Have a Meal Before You Go

There's a place called the arcade.

The arcade, which appeared at the market entrance, was truly a popular vs. explosion.

50 cents a game. Kind of, it was an airplane game.

Players become airplanes, striking flying enemies with missiles and dodging flying cannonballs. After some time, the boss comes out, and when you clear the boss, the first stage is over.

The total stage is up to 30, and over time the difficulty increases explosively.

“Hey!”

Echo spent 100 dollars completely today and only had eight stages. Sitting in front of the machine, Echo looks down at the Eastern Society, staring down at the side seat.

“What stage are you in? ”

“12.”

“What?"

Echo was shocked.

“Yi, you're taller than this body. ”

“...... What's wrong? ”

“Shut up!"

Echo punched one of the Eastern Socks in the back for no reason.

“Cough!”

“Ahjussi, move aside. ”

Looking back, there are quite a lot of people standing in line. The appearance of entertainment was the same as that in the arcade 30 years ago. One stick and four buttons. Extreme control created by its simple combination.

Echo couldn't believe he was six classes taller than this stupid freshman.

“This must be a dream. ”

When Echo stood up muttering, the children waiting behind put a coin.

The children are very good.

Echo watches as the children enter stage 13, giving a frightening look.

Puddles

Echo trembles in shame.

“Y-you mean this body can't do better than a bunch of bloody kids? ”

That's ridiculous. Echo turns his eyes to the back of the machine as he gradually begins to notice.

And then you turn off the power button, Pod! and disappeared.

“Huh? Off you go! ”

“What the hell! ”

.

“Not like this. ”

Echo grunts.

“What?”

Chulho asks. Echo answers with a ballmen voice.

“The arcade. ”

“The arcade? Ah-”

Cheolho nods. Recently created entertainment rooms were quite nostalgic. It seemed to be used after excavating and restoring an old machine.

When Chulho was a kid, there was a playroom here and there. Fighting games, shooter games, sports, card games, etc.

When I was little, Chulho had a lot of time to be home alone because of his parents. His parents were always busy. Until his father opened a PC room and the business went well, Chulho wasn't that interested in computers.

Until then, the arcade was more familiar to Cheolho.

Before my father came to work, he used to run to the arcade as soon as he left a thousand won bill on the table.

There were many masters among my friends at that time. Everyone wanted to play for as long as possible with a limited amount of money, so there's no need to say that.

Desperation makes humans strong, and it's probably natural to practice games that can be played for as long as you can with 1,000 won.

The best interest among them was also shooting games.

Marseille's shooting game, the Grand Air Age, with a stage of up to 30.

Once captured, the Aerial Era can continue to play until both lives depend on it! That was the target of the children at the time. If you clear 30 stages all, it was a game that lasted 100 won for an hour.

However, the difficulty of the game is close to extreme. In particular, if you go beyond stage 15, you will need superhuman motor vision and concentration.

“Phew.”

When Cheolho smiled, Echo frowned.

“Why?”

“The Air Force.”

“Aren't you? ”

“I know.”

Chulho shrugs.

“This body broke it up to eight stages. ”

“Really?"

“Yeah. I spent 100 bucks. ”

“...... ”

Chulho walked into the kitchen with a strange smile. I also brought Echo kimchi fried rice, which is today's menu.

“Cheolho, how many stages have you played? ”

“Me?”

Chulho quietly remembered the old days.

Cheolho was the best master of the neighborhood at the time. It's just, I think the shooter fits the bill. It has a wide field of view and good mobility, and the neighborhood's best record has always been Cheolho's.

Thanks to you, I've been dragged away by the entertainment room brothers and sisters. I've been on my own for a long time.

“Just like that. ”

“Hmph.”

Echo's mouth was small.

“You're an eight-stage player, I see. ”

Parker

Suddenly, a tendon popped into Cheolho's forehead.

“Excuse me?”

Take a nap.

A man can bend his pride in every way, but his pride is as high as the game.

Cheolho, of course, was the same.

In particular, Cheolho's generation was a generation called the golden age of gaming in South Korea.

Entertainment rooms in childhood, fish rooms in adolescence. In particular, since elementary school, simulation of the best strategic masterpiece known as' Stark ’has even created a new industry called E Sports.

That is.

Cheolho's generation was proud of the game. Also, the presence of cafes and entertainment rooms, which were as crowded as cafes across the country, was enough to make a large number of teenagers into pro-gamer paratroopers.

Echo touched the pride of the youth who longed to play well.

“Tell me the truth. You can't even go to Stage 8. ”

At Echo's words, Chulho closes his eyes. I have two more tendons on my forehead. Chulho opened his eyes and recited it low.

“Let's go.”

“What?"

Echo raises his head while eating fried rice.

“Let's go now. ”

Chulho took off his apron. There was a flame burning in Cheolho's eyes.

“Huff.”

Echo, I can assure you, had never seen the eyes of a burning helmet like that. It wasn't like that when we went to fight Kal Rampage.

* * *

“Huff.”

Echo is appalled.

Cheolho was just crossing 18 stages. Steel's plane was actually moving strangely. Close enough to dodge enemy shells and match enemy airplanes.

And when the time was right, the ability to use special tools to kill a cannonball was truly spectacular.

“Wow! Amazing! ”

“Stage 19!”

Cheolho climbed to the nineteen, twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two stages with absolutely no grit.

Gulp!

Echo had unknowingly swallowed and focused on playing Iron Tiger. Cheolho really seemed to have reached the end of everything. The stick moves like water, and the speed of the finger pressing the button is full of relaxation.

‘Go, Master. ’

Stage 29.

