Landault Street is a one-way street, not long, but very good, just in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong, close to the harbour. The north exit is located at the confluence of Johnston Road and Hennessy Road, and the south exit is Queen's Road East, which is a bustling central area.

Zhao Baoxiang, the manager of Lido Cinema, was in his manager's room, checking the theater's income during the Spring Festival, and he was in a good mood.

The Lido Theatre was rebuilt and expanded after the acquisition of Shaw Brothers in 53, and was formerly known as the Chung Hwa Theatre. Due to its superior location, high-grade cinema decoration, and the first cinema directly owned by Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong, it has become the Hong Kong flagship store of Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

The theater began to screen the movie "Hong Xiguan" shot by Shaw Brothers Pictures from February 16 before the holiday, and until today, March 1, it has been screened for 13 days, and the box office revenue has exceeded 2 million. In view of the good attendance, he decided to let it go for a few more days and strive to break through 2.5 million.

Shaw Brothers films are mostly action films, and dozens of films are shot every year. With such intensive release demand, the release period of each film will not be too long, usually around ten days, and if it is good, it will be screened for a few more days, and if the results are not good, the film will be withdrawn in advance.

Hong Kong citizens still love action movies, as long as it is an action movie produced by Shaw Brothers, most of them will be cheered, and the average viewing income is more than one million, which is very stable.

This time, the box office of "Hong Xiguan" exceeded two million, and the Spring Festival schedule was off to a good start. In a few days, it will be the turn of "Chu Liuxiang" to be released, the starring Chu Liuxiang is played by Dillon, and the popularity will be good, I hope the film will also be a big hit.

Tuk tuk, there was a knock on the manager's door.

"Come in." He didn't lift his head and continued to count the data.

"Manager."

"Uncle Qin, what's the matter?" He raised his eyelids and saw that it was Uncle Qin, who was in charge of ticket sales.

"A few people came from outside, and they wanted to rent a space in front of our theater, saying that they were doing a product sales feedback test......"

"What feedback tests, messy, not rental! This is the Lido Theater, not the pheasant hall in the alley where pornographic videos are shown! Zhao Baoxiang said angrily. What kind of place did they think of the Lido Theater, and the performers who played tricks and sold strong pills actually dared to come to the door, and cheekily said anything about renting a venue.

Are you kidding!

"That's what I said, don't let them pose. But the manager ......," Qin Bo said hesitantly with a bitter face, "they, they didn't pay attention to it at all, so they unloaded the things and pulled wires out of the theater......"

"How can it be!"

Zhao Baoxiang must be on fire, this is Boss Shao's territory, who eats the bear's heart leopard and dares to come to Lido to spread the wild?

He immediately put down what he was doing and walked out in a rage.

When he came to the door of the theater, he found a small truck parked at the door, and several strong men were carefully moving down a box covered with cloth.

"Ding-woo-......"

Before he could open his mouth to scold, a burst of pleasant electronic music sounded next to him, and he turned his head to look, good guys, these people are really fast, just to the left of the entrance of the theater, a tall young man is playing with something in front of the box. The wires came out from the back of the case and into the box booth - they actually went in and used the power socket in the box booth to power the thing!

Zhao Baoxiang's nose was almost crooked.

But when he looked closely, he saw that the big box was still very good-looking. The surface is colorful and green, sprayed with a trendy space fighter!

No matter how beautiful it is, it is not allowed to be placed here without permission!

With a dark face, he strode over and pushed at the tall young man who was tinkering in front of the box: "Hey, where did you come from, do you know what this place is?" Dare to mess around here! ”

The young man was very stable, he was so angry that he didn't push the other party.

"Who are you?"

The young man turned his head and looked at him, his face confused, speaking Mandarin.

Zhao Baoxiang understands Mandarin, and he can tell that this is the official dialect of the northern part of the mainland, not the soft *** language. Most of the movies made by Shaw Brothers are in Chinese, and he can tell that the other party is from the mainland when he hears it.

In these years, there are really all kinds of stunned young people, and they don't understand the situation, so they rush up recklessly.

