In Japan, pachinko parlors are a legal gambling industry.

In such an era when arcades are gradually declining, it is very difficult to find a decent arcade in other places except Tokyo.

Even in some relatively large game centers, the conspicuous first and second floors are filled with claw machines and other machines. If you want to play real arcade games, you have to climb to the top floor.

But in Japan, pachinko shops can be seen all over the streets. Even in the countryside where there are no arcades, there will be pachinko shops. One shop usually occupies several storefronts, and the dazzling light emitted from the glass windows attracts all kinds of people.

People of all ages go in and play games.

"Is this the version that connects with Fist of the North Star..." Uesawa Palace murmured as he looked at a game texture with a rough style.

Here, there is a pachinko game machine called "A sure way to win in actual Pachinko! Fist of the North Star", which is linked to Fist of the North Star.

Uesawa Miya has seen this machine in his mind. It should be a popular version about seven or eight years ago. Many games have been linked to Pachinko. Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, I don’t know how many games have been linked to it.

Been on the screen of Pachinko.

Although Japanese law prohibits gambling in principle and stipulates that entertainment facilities cannot provide cash or securities as rewards, pachinko parlors often adopt some methods to circumvent regulations.

The steel balls that players win in the pachinko shop cannot be exchanged for cash directly in the store, but need to be exchanged for some kind of special prize, such as some kind of plastic box with gold.

Players need to go to a nearby prize purchase store designated by the pachinko shop to "sell" the special prizes into cash.

Since the store is prohibited by law from repurchasing prizes by itself, in the end it is necessary to add another merchant to buy back special prizes from the prize acquisition office and sell them back to the pachinko shop.

In this way, a cycle is formed that gives the pachinko game a gambling function.

This process requires the participation of three ABC stores, so it is called the "three-store method".

In the part-time job mode of "Splatoon", Mr. Xiong's way of paying wages is to first give your character a few balls, and then ask you to exchange money at a counter outside, which made Uesawa Miya feel a full sense of déjà vu.

In recent years, the "Pachinko" industry is still huge, but it has begun to show a declining trend year by year.

The Japanese government has artificially controlled the number of stores. A large number of stores close down every year, and only a handful of new ones are opened. It is said that the gaming population has dropped from 30 million people in the early 1990s to 10 million people today.

According to the analysis of practitioners, on the one hand, this is caused by the strengthening of policy controls year by year. On the other hand, it is quite ironic that the psychological needs of players for gambling are met in a more convenient way - yes, those people in society are

Went to play mobile games.

It can be said that gambling games like Pachinko are the predecessors of mobile card-drawing games, which were promoted by the Japanese and swept the world.

Uesawa Palace thought about these things and walked past the monsters. The monsters did not pay attention to the three of them. They devoted themselves to the game. They laughed enthusiastically because they won the lottery and yelled in annoyance because they didn't win. Although

It has the appearance of a monster, but has the same emotions and emotions as humans.

Yu Xia and Kamizawa Miya, who often play card games, have an incredible sense of identification with them.

Singe didn't have such a boring sense of identity as they did. She noticed something that was incompatible with this monster pachinko shop, and suddenly poked Uesawa Palace on the back with the handle of the knife, and said calmly: "Look at that."

Uesawa Palace looked over there. In the corner of the room, among these monsters, there was a middle-aged man sitting with his head buried in a machine.

"Dad, stop playing." A girl was holding the hand of a middle-aged man, trying to get him out of the machine.

From time to time, the girl looked at the monsters around her with fearful eyes, pulling her father to get him out of here.

"Let me play one more game, just one game." The man said, throwing away the girl's hand and throwing all his last marbles into the machine.

Then, the flying marbles fell from the top of the machine like heavy snow, a crashing sound was heard, and the man slapped the buttons on it desperately.

This kind of noise attracted his whole body. After a few minutes, the sound of marbles faded away, and the man moved his hand away from the machine with eyes blank.

"Nothing, nothing...why did you lose?" the man roared and smashed the machine.

Suddenly, all the monsters looked over here. The person in the stands was a huge frog. He looked at the man with dangerous eyes, as if if he dared to smash the machine again, his regular tongue would

It will turn into a rope and throw the man out...

The man didn't pay attention to this. Only then did he think of the girl standing next to him. He put his hands on the girl's shoulders and said with wild eyes: "Xiao Shi, can you help dad? Just give me some money."

, I will be able to make a comeback soon, let’s work together for dad’s sake, okay?”

"No..." The girl shook her head in horror, "Dad, I have helped you a dozen times, cheating is not good..."

"Just this once, okay, just once..." The man said to the girl in a coaxing tone, then suddenly raised his hand and shouted to the frog standing behind the counter,

“I want to support financially!”

Originally, the frog looked at the man with a dissatisfied look on his face. When he heard him say these words, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he walked out of the stand diligently and asked him to go to a small room inside.

"This is a place used to borrow loan sharks on credit." Shangze Palace said coldly, "When a customer loses all his money and still wants to pay back, he can get the money here, but he needs to pay a high amount of interest.

It’s equivalent to loan sharking.”

When Uesawa Palace said this, he thought of Dorothy. This guy borrowed a loan shark out of ignorance. Fortunately, the loan company named "Dajiangshan" has closed down, which means they didn't spend any money.

He also spent 100,000 yuan in vain.

However, that is only a small probability event. If you want to borrow money with the intention of those companies going bankrupt, problems will occur sooner or later.

The man pulled the girl into the small room and placed her on a stool next to her. With bloodshot eyes, he said enthusiastically: "Sit down here and don't make a sound. Dad will take you with him when he borrows the money."

go back."

"Really, I've been doing this for so many years, and this is the first time I've seen a man like you bring his daughter into a casino." Frog laughed.

"Stop talking so much. The rules are still the same as before, right?" The man put his hands on the table tremblingly, staring at the playing cards in front of him, as if he saw a large amount of money, without any concealment, "As long as

If I win at the poker table, they will lend me 100,000 yuan for free, without interest, as long as I pay it back within two years."
Chapter completed!