First, from the WIN98 era
The first PC game I came into contact with was "The Legend of the Paladin Sword", the operating system at that time was still Windows98, I was still in the 3rd grade of elementary school, in the Shogun's Tomb, in the Pool of Blood, in the trial cave those sunny weekend afternoons are still unforgettable, the last layer of the Lock Demon Tower Lin Yueru was hit by a boulder The moment I left for the game was the first tear I left for the game. I'm glad that such an outstanding RPG opened the door to my game and completed my ignorant childhood enlightenment of love.
That's how my gaming career began. After completing the "Xianjian" level, I fell in love with computer games, and my parents allowed me to play computers for 2 hours every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, when broadband internet was not yet widespread in China, and the vast sea of stand-alone games became the treasure of my childhood.
Every weekend afternoon, the sun outside the window is always exceptionally bright, on the table is my beloved magazine "Popular Software", a bottle of Coke, delving into the strategy and drinking Coke, four hours spent in another world, is one of the best memories of my youth.
I have fought with the two factions of good and evil countless times in "The Legend of Jin Yongqun" in order to practice the "Wild Ball Fist" that is said to be invincible after the full level to the full level; I have also fought with the two factions of good and evil countless times in order to pass the "Allied Death Squad" alone, and until today I still have a reflexive heart when I hear the word "alarm"; I have always had good geographical results because I played the "Age of Discovery" series, and because I fought bloodily in the "Medal of Honor" series, I have cherished the history of World War II.
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The "Bode's Gate" series made me fall in love with European and American fantasy, the "Xuanyuan Sword" series helped me understand Chinese civilization, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series let me and my friends discuss the Three Kingdoms and always say that Guan Yu's force value is only 90, so Guan Yu is even more powerful; keen on "Hero Invincible 3" secretly played when my parents were not at home for a day and forgot to save 9999 archangels, and was planning to take my invincible team to the victory of my parents but just came home, and what greeted me was not victory but a severe beating with a split head and a face; The experience of "Diablo 2 King of Destruction" challenging the difficulty of nightmares made me dismiss all "Legendary" online games in the era when Korean kimchi online games swept China, because there is a saying that "once the sea was shipwrecked as water".
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In that era, the LOGO of Daewoo SoftStar was the guarantee of the Xianxia RPG, Kuroshima was the god of D&D RPG, the concept of "Blizzard production, must be a boutique" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and The Japanese glory was the king of strategy games. In that era, there was no such noise as online games, NPCs lived an indisputable life, you only needed a computer to taste another life, and in the magnificent and wonderful world created by the game, you were the only protagonist.
I still miss the weekend afternoon when every bottle of Coke was "big soft" with a mouse in hand. The picture quality of the game in that era was so rough, and the main interface of the game in that era did not have an option called "multiplayer connection".
But those were the best times.
Second, the rough but joyful "e-sports era"
The first so-called e-sports game to be contacted should be CS, and the first time I went to an Internet café was to play CS with my friends. At that time, the version was still CS1.3, at that time there was a technology called flinging, which was used to practice sniping to impress the friends, I don't know how many robots were killed in the stand-alone mode == the version of CS that has been updated to 1.5 and then 1.6, and the sniper has long become a legend.
Although there was no concept of e-sports at the time, it was already fascinating to me to compete with a group of friends in a game, and it was so easy to get a sense of accomplishment.
The era that followed belonged to Warcraft 3, a game that dominated my "esports career" for 10 years from junior high school to now. At that time, e-sports had just been listed as the country's 99th sport, and there was a program called "E-sports World" every Friday night in the central five sets, and the media at that time did not shy away from the emerging thing of e-sports, WCG, ESWC and other events were in full swing, and the future of e-sports seemed to be very good.
At that time, the most discussed topics with my classmates were probably which of the Terran Grand Mage and the King of the Dwarf Hills was better, the tactical genres of the undead spider stream and the heaven and earth double ghost were suitable for which race, which player of Moon and Grubby was more awesome, etc. Three sentences could not be separated from war3, and secretly going to the Internet café to practice two or three rounds a week behind the back of his parents also became our compulsory course.
At that time, in order to become stronger, I even wrote a notebook of undead tactical analysis, every time I won or lost a round, I would carefully analyze where I did well or where I made mistakes, and the battle report video was seen countless times. With the exquisite technology of my UD at that time, it was difficult to find opponents among my classmates, and the boiling blood and simple mind of adolescence even made me have the idea of being a professional player (if it were not for the fact that my academic performance had been quite good, and the most important parents would not agree, maybe I would have really embarked on this road of no return hah~).