Knowing that the other party was from the mainland, his arrogance dropped a little.

In recent years, many people have come from the mainland to seek refuge with relatives and friends, and most of them are destitute. Because they have no capital or technology, many of them can only sell their labor to make a living in construction, transportation, garment factories, etc.

There are also some people who are not willing to live this kind of life, so they take risks. They have been baptized by martial arts, bold, some are veterans, have been key militiamen, have played with guns, dare to see red, ruthless, and repeatedly clashed with local communities in order to grab territory, and even the largest 14K on the island has been beaten and retreated, giving up a lot of streets.

For these people, the locals collectively call them "big circle gangs", and they try not to provoke as much as possible.

Don't be tough with them, everyone is civilized, it's not good to fight and kill, let's be reasonable......

Zhao Baoxiang, as the manager, is also one of his responsibilities to balance black and white, immediately took out a pack of three or five from his pocket, shook out one, handed it to the young man, squeezed out a smile and asked: "This comrade, what is your surname?" ”

"Don't be expensive, the surname is Guan." Guan Fei took the cigarette unceremoniously, leaned in front of his nose and sniffed it, "You didn't add ingredients here, did you?" ”

There was a biological deputy brain to help analyze, and he knew at a glance that the other party was a coward.

Zhao Baoxiang was angry, Lao Tzu kindly invited you to smoke, you still suspect that there is material in it, you are selling ** when I am the manager of Lido?

"Comrade, what are you going to do here?" He pretended not to hear and went straight to the point.

"That's right, more than 100 of our brothers came over, and we didn't have anything to eat, so we decided to set up an amusement company to make some game machines to support our families." Guan Fei saw this person through, naturally gave up the original plan, and started the train in his mouth, "No, we just made a batch of prototypes, and we want to see how the market reacts, whether it sells well or not." I saw that you have a good location here, people come and go, and the clothes are very high-end, and there are many people who come in to watch the movie, so I decided to choose this place as a point and put two to try! ”

I said, "Why did you decide?"

Zhao Baoxiang endured it again and again, and he couldn't help it. Is this person really stupid, or is he pretending to be stupid to Lao Tzu, such a big façade, such a magnificent decoration, can you put it on the table, and you have decided!

When Lao Tzu is a bully?

"Well, what are you guys doing, the TV?" He was struggling with whether to call or not to report it when he heard someone ask curiously.

One side of the face, I don't know when, there are already a lot of people around, these are all coming to see the movie, the ticket was bought, the movie hasn't started yet, I saw a box with a gorgeous appearance at the door, so I came over to see the strangeness.

"You said this thing, it's a game console that our company just developed! It's pretty fun, and it's guaranteed that you want to play it a second time after playing it once, and you want to play it a fourth time after playing it for ......the third time, and you may not watch the movie today, and you'll play here all day, anyway, it's a lot of fun! When Guan Fei saw that the main owner was coming, he immediately changed his face, and bragged with a smile, "See if there is no here, there is a coin hole here, as long as you put in a one-yuan coin, you can play, I'll show you how to ......"

He pulled a one-dollar coin out of his pocket and put it in the coin hole.

He changed the position of the coin hole again, and moved the coin hole on the front of the console to the side of the display screen.

According to the data, some players, especially children, often used iron pieces and iron hooks to cheat, so that the counter was misjudged, and it was used as game currency. Everyone can see it above, and although it is not guaranteed to prevent this kind of behavior, it can at least make the other person afraid.

Anyway, the screen is not big enough to have enough space for the coin dispenser, and then it is connected to the coin box below through a tube.

The people of the country have the habit of watching, and when they saw him start to demonstrate, everyone gathered with great interest. They were also idle, and if the console was really fun, they might as well play two before the movie started.

Zhao Baoxiang was pushed by the people behind him, and unconsciously squeezed over, and stuck to the back of Guan Fei's side, seeing the display screen clearly. As soon as he saw this picture, he was stunned, and his anger disappeared.

