37 EP. 10: Odd Games (2)

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Beginning with Jun Fei's commendation, Final Frontier began to get a good response among the users. Jun Fei was one of the fairly reliable reviewers among the family users.

No matter how good the game was, even the dragon warrior 2 did not give it a full score because he was a tough guy.

Curious users purchased the Final Frontier when he scored 36 reviews on the new game, and the result was great.

In the first week, 3,000 Final Frontier were released and sold out 30,000 per week after a month. Kawaguchi, who came back from sea fishing, called in a trembling voice in this incredible situation.

“Joon-Hyuk, what the hell is going on? ”

“I told you to wait a little longer. A good game is that users recognize it first! Since they're starting to gossip, they'll be sold like sails on a whirlwind. Before you run out of stock, please inquire about producing additional cartridges in mintendo. ”

“Thank you. Be sure to stop by our office whenever you come to Tokyo. I have so much I want to talk to you about. ”

“Okay, I'll call you before I hear from you. ”

Before I left for sea fishing, I was praying like a man about to die, and he was so excited... I shook my head to the left and to the right and lowered my handset. At the same time, the phone rang.

“Hello..? ”

“Joon-Hyuk!? I'm Junpei. Are you off work? ”

“I got off work. I got a call.”

“Then come out to Osaka. ”

“Osaka! Did you come to Osaka? When??”

“Just now. I thought you said we should go. Get out of here. He's waiting for you.”

“Come here from Tokyo to get it!? ”

“I have some questions for you about this month's article, and this time you'll help me. ”

“Got it. I'll be there in a minute. ”

After a while, I drove my car to Osaka Dotonbori and looked around the meeting place. I mean, if you have a cell phone, you should be able to easily find it, even though this is an inconvenience from the '80s, and it's strangely nostalgic.

“Hey! Over here!! ”

I turned my head to Jun Fei's voice and saw him waving his hands at me with his hat pressed down. He came up to me with a professional film camera hanging on his shoulders, fearing who would be a journalist.

“It's been a long time. How are you? ”

“Fair enough. Why didn't you call me before you came to Osaka? ”

“Then I'm afraid you'll run away with an excuse for what happened. ”

“... the quick one. ”

“Kick-kick, let's eat something first. You said you shot him today, right? Let's eat enough to die in Osaka today!”

“Got it. Got it!”

Dotonbori is an amusement park along the Dotonbori River, which flows south of Osaka.

Approximately 500 metres from Ebisbashi to Centich, the spectacular signs of shops and restaurants clumped together like Tetris.

Junpyo chased me after Takoyaki, saying that he must eat when he comes to Osaka while heading to the restaurant.

“Ahh! Hot!! Hurrah! Get off!! ”

“Then you'll have to burn through the ceiling.”

I turned my head to the left and to the right, and smiled as Junpei rolls a tacoyaki in his mouth.

In fact, I've met everyone since I came to Japan except Gunpei or Shigei, so I didn't have many friends at my age.

Is this the only person in this age who can talk openly?

After a while, we went into the house and rented a small room at the unusual sign where a giant crab fluttered.

“This is the good place you said... was it here? ”

“Why? You don't like it? Should I go somewhere else? ”

“No, I think I've had the lewd devil in my mind for a while. That's what you do.”

“He must be thrilled to be taking him to the Wind Farm.”

“Shut up!! I don't have time to meet women because I work all the time. ”

“Who do you think you're messing with? ”

As he raised the glass lightly, Jun Fei raised his glass with an unfair look. While exchanging news about the gaming industry, Jun Fei put down his chopsticks and made a serious face.

“Actually, I came here today because I wanted to ask you something in person. ”

“Really?"

Pick up my repentance and give me a dry answer. Jun Fei frowned slightly.

“Okay. I'm serious. What is it? ”

“Do you know of a game called Dragon Emblem? ”

What, that's it after all? I replied with a smile in my heart.

“I know. Are you interested in that game, too? ”

“The name is a game magazine journalist, and you don't care? But have you ever done that? ”

“Yes, I have. ”

“What? Where did you get it!? ”

“Rumor has it I bought it at a second-hand game shop. ”

“Where's the game shop? Let me know. ”

“I'm in Kyoto, and I can't get there now. I drank... and there was only one when I lived. I was lucky.”

