"It's my turn, go away."

"What do you mean it's your turn? I still have coins. Be careful or I'll beat you up."

Ronald vaguely saw two boys fighting for an arcade game machine.

The older boy threatened the first boy with his fist.

A copper coin was stuffed into the coin slot of the arcade machine. "Beep", a crisp sound, indicating that the boy had started another round.

A big logo appeared on the arcade screen, the name of Capht's game. A bad guy called, and the subtitles said that he kidnapped a singer. .

"Double." The younger boy said, and also threw a copper coin.

Another "beep", the arcade screen jumped to the avatars of three people, and it was the stage of choosing people.

"Then you choose the one in red clothes, and I choose the one in white clothes."

"Okay."

It seems that the characters in white clothes are easier to play, and the two of them even divided them.

A character wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, with Cody written on the left side of a health bar. The other character was dressed in red, with the word "Guy" written on the left side of the health bar.

The arcade screen went dark, and when it lit up again, two protagonists, one white and one red, appeared on the left.

"Hey, what game is this? It seems very fun." Ronald dreamed of an arcade, and a street scene appeared, with many gasoline barrels in the middle separating the two sides, and two protagonists on the left.

A very big villain was on the right side of the screen, holding a beautiful woman in red in his arms, laughing triumphantly.

"Ha, ha ha ha ha" a rough laugh came from the speaker of the arcade.

"Wow, there is also dubbing?" Although it is not very perfect, Ronald feels that this game is very advanced to be able to make such dubbing on an arcade game.

"Ah, uncle!" The two protagonists shouted in coordination, each using their special moves, a whirlwind kick, kicked the gasoline barrel blocking the middle to blow it up, and then the two chased the villain holding the beautiful woman forward.

"Ahh..." Several minions were fixed by the protagonist, and then the boy used some trick to shoot the bad guy from behind and he fell to the ground and died.

"This game is so fun." Ronald was very excited. Isn't this Cody the protagonist of "Street of Rage"? The guy in red clothes seems to be the Chinese character he mentioned casually.

The last big guy who no one chose. Ronald guessed that this was probably the image of the original McCoy (oy) in the script, and the director replaced it with a woman to play.

Several bad guys were dealt with, and the two protagonists walked into the subway and chased to the last warehouse. The bad guy who robbed the beautiful woman in red came out and broke the door of the warehouse.

"Wait, I'll eat this dagger." The boy who controlled Cody in white clothes asked the other party to leave a dagger for him.

"Why?"

"You don't understand, the one in white clothes can hold the dagger in his hand, and the one in red clothes can throw the knife."

"Oh..."

Ronald's heart moved, isn't this the butterfly knife that the male protagonist Michael Pare always plays? It seems that this game must be adapted from "Streets of Rage", and it is restored so well.

The two boys operated for a while and killed the bad guy. But the girl 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.

"Huh, there are still levels?" Ronald felt that this dream was worth it. He didn't expect that arcade games in the future would be so interesting.

The two protagonists walked out of the subway and came directly to a ring. On the ring, a villain wearing Japanese-style armor, holding two Japanese swords, had amazing attack power. In a few strokes, he killed the two lives of the protagonists of the two boys.

"Wow, this game is really difficult." Ronald also sighed in his dream.

After a blur, it seemed that Ronald came to another game hall, and the two boys had grown up a lot.

"There is a new game here, called Cadilbsp; anddosaurs", I will teach you how to play.

It seems that the two boys have become friends and cooperate to play this kind of pass-through game.

"Okay." The other boy threw two copper coins.

"Huh?" Ronald found that this time the game console has three positions, which can be played by three people. It's 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 who practiced 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 adapted from "Street of Rage"? Ronald thought.

It was another old-fashioned confrontation with the enemy. This time the boy chose two men in green and white clothes. Another trick was to smash the gasoline barrel.

"Press the joystick forward twice to run." A boy was teaching.

