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The most popular period for arcade games was from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, during which a large number of influential classic games were born. Among them, CAPCOM's clearance game is the most representative, and until now there are still many nostalgic players who will take it out from time to time to experience it.

"Whirlwind" laid the foundation for the clearance game, such as: health items, bonus items, recovery items, weapons, miscellaneous soldiers, elite monsters and bosses... Later similar games appeared, the gameplay is basically the same, for the players at that time is also very easy to learn.

The most common item in the game was the box. Almost everything players needed was played in the box. The boxes were divided into random boxes and fixed boxes. Generally, only some garbage items could be dropped from the boxes, but good things might also drop when they were lucky. The items dropped from the fixed boxes are relatively stable. Before we meet the BOSS, there will definitely be some large-scale food in the boxes.

The box in the picture below, do you think it looks familiar?

The game box is not directly eaten (except round table knight), must be opened to drop props. The boxes that hold the food are very special in appearance. Such as the "box" of "Records of the Three Kingdoms," fish, shrimp, plate buns, roast duck and suckling pig can be produced inside, and the shipment is fixed. "Dinosaur fast fight" players like to see is precisely the small barrel, at least every time can play food. Other games also have boxes specifically designed to store food.

As shown below:

Because of the age, many items could not be identified. This point of CAPCOM's game was slightly better. The food looked very large, and the recognition was relatively high. Some of the props could still be recognized.

The props in other games were not so easy to recognize. In the era of poor quality, even if there were English prompts, they might not be able to recognize them.

Tempura rice is one of the most common foods in arcade games. Although the food in "Famous General" looks clear, no one can recognize this food at that time, mainly because it looks too much like a banana. Therefore, our group of players has been called "Banana," from the arcade era to the present, even today there are still many players who have not corrected it. (Why correct? Just say it and everyone knows what it is!)

In other games, although the picture quality is not as good as CAPCOM, TEMPURA's recognition is slightly clearer, at least it looks like it has been fried!

So the question comes, since it is tempura, then it can be loaded with a plate, why use a bowl? Moreover, no matter how delicious tempura was, it was unlikely that it would become one of the best health-replenishing foods in the game! Yes, the bowl TEMPURA that appeared in the game, to be exact, should be "tempura covered rice." This way, it would be more reasonable. The weight would support his HP.

Sushi For players nowadays, sushi is already a household name. But how many people did you know in the early '90s? Players who had experienced it would naturally understand that feeling, while players who had not experienced it would definitely say that they could tell at a glance.

Sushi display tools are generally more sophisticated, the game appears in most of the sushi are placed on a small board. Not a lot, but it looks bigger overall. No matter what game you play, sushi is one of the best foods for healing.

Back then, I had always wondered how sushi in Dinosaur Fast Fight and Electric Demon Puppet could look like this. It wasn't until many years later that I saw the effect of the TV movie that I realized that this was really sushi!

Meat MEAT, BBQ, STEAK, these are more common foods.

In the clearance game, these foods are the top ingredients. Large-scale roasted meat could basically replenish his remaining HP, while steak could replenish at least two-thirds of his HP. The health item that players look forward to most when they are low on health is worth 1UP in many scenarios.

Roast meat appears in each game is different,"dinosaur fast fight" is dinosaur meat,"three kingdoms" is horse leg,"punisher" is elbow. MEAT health effect and the size of the item, the general player can guess how much health can be added to see the shape.

Chicken was second only to barbecue in the game, and the blood tonic effect was also very good. It appeared many times, so it should not be mistaken if it was highly recognizable. Chicken also has a lot of classification, such as "violent police" appeared in the live chicken and chicken,"alien war iron warrior" appeared turkey and chicken leg, in addition to black chicken, burnt whole chicken, more funny is "electric puppet" chicken (red is below), looks like a turtle.

Why is a mount mixed in with the chicken illustration? What was going on with this thing?

That's right, the name of this mount is "Chicken Leg," which literally means "Chicken Leg." I don't know why it's called this name. Could it be that this chicken leg has become a spirit? In "Beast King" and "Tomahawk" in this "chicken leg" are appeared, respectively, enemy soldiers and mount identity, that is, there is no edible value.

The person who translated HOTDOG into HOTDOG was really a genius, which caused many people who first came into contact with food to misunderstand. Western food is now very common in China and is basically known. In the early 1990s, however, few players were able to call out the correct names.

Hot dog is a sausage eating method, in the game appear generally with bread clip, eat up not hot and delicious. That's why most of the hot dogs in the game are the same.

Hot dogs are high in calories, so the blood tonic effect is surprisingly good. Sometimes it looks like it's only a little bit big, but after eating it, I find that it's more than half of the blood.

Magic Potion translated into different names in different games. In the Western Magic World, Dragon King Warrior, Sword of Kings, Holy Armor, and Magic Sword could be translated into magic potion. In Captain Iron Hook, it could be understood as "immortal drink." In action games, it could be understood as red potion and blue potion.

But in those days we generally called it holy water, in fact, it was completely fine to call it that. "Holy water" in the game are often the highest effect of one of the props.

However, POTION in the Journey to the West is the most trashy health item. POTION here we can understand as: nectar, but strange is how the blood effect will be so bad? Compared to the jade bottle and wine in the "Journey to the West" Super, it was simply weak.

In addition,"Journey to the West" played for more than ten years, has not been the food right. I used to think it was a flat peach, but after seeing the official name: LOTUS, I knew it was a lotus flower! In Journey to the West, the lotus flower in Yao Chi is a thing of the immortal world, and it is reasonable that it can replenish physical strength.

GOLD INGOT We generally call it: gold bricks, gold ingots

This thing was highly recognizable and easily recognized. All three of them appear together in the game. It is usually the biggest bonus item in the game. We have eaten many times the gold bricks in "Dinosaur Quick Fight", but few people know that the hidden 10000 points are actually gold bricks.

And the necklace. Did you recognize it back then?

I am so glad we were able to play so many games. And in the game hall happened bit by bit still fresh memory, after all, this is our best youth ah!

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Arcade Feelings (ID: JJQH66), Author: Arcade Times

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