Chapter 221: We Are the Biggest Society
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Taikoo Shing was originally a British military barracks, but it was later converted into a commercial property for the development of the island, and was handed over to the Swire group for the construction of housing houses. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
On this 53-acre stretch of land, the Swire group has built 61 towers with more than 12,800 suites. Due to the close integration of residences with industrial buildings and community parks, the elegant environment and ingenious design of home and work, most importantly, it is located in Central, the most prosperous part of the island, and it has been a great success, all the houses have been sold out as soon as they are launched, with a total of more than 40,000 residents, becoming a city within a city.
Pacific Place is located right in the heart of Cityplaza, and its official name is Cityplaza, which is well deserved.
After a decade of development, Pacific Place has become one of Hong Kong Island's most famous landmarks. The mall is home to luxury brand stores from all over the world, and in addition to locals, tourists who come to Hong Kong for tourism or transit are fond of shopping here, and it is famous at home and abroad.
Today coincides with the weekend, and as soon as Pacific Place opens early in the morning, there is a wave of people, especially young people.
However, when they arrived at Pacific Place, they did not shop for their favorite goods at various shops, but went straight to the Taiyu Amusement Centre on the second floor of Block B. With expectant and urgent expressions on their faces, they rushed to the counter when they entered, and the first thing they asked was, "Is the new machine coming?" ”
After receiving an affirmative reply from the staff, they immediately took out ten, hundred, and even five hundred yuan bills from their pockets, exchanged them all for one-dollar coins, and rushed to the rows of arcade machines in the hall.
These are loyal fans of Taiyu Technology.
In the past four years, Taiyu Technology has led the development of the global game industry with the continuous release of various well-received arcade games, and has gradually cultivated a group of die-hard fans among young citizens. From their initial love for games, they have gradually transformed into loyalty to the brand of Taiyu Technology, and Taiyu Technology has become their spiritual sustenance.
Any praise for Taiyu Technology, they are honored; Any criticism of Taiyu Technology, they will have the strongest desire to attack and give a fierce response.
They are concerned about every game launched by Taiyu Technology, and they always try it out as soon as it is launched, and then write a trial in newspapers and magazines; The feeling after playing, I highly recommend other game fans to play. If the game they recommend can be recognized by the market and welcomed by the public, it will be the greatest happiness for them, otherwise they will be frustrated and more difficult to accept than their own failures.
Today is the time for Taiyu Technology's new game to be launched, and it has also experienced a revision event, and there have been rumors about the revision of Taiyu Technology, with mixed reviews.
In order to maintain their beloved Taiyu Technology, these loyal fans have fought many battles with them in newspapers and media.
But in the process, their emotions were inevitably affected a little.
What is the new arcade machine after the revision, will it be worse than the original; In order to cooperate with the hardware change, the game launched is not as some tabloid reporters who specialize in saying bad things about Taiyu said, because it was too hasty and shoddy, and it became the Waterloo battle of Taiyu Technology falling off the altar.
All kinds of speculations made them also worried in their hearts, tormented with both anticipation and worry.
Now that the new machine is finally on the market, all loyal fans have burst out with strong passion, and even give up this rare day of lazy sleep, more active than going to work and school, get up early in the morning, and rush to Taiyu Technology's flagship store in Central as soon as possible, and support it with practical actions.
A thin boy who looked like a student was holding a whole box of coins handed over by the staff, and he couldn't count them, so he hurried to the arcade machine, for fear that he wouldn't be able to grab the machine if he was slow.
The Taikoo Shing flagship store is the only self-operated store of Taiyu Technology on Hong Kong Island, and it is not for the purpose of making money, but mainly to showcase its products to the industry and game enthusiasts. In the more than 500 square meters of amusement hall, hundreds of arcade machines are placed in rows, from the oldest space invaders to the latest games, all have their own place.
Even old games that no one plays anymore have their place.
As long as you take a trip here, even a layman who knows nothing about the history of arcade games can have a very clear perceptual understanding of the development of arcade games in recent years in just a few minutes.
As a result, loyal game fans are only a few of the people who often come to the Swire flagship store, and many of them are business personnel from game equipment dealers in Hong Kong Island from local, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian, North American, United Kingdom, Germany and other countries.
They have been stationed for a long time, and when Taiyu Technology launches a new game, they will immediately start playing it. At the same time, observe the attitudes of other players to evaluate the audience scope and sales enthusiasm of the game, and then feedback the evaluation report back for the boss to decide whether to buy and how much to buy.
Especially for new games, the flagship store will always be displayed and listed at a faster rate than his game hall, so if you want to see the true face of the new game at the earliest, where else can you go here?
On the last weekend of March, the Swire flagship store was crowded with people from shopping malls who were curious to come in, regular game fans, loyal fans of Taiyu, distributors, representatives of electronics manufacturers, and business people from global game production companies.
The flagship store has only been open for half an hour, and the spacious game hall is already packed to the brim, making it impossible to accommodate more people.
However, by this time, the people who were already in the store had long since lost their sight of crowding, and surrounded the latest arcade machines, completely intoxicated by the thrill of the game, and forgot everything. In the hall, various electronic sound effects resounded during the game's operation, and players erupted in cheers from time to time.
The student boy who had grabbed an arcade machine before didn't feel that the arcade was already overcrowded, and his whole energy was focused on the screen in front of him, so he couldn't pay attention to the changes around him.
“!”
The character he chose on the screen was lying on his back on the ground, the corners of his mouth still bloodshot, and he looked weakly at the sky. The referee behind the curtain shouted "You lost" ruling, and a huge line of English stretched and retracted in the center of the screen, as if mocking his poor operational skills.
