Chapter 20 The whole heart is softened

The heart and the mind are together, the mind and the qi are together, and the qi is in harmony with the force. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the 80s of the 20th century, the influence of Hong Kong films, especially martial arts films, could not be underestimated.

In view of this, Takahashi published a comic feature in "The Heart of Gamers", "Shaolin Kung Fu Game Line".

Originally, Takahashi was in the spirit of bad taste, fooling around with this, playing the game with exaggerated "Chinese kung fu", and becoming a peerless game master.

I thought it would be over after a few issues at most, but I didn't expect the response to be extremely hot. Because I had a playful attitude before, I didn't control the plot at all. So after a few issues were published, the arcade machine had already hit the earth.

Use Chinese martial arts and aliens to fight in the arcade to decide the life and death of human beings living on the earth, the earthlings raised their hands to give the supreme vitality of Chinese martial arts, and the vitality turned into a thousand times per second online defeat into victory, and the aliens fled in the wilderness.

Such a nonsense plot can basically be classified as nonsensical. But it became as popular as the "Lucky Star Kid" drawn by the well-known manga artist Rumiko Takahashi.

Perhaps, the book of this era prefers such works.

The heart and the mind are together, the mind and the qi are together, and the qi is in harmony with the force.

When Takahashi stroked the little geisha, he thought of this sentence inexplicably.

The difficulty of "Bubble Dragon" is definitely not as cute as it seems. Even, the contrast reaches a very exaggerated level.

This contrast is definitely not "cute". A lot of girls who came to play when they saw the cute style of painting, barely continued to play the first few levels, and then gave up and continued the challenge.

In fact, this is also the norm in arcade games these days. Since the birth of arcade games, the design theory of arcade games has been refined day by day.

Damn it, how many coins you have to spend on average to clear the level have precise design indicators.

Generally, the difficulty of the first level is easy and the painting style is excellent, trying to attract players with graphics regardless of cost. The difficulty of the later levels continues to rise, tempting players to keep throwing coins.

According to statistics, the general clearance probability of an arcade game is less than 50%. It's good that most of the game has two or three achievements in the number of people who have cleared the game. Moreover, the more popular the game, the lower the probability of clearing the game.

This is also very understandable, although there is no clear distinction between light users and heavy users in this era. However, the more niche the game, the more die-hard fans there are. Otherwise, such a niche game would have been eliminated from the arcade hall long ago.

And the more die-hard fans of the game, the higher the probability of natural clearance. And those very popular games,Many players will give up after trying a dozen or twenty coins,As long as it's not talented,It's impossible to clear the level without being familiar with this game.。

Fortunately, there are always masters in arcades like this, otherwise, some players may not be able to see the subsequent levels of this game for the rest of their lives.

However, with the gradual maturity of the industry, there are a total of three levels like the original, and after that, there are many fewer games with infinite loops.

For example, the arcade version of "Shadow Legend" has a "reincarnation"-themed game, and the number of levels is around five.

The reason why "Shadow Legend" is popular has a lot to do with its gameplay style. Although, it still looks like a traditional side-scrolling action game, it's Japanese.

The style of the video game is heavily influenced by Europe and the United States, so neither Pac-Man, nor Super Mario Bros., nor even Takahashi's Tower of Magic have too many elements of the game.

And at this time, a game with good quality and a Japanese style as the main game naturally became popular as soon as it appeared.

It is said that this game already has a plan to port red and white machines, however, most arcade porting red and white games is a tragedy, and there are many people who are not optimistic about the red and white version of this game.

Twist lightly and slowly.

Those who don't understand will only play arcade machines randomly, while those who understand will play arcades with a sense of rhythm.

Under Takahashi's guidance, the little geisha seems to have opened a door to a new world.

The joystick is rhythmically controlled by Takahashi to perform one precise movement after another, and the little geisha stares at the bottom center of the screen as it spits out slimes trapped in the bubbles into the air.

Eliminate.

Eliminate, eliminate.

The little geisha felt her whole body pulse.

Just when the atmosphere was becoming more subtle, even a little faintly pink, a big hand descended from the sky, but it all interrupted.

"Hey, what are you doing?" a man appeared behind Takahashi. This person is more like a qualified person than the first person to provoke Takahashi. It's not that I should be thin, but the person in front of me is too strong, and his skin is not yellow.

Takahashi looked back at the man who might have been chocolate-flavored, and he said in a flat tone, "Playing games, what's wrong." Then he turned around and continued to play "Bubble Bobble".

"It just so happens that I also like to play games. In this way, your people took my little brother out, which made my little brother very psychologically hurt. Let's use the game to fight it out. And the stakes are her. "It could be a coffee-flavored finger, falling downward, pointing at the little geisha.

"Don't play. She's not a cargo. She is a living person. Why should a living person, a person with a self-will, become this person or that person's possession because of someone else's gamble? You want to play a game with me, you want to challenge me, I can promise you. It's okay to have a bet, but it can't be her, it can't be anyone else. Sir, please respect life. Gao Qiaotou said without replying.

"Who is this man? Blackjack challenged him?"

"It's ridiculous. ”

"Don't do it yourself......"

"Do you know him, when he loses badly, come and help him collect his body......" The onlookers stopped playing the game and stared at this place in unison. The owner of the arcade looked in this direction and felt that his hair was gray. No one plays games, how much less money does he make!

Time is money!

The arcade owner squeezed into the crowd and looked at Takahashi and Blackjack with a smile, "Do you two want to compete? How about I be the referee? The winner can play all the games in the arcade for free for a week!"

It seems that he has invested a lot, but in fact, whether it is Takahashi or Black Jack, these two ruthless people are guys who want to play all the processes of a game with one coin.

The rewards of arcade piracy are really of little use to them.

However, these words fell on those who still struggled to play the game, and it made them very excited.

"Actually play casually for a month!?"

"Heh, you want to go too? The man next to him poured cold water.

The little geisha looked at Takahashi's back, and the strange feeling in her heart rippled even more.

"She's not an object, she's a living person, a person with a sense of self, to become the property of this or that person because of someone else's gamble......"

The little geisha, who has always been regarded as a commodity intentionally or unintentionally, heard this, and his whole heart softened.