Chapter 19 – A Game of Three

Cheng Li jumped off the bed and drilled into the bottom of the bed, dragged out Cheng Ming hidden under the bed only 7 inches of small color TV and miscellaneous fc game consoles, placed on the bed, skilfully took out the row of plugs, plugged the power cord.

Almost two months ago, Sony just released the ps2, a 128-bit gaming console for the home, to start a new era of gaming.

But for domestic players, only some of those who have channels can buy ps2 water goods from the Xiangjiang side.

Almost four years later on New Year’s Day, Sony entered the domestic market with the ps2, and ended up selling only a thousand units a year because of the issues of region locking and only ten games, as well as all sorts of land and water issues. On the contrary, Xiangjiang’s licensed sales broke one million units, and there were more than three hundred games released.

This problem until Cheng Ming reborn that will be, or the same, the country line of ps4 half dead, players are relying on the machine left the back door to register other areas of the game account.

Nintendo entered the domestic market even earlier, releasing the ShenYou machine, a machine modeled after Nintendo’s n64, three years later in conjunction with ShenYou Technology.

Although Lao Ren and Shenyou Technology are full of sincerity, but domestic players generally have a piracy mentality, which is a limitation of the low standard of living, in order to prevent piracy, the game’s purchase is also complex, resulting in some capable of true fans want to support also confused.

In fact, the first pioneer cartoon in China to Chineseize fc games was trying to make licensed games, they wanted to cooperate with Nintendo, but it turned out that Nintendo didn’t agree.

Pioneer Cartoon also lacked sales outlets and advertising, and the game was overpriced, resulting in very poor sales and a pirated version a month after launch.

Pioneer Cartoon, which suffered serious losses, announced its dissolution, and Buster Company, which developed the Buster Learning Machine in that year, acquired all the technology developed by Pioneer Cartoon with 3 million dollars for 200,000 dollars, and started the era of Buster from then on.

A bunch of game cassettes all in one box, all without casings, where those with very few chips are four-in-one or several-in-one action cards, and those with lots of chips and button batteries are text cards with memory functions.

Cheng Ming did keep the box and manual of the game.

“What game do you guys want to play?” Cheng Ming asked as he picked up the action card, “Super Mario? Tank Battle? Snowman Brothers? Or Squirrel Battle?”

Since there was no casing, Cheng Ming used to be able to tell what it was by the subtle shape differences of the cassette and the numbers on it.

But after being reborn he had forgotten all those details.

“I’m a rookie, it’s better to play Snowman Brothers, I can borrow lives.” Lin Jingyi said rather self-consciously, she once had the honorable deed of borrowing Cheng Ming’s life.

“Squirrel Wars, how cute are the squirrels.”

My sister prefers furry animals.

“Here, this card has Snowman Brothers and Squirrel Battle on it, so you guys play it and negotiate what you want to play first, I’m going to go play on the computer.”

Cheng Ming clapped his hands together and just sat down in front of the computer, before his palms could touch the mouse, his left and right arms were viciously yanked backward.

“Brother, wait for me!”

“What’s the point of playing just the two of us if you don’t?”

Caught off guard, Cheng Ming fell headfirst onto the bed, looked up at the ceiling, looked at the two men’s chins, and said, “But it’s just two handles, you can’t play with three people.”

Cheng Ming scratched his head, why did it make it seem like he was dragging them hard to play a game.

“Then it’ll be just like before, Xiao Li and I will have one life each, and if we die, we’ll be replaced.” Lin Jingyi suggested.

“I’m fine with that.”

It was rare that Cheng Li didn’t lift a finger with Lin Jingyi.

“Let’s play Snowman Brothers first then.” Cheng Ming said as he grabbed the handle of the 1p.

The TV was small and the handle was short, so three people squeezed into a ball.

Cheng Ming sat upright with his legs crossed, and Lin Jingyi lay down on the bed with the handle, taking a pillow and padding it under her elbow to avoid pinching her hands.

Cheng Li’s chin leaned against Cheng Ming’s thigh.

