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Chapter 644 Competitors of arcade games!
Yang Ming knew.

Xu Qingsheng also knew.

Opening a game arcade in Dongyang is very profitable, even huge profits. An arcade machine may pay back its cost in less than a month.

However, is it possible that anyone can open this kind of game hall?

Totally impossible.

In Toyo.

The boss who can open the game hall is originally the leader of the major clubs in the East, or the boss who has a relationship with them.

Historically, Kogan, the boss of Taito, let people develop arcade machines and put them on the streets of Toyo, making a lot of profits.

This is not earned by Kogan or Taidong alone, but by sharing the money with other people.

When the business of these arcade game halls improves, they will be divided up by the club leaders immediately.

Guan Jiahui naturally didn't know, and thought that Japan was so developed that the public security was already very good.

When Guan Jiahui heard that these businesses were related to local associations, Guan Jiahui didn't dare to ask any more questions.

"Boss, the most famous game halls in Akihabara used to be pachinko machines. However, since the appearance of our arcade game machines, a number of pachinko game halls have closed down, and those pachinko game halls will soon be replaced by ours. arcade."

Let's say pinball machine.

In other places, many people may not know or have seen it.

In Toyo, pachinko is almost their most important culture.

The pachinko machine was first created in Toyo. It is a machine with entertainment and gambling elements. Pachinko shops are spread all over Toyo, and it has been popular with adult players for a long time.

Before the arcade game machines from Empire Games Company appeared, pachinko machines were the most popular in Akihabara, and even in Toyo, and they devoured so many people's money every year.

So that some people have always hoped that a new game machine can appear, but there is no game machine with gambling elements in it to replace the pinball machine.

Historically, it was "Space Invaders" developed by Taito, as well as games developed by major Toyo companies, which gradually occupied part of the original pachinko market.

Even so, pinball machines have always existed in Dongyang, and they also bring in hundreds of billions, or even 3000 to [-] billion U.S. dollars every year, which is nearly [-] to [-] trillion Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be very scary.

In fact, there are still many pachinko machines whose income cannot be counted. They are traded privately, and the calculation may be more.

With the emergence of a series of popular arcade games from Empire Games, and their large-scale appearance here in Akihabara, they gradually replaced some of the original pachinko halls.

In the game hall here in Akihabara, there are at least half of the pachinko game halls, which cannot be replaced by arcade game machines.

Xu Qingsheng has lived in Dongyang for such a long time, so he really knows these things too well. Xu Qingsheng introduced them to the side, and Yang Ming also remembered them.

After Yang Ming and the others finished reading here, they left here.

go ahead.

"Boss, there is a very large pachinko hall in front of you."

at this time.

Yang Ming noticed that there were several young oriental men with dyed hair in front of them, and a few young women dressed up in fancy clothes, who were enthusiastically soliciting the passing citizens or tourists.

"Boss, those people are soliciting customers."

That is to say, pachinko game halls often need someone to solicit customers outside. The main reason is that there are too many such game halls in Akihabara, and the competition is very fierce, so there are solicitations.

Yang Ming and others just came here, and those young men and women immediately enthusiastically invited Yang Ming and others to enter.

"Sir, we have many pachinko machines with different ways of playing. You can only win and exchange for iron balls immediately." A young man said.

"Then go have a look."

When Yang Ming and others went in, he found a game hall inside that was bigger than the one he had just seen on the second floor of Xiangjiang Cube Building.

Here are rows of pinball machines.

In addition to making sounds like arcade consoles, he has seen many people playing inside.

Among these pachinko players, apart from some young people, there are actually some middle-aged people, even old people.

"Boss, pachinko machines are available to people of different ages in Dongyang, including children, adults, and even the elderly. Under normal circumstances, Dongyang prohibits children from entering, so that most of the time, adults and old people can be seen playing inside."

In his previous life, Yang Ming knew about pinball machines.

However, he doesn't like to play.

Players first need to buy a large number of small iron balls and put them into the pinball machine in large quantities.

While early pachinko machines had springs that allowed the player to fire the balls one by one, modern pachinko machines instead use a circular controller that controls the speed at which the electrons fire the balls.

After being shot, the iron balls will fall into a group of needles, and usually fall to the bottom. A small part of the iron balls will fall into some specific small gates, and the machine will eject more iron balls.

Winning players can get more marbles. Players can choose to keep or continue to use the marbles, or exchange the marbles for tokens, or exchange them for prizes such as ballpoint pens or lighters.

Under the laws of Toyo, pachinko parlors cannot give cash to winning players, but usually there are some small exchange centers near pachinko parlors to facilitate players to exchange tokens or prizes back into cash.

This kind of indirect betting in Dongyang is actually illegal, but considering the number of pachinko shops in Dongyang all over the country, it shows that Dongyang may take a tolerant attitude (because the benefits are too great).

As soon as Yang Ming and others entered inside, the young staff inside enthusiastically took Yang Ming and others to buy iron beads.

Yang Ming naturally couldn't play.

He knew that this kind of pinball machine was spread all over the world, including in China.He even found that some oriental variety shows often appeared.

This is enough to show that this kind of pinball machine not only cannot be eliminated, but has been surviving well in Toyo.

As for arcade game consoles, they can only occupy a part of the opponent's market from the beginning to the end.

Consumers in these two markets overlap and do not overlap.

The biggest difference between the arcade game machine and this kind of pinball machine is that the arcade game machine is mainly used for playing, while this kind of pinball machine is used for gambling.

Yang Ming and others walked around inside, and he found that there were at least [-] pinball machines inside, and except for the staff, all of them were players.

However, compared to the arcade game halls I saw just now, there are not many players here, and it may not be full.

"Except for special festivals, the players here may be full. In many cases, it can only be half or one-third at most. Because of that, some pinball game halls are forced to be replaced by the arcade machines of the Empire Games Company. .”

When Xu Qingsheng introduced, Yang Ming already understood.

. . .

Get out of this pinball parlor.

On the streets of Akihabara, in shops and buildings, Yang Ming found many novel things.

Needless to say, Dongyang's latest electrical products are very meaningful for visiting here.However, Yang Ming focuses on video games and electronic products.

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