After the old boy surnamed Guan put in the coin, a colorful picture flashed on the screen, and above the background of a starry sky, was a line of uppercase English letters. He spelled it out in his heart, and found that he couldn't read it, and then thought about it, it turned out that he used the pinyin alphabet promoted by the mainland to spell the word "Tai Chi".

It's really produced by a mainland company!

But this picture is very good, in the black background, from time to time a little light, like the stars shining, quite a bit of vast mystery. This kind of picture is nothing more than a movie stunt.

He was still thinking about it, and the old boy surnamed Guan had already entered the game screen.

At the top of the screen, six rows of strangely shaped, crab-like monsters appeared, each with a different color. From top to bottom, they are gold, white, orange, yellow, blue, and red.

And at the very bottom of the screen, there is an airplane.

The old boy surnamed Guan pushed the joystick, and the small plane below actually moved. Zhao Baoxiang and other onlookers screamed.

"It's moving, the plane is moving!"

"It really moved, you see, as soon as he shook the stick, the plane followed his manual. He pushes to the left, and the plane moves to the left; He pushed to the right, and the plane followed to the right. ”

"It's amazing, it's controllable!"

Guan Fei sneered in his heart.

How fresh, the plane can't be controlled, and I'm still playing a fart game! Video games are all about player interaction!

It's no wonder that Zhao Baoxiang and others were shocked, they had never seen it before. Not to mention Hong Kong, even Japan does not have such a game console, in their concept, the game console is a shooting game of handjob and photoelectric sensor device.

Like this, there are pictures, barely a bit of a storyline, and more importantly, they can participate in the control of a game console, they have never seen it before!

When they saw the monster above and flew up and dropped bombs below, they were even more excited with red faces and thick necks, and they couldn't wait to replace them and help Guan Fei control the plane and escape far away.

Everyone cheered as Guan Fei easily controlled the plane to avoid it, and pressed the launch button to fire rows of shells from the top of the plane.

Some people say that gaming is a human instinct.

That's true!

The first video game in the history of human science and technology was designed by scientists who were more intelligent than ordinary people and full of knowledge that others could not understand. No one would have imagined that these scientists, who usually give people the impression of being serious and stereotyped, would soak in the computer center for a game with extremely monotonous graphics.

Those who saw Guan Fei playing games, that's it.

After only watching it for a short time, they were already deeply conquered by this kind of game, and completely immersed in this simple and exciting space battle.

Although it is a kind of veteran game, it is a very high-level enjoyment for modern people who lack spiritual entertainment.

"Hide! Get out of the way! ”

Zhao Baoxiang had long forgotten why he came out, his face was flushed, his fists were clenched hard, and he yelled like everyone else around him. Every movement of Guan Fei made his heart tremble, as if he would be hit in the next second, every time Guan Fei destroyed an enemy plane, he gushed out a strong pleasure from the bottom of his heart, as if he really soared in the dark universe and defeated the enemy plane with his own hands.

"You're yelling so loudly, why don't you come up and try it yourself?" Guan Fei played carelessly, seeing that it was time for the fire, he turned his head and teased him halfway.

"Can I play too?" Zhao Baoxiang was stunned, he had long wanted to go up and play two hands, if it weren't for Guan Fei's immortality, he would definitely grab the joystick as soon as possible and not let others take the lead.

"Well, throw a coin into it, one piece. It's a doubles game and there's a joystick next to it that you can play with me. Guan Fei cocked his chin and pointed to the coin hole.

The original game can only be played by single player, but how can he waste resources like this, the source code has long been changed by him to a two-player game.

"Good!"

Zhao Baoxiang was overjoyed, grabbed a handful of change from his pocket, and stuffed several into it in one bite. I only listened to Ding Dong, Ding Dong, and several rings in a row, but no other small plane appeared at the bottom of the screen.

"Press the start button, it's the red one, yes, it's it!"

Zhao Baoxiang squeezed next to Guan Fei, grabbed the joystick, and slapped hard at the red button, and a new small plane appeared. He tentatively moved the joystick, and sure enough, the little plane followed.

He laughed happily and immediately gave his full attention and threw himself into the battle.