That was the most glorious era of eSports. Whether or not we have played war3, SKY ID is almost everyone in our boys of the same age. The scene where he twice stood on the WCG podium draped in the flag is a collective memory of a generation.
Another game memory of this generation of boys still belongs to war3, which is the most famous map war3 has ever seen, and its name is Defeense of the Ancients.
Dota。 This map does not need too many languages, in the post-80s and post-90s world, no one in the world knows the king. The horn of the Konoe Natural Disaster resounded throughout our youth, and the elegy of the soul of the shadow demon accompanied the university memories of many people.
Five people opened black, fought all night, together to blame teammates of the ghost Taicai 30 minutes did not make a glow, but the ghost was gank under the tower lit up 4 TP; 70 minutes three road high ground broken, the god Medusa back to the world tree a husband when the guan Wanfu Mokai, the holy sword fell off and brushed again, dead to buy live is, because this game did not surrender. Such a memory does not belong to me, it belongs to every dota player, it belongs to that part of the youth that we dedicate to the game.
Today's war3 battle has long declined, SKY has not sat on the WCG championship throne for the third time, and even WCG does not exist; the big battle of the father and mother who is full of intestines is slowly being forgotten, the 09 and pis that open Taobao shops to do entertainment explanations are old, and the clues of the 8-minute sage relics are now where.
Last year's last Shanghai Kunshan WCG, "Warcraft 3" project, Moon lost to THOOO, at the end of his career still missed the WCG championship, when Moon walked out of the competition in tears, the WCG flag flying on the scene wrote a sentence, that is also the official slogan of the WCG - "Beyond the game". That scene was deeply imprinted in my mind.
At that moment, I don't think it matters, the championship that Moon has been longing for, the triple crown dream that Sky will never be able to complete again, the unstoppable "League of Legends" has replaced Dota and even Dota 2 is powerless, etc., it doesn't matter. What matters is not these games, nor the players on the altar. What matters is esports. It has long been a presence beyond the game.
It is even more the burning youth of our generation.
Third, my world of Warcraft
Because of my love of single-player games and competitive games, I have not played many online games, and I have no say in online games. But there is still one game that must be mentioned, and it is of course World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft has been with me for quite some time, and like Dota, it is the collective memory of countless Chinese players. The people who scolded "World of Warcraft" as a drug have long disappeared, but "World of Warcraft" still has the largest player base.
In any way, I think Blizzard's World of Warcraft is already the ultimate in today's online games, not to mention the hard settings of copies, factions, races, classes, artists, BGM, etc., which are only the influential cultural atmosphere created by "World of Warcraft", and no so-called MMORPG can surpass it.
The characters of The Prince of Alsace, Illidan, Sal, and Gianna have long been familiar to players, the epic history of the world, the magnificent continent of Azeroth, this game has actually surpassed the online game, it has become a cultural phenomenon, it is a work of art built by Blizzard and players.
My adventures in the continent of Azeroth began with the beta of the Nine Cities Proxy era and ended with another invasion by the Burning Legion. At that time, because of the relationship between time and the endless farm, I gave up "World of Warcraft", and then returned to Azeroth again and again when the new version changed, but I could no longer find the passion of the year, and I no longer had so much time to invest in it.
But I still remember the majestic Ogrema, the Shining Gold Plain of the Pingchuan River, the peaceful and quiet Ash Valley Forest, the mysterious Zurgrab; I still remember that I experienced the server first brush of the most difficult copy of the Heart of Fire at that time, I took a group photo with the head of the Black Dragon Princess Onixia under Stormwind City, I personally participated in the first slaughter of Stormwind City by the server tribe; I still remember the phrase "Fight for you, my lady" in the Bloody Monastery, and I still remember the devastated streets of Statholm. The ghoul named Timmy still remembers "blood and thunder, strength and glory."
It was a glorious time. This is a great game.
Not the end...
This is my gaming career, maybe more of a remembrance, a bit of a melancholy, a game I've played, but also a passing time. I am a person who grew up playing computer games, and I will also become a person who plays computer games to the end of my life.
Just like I love music, film, literature, and other art forms, I love games.
Because there are dreams there.