"Huh?" Ronald saw that they kicked the bad guys to death after running, and also kicked a gasoline barrel. A shotgun appeared on the ground.

"You can pick it up and shoot."

The boy walked over and picked up the shotgun under the prompt, aiming at a bad guy riding a motorcycle and shot it.

"Boom" the model car was smashed into pieces.

"There really is a similar plot." Ronald remembered what producer Joel Silver told him about Cody's shot settings, the scene where he used a shotgun to blow up a motorcycle.

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, and the dinosaur turned from green to violent yellow and began to bite the protagonist.

"Shoot," a boy shouted.

"Okay," another boy fired a few shots at the dinosaur, turning it green again.

"This dinosaur is also very interesting, but it's not the plot in "Rage Streets," Ronald thought.

The two boys advanced through many scenes, and at the end of the second level, they were hacked to death by a butcher with two machetes.

The two had no extra copper coins, so they had to leave in disappointment.

Ronald saw the Capcom logo on the arcade screen again.

"The games released by this company are all very fun, I want to buy their stocks." Ronald was anxious and woke up from his dream.

"Huh," Ronald wiped his sweat. It was still a long time before dawn, so he quickly turned on the desk lamp, took out a notebook, wrote down the name of Capcom, and asked the accountant Lawrence later.

“I checked all the lists of listed companies, but there is no such company. Are you sure it is Capcom? Is the spelling correct?” After receiving Ronald’s call, Lawrence consulted with the stock broker for a long time and called Ronald to report the result.

“Well, it may not be an American company? I see that there seem to be many companies in Japan that are producing arcade games?”

“Japanese companies? There is a game console company called Nintendo. Their home game consoles have just entered the American market. I heard that they are much more fun than Atari.”

“Is that so? Can you help me see if I can buy their stocks?” Ronald thought that Capcom was not found, but there were Japanese game companies that he could also look at.

“Richard, I heard that a Japanese game console has been launched. How is it? Can you help me buy two?” Ronald called his agent again.

"Are you talking about Nintendo? I'll make a note of it. CAA is planning to purchase a batch of them as gifts for children."

"Why, is that game console fun?"

"It's those arcade games like Donkey Kong and Bee, there are no new games. You know, Atari's ET Alien is so bad that it has caused the American home game console market to shrink. Fortunately, you can play the original arcade games on this Nintendo, so 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 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 they made shoddy products and produced more game cartridges than the Atari game consoles on the market. I heard that they all threw them into the desert for destruction."

"Okay," Ronald quickly called the accountant Lawrence.

"Lawrence, don't buy Nintendo's stock yet. I heard that the game console market has collapsed."

"I was just about to call you. The stockbroker found out that Nintendo is a listed company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but he also tried his best to dissuade me from buying it. The current game console market is collapsing."

The two talked about investment arrangements for a while, and Ronald was about to hang up the phone.

"By the way, Ronald. Do you remember the last time you donated to the victim of racial discrimination, Chen Guoren?"

Ronald remembered the Chinese youth in Detroit who was mistaken for a Japanese and beaten to death by two white people with baseball bats. "Remember, his case is going to go to trial?"

"Yes, our American Justice Citizens League, composed of Chinese lawyers, is ready to promote the malicious violence of racial discrimination to prosecute the two defendants. Because the local prosecutor in Detroit is still only willing to prosecute for second-degree murder. So we need more donations to put pressure on the prosecutors at the federal level and in the media."

"Okay, donate another thousand dollars to the American Justice Citizens League in my name." Ronald felt that the tragedy of this Chinese American had not been judged by a fair judge. If a Chinese American had beaten a white person to death, it would definitely have started with first-degree murder.

Just think of it as doing my best for my Chinese identity in my previous life.

"Okay, thank you, Ronald." Lawrence kept thanking him on the other end of the phone. Born in Chinatown, New York, he still tried very hard to help in the face of this injustice against Chinese people.

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