What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(Disc2

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What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(Disc2

Postby Dodge2461 » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:35 pm

Hello. I'm replaying Shenmue, and I've always wondered this. On Disc 2, when Ryo is trying to get a ticket to Hong Kong, he walks into his room with something on his desk. It gives him a lot of money, but he says "I guess Hong Kong is out".

What is that thing? At first I thought a credit card of sorts, but that wouldn't make a lot of sense. This is before Ryo gets his job, so it's not a check for that.
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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby BlueMue » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:42 pm

It's simply a bank statement, you know the things everyone had to get to know how much money they had on their bank accounts before there was online banking. I wonder why they didn't place a bank in Dobuita that you have to go to in order to get the money. Would've been a lot more realistic then the "magical" money transfer into Ryo's pocket. Well I guess they left that out because you already walk around so much for the ticket.

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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby Dodge2461 » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:46 pm

Thank you! :D
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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby Giorgio » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:52 pm

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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby Radar » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:07 pm

Giorgio wrote: It's called a cheque: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque

more looks like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passbook

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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby BlueMue » Wed Jul 02, 2014 3:37 pm

Ah yes a passbook, that makes the most sense actually. I was going to write that it also could be one of these but I missed the chance because I didn't.
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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby Neo Matrix » Wed Jul 09, 2014 6:23 pm

Those are still used in Japan, or at least were when I was there years ago and I'm betting they haven't changed that system.
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Re: What is the thing called that gives Ryo a lot of money(D

Postby Fenix » Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:12 pm

People still using it a lot here.
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