Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 194 Little Trouble

Ethan is very familiar with this place in New Jersey, because it is next to New York.

When Ethan was paying attention to the Mosaic League in his previous life, the place he went the most was not Madison Square Garden, nor did he watch New York Knicks games, but went to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to watch the hardcore Comedy Carey How Irving dismantled the Nets step by step.

The Nets were already in New York at that time, and before that, they had been entrenched in New Jersey. If Ethan remembers correctly, in the era when Dayao was still playing, the team's record was very impressive, even in a single season. He also handed over the worst results in history of [-] wins and [-] losses.

Compared with the Golden State Warriors' 73 wins, that's a world away.

As for the overall runner-up?
cough cough cough...

This fact impressed Ethan so much that when he came to New York in America, he wandered around New Jersey very curiously, wanting to visit the birthplace of shame.

The stories that happened in the student days are always fresh in people's memory, and the aftertaste many years later can make people feel full of emotion. After throwing away the disappearing historical concept of the New Jersey Nets, the Atlantic City in Ballmer's mouth In fact, it is the biggest bright spot in New Jersey in Ethan's eyes.

Because it is not only the beauty pageant of Miss America, but also the gambling city on the east coast of the United States, which is as famous as Las Vegas. There is not only a dry stage that can entertain thousands of people at the same time, but also the Taj, the largest gambling market in America. Ling, and that spinach farm had once been owned by some New York firm.

'Hey~ This is really all the fun coming together! ' Ethan complained in his heart.

When the place name Atlantic City appeared in his ears, he knew that the [-] copies of "Wind of Fortune" might have been ordered by the spinach farm owner there.

"So the person who placed the order is the owner of the spinach field?" Thinking of this, Ethan asked casually.

And his casualness made Ballmer stunned for a moment, and asked in doubt: "The boss of the spinach farm?"

This reaction was somewhat beyond Ethan's expectations.

He looked at the big bald head strangely, and asked, "You don't know?"

When the voice fell, Ballmer shook his head decisively.

Immediately afterwards, the two stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

After a while, Ethan, who felt that something was wrong, pressed his right hand down, signaling to stop the work in hand, and Ballmer would hand over the order record heartily, and turned around and ran away.

When he came back again, he held a stack of newspapers in his hand.

Ballmer looked at Ethan apologetically, and said, "Boss, I'm very sorry, I've checked the information, and it's true that a spinach field can be opened there. This is our work mistake..."

Turns out, spinach and spinach fields are two different things in New Jersey.

Spinach has a long history in New Jersey. During the French War and the War of Independence hundreds of years ago, the income from the gambling industry was even the main source of military expenditure. There is also the oldest racetrack in the United States, and even churches and various All kinds of non-profit organizations make money from bingo games.

To put it bluntly, spinach is the biggest main business in New Jersey. As a New Jersey native, if you don't do spinach, then you are not doing your job properly.

But even so, there has not been a gambling field like Las Vegas for many years.

One is that this kind of thing is not legal in terms of state law, and the other is that the opening of gambling farms after the entry of large capitals will definitely affect the income of other gambling players.

But in order to enter this industry, big capital is building momentum every day.

They said their entry will bring more income to New Jersey.

They will also contribute more taxes to New Jersey.

They want New Jersey to accept them.

It's a pity that people in New Jersey don't trust those capitalists.

In order to protect its own interests, New Jersey held a referendum in [-] against the legalization of gambling halls statewide, and then, the show came.

Big capital resolutely conceded defeat after the result of the referendum, and then stated that they came to invest in good faith. Since the people of New Jersey do not accept the legalization of gambling fields across the state, then we will cooperate with Las Vegas in Nevada. Like Garth, only do this in one city.

And the city they chose was Atlantic City.

At the same time, they also said that their behavior will bring many jobs to the local area.

cough--

This perfectly explains what is the compromise of human nature.

When the big capitalists began to learn from Zhou Shuren, their proposal was quickly accepted by the people of New Jersey.These people, like playing, held a referendum in [-], agreeing to open a gambling field in Atlantic City.Then, capitalists from all walks of life came to Atlantic City to invest wildly.

