Game Market 1983

Saaaa...

A moment later, I opened my eyes to the sound of the wind shaking the leaves of the lake. I woke up in a frenzied position because of Fondant's fishing stew underwater.

I'm back!! It's here!!! ’

It must be quite a big one, given the sensation at the end of his hand.

“Khh!!! ”

A fishing chair makes a ruckus, rolling back, but I quickly start winding the tightened fishing line as I tighten my legs.

"I think someone caught a tuna by the seashore. Why are you so strong about the fish in the lake?" ’

Bang, bang, bang!!

You don't want to get caught by me. I can't believe you're going this far.

Ha. G. Manna's been here for two hours. If I catch you, I'll lose face!

Tsk!!

With a sinister hand, the creature that was lifted up in the air twists and sinks back into the lake.

“Oh... this is crazy.”

“Daddy, did you miss the fish? ”

I nodded with a red face in Seohyun's voice coming from behind.

“I don't think I'll be able to catch a single one until Grandpa gets here. ”

“Hmm... I see. You're gonna hear this from your father-in-law again. ”

Seohyun came next to me, who picked up the fishing line with a sigh, and he crouched.

“When are you going to catch the fish?" she asked. Grandpa's almost here. ”

“Y-yeah? ”

Oh my... this is bad. I shouted aloud that I would boil some Korean spicy soup, but I haven't caught one yet. Then Seohyun, looking at me with his hands on his chin, smiled and asked me.

“So what happened? ”

“Hmm? What? ”

“Daddy's Tokyo game show. You called Hayashi on the way to camping to talk to him. ”

“Oh, right. That's right."

I put bread on an empty fishing hook and swung a fishing rod toward the golden gleaming shore of the lake.

After a while, when the stew rose above the surface with the sound of fondant, I sat Seolhyun on the floor with an iceberg smile.

“Let's see, where were we? ”

“Even the PVP system!! ”

“Oh, right. Our Seohyun has a good memory. ”

Seohyun looked at me, sticking out his tongue with a playful look in my compliment.

“So what happened? ”

“It was... it wasn't a riot. As soon as the Pentagon conference was over, people didn't look back and ran to Akihabara. ”

“Wow... that must have been fun. ”

“There was a conference scheduled for the NEGA after the Pentagon, and Negata, Saturn's public relations model, wasn't trying to catch any of the users leaving the venue. ”

If I still think about what happened back then, I can get a bloody smile out of my head.

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“You there!! You go, Saturn! ”

“You should do more!! ”

“What!? ”

Negata Sansiro, who was shouting at the users like a tough concept, frowned at the response of the young user returning to him.

At the end of the Pentagon's conference, about a quarter of the spectators escaped and the venue was in complete chaos.

“What!? What's wrong with them? ”

“The Pentagon is announcing the Dragon Emblem!! ”

“What? When does it launch? ”

“Today!! I'm buying first!! ”

“Gee, wait. I'm coming with you!! ”

I had some expectations, but after seeing the entire venue onstage, I was forced to get off the stage because I could see the number of spectators dropping rapidly.

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“Hahaha. You're mean. If you do that, you're troubling other producers who have been waiting for the Tokyo game show until that day. ”

“Yes, but the Tokyo game show isn't just for one day. There were some outsiders, but many visitors came back the next day. ”

“I see...”

At that time, Yuki's voice came from a camp built near the lake.

“Seolhyun, can you help me?”

“Yeah. I'm on my way. Hey, Mom. I didn't catch any fish, Dad. What do we do? ”

“It's okay. I'll bring all the fish to the lakefront next time Grandpa comes. ”

“ · · · · · ·. ”

“You came over here to rest. ”

“Hmm... I suppose...”

Yuki said I fixed a fishing rod and headed for the campsite.

“Dad, will you buy me a cell phone next week after the exam? ”

“Mobile? What kind of mobile phone do you need for elementary school students? ”

“I have almost all my classmates! You said you'd buy them for me the last time! And I'm already 10 years old!”

Seohyun, who was grabbing my arm all the way back to the camp, finally let me go after hearing Yuki yell.

“Did Seohyun ask you to buy him a cell phone again? ”

“Blood, you heard what Dad promised you the last time. ”

... so I went into the bedroom and got my back smashed. What kind of phone is that for a kid?

Yuki's eyes turned away from Yuki, who was slicing vegetables on the cutting board.

“La, where's the radio? Did you leave it in the car? ”

Is that why you said that child education needs enough consultation with your spouse?

Of course, it's a mobile phone. It's a necessity that everyone has these days, but it wasn't easy to convince Yuki that it was bad for education.

