Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Chapter 435: Capcom

  Chapter 435 Capcom

   "It's my turn, you go away."

   "Why is it your turn, I still have coins, be careful I beat you."

   Ronald vaguely sees two boys fighting over an arcade game console.

  The older boy threatened the first boy with his fist.

  A copper coin was stuffed into the coin swallowing port of the arcade machine. "Doo Luo", a crisp sound, indicating that the boy has started another game.

   A big logo appears on the arcade screen, Capcom. The following is the name of the game FinalFight. A bad guy called and the subtitles said he had kidnapped a pop star.

   "Doubles," said the younger boy, throwing in a copper coin as well.

   There was another "duluo", and the arcade screen jumped to the heads of three people, which was the part of selecting people.

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

"All right."

   It seems that the character wearing white clothes is easier to play, and the two even divided it.

  A character wearing a white T-shirt and jeans with Cody written on the left of a blood bar. Another character is dressed in red, with Guy written on the left of the blood bar.

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

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

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

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

   "Hey, there's also dubbing?" Although it's not perfect, Ronald feels that this game is very advanced to be able to produce this kind of dubbing on an arcade game.

"Ah, Uncle!" The two protagonists yelled in unison, and each used their own tricks. A whirlwind kick kicked and exploded the gasoline barrel in the middle, and then the two chased the villain who was holding the beautiful woman. Go after.

   "Ahhh..." A few little guys were beaten by the protagonist, and then I don't know what trick the boy used to shoot the villain from the back and fall to the ground to die.

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

  The last undrafted big. Ronald guessed that this was probably the original image of McCoy in the script, which was replaced by a woman by the director.

   Several villains were cleaned up. The two protagonists walked into the subway and chased to the last warehouse. The villain who snatched the beauty in red came out and broke the door of the warehouse.

   "Wait a minute, I'll eat this dagger." The man who operated the Cody boy in white asked the other party to keep a dagger for himself.

   "Why?"

   "You don't understand, people in white clothes can hold daggers in their hands, while people in red clothes can throw knives."

"oh…"

   Ronald's heart moved, isn't this the butterfly knife that the actor 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 operated for a while and beat the villain to death. 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.

   "Ha, there are still levels?" Ronald felt that this dream was worthwhile, but he didn't expect the arcade games to be so interesting in the future.

  The two protagonists walked out of the subway and came directly to a ring. On the arena, a villain wearing Japanese-style armor held two Japanese swords, and his attack power was amazing. With two or three blows, he killed the two boys' protagonists.

   "Hey, this game is really difficult." Ronald sighed in the dream.

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

   "Here is a new game called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs", let me teach you how to play it.

  The two boys seem to have become friends and cooperated in this kind of clearance game.

   "Sure." Another boy dropped two copper coins.

   "Huh?" Ronald found that this game console has three seats, which can be used by three people to play together. It's getting more and more advanced.

  Two boys began to choose people. This time, besides the man in white and a big man practicing wrestling, there was also a black man in green and a yellow baseball cap, and a woman.

   It seems that this game is also based on "Streets of Rage"? thought Ronald.

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

   "You can run by pressing the joystick forward twice." A boy is teaching.

   "Huh?" Ronald kicked the bad guy to death after seeing them running, and also kicked a gasoline can. A shotgun appeared on the ground.

   "Can be picked up and hit"

  The boy was prompted, walked over to pick up the shotgun, and aimed a shot at a villain riding a motorcycle.

   "Boom" that motorcycle was smashed into pieces.

   "There is really a similar plot." Ronald remembered the scene of Cody's camera setup that the producer Joel Silver said to himself, 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 comes over and punches the dinosaur twice, the dinosaur turns from green to a frenzied yellow and starts to bite the protagonist.

   "Shoot," a boy yelled.

   "Yeah," the other boy shot the dinosaur a few times, turning it green again.

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

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

   The two of them had no extra copper coins, so they had to leave angrily.

   Ronald saw the Capcom logo again on the arcade screen.

   "The games produced by this company are all fun, I want to buy their stock." Ronald felt anxious and woke up from his dream.

   "Huh", Ronald wiped his sweat. It would be a long time before dawn. He quickly turned on the desk lamp, took out a notebook, and wrote down the name of Capcom. He will ask the accountant Lawrence later.

  …

"I have checked all the listed companies, but there is no name of this company. Are you sure it is Capcom? Is the spelling correct?" After receiving Ronald's call, Lawrence consulted with the stock economy for a long time, and called Lai Lai calls to report the results to Ronald.

   "Well, maybe it's not an American company? I think there are quite a few companies in Japan that are also producing arcade games?"

   "Is it Dongying Enterprises? 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? Help me see if I can buy their stocks." Ronald thought that Capcom didn't find it, but there are game companies in Japan that can also look.

   "Richard, I heard that a Japanese game console is on the market, how about it? Can you buy two for me?" Ronald called the agent again.

   "Are you talking about Nintendo? I'll make a note for you that CAA is preparing to purchase a batch for customers as gifts for children."

   "What, is that game console fun?"

"It's just Donkey Kong in the arcades, bee bees, nothing new. You know, Atari's 'ET alien' sucks, it's killing the home console market in America .Fortunately, on this Nintendo, you can play the original arcade games, so children still like it very much.”

   "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 game consoles.

   "It's very bad. I heard that they spent a lot of money to buy the license, but it turned out to be shoddy. They also produced game cartridges that exceeded the number of Atari game consoles on the market. I heard that they would throw them in the desert and destroy them."

   "Okay", Ronald quickly called Lawrence, the accountant.

   "Lawrence, don't buy Nintendo stock yet. I heard the game console market is crashing."

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

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

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

  Ronald remembered the Detroit Chinese youth who was regarded as a Japanese and was beaten to death by two white men with a baseball bat. "Remember, is his case going to court?"

"Yes, the Justice Citizens League of America, formed by our Chinese-American lawyers, is preparing to promote malicious violence of racial discrimination to prosecute the two defendants. Because the Detroit district attorney 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, donate another thousand dollars to the Justice Citizens League of America in my name." Ronald felt that this tragedy of Chinese Americans had not received a notarized trial. If a Chinese American killed a white man, it must be a first-class Murder started.

  Just do your best for your Chinese identity in the previous life.

   "Okay, thank you, Ronald." Lawrence kept thanking on the phone. Born in New York's Chinatown, he still works hard to help the injustice against Chinese Americans.

  (end of this chapter)