Nowadays, few people believe me about all the strange encounters I had in arcades in those years.

As a veteran in the gaming industry, arcades have always held a very important place in my mind. When I was a child, going to the arcade was like celebrating the New Year. I was so happy, or to be precise, excited. This is what my mother told me, because every time she pulled me out of there, she found that my hair was wet. It is natural for people to sweat when they are in a highly excited state. Although the conditions of today's children are much better than when we were children, their happiness is not in this proportion. Some people call the arcade a big game machine, because it is much bigger than the Overlord; some people call it the "Beng'er Hall" because steel is stuffed into it; some people call it a joystick because it mainly uses a rocker. Rod controlled.

When arcades first came out in the early years, there were not so many tricks. There were just a few games going around, and every arcade was similar. Under normal circumstances, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2, Cadillac and Dinosaurs (also known as Dinosaur Island, Fast 3, and Fast Fighting Four), mahjong machines, Street Fighter 2, and Generals are all available. Later, Journey to the West, King of Fighters 97 and Three Kingdoms, the larger venues will include Samurai Shodown, Moonlight Swordsman, 1945, Metal Slug, Bubble Bobble, Gouxueji Clan, Kuaishou Tornado, etc.

Arcade halls have always been in a gray area at first, especially those smaller venues that have no business qualifications at all. A considerable part of the people who often hang out here are idle people in society, a mixed bag of people from all walks of life. Students like me are a group of "lambs to be slaughtered" in their eyes. Smoking and smashing mobile phones are usually trivial matters, and quarrels and even fights with others also happen from time to time. They generally don't like to play mainstream games, preferring mahjong or fruit platter with a DB nature. If they lose money, they will sometimes grab game coins from children, even soft girl coins!

The smaller the game arcade, the more chaotic it is. Some bosses will take care of it, but most of them will just ignore it. We usually tell each other, telling our friends that we can’t go to a certain place.

When I was in high school, I often went to a large arcade with several classmates. Mainly I play King of Fighters, and when I get tired, I also play "Let's Find Difference" for a while. It just gives you two pictures and lets you find the differences. There are five mistakes in each level. The time limit becomes faster and faster as the challenge progresses, and the difficulty becomes higher and higher! If you play often, you will find that although there are many pictures in this game, they are also limited. However, there are not only five errors in the same picture, but ten. If you can memorize them all, you will be a master!

After going there for a long time, I found that there is often a boy who behaves weirdly and is always trying to find fault with everyone. To put it bluntly, he is a brain patient and has language communication difficulties. The amazing thing is that this kid is very good at finding faults. He uses a piece of cardboard to cover half of the screen when playing "finding faults". He can quickly find mistakes by just looking at a picture. Basically, it takes less than ten seconds to complete a level! Later I found out that this brother had memorized hundreds of pictures from the camera, and I could tell at a glance that something was wrong! What a shock!

The boss of the arcade has a large set of keys, which are used to open the coin-operated devices of each machine. They are used when there are stuck coins or when game coins need to be taken out. The child who was more nimble and thoughtful focused on this bunch of keys and had a wrong idea. I still remember that the game arcade had two shops on the same front. The arcade on the left was the arcade and the barber shop on the right. They were both run by the same owner. When adults went to get haircuts, they would just throw their children into the arcade as soon as they could. Everyone had their place, and no one was delayed. !

The boss’s son is relatively young. He often helps the boss look after things and is not very experienced in the world. Once, I saw with my own eyes that a child deliberately asked the boss's son to repair the machine, and another child removed one of the keys (he had already aimed them), and then quickly got out of the crowd! After a while, he came back with two identical keys, and then returned the keys in the same way. From then on, the two children no longer had to spend money to buy game coins. When they ran out of games, they would open the machine and grab a handful, and they would give a few to anyone who was sweet and sweet.

Later, the incident came to light and he was beaten by his boss.

The difficulty of a game will decrease a lot as you challenge it countless times. In the extremely difficult 1945, the screen is full of flying bullets, and you can still find a few blind spots to avoid; in King of Fighters, for a novice, it is a dream to clear the level with just one coin, but if you observe carefully, each character specializes in certain tricks; Entertainment Metal Slug coexists with technology, and there are countless tricks and hidden elements!

Every arcade is full of masters, and some people’s abilities are simply astonishing! Everyone is familiar with Caijing's 1945, and its difficulty level is also extremely high. Basically, most people can only complete 2-4 levels per coin and then fail. I have seen a master who can clear a level with only one coin. He only needs to use one sure kill in the whole process, or because there is an absolutely unavoidable attack in the last level. This is not the best. You can continue to play this game after passing the level, but the difficulty is doubled. This is mainly reflected in the number of shells fired by the enemy and the speed of movement. The speed is not very obvious. The number of shells is indeed twice the original. The enemy is like Contra is like a shotgun, all fired in bursts, but this guy can still beat it to the last level. . . . . .

Metal Slug has also been completed with one coin, and because the entire game content is very long, there will always be a group of people watching around, and the more people gather, the more people gather, and the crowd will say "W" from time to time. sound. The most arrogant thing I have ever seen in King of Fighters is a machine with a person sitting on the left and a long line of people waiting to fight him on the right. There are as many as 20 people and the number is slowly increasing. From the time I entered the arcade to when I went home at noon, this scene continued.

After being reminded by netizens in the comment area, I remembered that there are two more things that must be mentioned. One is to try every means to play games without spending money. One is to punch a hole in the game coin and pass a rope through the middle. When inserting the coin, you must pay attention to technique. You must pull it out as soon as you hear the sound of "dang". Once you finish drawing the coin, you may get stuck. , if you release it slowly, you will not be able to reach the triggering weight. In short, it is very technical. This is also what I heard from others. Because I am too timid to do it, experts should not criticize me in the comment area.

Another common technique is to use a wire to bend a hook and poke it. Many game arcades have such masters. Someone needs to look out during the operation. It is best to have someone who can block the boss's sight, and then use a wire to pass through the coin slot. I don't know how to operate it after that. Anyway, as long as the coin effect can be triggered, it will be considered a success. If you are happy, It is also very easy to poke dozens of coins at once. The only risk is that many people will be jealous of you and make various requests to you. If you offend one of them, they will report it to the boss. In the end, you will not be able to escape a beating from the boss. I have seen it. There are not just one or two such examples!

Since the main force is students, there are those who are obsessed with it and skip school to go to the game arcade, and there are also those who dive in after school and never go home. At this time, various adults will appear and come looking for their children. Today's children are so pampered that they cannot be beaten or scolded. Isn't there a saying? Called: When you have a son, you become a son; when you have a grandson, you become a grandson! Our parents at that time didn't care about this. Usually, they would just slap them in the face, curse them, and then grab them by the neck and drag them away! This kind of drama happens almost every day, but usually no one tries to persuade them.

The only exception was when the sister of a child came to see her. She looked like a high school student and was wearing a floral skirt. Before the little sister even kicked her, several older boys came up to persuade her. I was a child at that time. , I couldn’t understand why they dragged the young lady out while talking about other things. The protagonist of the story, the little boy, was still standing there in a daze, not knowing what was going on!

Today’s game arcades no longer have the flavor of those days. Catching dolls, fishing, shooting machines, racing cars, motorcycles, and dancing machines are all games that can quickly swallow coins. These games all have a The unique features are all prepared for people who don’t come to the game arcade often. For people like us, if we play for half a day for one coin, we can’t even make back the electricity bill, and the boss will go crazy!