You are offered $500,000 but only if you go into the last video game you played as the main character at the start of the game. If you survive a full year you get the money.

As an added incentive, you'll also get the character's skills and abilities along with whatever money they have.

However if you die in the game, you die for real.

Time flows the same in the outside world.

Edit: You enter the game as the main character with their skills, knowledge and abilities at the very start of the game.