Pei Zhe walked out of the game hall, a little lost.

It's like seeing a piece of fatty meat, which is obviously very tempting, but you can't eat it.

"Brother, do you want a cassette?"

As soon as he stepped out of the door, a slightly embarrassed young boy grabbed him.

"Cassette?"

Pei Zhe glanced at this young man, not tall, his face was very tender and a little freckles, and he was estimated to be no more than 17 years old.

"Yes, game cartridges, FC games."

As soon as the young man saw that there was a play, he dragged Pei Zhe to a remote corner, "It's very cheap!" ”

Pei Zhe was quite puzzled, this is not selling yellow dishes, it is the same as underground joints, is it necessary to be so mysterious?

Besides, it's not illegal to sell third-level discs these days, right?

However, when I heard the word "cheap", I immediately thought of the reason.

He then smiled and said, "What kind of it, take it out and I'll take a look." ”

Xiao Young took out several FC cassettes from his schoolbag and introduced: "This version is "The Legend of Zelda", this is "Contra", and this is the two-in-one ...... of "Super Mario"

He gushed endlessly, introduced the green FC electronic strip in his hand, and then looked at the buyer with a look of antiquation.

Pei Zhe took two and looked at them carefully, the green card was the size of a small palm, and there were many black long chips distributed on it, which was not as light as it was in the later period.

"You're not genuine, are you?"

Genuine original game cartridges are all with protective cases, and there is no such bare strip at all.

"So it's cheap."

Xiao Young didn't squirm either, and generously admitted: "I promise, the games inside are all complete, and there are no garbled characters and bugs." ”

"How do you prove it?"

Pirated things are uneven, and the pirated cartridges of the year were played with the gimmick of four-in-one, eight-in-one, and even one-thousand-in-one, and I don't know how many elementary school students were cheated of their pocket money.

What's more, some cassettes sell dog meat on sheep's heads, obviously selling "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and then get your hands on what kind of chess and Go.

It's like opening a blind box, disgusting!

Xiao Young was about to explain, when he suddenly saw a strong figure walking out of the door of the game hall, and immediately turned around and ran.

While running, I didn't forget to leave the next sentence, "If you want it, follow me!" ”

"Fight the street, dare to come, I caught you breaking your dog's legs......" The strong man bit the cigarette butt and rushed angrily.

Pei Zhe felt inexplicable, but in order to find out, he had to escape.

The two jumped out of several streets before they got rid of the strong man.

"I can't prove it now, if you want to buy it, I can sell you cheaper, a hundred ...... No, eighty-one! ”

Xiao Young gasped and said eagerly.

Pei Zhe thought for a while and said, "I want to buy several games, I have to see if it's real or fake, what if I am blinded by you." ”

"Are you really going to buy it?"

"Yes." Pei Zhe nodded seriously.

Xiao Young hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind: "Then you can come with me." ”

The two walked through the downtown area, turned around, and came to a low arcade street.

The gray arcade is only two floors, and it looks very old, at least several decades old, and very dilapidated.

Pei Zhe was surprised, "You live here?" ”

Xiao Young opened the wooden door, felt for a nylon rope on the wall, and turned on the light, "Yes, come in." ”

"I didn't ask what your name is, my name is Pei Zhe."

Pei Zhe glanced at the dim room, there was still a shrine spirit card enshrined in the corner, there was no tribute in front of the stage, only some broken incense, but it was clean.

"My name is Lu Honglang."

The two stepped on the wooden stairs to the second floor, and a delicate voice shouted, "Brother! Are you back? ”

A small head poked out of the dimly lit room, with two small pigtails, and he looked fourteen or fifteen years old.

"This is my sister, Lu Hongying." Lu Honglang introduced.

Pei Zhe thought of his sister Pei Lan for a moment, and said hello to the girl with a smile.

The room was messy and full of all sorts of miscellaneous items and books.

Most of these clutters are discarded circuit boards, various electronic components, and some small devices that cannot be named.

Lu Honglang turned on a black-and-white TV, and then inserted the cassette tape from his schoolbag on Xiaobawang.

The black-and-white TV screen is small, probably only 15 inches, and there are two large knobs on the right, similar to a microwave oven.

The game loads, and the music plays, mixed with the sound of explosions.

In the picture, two big men tumble down from the sky and land on the green grass with trolls in their arms.

Pei Zhe also sat down and operated with the controller, and the game ran normally.

