help the big boss put in a coin, and the other of his subordinates moved the chair to the right position so that the big man could sit comfortably.

The bald owner of the arcade who is not stupid but doesn't like to play video games takes about a minute to figure out how Tetris works.

Tetris is a game that is significantly different from previous games in that it does not have the almost inevitable violence element of previous games.

The thrill of killing an enemy is transferred to the moment the block is removed.

Blocks up to the ceiling.

Game over.

The boss put down the cigar that he didn't seem to smoke and said, "Come again." ”

The henchman threw in another coin.

Simple game elements.

Simple rules.

Simple operation.

I've always liked to cut people in reality, but I don't like to cut people in games. For the first time, I became interested in arcades, which are only played by cowards who dare not go to the street to cut people.

The morning star twinkles in the sky.

Before you know it, it's almost dawn.

The boss, who hadn't stayed up late for a long time, looked at the club members who were very sleepy around him, and apologized loudly.

One by one, they stared at the panda's eyes and became members of the society of rare animals, so they naturally bowed and apologized.

"This game is interesting, let's go into the arcade more. Remove all those machines that don't make much money and replace them with this Tetris!" The boss who tested the gameplay of Tetris was simply full of confidence in this game.

The team leader ......" the blue-uniformed employee was slightly embarrassed, "The order has been lined up for a month, how can we not have so many ......"

"That's right......" said the bald boss. Stockouts are as frequent in the arcade market as drinking water, droughts drought, waterlogged drows.

For arcade manufacturers like Wanhu, every game is in short supply, and it is normal for orders to be lined up for a few months. However, for some small arcade game makers. All they made was scrap and sent it to the arcade hall, begging them to put it in the house, but the arcade didn't agree.

The bigger the arcade manufacturers, the more they have the right to speak, and those small arcade manufacturers can only find a new way out.

"Move this machine to my house and have someone change that coin-operated thing. I don't want to have to prepare coins to play at home. ”

"Yes!" replied the man in blue.