Game Market 1983

Pentagon Soft Director. Kang Jun-hyuk.

A director is a pretty high position within the company, isn't he?

As I lay in bed and looked at one of the business cards on my fingertips for a long time, I sighed and put my business card on my desk.

Then he looks at the hidden mother's guitar case above the wardrobe and mutters to himself.

“Mom, what should I do...? ”

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The next morning.

The train to school for class is always crowded.

I can hardly breathe on a difficult subway train between the worker and the students who go to school, but everyone is holding something in their hands.

Older adults still hold small books in their hands, but as soon as they got on the train as they had promised, they took out a white game machine.

Since the launch of the portable gamble boy in Mintendo, there have been a few players playing on the subway, but the number has been increasing explosively since that white game machine appeared.

Moreover, even the children who gathered on campus during the holidays and read books have recently plugged cables into each other's game machines and enjoyed something together.

Raon...

All I knew was the name of the game machine.

Shortly after the train stopped at the station where the school was, I took a deep breath, barely out of the crowd.

“Kanna!”

When I came down the subway station stairs, Mayumi, who was from the same high school, waved her hands at me.

And next to him, her boyfriend, Nakamura, was still engaged in the game with his earphones on.

Mayumi and I were close friends who were not in school, but were in the same university and had maintained a good relationship since freshman year of high school.

“Mayumi, Nakamura. Good morning!"

But Nakamura wasn't listening to me, he was beating the game hard.

Eventually, Nakamura, who was beaten by Mayumi, pulled out his earphones screaming.

“Ahhhhh!! It was going well!! It was 128 combos...”

“You've been holding on to that game machine all morning. When someone greets you, you should know how to listen!! ”

“I was going to say hello. I tried! ”

Nakamura grunts and lowers the power of the game machine in his hand.

At that moment, I looked at Nakamura's game machine without even knowing it.

“Oh, that's Raon, right? ”

When I asked, Nakamura and Mayumi opened their eyes wide and asked me again.

“Kanna, do you know Raon? ”

“Yeah, well, it's famous. I see a lot on the subway these days...”

“That's the first time I've ever mentioned her by name. Everything is so strange in my life...”

Nakamura puts Raon in her bag and smiles. I asked again for those Nakamura soldiers.

“Nakamura likes games, don't you? ”

“Of course. Of course.”

“What's your favorite game? ”

“Well... I'm not much of a genre guy, but I'm mostly RPG. And the Pentagon? ”

“Pentagon Games?? Is there such a genre? ”

Then Nakamura slightly raised his mouth and answered my question in detail.

“Pentagon games are not genres, they're literally games created by a game company called the Pentagon. Even you don't know how to play the game, Final Frontier. You've heard of dragon emblems, right? They're all made in the Pentagon. It's a company called the Masterpiece Manufacturer, and it's enormous. The loneliness, the news, the lack of me...”

At that time, Mayumi, who was listening to Nakamura's story, flicked her fingers and opened her mouth.

“Ahhh!! Street without me!! I know that game. ”

Even Mayumi, who was not interested in the game as much as I am, showed quite an interest in 'the streets where I am not.’

“Huh? Have you played that game, too? ”

“No. When the game came out, I went down to the living room for a drink of water at dawn, and I heard the sound of tears in my brother's room. So I opened the door a little bit to see what was going on, and it was a gamepad? She was crying her head off. ”

He nodded and agreed that Nakamura would agree.

“I understand. So did I. The streets without me were the best game of my life. ”

“Hiya!! Otaku!!"

At that moment, I smiled at Mayumi, picking up Nakamura.

“It was a game that was really determined and intended to resonate, and it was popular with the public. Especially since part two won't be able to withstand that kind of mental strength. ”

“Is that really it? ”

“I'll lend it to you. Do you want to try it? ”

“No, my brother is still keeping it as if it were just a tribute, so he can try whenever he wants. ”

With Nakamura and Mayumi's reaction, I lowered my head slightly and thought.

‘The Pentagon Soft is a very popular place. Then why did he ask me to become an idol in such a place? ’

A person named Kang Jun-hyuk.

You don't look so bad, and besides, if you're Yuki's husband, you seem like a trustworthy man.

That afternoon.

By the end of the first lecture, when I arrived at the student restaurant, many students were already filling the restaurant.

I was trying to figure out where to sit, but I heard a voice calling out to me from one side.

“Kanna! Over here!! ”

“Oh, Mayumi. ”

She was having dinner with Nakamura. She pulled out the chair and recommended it to me.

After finishing eating, Nakamura was sitting at a table, eavesdropping on Raon.

“Here we go again. Here we go again."

Mayumi looked at him pitifully, swallowing a hand-wrapped lunch box.