A businessman named James Crosby was the first to build a resort international gaming field in Atlantic City, which officially opened on May 26 this year.

Since the New Jersey referendum is more like a game than the British referendum, the outside world simply doesn't bother to watch their fun. In addition, there is Las Vegas on the west coast. Recently, the game of Destiny has been busy flying for selling goods. So it's not surprising that Ballmer doesn't know what's going on there.

"I just asked the staff of the marketing department to call the buyer back and ask for their specific information. Those people said that they are indeed from the resort's international gaming field, and the [-] electronic arcade machines they need will also be placed In their spinach hotel..."

"They also urged us to ship it quickly, because "Winds of Fortune" is very popular with them, and they even designed some gameplay specially for "Winds of Fortune"..."

"But unfortunately, those projects cannot be launched on a large scale for the time being, because there are not enough machines."

Ballmer reports.

"What the fuck?"

This result made Ethan frown slightly.

"They already have our machines?"

"When did this happen?"

"I do not know how?"

Ethan was very surprised.

In his memory, they never seem to have sent machines to Atlantic City in large quantities.

"It should have been bought from another merchant."

Ballmer has a different opinion, "I just looked at the report and found that the sales volume of "Winds of Fortune" in New Jersey is [-] units, which is the most among all states. Many of them must have flowed into the market. Atlantic City, we just don’t know it.”

"After all, we can't ban the second-hand trade of electronic arcade machines."

Ethan agrees with this idea.

Before the official arrival of the Internet era, or before the formal entry of CNC technology into industrial production, things like machine changing hands were out of control at all.

In the Internet era, if a manufacturer wants to prohibit transactions between users, it can directly verify the IP through the Internet at regular intervals. Once the IP changes, the machine will be locked directly, but now?

forget it.

After they sell the machine, they have no control over what those merchants want to do.

In the past few years, when many merchants who purchased their arcade machines found that their arcade machines were broken, they would find local engineers to repair them. It also takes time for the game to dispatch maintenance engineers, and they don't want to wait.

Only after finding that the motherboard is burned or the chip is damaged will I buy parts from them again.

Since many merchants gave up after-sales in order to make money, Ethan is also happy with it. As long as they don't engage in malicious copying, he will turn a blind eye.

But this time—

"You can help me contact United Airlines and charter a plane to Atlantic City."

"I don't have a travel plan, the sooner the better."

"Oh yes, you come with me."

After learning that the spinach boss in Atlantic City designed an exclusive gameplay for "Winds of Fortune", Ethan was really curious about how his arcade machines were ravaged by those merchants.

Why does the spinach farm over there need his machine so badly?
He won't take the order and ship it until he sees the reason.

So, at [-]:[-] p.m. western time, Ethan departed directly from San Francisco International Airport. After a nine-hour flight, he finally arrived in Atlantic City at [-]:[-] a.m. the next day on the east coast.

then……

He saw a striking building.

The whole body of this building is snow-white, and the regular windows are arranged neatly like the frames of waffles. The towering building with about 20 floors is like a tower for marching and fighting in the middle ages of Europe. The feeling of looking around.

Under the bright neon lights, a huge golden sign also appeared in front of Ethan.

The 'Resorts International' logo introduces their identity to outsiders, and the word 'Casino' tells their function.

Under the signboard of 'Casino', there is a golden archway with exaggerated decoration, a red carpet stretching to the intersection, and the appearance is not so simple...

It is indeed the luxury in the eyes of the public in this era.

However, to Ethan's surprise, when he came here, the door under the sign of 'Casino' was closed and seemed to be out of business.After he walked into the main entrance of the resort hotel full of doubts, and asked the salesperson at the front desk why...

He heard a strange rule.

"Sir, I'm sorry, but our spinach field is open for a limited time every day."

"The business hours are from 21 am to [-] pm from Monday to Friday, and it is open all day on Saturday and Sunday. At that time, as long as you are over [-] years old, you can enter the gambling field for happiness."

