Yano Katsuku's disappearance was expected by Lin Yan, which can be seen from his past behavior. The money that should be paid in the handicap is paid to the winner, and the loser, in addition to considering himself unlucky, also scolds Katsukuro Yano and scolds the video game league, but no one really wants to find him out and let him really stop working in the video game industry.

Naturally, it was impossible for Lin Yan to persecute Yano Katsuku, and if he made him anxious, he might do something. Even if he denies it, Lin Yan has nothing to do, after all, the bet between the two is just a verbal bet, and there is no substantive contract or treaty as proof.

However, even so, it is almost impossible for Katsukuro Yano to maintain his original position in the video game league. Because, after all, the "Video Game Players Conference" is a grand event that gathers most game developers, as well as elite video game players. Even if he can deny it and not quit the video game industry, his behavior in the past few days is enough to become a laughing stock in the industry.

Even if he himself is shameless, the video game league can't be shameless.

The video game league is not opened by Katsukushi Yano, the video game league exists to make money. Therefore, "Simulation Racing", which is the pillar of shame of Katsukuya Yano, did not say that it would not be sold. On the contrary, I got a lot of orders. Perhaps, which arcade hall this arcade machine is placed in, which arcade hall is circulating, there is a gambling contract between Katsukusu Yano and Hayashi Hiko.

Video Game League, there is no way to do this. For example, the first-class video game arcade machine like "Simulation Racing" requires R&D expenditure, which can be described as terrifying. If the development is not sold, it is a considerable loss. Neither Baishi, nor Nagasawa, nor the board of directors will allow such a loss.

There are many people in the Video Game Alliance now who miss the days when Lin Yan was still there, because, when Lin Yan was here, the Video Game Alliance. There is hardly much R&D spending. Moreover, as long as it is a video game made by him, it will definitely sell well.

Like after he left, although the number of video games quit is quite significant. But none of them reached the heights of the original Lin Yan making games here.

Many researchers, in private, are saying that the video game league is coming to an end.

These pill parties, of course, can only talk about them in private. Because, if they say. Words that were heard by Katsukuro Yano. It's not just about cleaning the toilet.

It's quite strange that a company can run like this.

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"What are you thinking?" Chiba Yuki walked over and asked Lin Yan. They are still standing on the venue of the "Video Gamer Conference", which has ended successfully, and many manufacturers who are neat and tidy have packed up and left. Although all manufacturers pay attention to hygiene, at this moment, from Lin Yan's point of view, everything in his field of vision is still as if he has just been robbed.

"Nothing." Lin Yan took back his distant gaze, turned to Chiba Yuxi and said. He suddenly remembered something and asked. "Who is the final winner of the Game of Destiny competition?"

"A big life in Waseda." Yuki Chiba replied, "You didn't even pay attention to this?" ”

"Forgot ...... I've been signing autographs, thinking about things, things on the game club's side, but I forgot to ask, I just remember that when he came to the stage to accept the award, he seemed to be very excited. Lin Yan said.

"Of course, our prizes are so rich, and the first place winner will not only get an exclusive box of "Destiny Games", but also a clay model of the hero." Chiba Yuki said.

That clay model. Lin Yan has also seen it. The workmanship is quite exquisite, and it is comparable to the workmanship of a figure of about 50,000 yen in the 21st century. In this era, there is no very clear market for figurines. Even Transformers, Gundam, and other plastic toys have not yet been born.

If so, there are people who are now pioneering the industry. Engaged in the production of plastic figurines, clay figurines, maybe it will also become a pivotal company in this field.

Some people say that the best time for an industry is when it is still a blue ocean. What is a blue ocean. The blue ocean is when the market has not yet been developed and there are many fresh and untapped users. They are more willing to spend money than old users, and they have never seen what is good, like a little lamb waiting to be slaughtered. It's very cute for nothing.

"Let's finish cleaning up here." Lin Yan said. In fact, none of these members of the game club did much to do anything. The people who are in charge of cleaning up the site are all workers from the moving company of the Chiba Group. The workers of the moving company are also more interesting, they talk non-stop from the beginning of the first thing. Of course, they are not talking nonsense, but shouting slogans, reminding themselves and their colleagues to pay attention to safety and not to damage the goods.

"After cleaning up, after eating together in a while, the club activities will end successfully." Chiba Yuki said.

The conversation between the two of them was a little cold, Chiba Yuki didn't know why, and Lin Yan didn't know why. Maybe it's because of Lin Yan.

After eating, Lin Yan returned home, and he held the order of "Duck Hunting" in his hand, 1,260 units. Basically, it is the machine that got the most orders at this exhibition.

According to the calculation of 300,000 yen per unit, it is a large order with a total amount of more than 30 million yen. At the "Video Gamer Conference", the total number of arcade orders has exceeded 200 million yen. Just this data has made many arcade manufacturers who come to the exhibition content.

Not only that, but the amount of arcade games in the three days of the exhibition has also reached a terrifying level.

When Lin Yan walked home from the street just now, he saw that the business of those arcade halls was not very good. There are many players who attend the video game player conference and have not yet left Akihabara, and basically want to enter an arcade hall, and it is difficult to squeeze in.

Lin Fuzhi's father is still repairing electrical appliances in Youzai, he really doesn't have much to do every day, just use his devilish skills to repair things.

"Xiaoyan, come and see, today's news is about video game arcades." Father Lin shouted Lin Yan very enthusiastically.

"Got it," Lin Yan responded, ....... Closed the notebook, walked downstairs, and watched TV with Daddy Lin.

"Recently, due to the popularity of many video games led by Space Invaders, there has been a shortage of 100-dollar coins in the market. The Bank of Japan decided to issue 100 yuan coins with a total amount of one billion yuan on an emergency basis ......"

