"It's your turn, I still have coins, be careful I'll beat you up."
Ronald vaguely saw two boys fighting over an arcade game console.
The older boy threatened the first boy with his fists.
A copper coin was stuffed into the coin-swallowing slot of the arcade machine. "Duluo", a crisp sound, indicated that the boy had started another game.
A big logo appeared on the arcade screen, Capcom (). Below it was the name of the game Final Fight. A bad guy called, and the subtitles said he had kidnapped a singer.
"It's doubles," said the smaller boy, and also threw in a copper coin.
There was another "Du Luo" sound, and the arcade screen jumped to the avatars of three people, which was the selection process.
"Then you choose the one in red clothes, and I choose the one in white clothes."
"All right."
It seems that the character wearing white clothes is easier to play, and the two even divided the roles.
There is a character wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, with the name Cody written on the left side of the health bar. The other character is dressed in red, with the word "guy" written on the left side of the health bar.
The arcade screen dimmed, and when it lit up again, two protagonists, one white and one red, appeared on the left.
"Hey, what kind of game is this? It seems very fun." On the arcade in Ronald's dream, a street scene appeared, with many gasoline barrels in the middle separating the two sides, and the two protagonists on the left.
A very big bad guy is on the right side of the screen, holding a beautiful woman in red and laughing proudly.
"Ha, hahahahaha" a burst of rough laughter sounded from the arcade speaker.
"Hey, there's also dubbing?" Although it's not perfect, Ronald feels that this kind of dubbing is so advanced in an arcade game.
"Yahoo, uncle!" the two protagonists shouted in unison, and each used a unique move, a whirlwind kick, which exploded the gasoline barrel in the middle. Then the two chased the bad guy holding the beautiful woman and headed towards him. Chase forward.
"Ahhh..." Several of the minions were beaten to a halt by the protagonist, and then the boy used some unique trick to throw the bad guy from behind, and fell to the ground dead.
"This game is so fun." Ronald was very excited. Isn't this Cody the protagonist of "Streets of Rage"? That guy in red seems to be the Chinese character he mentioned casually.
The last big guy who was not chosen. Ronald guessed that this was probably the original image of McCoy in the script, but was replaced by a woman by the director.
Several bad guys were taken care of, and the two protagonists walked into the subway and chased them to the final warehouse. The bad guy who snatched the beauty in red came out and broke the door of the warehouse.
"Wait a minute, I'll take this dagger." The one who manipulated the Cody boy in white asked him to keep a dagger for himself.
"Why?"
"You don't understand. Those in white clothes can hold daggers in their hands, but those in red clothes can throw knives."
"oh……"
Ronald's mind moved. Isn't this the butterfly knife that the male protagonist Michael Parr always plays? It seems that this game must be adapted from "Streets of Rage", and the restoration is so good.
The two boys worked for a while and beat the bad guy to death. But the woman in red did not appear. After a few lines of subtitles, the two walked to the right side of the screen and entered the next level.
"Ha, there are still levels?" Ronald felt that this dream was worth it. He didn't expect that future arcade games would be so interesting.
The two protagonists walked out of the subway and came directly to a ring. On the ring was a villain wearing Japanese armor. He held two Japanese swords and his attack power was amazing. With three or two blows, he took out the two boys' protagonists.
They were all killed.
"Oh, this game is really difficult." Ronald sighed in his dream.
After a blur, it seemed like Ronald had come to another arcade, and the two boys had grown up a lot.
"There is a new game here called Dinosaurs (cs and dinosaurs)", let me teach you how to play it.
The two boys seemed to have become friends and cooperated to play this level-clearing game.
"Okay." Another boy threw in two copper coins.
"Huh?" Ronald discovered that this game console has three positions, which can be used by three people to play together. It is getting more and more advanced.
The two boys began to choose people. This time, in addition to the man in white clothes and a big man practicing wrestling, there was also a black man in green clothes and a yellow baseball cap, and a woman.
It seems that this game is also based on "Streets of Rage"? Ronald thought to himself.
It was another old-fashioned confrontation with the enemy, this time the boy chose two men in green clothes and white clothes, and used another unique trick to smash the gasoline barrel.
"Press the joystick forward twice to start running." A boy was teaching.
