Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world.

Chapter 208: Improve the game arcade, first update

Today's video game stores still only have the twenty King of Fighters arcade machines as before.

However, this does not prevent a large group of people from still flocking to it.

This new thing has only appeared for less than a year, so it’s still early to get tired of it.

And Zuo Zhen knows best that this kind of game that highlights competition also has the longest lifespan.

Traditional stand-alone games usually end when the player completes the game.

But fighting games like King of Fighters can be played forever, because you never know what the strength of the next opponent is.

Sometimes you will meet a strong opponent, and after failure, you will constantly try to break through and defeat your opponent.

Sometimes you will encounter a novice, and you will get a very strong sense of satisfaction after beating the opponent to death.

At this time, the entire video game store looked full.

As soon as Zuo Zhen entered the room, he saw at least four or five people watching in front of each arcade machine.

Some were waiting for substitutions with game coins in their hands, while others just couldn't help but come and join in the fun.

At this time, even if you just come and take a look, it is very interesting.

Zuo Zhen is not surprised to have such an atmosphere.

"Ultimate move, enlarge the move!"

"Oh, you should have listened to me just now. If you use your ultimate move, people will die!"

"A true gentleman watches chess without saying a word! A true gentleman watches a game without saying a word!"

"I'm telling you, I'm a big thief, and I can defeat as many people as I want."

"Really? Then let me give it a try. I want to see if you are as good as you say."

The entire store is only about 100 square meters, and it is now completely surrounded.

At this moment, it happens to be the time when students are on winter vacation. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and people also want to relax and unwind.

The dance club that just emerged last year is one of their places to go, and the video game store is another place.

Fatty Xing is currently sitting at his cashier counter, carefully counting a few cents of banknotes and steel coins, and confirming his daily receipts.

Now his favorite thing to do every day is count money.

After watching his money increase at a speed visible to the naked eye every day, he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.

Although most of the proceeds do not belong to him, it does not hinder his enjoyment of counting money.

Yesterday, the video game store’s full-day revenue exceeded RMB [-].

Twenty game consoles are simply gold-swallowing machines.

It costs [-] cents a coin, and it often happens that some people lose more than a dozen coins in half an hour after losing several times in a hurry.

He was suddenly opened to a new world and found that it was quite easy to make money.

And he became more and more sure of his wisdom in following Zuo Zhen.

At this moment, he looked around happily at the group of people playing arcade machines, and then prepared to order more money to make himself feel better.

But his eyes suddenly spotted a particularly conspicuous person in the crowd.

Zuo Zhen.

own boss.

"Boss Zuo, you are here!"

Big Fat Xing stuffed the money into the drawer lock without saying a word, stood up and walked towards Zuo Zhen.

"Old Xing, the business here seems to be pretty good now."

"That's pretty good. At this rate, you can earn as much as a game console in more than half a month."

"Huh? Your math skills seem to have gotten better."

Zuo Zhen remembered that when he first met Big Fat Xing, he had to remember carefully even the fact that he owed money.

Big Fatty Xing said with a silly smile: "I've learned this through training. Now every day I like to play with some money as long as I have nothing to do."

Fatty Xing put his elbows on the bar and looked at the entire store with a sense of accomplishment.Now this business is really getting more and more prosperous.

This also reminded him of his life at home.

There is a huge gap compared to now.

"How much can you charge every day now?"

"More than 1000 yuan."

If one person wants to play a game machine, he only needs to put in one coin, but if two people want to play, they have to put in two coins. Usually, it is not a problem to earn 50 yuan per game machine a day.

Zuo Zhen nodded: "That feels pretty good."

"That's great. Boss Zuo, I estimate that you will be able to make back the entire cost of the game console by the end of this year."

Zuo Zhen waved his hand and said, "The machines were all given by others for free, so there is no need to count this. But when it comes to game consoles, I do have some ideas."

"Ah, what do you think?"

“Don’t our store have two floors?”

"Yeah, what's the matter?"

"That's what I think. Now the video game store has developed well, but don't you think this scene is a bit chaotic?"

"It's chaotic? I don't think so." Big Fatty Xing looked around the entire video game store carefully and felt that he didn't find anything wrong.

Oh no, there is something wrong.

"Hey, hey, that No. [-] Shiranui Mai machine, if you dare to put a cigarette butt on the machine, I will let you taste the consequences of being burned by a cigarette butt!"

Not far away, a few young people in front of the machine with the handwritten number seven were excited and immediately threw the cigarette butts in their hands to the ground and stamped them out.

Just now, they subconsciously wanted to put the cigarette butts out on a flat surface, and they had already formed a habit.

Zuo Zhen said at this time: "Look, this is what I said is wrong."

"Ah? Are you talking about the cigarette butt burning machine? Don't worry, boss of the Zuo family. With me here, anyone who dares to do this will have to bear the consequences."

"No, it's not just this problem, there are others."

Zuo Zhen looked around.

In fact, when Zuo Zhen came in, he noticed that the game arcade was a bit too smoky.

But this was the 80s, and smoking in public was a common occurrence.

No one can completely ban smoking.

Not to mention a down-to-earth place like a video game store.

"It's so smoky now, I feel like it should be improved a little bit."

"Ah? How can we improve this?"

Not to mention the people who come in to consume, even Fatty Xing is still a smoker.

But he would be more restrained in front of Zuo Zhen.

But he often smoked when Zuo Zhen was away.

Zuo Zhen thought for a moment and then said: "I have some ideas. I want to open the second floor of this store. The smoky first floor cannot be ignored. It must be made cleaner."

"Huh? Isn't this a bit redundant? If it's dirty, I can just clean it often."

"It's not redundant." Zuo Zhen shook his head.

He actually still wants to improve the situation in the video game store.

At least the environment should be improved in the store he operates.

When he was a child, he clearly remembered how he was tortured by the smokers in the arcade.

Fortunately, Zuo Zhen was naturally resistant to smoking at the time, so he was not affected.

"If the environment is good, it can also attract more people to come in and spend money. After all, everyone likes a clean and tidy environment. Each of our game consoles is worth tens of thousands, so we can't be so unqualified."

(End of this chapter)