As soon as the camera of the news turned, it turned into a picture of a hot arcade hall.

"You're a great kid. Came up with such a powerful thing......" Daddy Lin looked at the news and sighed.

"It's quite powerful...... Lin Yan nodded and accepted Daddy Lin's praise, and then Lin Yan said, "Dad, you see that the arcade hall is so profitable, or you can change our house into an arcade hall." ”

"Don't!" Father Lin heard Lin Yan's words. Open your arms as if you want to wrap your arms around the store. "This is an inheritance handed down from our ancestors, and it can't be touched casually. Don't you see the sign at our door? ”

Lin Yan really didn't pay attention to the sign at his door, he took a few steps back. When I got out of the house, I really saw a sign on the side of the door, and the things written on the sign were quite interesting.

"There are still 22 years to ...... from a century-old store"

Lin Yan suddenly felt that not only was his father unreliable, but perhaps his grandfather, grandfather, was not a reliable person. However, this sign does not also mean that this electrical repair shop has been in existence for 78 years.

Seventy-eight years...... It's been a long time. How many years have household appliances only come out. Maybe. This repair shop is the first electrical repair shop in Japan.

Father Lin once said that it seems that after the war, their family's main business was to repair radios that were damaged by the gendarmerie. It seems that the gendarmes at that time were clever enough to sabotage the radio, with only a short line, and it was easy to repair it, as long as the line was reconnected.

Lin Yan watched his father repair electrical appliances, and it was hard for him to imagine that a person repaired electrical appliances as an adult. The craftsmanship has not necessarily improved. Not a single Canadian said, 10,000 hours or something. Lin Yan did a little math and knew that according to the workload of his father Lin Fuzhi, he didn't know how many 10,000 hours he had. It shouldn't be.

After a while. On television, a second piece of news about video games was played, this time from the video gamer conference.

At the end of the half-hour news broadcast, there were two video game stories, which took up a total of three minutes, a tenth of the share. This shows that video games are becoming more and more popular in society.

"Daddy, what do you think of video games?" Lin Yan asked. He had never seen Lin Fuzhi play video games, didn't Daddy like to play video games?

"It's good, there are so many people playing......" Daddy Lin repaired another radio, tested it, and after the sound quality was clear, he closed the cover.

"Then why haven't I seen you play?" Lin Yan asked again.

"I'm ......," Daddy Lin said, pointing to himself.

At the bottom of the stairs, Hayashi set up a video game arcade machine for a day, and this machine was of the same type as Yuki Sakata's. All are all-in-one arcade games.

However, the all-in-one content is limited to the game made by Lin Yan himself. As for the games of other families, Lin Yan had no intention of going home. Again, doing so is piracy.

This arcade machine, don't look very deep, but it was still discovered by players. However, the players who found it were just children. These days, when Lin Yan is at home, he can also hear the noisy voices of many children downstairs.

Of course, children are still children after all, they are not financially free, and they don't have much pocket money. Often, one group is playing, the other group is watching, the shift is running out of money, and then a group of people are around the arcade machine, watching the animation of the automatic demonstration.

Who asked Lin Yan to transform this arcade machine into an all-in-one arcade machine, and the demo animations of all the games were also put on one by one.

In such a situation, children should start a big brawl of multiple games in their heads. Whether it is the tank in "Tank Wars", or the spaceship in "Space Invaders", or the Bomberman in "Bomberman", is the final character. A group of small children almost argued. No one can convince anyone.

"I can't play well, I'll always die, this thing eats so much money, I won't play. With this spare money, it is better to drink more wine. By the way, Xiaoyan, don't you think that video game arcades are too expensive and addictive? Recently, there have been a lot of mothers in tandem, saying that they want to petition the government to let their children not enter the arcade hall. At the same time, it is also reported that arcade halls are not allowed to operate 24 hours a day. Of course, the people in the back are all residents of the arcade hall who were instigated by the mothers. These two types of people won't have much of an impact on your video game arcade. ”

Daddy Lin belongs to that kind of person, when I first saw him, I thought he was a stuffy gourd. However, as soon as I really talked to him, he was like a machine gun, throwing words out one by one.

Lin Yan took advantage of his father's free time to change ammunition and replied to his father, "It shouldn't be a big problem, aren't there many mothers who like video games." On the first day of the gamer's convention, a mom bought a Space Invaders arcade machine. These things can happen anyway. Video game arcades are actually somewhat similar to pachinko, and when the pachinko shop first came out, it was not also smooth. After that, the corresponding regulations were introduced. The regulations came out, and Pachinko was still thriving, and even wiped out the black market for marbles, and there was a gift exchange shop directly. ”

In order to avoid the pretext of "gambling", the marbles won by Pachinko cannot be directly exchanged for money. In the beginning, there was a corresponding black market responsible for the exchange. Recently, the rules have changed. A certain marble can be exchanged for a gift. This gift is gold leaf with a certain amount written on it.

It's really thin, and it only takes up a tiny piece on a plastic card. Take this gift gold leaf and go to a nearby exchange shop to exchange it for coins.

In this way, it not only avoids the hat of gambling, but also leaves the gangsters with no room to move. The atmosphere of the pachinko shop can't help but improve a lot.

Even today, when video game arcades are on fire, there are still many people who go to play in pachinko shops. After all, video games are fun, but they don't always have the thrill of pachinko.

However, this is not a problem for video game developers, who have taken a fancy to arcade manufacturers in this segment and recently made a "slot" similar to Pachinko.

Similar to pachinko, as long as you win, you can also hear the crisp sound of "jingle bells". However, instead of marbles, it's 100 yen. I don't know if these "slot machines" that can win money directly are considered gambling.

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Not in good shape...... (To be continued.) )