The FC game of the red and white machine is no stranger to him, he has played with Tang Yongbo before, even if the technology is unfamiliar, he still hangs Qingtang Boge up to fight.

Contra, Tank Battle, Super Mario Bros., Shadow Legends......

I tested several cartridges in a row, and these games ran smoothly, with no garbled characters and card bugs.

"You made all these games?"

Pei Zhe asked curiously: "I mean, it's all pirated by you?" ”

"It's me."

Lu Honglang pointed to the electronic devices behind him and said, "As long as there are new games, I can decipher them and steal them." ”

"How did you steal it?" Pei Zhe asked.

In fact, his question was very low-level, but Lu Honglang replied simply: "Decipher, extract the ROM...... Finally, it was burned into a pirated white card......"

Pei Zhe was ignorant, he was completely novice in terms of technology, and he could only play games.

"Then can you increase Contra's 3 lives to 30?" Pei Zhe asked about something that was very common in later generations.

The minds of pirates in the future, let alone 30 lives, even a thousand can satisfy you.

Lu Honglang thought for a while and said, "This requires the development of software, assemblers and other tools, and I can't do this for the time being." ”

Pei Zhe nodded and didn't ask any further.

In the end, he paid three hundred yuan, bought four pirated FC game cartridges, and walked out of the arcade.

……

"Brother, you are lying, obviously the game is deciphered by my credit......" The little girl Lu Hongying said dissatisfied.

"Xiao Ying! You are not allowed to tell anyone these things in the future, because this is our secret! Lu Honglang reprimanded solemnly.

"Oh." Lu Hongying whispered yes.

Perhaps because he felt that he was too harsh, Lu Honglang turned to a soft voice: "Mom and Dad are gone, my brother is your dearest person, this is protecting Xiaoying, understand?" ”

Compared with her sister Lu Hongying's super high IQ, she is too immature in handling things, and she doesn't know what it means to be sinister when she is a teenager.

If it weren't for the fact that he was really about to reach the end of the mountain, he would not have been able to bring strangers to his cabin.

Their parents went to pick up a batch of blank cassettes for half a year, but they had a car accident on the way, and their father died on the spot and their mother was seriously injured.

However, even after spending all her savings, her mother still did not come back and died.

Now in this world, only their two brothers and sisters are left to rely on each other.

……

Pei Zhe naturally saw the dilemma of the brother and sister, and when he saw the little girl, he thought of himself and his sister Pei Lan.

So, I don't mind spending a few hundred dollars to help them.

Walking on the road, he already had a general idea of the second pot of gold in his heart.

That's right, it's the game!

And it's a pirated game!

At this time, are you talking about intellectual property rights with Chinese people? Sorry, not in this habit.

Even in the 21st century, the Chinese people's awareness of copyright is still weak, and all kinds of pirated CDs, books, and songs are flying all over the sky.

But then again, there should be no legal provisions in China for this formation.

If the law does not prohibit it, it can be done.

Besides, can the matter of reading people be called piracy?

That's called sinicization,Sinicize the game of the rainbow country into a Chinese,Help the friends of the post-80s and 90s grow up happily and have a complete childhood......

What a great thing of merit!

Just do it when you think of it.

For several days, Pei Zhe traveled all over the major game halls in Suicheng to conduct field investigations.

He found that the strong ones in these places all used genuine red and white machines of Japanese benzene.

The medium strength is the compatible machine of Treasure Island.

Only the small game machine room on the street corner will use the domestic "Xiaobawang" red and white machine.

At this time, although Xiaobawang's red and white machine is very popular, there are still many problems in game compatibility.

And in May this year, Xiaobawang also launched the first generation of learning machines, but this learning machine is a five-stroke keyboard to put it bluntly, and you have to connect to the red and white machine to play games.

There is no all-in-one game console behind yet.

From it, Pei Zhe found that most of the game cartridges used in these game halls are from Baodao, and a small part is the original Japanese benzene.

On the market, although there are pirated copies, there are not many, and they have not yet become mainstream!

However, whether it is from the treasure island or from Japan, Pei Zhe dares to conclude that these cassettes are almost parallel imports!

Because in a sense, the red and white machine has not really been introduced to the Chinese market.

The price of today's cassette is too high, even if it is pirated, it will cost hundreds of yuan, and the original parallel goods often need two or three hundred.

There is a huge profit margin hidden in the mid-term, which is simply promising!