The story of internet cafes in those years

When I was in junior high school. However, small Internet cafes in China began to spread all over the streets in the late 1990s. There are several old computers in a small room, and there are several ps in the internet bar if conditions permit. Although the equipment was rudimentary, it was a game resort for many people at that time. Every time after school, it will be crowded with people, some are waiting in line to play computer games, some are students aged 35 to 35 who chip in to play king of fighters on a Sony computer, and a large part of them just stand behind others and watch games out of love for games. And I belong to this third category.

Speaking of this kind of internet cafe, I also want to mention one person, that is, my cousin. At that time, he was in the sixth grade of primary school, and he took me to that place for the first time.

I remember one weekend, my parents and my uncle and aunt went to his house to play cards, and we went out to play very boring. He said mysteriously to me, "Come on, Lao Yang, I'll take you to play video games."

I was shocked when I heard it, because at that time, large halls had begun to decline in China, and there was no such place near our community, but later I learned that the game hall he said turned out to be an Internet cafe.

At that time, the most popular internet cafes were nothing more than red alert, delta and half-life. There are also stand-alone enthusiasts who can play Diablo and magic, but there is a big limitation, that is, the problem of archiving. If you want to play with your archive, you have to wait until the computer you played before is free. It depends on luck. There are many white people in unknown so who often cover up the files of a great god who has worked hard, or steal the equipment of the great god on the Internet, so it is common for Internet cafes to stage real street fighters.

At the beginning of 2000, online games began to rise, and the three giants, Legend, Stone Age and Magic Baby, began to dominate in various Internet cafes.

My cousin and I are the first players in the legend. I remember it was a summer vacation. My cousin dragged me to the Internet cafe. At the beginning of 2000, Internet cafes began to look decent, and they were no longer small workshops. At that time, Internet cafes were often a large flat land with dozens of computers side by side. People sit on a long table with a partition in the middle. It was in that internet cafe that my cousin and I came into contact with the legend. That's what he introduced at that time,

"You know, Lao Yang, a new game came out recently. The clothes and equipment of the characters can be changed. No matter what weapons you are equipped with, he will be realistic about what he is equipped with. "

I became interested as soon as I heard it. After all, in that era, I was the first to contact this online game that switched shapes in time.

Later, when I came into contact with it, I realized that the game was not as fun as I thought. The initial task was to cut the chicken. In that era when public resources were scarce and there were many players, it took a long time to find a chicken, and often a group of players chased a chicken, which was a torment for people like me who liked to play fast food since childhood, so I successfully reached level 7 (old player) and stopped here. But my cousin loves legends very much and has invested a lot of money in them. These are all later stories. If you want to see them, I will hold a separate issue to talk about his game history.

Disappointed with the legend, I haven't touched online games for some time. At the beginning of 2000, my mother spent more than 7000 yuan to equip me with a computer, and I also installed some games at home to play, such as the romance between the swordsman and the Three Kingdoms. Until one day, I bought a 30 yuan Poké mon promotion CD in a video store, which made me thoroughly appreciate the charm of online games.

I like Poké mon not because of his game fighting system, but because of the traditional Japanese mine-stepping mode and RPG round game system. But! I like the combination and communication of his various occupations, such as woodcutter, hunter, miner, tailor, shoemaker, sword maker, printer and appraiser. The most lively place for Poké mon is the East Gate of Flange, which is a gathering place for all businessmen. It's like a busy market. Players often bid and bargain for an item. Occasionally, local tyrants will appear and take the goods away with a wave of their hands. But these are some students. Student parties like me, who can't play for a few hours a week, are carefully buying and selling equipment and pets.

I have a classmate. We always play the same number. He is responsible for making shoes and selling them. Then he threw the money in a place blocked by the model. After remembering the coordinates, he quickly switched accounts, collected money from the battle tuba, and then used the money to upgrade equipment and buy some cards. We are happy to be loyal to the process of market transactions and bargain with customers. If we find that the things we buy are generally lower than other stalls, we will immediately mark the lowest gimmick in the whole network to win it over. Whenever there is income, that kind of satisfaction is no less than the feeling of paying wages now. The gold coins earned in that year were also traded with things they created, and gold coins can also be bought as cards. I am the first income in our life.

Later, Poké mon was upgraded, and some new occupations appeared. Everyone wanted to form a trade union. Although there is no trade union system in the game, everyone still discussed focusing on the new number and unifying the word "Zilian". In order not to repeat the occupation, we all discussed it before taking office. Because I like fast-paced games, I was given an archer with a group of injuries and less money. My deskmate became an all-around priest, and my cousin was a ninja.

The reason is that soldiers can't learn all the skills to the extreme. At that time, it was a useless profession, but it was this profession and it was a necessary unlocking role for many tasks. In my memory, it seems that the first generation of ninjas needed soldiers to take office. It slipped my mind. If it is wrong, I hope you will correct me. )

At this moment, my good friend Mr. Shi was born. He used the lunch money that he didn't eat lunch for a week to go to the Internet cafe and buy a high-grade soldier's number. At that time, we saw that he was quite cool. Although the soldier was a chicken rib, he couldn't hold on in his senior year. In contrast, my classmate who specializes in fighting always swears that Teacher Shi's soldiers are more like fighters than his fighters. Of course, there are also some swordsman netizens who have such a reaction. The soldier's sun is worse than his. This may be the first time I feel the power of the RMB.

Later, with the approach of the third year of high school, we all quit the game and devoted ourselves to study, but until 2006, we all had a magical dream in our hearts.

But I don't want to elaborate on the stories of 2006 today. Those stories will be discussed later. Since I retired from Poké mon, although we have all devoted ourselves to our studies, our restless hearts have never been honest. Every Friday after school, everyone still goes to the Internet cafe to pick up some crazy tanks or cs, and I was arrested by my mother. At that time, I was not beaten again, but was told to concentrate on my studies. This is also the reason why I seldom went to Internet cafes before I graduated from senior three.

But it wasn't long before, probably in the winter of 2003, I bought my first handheld, GBA.

To be continued (mobile phone code words are not easy, please forgive me if there are typos)