After a while, Nakamura, who was beating hard at the game to see if he knew that. Screaming, you get down on the table.

“Ugh... kneeling in 187 combos with the damn notice in front of you. ”

As I was curious about Nakamura, who was so unfair, I tilted my head and asked him.

“What kind of game are you playing this morning? ”

“Well, I don't know, rhythm games? ”

“Rhythm game? ”

“This is the new Pentagon game I told you about this morning, and you can't break up with it if you really try it? ”

“Is that it? ”

Then Nakamura reached out to me and said.

“If you're so curious, why don't you play for yourself? ”

“Can I... try? ”

“Of course. Here, let me show you. ”

After taking a seat next to me, Nakamura told me that it was a relatively easy song. The first time I held Raon, I felt a soft, curling hand.

“You're lighter than I thought. ”

“Right? Now, if you press the A button here, and you choose to play demo...”

I nodded and plugged my earphones, as the Nakamura told me, due to a simpler maneuver than I thought.

‘You said you pressed the button to adjust the rhythm bar coming down the screen to the timing notes at the bottom...? ’

After a while, I look at the red rhythm bar slowly coming down from the top, and I press the button, and the sound of a clear, clear piano rings in my ears. In line with the rhythm, a girl's back was briefly touched like a scene from a movie.

“Ah…”

With a small elasticity and then pressing another button to the rhythm bar, one piano music based on the base music began playing in my ears.

“You're pretty good for the first time. ”

Concentrated on the music, the sound of Nakamura's voice coming from next to him, I continued the music, beating down the rhythm bar well.

As my fingers moved as if dancing, I heard the elasticity of the Nakamura army over the earphones.

But it seemed good.

I wanted to see the girl on the screen right now.

However, if the timing was off, she would have to maintain the Compact Combo with precision timing, like a machine, in order to get back to the previous scene and see the Hiro's appearance perfectly.

I tried to move my finger hard, but as the music flowed to the middle, a number of rhythm bars poured down at a rapid rate and it wasn't hard to keep up with the timing.

“A little more power, Kanna!! ”

Mayumi cheered for me one day, but in the end, my play collapsed in 65 combos.

Once the timing started to deviate, a bar graph called the recall gauge quickly fell down and announced the end of the game.

“Wow… but 65 combos for the first time, that's amazing! ”

Taking out the earphones, the Nakamura army handed over Raon with a satisfactory smile.

“Is this really the first time you've done it? ”

“Yes, but something was fresh. I thought the only game I ever knew was how to beat an enemy like Super Maridge, but... is this something special? ”

“Right? That's why I love the Pentagon. Every time a new game is released, it feels very refined!”

I only played it once, but I thought I could understand the way Nakamura praises me like that.

“How was Kanna's fun? ”

When Mayumi asked me, I thought about it for a moment and gave an honest impression.

“Something... sad. ”

“Ugh? Sad? ”

“Yeah, well, you know, the whole time I was playing the song, it just felt like I was trying to picture someone. I feel like I'm playing the piano soloist...”

“Bingo! That's very accurate. In fact, I get a lot of appreciation for the kindness of PC communication communities. ”

Nakamura later explained that the game titled "Gift of God" will be released on the full version of December 24 next month.

What I played was a play demo version of 4 songs that I could play in this play, and the trial game told me that players could see her face other than the back of the hero painted on the pamphlet.

The characters that Nakamura Army had cleared to full combo status were Yukinozo Kaori, the lively blonde-haired character, and Otani Haruka, the cute looking challenger.

Once you've cleared all the rhythm bars with Fulcombo, you can always see the face of the Hiro.

?

“Now I'm only playing 62 hours of demo time to see the other two faces... Especially ‘Satsuki Noriko', the main character's lesson teacher, has not yet been cleared by me...”

“Huff-puff! Is that it? ”

Mayumi asked you to give her the Satsuki Noriko theme, known as the highest difficulty level, if she was curious about the Nakamura Military's description.

And I realized how reckless the challenge was by giving orders to the rhythm bar that was pouring down with the aggressive introduction.

“Now do you understand why I'm tapping buttons with you every day? ”

“So you've been hitting this thing with Raon since you were in school? ”

When Mayumi asked, Nakamura nodded as if it were natural.

I looked at Raon on the table for a moment and asked Nakamura.

“This game machine called Raon. How much can you live for? ”

“Kanna, are you trying to buy this? ”

“Yes. And a game called God's Gift, if possible...”

In my answer, Nakamura opens his mouth with a big smile.

“Hahahaha! Good. Kanna, come with me to the Holy Land on December 24!! ”

“Sanctuary...? Where is it?”

“Where am I? If I was a shrine for Otaku, would I be outside Akihabara?!! ”