Chapter 644 Arcade Game Rivals!

Yang Ming knows.

Xu Qingsheng also knows.

Opening an arcade in Dongyang is very profitable, even very profitable. One arcade machine may pay back in less than a month.

But, is it possible that anyone can open such an arcade?

It is impossible.

In Dongyang.

The bosses who can open arcades are the leaders of major Dongyang societies, or the bosses who have connections with them.

Historically, Taidong’s boss Kogan had people develop arcade machines and put them on the streets of Dongyang, making a lot of profit.

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

When these arcades and arcades became popular, they were immediately divided up by the leaders of those societies.

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

When she heard that these businesses were related to local societies, Guan Jiahui didn’t dare to ask more.

"Boss, the most famous game hall in Akihabara used to be the pachinko machine. However, since the appearance of our arcade game machines, a number of pachinko machine game halls have closed down, and those pachinko machine game halls have quickly replaced them with our arcade machines."

Speaking of pachinko machines.

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

In Japan, pachinko machines are almost their most important culture.

The pachinko machine was first created in Japan. It is a machine with entertainment and gambling elements. Pachinko machine shops are all over Japan and have been popular with adult players for a long time.

When the arcade game machines of the Empire Game Company did not appear, pachinko machines were the most popular in Akihabara and even in Japan, and I don't know how many people's money they swallowed every year.

So that some people have always hoped that new game machines can appear, but there are no game machines with gambling elements in them to replace pachinko machines.

Historically, it was "Space Invaders" developed by Taito, and the games developed by major Japanese companies later, that gradually occupied part of the original pachinko machine market.

Even so, pachinko has always existed in Japan, and it also brings in hundreds of billions, or even two or three hundred billion US dollars every year, which is nearly 1000 to 2000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong dollars, which can be said to be very terrifying.

In fact, there are still many pachinko machine revenues that cannot be counted, and the private transactions may be more.

With the emergence of a series of popular arcade games by Empire Game Company, and their large-scale appearance in Akihabara, they have gradually replaced some of the original pachinko arcades.

In the arcades here in Akihabara, at least more than half of them are pachinko arcades, which arcade machines cannot replace at all.

Xu Qingsheng has lived in Japan for so long and knows all these things too well. Xu Qingsheng introduced them on the side, and Yang Ming also wrote them down.

After Yang Ming and others finished watching here, they left here.

Walk forward.

"Boss, there is a large-scale pachinko arcade in front."

At this time.

Yang Ming noticed that there were several young Japanese men with dyed hair and several young women dressed up in fancy clothes in front, who were enthusiastically soliciting passing citizens or tourists.

"Boss, those people are soliciting customers."

That is to say, in the pachinko arcade, people are often needed to solicit customers outside. The main reason is that there are too many such arcades in Akihabara, and the competition is very fierce, so soliciting customers is needed.

When Yang Ming and others just came here, those young men and women immediately enthusiastically invited Yang Ming and others to go in.

"Sir, we have many different ways of playing pachinko machines here. If you win, you can immediately exchange for iron balls." A young man said.

"Then go and have a look."

When Yang Ming and others went in, he found that there was an arcade inside that was bigger than the one he had just seen on the second floor of Xiangjiang Cube Building.

There are rows of pachinko machines here.

In addition to making sounds similar to arcade game machines, he has seen many people playing inside.

These people who play pachinko machines, in addition to some young people, there are actually some middle-aged people and even old people.

"Boss, pinball machines have penetrated into people of different ages in Japan, including children, adults, and even the elderly. Generally speaking, children are prohibited from entering Japan, so most of the time you can see adults and the elderly playing inside."

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

But he didn't like to play.

Players must first buy a large number of tiny iron balls and put them into the pinball machine in large quantities.

Early pinball machines were equipped with springs to allow players to shoot the marbles one by one, while modern pinball machines use a circular controller to control the speed of electronically shooting iron balls.

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

The winning player can get more marbles, and the player can choose to keep or continue to use them, or exchange the marbles for tokens, or exchange them for prizes such as ballpoint pens or lighters.

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

This kind of indirect gambling is actually illegal in Japan, but the number of pachinko parlors across Japan shows that Japan 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 balls.

Yang Ming naturally didn't know how to play.

He knew that later this type of pinball machine spread all over the world, including in China. He even found that some variety shows in Japan would often appear on them.

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

As for arcade game machines, they can only occupy a part of the market at most.

The consumers of these two markets overlap, but also do not overlap.

The biggest difference between arcade game machines and this type of pinball machine is that arcade game machines are mainly used for playing, while this type 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 here, and except for the staff, all the others were players.

However, compared with the arcade game halls I just saw, there are not many players here, and it may not be full.

"Except for special holidays, the players here may be full, but in many cases, it can only be half or one-third at most. It is because of that that some pinball machine game halls were forced to replace the arcade machines of the current Empire Game Company."

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

. . .

Coming out of this pachinko arcade.

On the streets, shops, and buildings of Akihabara, Yang Ming found many new and interesting things.

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

Chapter 4!

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