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I wish you all a lot of money and all the best in the new year.

Arcade games are an eternal topic, representing the memories of our generation's youth.

When I was still playing games yesterday, I was suddenly forty years old. In the road of life, we have completed a small half of the process.

Now with the heavy burden of the family, the game is more and more far away from us, only occasionally read articles and videos in my spare time to recall. But that's enough.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New year. I wish you all a happy New year. May you always maintain a young mentality, family harmony, healthy parents and successful children.

Arcade games, which were ubiquitous in the early years, have almost disappeared, and only in slightly larger cities can you still see some remaining games, but the business model has been revolutionized and the card-swiping model has become more up-to-date.

For early players, it is difficult to get back to that kind of passion without casting a coin.

Now we see arcade games in the video game city, almost all of them are thousands of pirated copies, which players generally call "Moonlight Treasure Box".

This kind of arcade motherboard has been popular in China for many years, and the design is becoming more and more user-friendly, more and more convenient, so that these manufacturers make a lot of money, and even sold abroad.

Nowadays, in those backward countries, a blue curtain can be seen everywhere, and a group of addicted kids with poor skills are staring at the game screen. Everyone has an obsessive expression, shouting, shouting, noisy, and thugs, just like the atmosphere we had in the 1980s and 1990s.

It seems to be the rest of our game.

But in the 1980s and 1990s, didn't we play the rest of the game?

Chinese arcade games started relatively late, and only in the mid-1980s did games enter coastal cities from Hong Kong, China. At that time, the level of domestic consumption was completely out of proportion to the consumption of game consoles. not only was the price of game consoles surprisingly high, but the price of game coins was even more astonishing: one yuan per piece, one yuan from the 1980s!

Therefore, at that time, the people who could open the game hall were at least "ten thousand yuan households", while those who could play games had assets at home more or less.

The first game token to be used is exactly what we are familiar with: Chinese and Western coins.

At that time, the game console equipment was not very perfect, and many parts did not support adjustment. The tokens used are all unified "Chinese and Western coins". They are identical in size, size and weight, and are common to all game halls.

At that time, "Chinese and Western coins" entered China together with game consoles. The production of Chinese and Western coins was made by an agent factory in Hong Kong in the 1980s, and all game coins were marked with the words "Chinese and Western".

Why carve "Chinese and Western", is to give players a high-end illusion, and at that time the game coins are all made of copper, a lot of weight.

The game console that first entered the country, there is also a relatively rare "right-hand rocker left-hand button." Later, even if it was corrected, many people still kept this habit and played with their hands crossed.

In the mid-1990s, most cities have begun to customize their own game coins, such as the familiar 888, Tianlong, Huaye, Shilong, Willie, Super, Weiqiao, Xinhua, BBM.

At this time, the game token casting material is still copper, but the feeling is very rough.

After all, the craftsmanship was not very good at that time, and as players used it more and more often, it gradually became smoother, and now there are still a lot of people collecting these game coins.

With the passage of time, the most primitive casting material "copper" was finally banned by the alloy. The game coins we play in the later period are basically like this:

Curiously, the later coin dispensers are becoming more and more high-end and can be adjusted at will. However, no matter how the shape and material of the game coin change, the scale and weight are almost unchanged, and many game halls are still "universal".

It is estimated that this size is the most perfect and least prone to error.

After all, we have seen relatively small "small Chinese and Western coins". They often eat coins after casting coins, and pray every time they put in coins: don't eat coins! At that time, some players put the "small money" at home to put coins, although they can put in, but can not play, the weight is not enough.

The game halls in rural areas have basically used "Chinese and Western coins" for a lifetime, and there is no way to put an end to the phenomenon of "buying money in the west and playing in the east". As a result, several nearby game halls also reached a consensus that the price of the game currency must be the same.

However, there is no way to do it in remote areas, and the low consumption price is also set at a low price, ten for one yuan. Many players "restock" here, and then get a four-piece game hall for consumption. )

Of course, the boss is not a fool. If he sees a kid playing there all the time, but clearly remembers that he has never bought a coin, he will certainly ask suspiciously. The child could not stand the torture, so he might confess, but the boss reprimanded him at most, and there was nothing he could do about it.

At that time, the most daring players often went to distant game halls to pick locks, and then went to several nearby game halls to "spend" after getting the game coins. Anyway, they were all exactly the same "Chinese and Western coins."

First pretend to buy a few coins, then pretend to play with the fruit machine, pretend to win the coin, return the coin and ask the boss for a refund.

(some places do not refund the coin after winning, just turn off the phone and refund the money, there is no way. )

Game coin is an important memory of our childhood, each coin is full of players' sweat and passion. I wonder if you still have a few lucky game coins after many years.

This article comes from the official Wechat account: arcade feelings (ID:JJQH66), author: our arcade era

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