2 EP. 1: Shabby Game Store (2)

Solora, do you think this is good? Two bottles of soju were left alone in a nearby packed wagon, leaving my car at home, and I was grossly drunk. Yeah, well, if I don't get drunk, I'm not gonna make it! Kick, kick!

I walked the streets alone, killing myself for intoxication. Starting tomorrow, you're going to be working far away from game development. Dammit... this is how the dream of the game planner ends when he was a kid?

Peek, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck. Then, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck. Beep beep beep beep beep... It sounds like something you would hear in a retro game... But when you look around, you see only the shops that are all closed.

Boom, boom, boom!

But I can hear it clearly. This is the sound of a Gallagh missile firing... chasing the sound around like a madman in such a memorable sound.

Fat! Fat! This time, when SuperMaridge jumps, do I sound effective? Is there a playroom around? But I do know that the playroom was almost gone by the end of the '90s. I followed the intermittent beats that I thought the game store might be nearby. It may sound silly, but that monotonous beat was a memorable sound to me like an old pop song.

How long do you think it's been since midnight? I noticed a store lit up in a corner. Old brown tube TV and glass display. A grey game cartridge was placed inside.

“Welcome."

Inside the store, an old man with gray hair was smiling at me.

“Oh, hello. Sir..."

“Why does the young man look so dead? Is something wrong? ”

“I just got caught up in some business. But where did you get all these retro games? This is almost like a museum. ”

He had all kinds of gaming merchandise in a narrow store. However, there are currently no popular next-generation games at all and they were all retro games that were popular in the 8-90 's. But even then, I was captivated by the strange excitement of returning to my childhood.

Cartridges such as the Final Frontier and the Dragon Order have been laid out like new since the Ninja Slash series, which used to stay up all night to clear as a child.

“How about a drag? Are you eager?”

“You're selling this, right? ”

“Of course they're for sale, so the buyer is the owner!”

“How much?”

“Just give me two thousand won each. ”

“Th-this thousand won!? If you put stuff like this on the Internet these days, you can get tens of thousands of won per person. Especially this!! ”

I pulled out a golden one of the game cartridges on display. A family muscle man who was once called a connoisseur of the Friendship Destruction Game. This golden package is a superrare item made in Japan with only 8 pieces. I remember that this was a 300,000 yen auction in Japan... and that was the only limited number of mini-car games in the world that only 100 were paid at family summer camps.

The only games here were items that would be traded at an auction price that was extremely expensive.

“You love games. ”

“Of course. That's why I'm still making games at this age!”

“Do you make games? Wow! That's amazing. ”

Until yesterday, I swallowed a horse and smiled at the old man. The old man laughed, smiling deeply, seeing how much I liked him.

“Oh, I miss you. I love all the games of the time.”

I smile bitterly, picking up a cartridge on one side. Now deceased, former Mintendo President Kawata Satoshi created this masterpiece in his youth. It was a balloon fight.

Using three balloons to fly in the air and pop the opponent's balloon was one of the games I used to enjoy all night when friends came home when I was in the family. I fought a lot with my friend for a month without talking to him.

The first game with the effect of "accelerated inertia." It was an interesting effect that would then be borrowed from the running motion of the Supermaridge.

“A balloon fight! That's a masterpiece. You have good eyes. ”

“I'd like to take a look around. Sir?”

“But since there are no customers anyway, take your time to look around. ”

“Thank you."

I walked into a cramped store and started looking around. Then I noticed the game machine by accident.

“No way... this? ”

In my reaction, a strange smile was drawn on the old man's face, leaning on the glass display table, looking at me. It was something I picked up called the Game & Watch.

“Huh, I never thought I'd see this again.”

I carefully opened the game & watch in my hands like a treasure. This, called the beginning of the portable gaming market, could now be viewed as a role model of a portable gaming machine made by Mintendo Corporation.

“Haha! You like that? ”

“Sure, but I've never seen this game & watch before. I remember when I was a kid, my parents used to squeeze together a whole series, but I've never seen this model before. ”

“I had to. It's the only one in the world. ”

“Yes!? Just one? How can something so precious be here... No, I'm not ignoring your shop, but if there's only one, it's usually kept as a souvenir at the Minten headquarters. ”

“Who told you? The young man is in a fuss! Haha!”

“Ah-ha-ha, by the way, that's really cool. Only one game & watch in the whole world... Can you try this? ”

“The batteries are in. I can try them right away. Give it a try."

“Oh, thank you. ”

I immediately opened the lid and played the game with the old man's permission. Dinding ~ ~ Game play started with monotonous beats. I turned to the fluorescent lights to get a good look at the game screen. Game & Watch with stop animation did not have backlighting, so it was not possible to play in the dark.

- Company Game-

That was the name of this game & watch.

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