“The rumors were true!! They show up at second-hand shops in Kyoto or Osaka rather than Tokyo. ”

That's it. I live here. Of course I can sprinkle it around here...

“But the game was secretly expensive. I bought it at a thrift store for 8,000 yen. Rumor has it it it's worth 1,000 yen.”

“Of course the price goes up!! That game is a big talk right now amongst family game enthusiasts!! ”

As Jun Fei said, the dragon emblem, which began with the initial 500 yen purchase, is now receiving up to 6,000 yen. Of course, as long as the game data doesn't disappear at a new price...

I swiped a glass down my throat and pulled out a game cartridge from my chest. Then Jun Fei's eyes widened and his mouth opened.

“Huh? You can't be...”

“I got another one a few days ago because I thought you might ask. ”

Actually, I just brought something from home.

“Joon-Hyuk!!! Son of a bitch! What a lovely thing!! ”

Jun Fei cried bitterly, accepting the dragon emblem I gave him and looking around. Jun Fei continued to observe the cartridge with curious eyes, even though it seemed like a normal family cartridge.

“The cartridge's about to go crazy. Dude, stop watching and drink!”

“Just in case, I'm impressed to see you like this. ”

“It's okay. You'll hate me in three days.”

“Hmm? Why?? ”

“Nobody cleared that game at once, but I don't think they've even cleared anyone yet." You get a temper if you don't play the game. ”

“So when a character dies in a game, the data is deleted? ”

“Moreover, if you are over-gamed, you will never be able to play again. So play carefully. ”

In fact, there is a secret in Dragon Emblem that only I know.

Someday it will turn out, but still, I just wanted to enjoy the reaction of the users. I filled my empty glass with drinks and smiled softly.

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“Who delivered the cartridge without our permission!? ”

During the weekly meeting, the voice of President Kamauchi echoed. Then Gunpei raised his glasses slightly and replied.

“Probably an illegal Chinese clone company that's been doing it recently. ”

“Create and sell games from an illegal replicator!? How is that even possible, man? ”

Then, Seegee opened his mouth, looking stunned by something.

“That's right. It doesn't make sense that an illegal replicator would make and distribute such a great game. Oh, my Katrina.”

“Sige, what's wrong with that guy? ”

Kamauchi revealed an uncomfortable expression toward Shigei, who had been blurry. Sitting next to Shigei, I poked him in the side and replied to Kamauchi instead.

“Oh, that's the one where the heroine died in the dragon emblem you were playing yesterday.”

“I pushed it backwards to protect the end, but I never thought the enemy would fall behind. Ugh... What kind of monster director would design such a cruel level...”

Shigere muttered in a small voice, thinking about what happened yesterday. Oh my... Please wake up. But I'm glad to hear that the renowned gaming director, Shigei, is so keen to play...

“However, since the dragon emblem has settled on a second-hand market rather than an official distribution network, there's no way to figure out who made it. Maybe it was amateurs who invented the game.”

“I don't want to know who invented the game called Dragon Emblem. What I want to know is how the game that didn't give us royalties is being distributed!! ”

Kamauchi exclaimed at the whale to see if he was really mad.

In the conference room, everyone was attending except me, Gunpei, and Shigei, as well as the factory manager in charge of the cartridge production plant, as well as the head of the security and finance teams.

"But why am I here, the next generation of console development?"

Two months have passed since I sprinkled the dragon emblem on the thrift market.

At first, Shigei and Gunpei were rumored to be just urban legends about family games. However, the growing number of users said they wanted to know the producer as well as Mintendo's headquarters. As they started to ask questions, they went to market research, and after a few second-hand gaming companies, they came to believe that dragon emblems actually existed.

Currently, Shigei, the best game developer in Japan, has finally won the Dragon Emblem after a few days of trying to save the game because he was interested in new game forms.

However, all characters were exterminated on Stage 5 due to the difficulty of extreme difficulties, and the saved Dragon Emblem was only made into a non-playable object in one day.

“But this game has a bit of a unique side. ”

When Mr. Segae finally opened his mouth, all the eyes of the staff in the meeting room were on him.

“The dragon emblem I experienced... was almost like a survival game that pushed the user to the limit. Once a game is overplayed, you will not be able to play the game again. But when you put the game cartridge back together like that, you get a message. ”

“A message?”

“What the hell does this mean? ”

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