Cheng Ming glanced at Lin Jingyi, the clothes didn’t fit, the overly wide collar revealed a large portion of her rounded shoulders, and the snowy whites on her chest squeezed into a gully.

But her instincts were oblivious as she held down the handle and said, “This is jump, this is attack, snowball pile.”

Familiar bgm sounded, the game officially began, the previous levels are quite simple, but also can take the egg reward in the meantime, Cheng Li waited for all fast asleep, yawning several times.

Finally Lin Jingyi made a mistake and buried herself, Cheng Ming immediately pressed the pause button and waited for them to hand over the handle.

“Stupid stupid stupid, it’s so easy to die.”

Cheng Li took the handle with a mocking face and burrowed under his armpits into Cheng Ming’s arms again and sat down, really acting like a cat, his light and boneless body generally leaning in front of his chest.

Looking down at the swirls of his sister’s hair, Cheng Ming couldn’t help but make it bad, his chin resting against his sister’s little head, rubbing it from side to side.

Arms squeezing his sister in his arms, “Brother, your head is so heavy, ahahaha ……”

Cheng Li’s body swayed around, letting out a silver bell-like laughter.

Lin Jingyi, who didn’t play the game, then noticed that her chest was wide open, and hurriedly grabbed the collar to block it, but unfortunately, Cheng Li was the king of strong mouths, and she died if she wasn’t careful.

“How did this monster come back to life!”

“Who told you to be lazy and only roll the snowball halfway.”

“I want to push the ball to kill monsters to pop ink, who hates to permanently ice monsters like you do.”

Lin Jingyi’s gameplay highlights a steady, after each of the ten levels of the lottery is the most exciting time for the two, who added a life, the tail can be up to the sky.

You guys like to play shakedown so much, you might as well just go play Bubble Bobble.

However, after the gaming machine ban was released, gambling machines such as arcades and bubble dragons could not be placed in regular establishments, and only some shady stores dared to secretly place them inside.

The gaming machine ban is actually mainly about banning gambling machines.

However, the arcade and gambling machines are too similar in appearance and have been implicated in an unmitigated disaster of sorts.

And some home game consoles, including Nintendo and Sony, suffered a lot when they entered the domestic market because of this ban.

Banning gambling machines, Cheng Ming is raising both hands to agree, that thing will really make some people addicted, really want to play gambling, Cheng Ming or suggest to go to the underground casino of the Brave and the Bold to play.

In the end, Cheng Ming’s life was hollowed out by these two, and whenever he rewarded a life, it was immediately borrowed by them again.

“Brother, you’re going to have to jump at this time.”

“Eat, eat, eat, the ice cream is about to disappear.”

A word from the left, a word from the right, pointing out Cheng Ming’s operation.

Obviously playing a two-player cooperative casual game, hard to Cheng Ming played into the Contra one life pass that flavor.

“I’ve got another life, whose turn is it next?” Cheng Ming asked, “It should be Xiao Li’s turn, right?”

No one responded.

Cheng Li’s body was askew and fell headfirst onto Cheng Ming’s left arm, already unconscious, no wonder Cheng Ming felt his arm sinking.

Lin Jingyi lay on her side and huffed.

Snowman Brothers wouldn’t be fun to play alone.

Even though for most of the time Cheng Ming was playing alone.

But the mischief of the sister and Lin Jingyi is also an element that adds to the fun of the game.

Cheng Ming laid his sister flat on the bed, took a pillow and put it behind her head, turned off the game, and put both the TV and the game console back under the bed.

He uncovered the quilt and tucked both of them in, casually turning off the light.

They say they don’t sleep together, but they end up sleeping together.

Cheng Ming was certainly able to carry his sister back to her room to sleep.

But there was no need to carry his sister back to the house, and he was kind of looking forward to the look on both of their faces when they woke up tomorrow and saw each other.

This was the first time Cheng Ming had come to his sister’s room since he was reborn, with pink bedding and a rabbit muppet on the bed.

There were posters of female celebrities on the walls. My sister wasn’t old enough to like handsome men and male celebrities yet.

There was a sweet, girly aroma in the air.

Cheng Ming patted the rabbit’s head and said, “Good night ……”