After I had just bought a camper car to get back on the topic, I took out music or portable radio and hung it on the hood of my camper car.

Cheers!! Tsk!!

As we stand up the antenna and dial to adjust the frequency, a moment later a familiar song flows out of the radio.

Hey, what if...

If only I could give up everything.

Would it be a little easier to live with a smile?

My heart aches again.

Don't tell me anything else.

“Ah…”

Yuki, who was cutting vegetables, also stopped his hand at her song and looked at the radio.

At that time, Seolhyun, who was moving the ingredients to the plate next to Yuki, tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“Huh? Isn't this Kanna's song? But your voice is completely different...? ”

“Tsubaki's voice... It's been a long time. Joon-Hyuk.”

“I see...”

I sat on a table chair nearby with the radio hanging on my forehead, and I narrowed it down.

“It's been a long time, Tsubaki...”

Closing my eyes still reminds me of that day sometimes.

A clean hospital hallway that has been wiped clean enough by the sun. Leaning against the window, her smile staring at me...

We didn't say anything for a moment until the end of Tsubaki's song.

“I, uh, need to use the restroom...”

After Yuki couldn't help but cry, Seohyun tilted his head and asked me.

“Mom... I think I just cried. Are you crying, too? ”

“No, I'm not crying. ”

I tried so hard to steal tears with my fingertips because of Seohyun's voice.

- You've heard Sawano Tsubaki's "What if" song, which is 10 cycles since he died this year. This is the first song in the game, virtue idol, about a decade from now. If any of you are listening to the radio right now, and you're enjoying Virtual Idol at the time, I'm worried that you're secretly crying on your own right now. Time flies like this... 10 years... I used to love this game...

Have you ever played idol, Mr. Sakai? -

- Sure, who am I? The first celebrity to punk the broadcast and go all the way to Akiba to buy Dragon Warrior 3. -

- Oh, right. At that time, I heard that the owner of the agency was very upset. -

- Well, I almost got it right then. They didn't make it to their live feed because of the broadcast schedule, but 10 years ago, Virtual Idol was amazing. The year after her debut, she even performed in Tokyo in the fall. -

- I remember a month before the show, Mr. Tsubaki finally died, didn't he? -

- I didn't actually see it, but they said the show that day was a real sea of tears. especially Kanna, who succeeded her song on behalf of Tsubaki, fell exhausted after singing the last song, "What if?" -

I remember a lot of fans coming to her funeral...

As I listened to the radio broadcast talking to her in her memory, I swallowed an forced smile.

“It was truly enormous...”

Sawano Tsubaki. I still feel sad when I think of her name.

All five songs she left in the world, including "hug me" and "if." And one of the best rated songs was the song "What if" by Kanna.

Her death was one of the most unacceptable cases for gamers at the time.

The funeral was delayed by visitors from all over Japan to commemorate her and several suicidal prayers to follow her.

Five of them actually died.

Because of this, it's become a social issue, and the Pentagon is asking its users to refrain from making extreme choices and to hold press conferences.

It was right around the time I left the Pentagon when I finished the Tokyo Dome event at Idol.

After Tsubaki's funeral, I took some time off and officially resigned as director of Pentagon Soft.

Maurita and Hayashi and many others tried to stop me from making my decision, but I couldn't reverse it.

Over the next few years, Kamucci, president of Mintendo, tried desperately to bring me back in, but I shook my head every time.

Mintendo was having a very hard time in 2005.

Kamauchi tried to seduce me into becoming his own boss, but I didn't want to go back to Mintendo without Gunpei.

Summer of 1997, eight years from now.

After leaving Mintendo due to the failure of a virtual reality game machine called 'Virtual Boy’, Gunpei soon died of illness.

Using the future I knew, I was able to avoid the car accident that drove him to his death, but I suppose there was always an infectious disease.

Then I heard Seohyun's voice who was listening to the radio with me.

“Huh!? Grandpa!!! ”

“Oh my! How have you been, my granddaughter? ”

When he got up on the table in his voice, he threw a bloody smile and said to me, with his hands full.

“You. You said you haven't caught one yet!”

“Fishing. It's harder than it looks. ”

“In the meantime, gamers have been fishing well. Tsk, tsk...”

Author's Words

I was very troubled when I posted this side.

It's actually something I've been thinking about for the past few days.

I said I would end up with about 10 copies of the game market.

I felt like writing one more volume would be a repetition of a similar episode.

I've also been a part of a recent episode.

I can't tell you exactly how far it's going to end, but I'm going to end up in the game market 1983 in a way that's going to help you remember the story.

We're not done yet, so we'll postpone this farewell later.

Thank you for reading today.. ^ ^