Hearing such words, Ethan was taken aback for a while.

At this moment, he even suspected that he had gone to the wrong place!

The place he came from is the spinach field, right?
Isn't the spinach field open 7/24?
This Nima's...

Get a spinach and prevent addiction?
Ethan couldn't figure it out.

The same puzzled and Ballmer.

With a surprised face, he asked directly: "Why?"

"You're open six hours a day?"

"So you still want to compare with Las Vegas?"

"Uh—this gentleman—I'm very sorry—" the lady at the front desk explained with embarrassment, "This business hour is actually our New Jersey regulation."

"In order to ensure that spinach will not affect other industries and social order."

"It's also about avoiding the problems of addiction and crime that spinach can bring."

"If you want to feel happy during the non-business hours of the spinach field, then you can go to our experience hall to experience a video game called "Heavenly Fortune"."

This remark made Ethan and Ballmer look at each other.

Then the two walked towards the direction pointed by the lady at the front desk.

When they came to the gate of the experience hall, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the gap in the thick gate. After the waiter guarding the gate helped them open the golden solid wood gate, the smoke was lingering, The crowded scene was an eye-opener for them.

In the resplendently decorated lobby of the hotel, there are at least one hundred copies of "Heavenly Fortune".

Even though it is two o'clock in the morning, the machines here are still full of people.

Some people have cigarettes in their mouths and stare at the screen with ferocious faces;

Some held cigarette butts in their hands, bowed slightly, and kept fiddling with the joystick tightly;
Some people supported the machine with one hand and put one hand on their waist, leaning over to watch other people's games;
Someone even held the wine bottle, after seeing the good grades, sir!cheers for it.

As Ethan entered, the waiter guarding inside also came up.

"Hello gentlemen, welcome to the lounge of our resort hotel..."

"The game you are seeing now is "Heavenly Fortune", and its gameplay is very simple..."

The uniformed waiter introduced them.Then he said: "Our machine costs 25 cents to play once. If you can get [-] cents in one game, then the next game will be invited by our hotel, and our on-site staff will help you A game of coins."

"If you get [-] points, [-] points, [-] points, [-] points or even [-] points in a game, then our hotel will give you a one-dollar coin according to the points you got , five-dollar, ten-dollar, fifty-dollar, and hundred-dollar chips."

"And if you get 660 six points or 880 eight points in a game, then our hotel will give you one or two days of hotel accommodation service according to the number of points."

When this rule appeared, Ethan suddenly felt that this hotel was really doing charity!
Although the game "God of Wealth from Heaven" has both bonus and deduction items, the gold coins, gold nuggets and gold bricks in the bonus items correspond to two points, six points and ten points, while the stones and stones in the deduction item correspond to It is one point and three points. When the points of the plus points are more than the minus points, the points of this game are actually easy to get.In the original test, Ethan could get [-] points by just playing two games.

If someone knows this game, they might say that there is a meteorite setting in it. When the player is hit by a meteorite, the whole game will end.

But when designing this game, in order to allow players to have a better gaming experience, the meteorite will only officially appear after 1 minute of the game.

And based on the previous one-minute accumulation, as long as you are an individual, you can get fifty points.

Under this difficulty, the resort hotel actually set the score of the free game at [-] points?

So what's the difference between this and 25 cents to let customers play forever?
And when you can get the chips by [-] points...

Isn't playing this game just making money?

"Your mother's! I can make him bankrupt in one night with this kind of game!"

Ethan felt that the hotel might be sick.

Then he signaled the accompanying bodyguards to squeeze out a machine for Ballmer to test.

As for why he didn't go?
Someone like him is at odds with gambling!
After the bodyguard took some time to help Ballmer get a machine by queuing up, a bunch of people gathered around to watch Ballmer play. This big bald head is also very powerful. Scored 72 points and won them a chance to play for free.

In the second game, he scored [-] points and won a chip with a face value of one dollar.