"Huh?" Ronald saw them running and kicked the bad guy to death. He also kicked a gasoline barrel and broke it. A shotgun appeared on the ground.
"You can pick it up and hit it."
At the prompt, the boy walked over, picked up the shotgun, and shot a bad guy who was riding a motorcycle.
"Boom" the model car was smashed into pieces.
"There really is a similar plot." Ronald recalled what producer Joel Silver told him about Cody's camera setup and the plot of blowing up the motorcycle with a shotgun.
The two kept moving forward, and at the end of the first level, a dinosaur was chained to the ground. A bad guy came over and punched the dinosaur twice. The dinosaur changed from green to violent yellow and began to bite the protagonist.
"Shoot," a boy shouted.
"Okay", another boy fired several shots at the dinosaur, turning it green again.
"This dinosaur is very interesting, but it's not like the plot of 'Streets of Rage'." Ronald thought.
The two boys progressed through many scenes, and at the end of the second level they were hacked to death by a butcher with two machetes.
The two of them had no extra copper coins, so they had no choice but to leave in frustration.
Ronald saw the Capcom logo again on the arcade screen.
"The games produced by this company are all very fun. I want to buy their stocks." Ronald felt anxious and woke up from his dream.
"Huh", Ronald wiped his sweat. It was still a long time before dawn. He quickly turned on the desk lamp, took out a notebook, wrote down the name of Capcom (), and asked his accountant Lawrence later.
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"I checked all the lists of listed companies, but there is no name of this company. Are you sure it's Capcom? Is the spelling correct?" After Lawrence received Ronald's call, he consulted with Stock Economics for a long time and called
Call Ronald to report the results.
"Well, maybe it's not American Enterprises? I think there seem to be many companies in Japan that are producing arcade games?"
"A Japanese company? There is a game console company called Nintendo. Their home game console has just entered the American market. I heard it is much more fun than Atari."
"Is that so? Please help me see if I can buy their stocks." Ronald thought that Capcom had not found it, but there were Japanese game companies that he could also look at.
"Richard, I heard that a Japanese game console is on the market, what do you think? Can you buy two for me?" Ronald called the agent again.
"Are you talking about Nintendo? Let me note it for you. CAA is preparing to purchase a batch to give to customers as gifts for children."
"What, is that game console fun?"
"It's just those arcade games like Donkey Kong, Little Bee, etc., there aren't any new games. You know, Atari's 'et Aliens' was so bad that it caused America's home game console market to shrink.
.Fortunately, on this Nintendo, you can play the original arcade games, so the children still like it."
"Huh? No way?" Ronald didn't expect that the game adapted from Spielberg's movie was so bad that it had already affected the sales of the game console.
"It's very bad. I heard that they spent a lot of money to buy the license, but the results were shoddy. They also produced more game cartridges than the number of Atari game consoles on the market. I heard that they were thrown into the desert for destruction."
"Okay", Ronald quickly called Lawrence, the accountant.
"Lawrence, don't buy Nintendo stock yet. I heard that the game console market has collapsed."
"I was about to call you when the stockbroker found out that Nintendo is a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but he tried his best to dissuade me from buying it. The current game console market is in a state of collapse."
The two talked about the investment arrangements for a while, and Ronald was about to hang up the phone.
"By the way, Ronald. Last time you donated money to Chen Guoren, the victim of racial discrimination, do you remember?"
Ronald remembered the Chinese-American youth in Detroit who was beaten to death by two white men with baseball bats because he was thought to be Japanese. "Remember, his case is going to trial?"
"Yes, we, the American Citizens League for Justice, formed by Chinese-American lawyers, are prepared to promote racially motivated and malicious violence to prosecute the two defendants. Because the District Attorney in Detroit is still only willing to prosecute for second-degree murder. So we need more donations,
Put pressure on prosecutors at the federal level and in the media."
"Okay, in my name, please donate another thousand dollars to the American League for Justice." Ronald felt that this Chinese-American tragedy did not receive a fair trial. If a Chinese-American beat a white man to death, it would definitely be a first-degree crime.
It started with murder.
Just think of it as doing your best for your Chinese identity in your previous life.
"Okay, thank you, Ronald." Lawrence couldn't stop thanking him on the phone. He was born in Chinatown, New York, and he still worked very hard to help despite this injustice to Chinese Americans.