In the golden age of arcade games, in order to save a little more wool from the hands of players and improve the coin rate of their own games, major game manufacturers will use a variety of high-quality opening animations to attract the attention of players, and some "inner volume" powerful games will also bury a variety of Easter eggs, constantly stimulating players to repeatedly attack, and even the ending will appear fancy scenes.
Many difficult shooter games usually provide additional ammo supplies to the player after the player renews the coin, while some action games will reduce the difficulty of the game after the player renews the coin. However, there is a game that takes the sword to the side, setting up an easter egg that allows players to work hard specifically to end the game, and it is the original "Legend of the Hungry Wolf".
If the player loses the battle with the final boss, Guise, the player will see the opposite of the ending, in which the protagonist controlled by the player is thrown from a tall building by the arch-villain Gis. Although this kind of Easter egg is no longer surprising today, in that era of relatively closed information, this eye-catching Easter egg will definitely make many players can't help but deliberately lose a handful to open their eyes.
As an old rival of SNK, Capcom will naturally not show weakness in the face of this kind of underworld life, so there is the "dark scene" in "Kombat Whirlwind".
In Kombat Whirlwind, if the player fails to complete the level, he will see the male protagonist tied to a bundle of explosives, and the lead continues to burn as the countdown is counted. This design was originally intended to allow players to cast coins as soon as possible, but who knew that at that time, many players wanted to see what would happen after the countdown was 0, and the result was that the picture became black and white, and nothing happened...
By the second installment, kombat whirlwind's coin screen was more enticing, as the subject of torture changed as the player's role changed. The most impressive thing is mayor Haag's daughter Jessica, who will be tied up after failing to pass the level, and then silently wait for the water to fill her house and drown, if the player can throw coins before this, he can save such a beautiful woman.
But after experiencing the first step of boring ending, many players also expected that the final picture must be black and white screen, so this trick did not play a good effect, but it was pitiful to the heroine, who was tortured by the manufacturer for more than twenty years. However, this is not the most tragic game heroine, because in 1985, in the LD arcade interactive game "Time girl" jointly produced by Taidong and Toei, the heroine Kirishima Rika even had nearly a hundred special failure screens.
As a special work that represents the game through animation, the plot of the game is very simple, the process is not complicated, but the scenes are extremely rich, including ancient times when human civilization has not yet appeared, as well as familiar historical events. The heroine will continue to try to escape in these scenes, and whether she can succeed depends on the player's reaction and hand speed. Once there is a mistake, Li Xiang will become a Q version of the image, and then be tortured by the characters in the scene, and sometimes even be chased by dinosaurs to tear off their clothes!
According to incomplete information, the coin rate of this game in the year of release was really a blockbuster. And other games also because these eye-catching coin screens can still maintain their place in the arcade circle, especially the kombat whirlwind, Mayor Haag has even become an influential figure in the arcade circle who is not inferior to the king of fighters and street fighters. And these dazzling achievements also reflect the indelible influence of arcade games in the youth of a generation to some extent.
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