At this time, Ethan discovered the problem.

Because in the reward list of the resort hotel, the reward in the [-]% column is only chips.

If you want to play the third game, you can only continue to invest 25 cents.

Although judging from the current situation, they only got a one-dollar chip for 25 cents, and this low price allowed them to make a lot of money, but...

This account is obviously not calculated like this!
"Boss, I think I understand."

Ballmer asked the bodyguards to continue to insert coins to start the third game, while he himself leaned over to Ethan's side and said, "The owner of this hotel probably wants to use the gimmick of discounted chips to attract those guests to stay with him all the time." Hotels, so as to make a steady stream of money from these people."

Ballmer's words made Ethan laugh.

Simply looking around, he soon discovered that almost everyone present had bargaining chips.

That fact led him to tap Ballmer on the shoulder and signal the guy to keep playing.

After they invested close to ten dollars and got chips worth more than $50, Ethan asked Ballmer to go to the exchange port to exchange the chips into dollars, and then...

The staff in charge of exchanging chips said: "Sir, the chips you got in the game of "Heavenly Fortune" have no time to use, you can go there to play at any time when the spinach field is open. However, your Chips cannot be exchanged for money."

"Only after you have played a game in our gambling field and obtained the chips over there, can you use those chips to come to us and exchange them for US dollars of the corresponding face value."

Such words made Ballmer put away his chips.

After hearing this explanation, Ethan smiled brightly.

This kind of rhythm is special, right!

"Bait."

Ballmer laughed and commented, and handed the chip to Ethan.

"Yeah." Ethan took the chip and flipped it.

Then with a wave of his hand, he loosened his five fingers and threw it into the road trash can at the entrance of the hotel.

The sound of clattering made him express emotion.

"Steve."

"Ok?"

"The most indispensable thing in this world is talent, right?"

This question made Ballmer nod his head and said, "Yes."

Ethan is not joking, he really thinks those guys in Atlantic City are geniuses.

After several hours of watching, Ethan has already discovered why Atlantic City needs his arcade machine, because New Jersey has a regulation that the casino can only be open for six hours on weekdays.

And this rule is very unfavorable to them.

This will not only affect the income of the spinach field, but also affect the occupancy rate of the hotel, because the core selling point of the spinach field hotel is that the guests staying here can go to the spinach field for a few rounds anytime and anywhere. The day of playing and sleeping when you are sleepy is not only a paradise for bad gamblers, but also the real purpose of the owners of the spinach field and hotel. They want to squeeze all the money from all the guests.

If the spinach hotel is fully occupied during normal operations, the loss of customers is acceptable to the boss, but if the spinach hotel is not full and the guests are forced to leave due to the anti-addiction mechanism of the casino, then this loss It will definitely become a thorn in the boss's heart.

If it was before, there was no way to solve this kind of problem, because the players who came here came here for the spinach, and if they couldn't spin the spinach, then they had no reason to stay here.

But now, "A Windfall" provides them with a way out.

New Jersey does have a law that states that casinos cannot operate 24 hours a day, but there is no law in New Jersey, and hotels cannot provide video game services!

Now that it can provide video game services, the hotel can use lottery to keep customers firmly here!Like they do now, selling cheap chips for 25 cents a game!On the surface, they seem to be losing money, but——

As a casino, it is impossible for them to let the guests leave with a victory!
The best proof is that the chips earned from video games cannot be exchanged directly!

Going to the spinach field to bring home the winning chips is the best inducement!

and this--

"Special! These people really know how to play!"

Ethan spat.

"Let's go to New York."

He slipped into the car United provided.

"I'm going to get a good night's sleep and then think about how to solve this trouble!"

　Note: ①The number of chips in the article is not wrong. The chip marks in that era were so small, because US dollars are very valuable, and on the first day the resort hotel opened, their public income was only 130 million US dollars, which is almost the same as it is now. No comparison. ② At the beginning, Atlantic City had an "anti-addiction" mechanism, but it was canceled in June 24. Since then, they have been open [-] hours a day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)