Chapter 644 Arcade Game Competitor!

Chapter 644 Arcade Game Competitor!

Yang Ming knew.

Xu Qingsheng also knew.

Opening a game arcade in Tokyo is very profitable, even very profitable. An arcade machine may pay for itself in less than a month.

But is it possible that anyone can open this kind of arcade?

Totally impossible.

In Japan.

The boss who can open a game arcade is originally the leader of the major societies in Japan, or a boss who is related to them.

Historically, Taitung's boss, Kogen, had people develop arcade machines and put them on major streets in Asia, making a lot of profits.

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

When the business of these arcade game halls picked up, they were immediately divided up by the club leaders.

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

When she heard that these businesses were related to local societies, Guan Jiahui did not dare to ask any more questions.

"Boss, the most famous game arcade in Akihabara was the pachinko machine. However, since the emergence of our arcade game machines, a number of pachinko arcades have closed down, and those pachinko arcades were quickly replaced by ours. arcade machine."

Let’s talk about the pinball machine.

In other places, many people may not know it and have never seen it.

In Japan, pachinko is almost the most important part of their culture.

Pachinko was originated in Japan. It is a machine with entertainment and gambling components. Pachinko shops are located all over Japan and have been popular with adult players for a long time.

Before the arcade game consoles of Imperial Games appeared, pachinko machines were the most popular in Akihabara and even in Japan, swallowing up countless people's money every year.

So much so that some people have been hoping that a new game console will appear, but no game console with gambling elements has appeared to replace the pinball machine.

Historically, it was "Space Invaders" developed by Taitung, and later games developed by major Toyo companies, which gradually occupied part of the original pinball machine market.

Even then, pachinko machines have always existed in the East, and they also bring in hundreds of billions, or even two to three hundred billion US dollars every year, which is nearly 10,000 to 2 trillion Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be very scary.

In fact, there are many pachinko machines that cannot be counted, and those that are traded privately may be even more.

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

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

Xu Qingsheng has lived in Japan for such a long time and knows all these things very well. Xu Qingsheng introduced them and Yang Ming took note of them.

After reading this, Yang Ming and others left here.

Go forward.

"Boss, there is a large pinball arcade in front of you."

at this time.

Yang Ming noticed that there were several young Asian men with dyed hair in front of them, as well as several young women dressed up in gorgeous clothes, who were enthusiastically soliciting the passing citizens or tourists.

"Boss, those people are soliciting customers."

In other words, pachinko arcades often need someone to solicit customers from outside. The main reason is that there are too many such arcades in Akihabara, and the competition is very fierce, so soliciting customers occurs.

Yang Ming and others had just arrived, and the young men and women immediately enthusiastically recruited Yang Ming and others to come in.

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

"Then go and have a look."

When Yang Ming and others entered, he discovered a game arcade inside that was different from the one he had just seen on the second floor of the Xiangjiang Cube Building.

There are rows of pinball machines here.

In addition to making sounds similar to those of an arcade machine, he has seen many people playing inside.

In addition to some young people, there are actually some middle-aged people and even old people playing pinball machines.

"Boss, pachinko machines are popular among people of different age groups in Toyo, including children, adults, and even the elderly. Generally speaking, Toyo prohibits children from entering, so most of the time you can see adults and the elderly playing inside."

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

However, he doesn't like to play.

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

Early pinball machines were equipped with springs that allowed players to launch the marbles one by one. Modern pinball machines instead use a circular controller to control the speed of the electronically launched iron balls.

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

The winning player will receive more marbles, which they can choose to keep or continue to use, or exchange the marbles for tokens or prizes such as ballpoint pens or lighters.

Under Japanese laws, pachinko parlors cannot give cash to winning players, but there are usually some small exchange centers near pachinko parlors where players can exchange tokens or prizes for cash.

This type of indirect gambling is actually illegal in Toyo, but considering the large number of pachinko parlors that Toyo has across the country, it shows that Toyo may adopt a tolerant attitude (because the benefits are too great).

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

Yang Ming naturally doesn't know how to play.

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

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

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

The consumers in these two markets overlap, but there are also areas where they do not overlap.

The biggest difference between arcade game machines and this kind of pinball machine is that arcade game machines are 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 500 pinball machines inside. Except for the staff, everyone else was players.

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

"Except for special holidays, the players here may be full. In many cases, it can only be half or one-third at most. It is precisely because of that that some pachinko arcades were forced to be replaced by the arcade machines of the current Imperial Games Company. .”

When Xu Qingsheng introduced it next to him, Yang Ming already understood.

. . .

Come out of this pinball arcade.

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

Needless to say, the latest electrical products developed by Toyo are very meaningful to come here for inspection. However, Yang Ming focuses on video games and electronic products.

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