"Hit the street, why did you lose again!" The student slammed the console angrily, feeling like he was on fire.
"Haha! You've lost, it's time for me! ”
He was already surrounded by a crowd of people, all of whom were shocked by the new way of playing the new Street Fighter fighting game. The more than 50 new machines that were put out were snatched up in an instant, and the players who didn't grab them were reluctant to leave, so they stood behind other players itchingly.
Seeing that he lost, several fans of the game who couldn't hold back and wanted to play were ready to take his place, and even pushed each other.
"What if I lose, I invested 200 coins!"
Only then did the student find that he was surrounded by people, and his body was full of black heads, and he couldn't see the outside. He was taken aback by this battle, felt someone pushing behind him, hurriedly grabbed the game stick, and threw half of his body on the game console. He couldn't help but be glad that he had changed a whole box of coins as soon as he came, and after grabbing the game console, he threw them all in, otherwise as long as he was pushed away, he would never have touched the game console again today.
Although he was angry after the defeat he had just made, this fighting game was definitely the most fun game he had ever played. He never imagined that a game would be so fun, whether it is the player's character or the computer opponent, it is made to come to life, as if it were a real person.
The game's graphics are so realistic that he didn't feel like he was playing a game before, but was engaging in real fights.
When the game was intense, he was filled with a passion all over his body, and the adrenaline secretion was sharply secreted, which made him have an irrepressible urge to pounce on the whole person into the game.
He fell in love with the game completely, and it felt even cooler than watching a martial arts movie.
Martial arts movies are all performed by actors on the screen, the plot has already been made, and even winning or losing is doomed, and in the end, it must be the good guys who defeat the bad guys, and then end happily.
But the game is completely different.
It has no script, and everything is up to the player. Whether the character is forward or backward, offensive or defensive, whether he punches or kicks, whether he uses basic skills or ultimate, is controlled by the player himself, and he can do whatever he wants.
In the game, he forgot the humiliation of being bullied by other students in reality, and vented his pent-up anger with every punch and kick. The intense pleasure of transforming into a hero made him tremble with excitement several times, and he almost felt incontinent.
All the previous games are not as good as this one, even the games launched by Taiyu Technology itself.
It's an epoch-making game at all!
Such a fun game, he just doesn't sleep every day and doesn't get bored, how can he be willing to give it to others!
"This street boy, do you know who I am?" There was a tall and thin yellow hair inside who wanted to grab the position, his eyes widened, revealing his tattooed arm, trying to scare him away, taking the position himself, and by the way, he also coveted his two hundred game coins.
The student boy was indeed frightened by his fierce appearance, but he was reluctant to leave the game console, just desperately grabbed the game stick, and his whole body threw himself on the screen, with a tragic face.
"Are you going to get out?" Seeing that he was still holding on, the yellow hair was furious, stretched out his left hand to grab his hair, and clenched his fist with his right hand, ready to beat him down.
As soon as his right fist was raised, it was held by a pair of big hands like steel tongs, and he tugged hard twice, but the big hand did not move at all.
Huang Mao turned around in surprise and found that it was a burly staff member wearing an amusement hall uniform, separating the crowd, grabbing his fist with one hand behind him, glaring at him coldly, and saying in Mandarin: "You are making trouble with us?" ”
From what he spoke, you could tell that he was from the mainland.
"Mainland Tsai, you have a bright spot, this neighborhood can be covered by Brother Fei, I am Brother Fei's person. If you know each other, find me a machine, and bring me some cigarettes and drinks. Otherwise, I'll call dozens of brothers to come over and tear down your amusement arcade!" Although Huang Mao knew that the other party had a lot of strength, he was not afraid at all, but threatened.
"It turns out that you are Dafei's horse boy, since he didn't teach you the rules, I will teach you on his behalf today!" The corner of the staff member twitched at the corner of his mouth, and after speaking, he twisted it hard, and in the pain of the yellow hair's cry, he put his hand behind his back and carried it in front of him.
He looked at the student, his expression was still stiff, and he nodded slightly: "I'm sorry, we didn't work well and let this little gangster disturb you." You keep playing, he won't come back! As he spoke, he twisted the yellow-haired hand, lifted him to the door of the game hall, and kicked him out, "Get out!" This time it's just a warning, the next time you dare to make trouble, your mother won't recognize you! ”
"Good! You wait for me, Lao Tzu will immediately call dozens of brothers to come over, and I won't smash your game hall today......"
Huang Mao's right arm was twisted to severe pain, and he was kicked under the ribs again, he couldn't imagine that Da Fei's brand couldn't scare the other party, he was angry and angry, and his mouth was scolding uncleanly, the staff didn't say a word, stepped forward and kicked him in the lower abdomen, and then grabbed his collar and lifted it up.
The staff member beat him up and down, threw him to the ground like garbage, and let him lie on the floor like mud, without looking at him again, turned around and went back to the arcade.
The sound of Huang Mao's screams was high and high, like killing a chicken, and it could be heard clearly even in the noisy amusement hall.
The student boy was apprehensive, and he didn't know if he would be retaliated against, so after thinking about it, he beckoned a staff member who looked kind, and said in a low voice: "This big brother, that yellow-haired ...... just now"
"Don't worry, he won't come. Even if he still wants to make trouble, his boss will stop it if he knows about it. I have seen a lot of this kind of thing, and the staff is experienced, so they smiled and comforted, "If you want to talk about the club, our Taiyu is the biggest club, no matter who it is, you don't dare to make trouble in our territory, you can play with confidence!" ”
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