Chulho clears the boss lightly and reaches the final stage of the gear nose.

Peek, peck, peck!

“Waaaahhhh!”

Every time Cheol's plane fires a cannon, the enemy disappears, and the cheer grows.

Kuaang!

About the time I finally fell to the final boss. The arcade was a frenzied crucible.

“Waaaahhhh! Amazing! ”

Cheolho defeated the final boss. I never died, I scored.

One Coin!

You cleared all the way to Stage 30 with one coin!

[1st place: 51200000 points]

He naturally scored first place, and smiled. And to leave a record, I wrote a name. The name could have been left with three letters.

What should I say?

Cheolho gives a moment's thought and nods.

A_ll

A B_

A B C

Thus, the number one record was named ABC.

Chulho stood up in a very chic position.

“Waaaahhhh!”

It seemed radiant from the back of the helmet, walking out of the arcade very slowly, leaving behind cheerfulness. Echo gazes at his blank helmet and clenches his fist.

It was cooler than anything I've ever seen. Echo jumps out and grabs Iron Tiger's arm.

“Teach me! ”

“Huh?"

“How to do that well! Teach me!”

Chulho narrowed his eyes.

“It's a tough road to learn the Air Force. ”

“Th-that's okay! ”

“Mm-”

Cheolho nods.

“Fine. I'll teach you. First, buy one of those machines. ”

“Buy?”

“Yes."

Echo enters the burinake playroom.

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“You only practice how to play well. Once you have enough basics, you have to study patterns. ”

Echo glances at the helm with gleaming eyes. On the other side of Echo's book cafe, there was a "Great Air Age" entertainment machine.

It looks like it was well-funded, but it doesn't matter if the cafe works well.

- I thought, and Chulho said,

“Basically, it minimizes synchronization. We have to watch the enemy's cannonballs fly, and we have to coordinate their movements to the end. It's about patience."

Echo nods.

After that.

Echo's pina begins training.

“No! Move a little more compact! ”

“Minimize the alignment there! ”

“Look at all the shells! ”

“I'm calm!”

Chulho and Echo have repeated Hell's training. Echo was, in fact, kind of like a machine. I also learned to fix the habit of moving the stick too much and press the button rhythmically.

Echo was able to learn the basics of shooter in a week after practice as he went to sleep.

Cheolho gave such an echo a bunch of paper the size of a dictionary.

“There are approximately 100 patterns of anti-aircraft attack. And there's a quick flank. You have to understand all this before you can be a master of the Air Force. ”

Echo nods with a splenic face.

“Good. That's about it. It's no big deal for this body. ”

“Good. Get used to it. ”

Echo literally spent another week obsessed with the Air Force.

“What's the boss pattern for Stage 15? ”

“Strong Medicine! Five seconds after the cannonball drops, once to the left, once to the left, once to the right! ”

“What's the boss pattern for stage 23? ”

“In the right corner. I dig a tunnel there and wait. ”

Obviously, pattern familiarity was very fast, as it had reached the height of the six classes. He learned ten if he taught me one. Only a week later, Echo was reborn as a fearsome aircraft machine.

.

Early morning.

Echo wakes up, cleansing his body and mind, and clearing his mind. Echo now exudes the energy of the Master.

He tapped his shoulder.

“You'd better skip breakfast. Keep your mind clear and your mind light. All that matters is peace of mind. ”

“Hmm!"

Echo nods. The two eyes were full of tranquility. Cheolho tapped his shoulder again with a satisfied face.

“Fine, go! You're ready! ”

“I'll be back!”

* * *

Echo enters the arcade.

And towards the future of the great aerial age.

[Top ABC: 5120000000 points]

The first record of the Great Air Age was a record of insufficiency. The legendary record set by the helmet shows no broken spots.

When you clear 30 equal stages, your score is higher for faster clearing. Echo took a deep breath and put in 50 cents.

I cleared the stage in the shortest time possible. It was a perfect play without even one flaw.

Papa Papa Papa Pa Pa!

Minimize synchronous lines. Firing cannonballs are efficient. There was not a single unnecessary movement, and it knew every pattern perfectly.

19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24!

An instant of reminiscence came to Echo's head after clearing all the stages with minimal time.

- I'm calm!

Chulho's voice echoes in my ears.

Echo grips his teeth.

Last stage at last!

Echo remains calm and has finally cleared out the last stage of the boss.

“Huff, huff, huff......”

And I realized that I was sweating. The tranquility continues.

Finally.

Chuck-fucking-chuck-fuck!

The screen reminds me of a firecracker and a message that all stages have been cleared.

[1st place: 51200000 points]

I can see Cheolho's score.

Tyriri -

Echo's score is registered in the ranking.

New!

[1st Place: 6534400000 points]

A new rank has been created.

Echo screams with his sheep's fists burning.

“Uuurrgghhh!”

“Well, well, well! ”

A crowd of spectators from the entertainment room began to gather. A crowd of spectators looked at Echo. And I also looked at the age of the great aircraft.

Echo enjoyed the gaze of the spectators. Clearly, they are looking at themselves with admiration and respect.

Echo smiles at the coronation.

And I wrote down the name slowly.

H_e

H O_

H O T

- Listen, his name is HOT. That seems to be the best.

It was Cheolho's last advice. Echo walks out of the volatile arcade, leaving a very chic first place in the ranking of HOT.

.

“What's that guy? ”

“I don't know. Wow! New top?”

“But no one does it in the Air Force anymore, right? ”

“I see.”

Spectators were scattered, discussing things like this.

The new generation was a fighting game called King of Fight.

End of one-coin