A little later, FlowerFu's Maid brought the IOU to the bar. GS looked it over and thought for a moment.
With the IOU in his hands, he only had to drag things out for a few days to bleed that café owner dry.
But on second thought, there was no need. He wasn't that kind of person.
If this had been when he first arrived in this world, he probably would have done just that.
But now he was a man of standing. He had to watch his image and his impact on society.
"Have someone deliver it to him." GS casually tossed the IOU to Ah Tung.
Ah Tung picked it up and looked it over, clicking his tongue. "That degenerate gambler really got off easy!"
A little later, Iwamoto Shunichi came to visit GS again, bringing the prices for the arcade machines.
The motherboard alone cost sixteen thousand dollars. Add the screen, control panel, coin mechanism, power supply, cabinet, and everything else, and each machine came to nearly eighteen thousand. The Yamaguchi-gumi would handle delivery to Hong Kong Island.
These were pirated machines, too, and that price took into account that GS was the Leader of Hongxing, Hong Kong Island's largest triad, and wanted a fairly large quantity.
Otherwise, the price would have been considerably higher.
In Japan, a pirated arcade machine cost at least twenty-three thousand dollars.
Demand was enormous, so prices remained high.
An official machine cost a million yen, which came to around thirty-four thousand Hong Kong dollars at the current exchange rate.
(I couldn't find precise figures. But someone said Japanese advertisements from this period listed arcade machines at one million yen. In 1982, one American brand had the lowest-priced arcade machines among the manufacturers at US$3,000, equivalent to about HK$25,000. However, America's arcade