preface:
In 1993, when my father bought me a red and white machine, the boss generously offered to give me a box of "Gold 4-in-1" cassettes, which contained "Contra", "Red Fortress", "Green Corps", and "Sharoman Snake". I don't know what the situation is for players in other regions, but I can guarantee that every player with a red and white machine in Guangzhou must have seen or owned such a cassette.
The classic degree of this cassette content does not need me to say more, each one is a superstar, almost everyone knows, especially "Red Fortress", I remember that I fought until the last level, dodged the laser cannon heavy attack, but could not dodge the passerby's creep a cold gun, instantaneously, the exciting BGM suddenly stopped, only the sound of emotionless gunshots, and the palms of my hands in cold sweat, the brain was blank I...
But I'm not afraid of your laughter, my first box of red and white machine cassettes in my life actually avoided the perfect option of "Gold Card 4-in-1" and chose another box of cassettes containing four games: "Three-Eyed Boy", "Castlevania", "Firebird: Phoenix" and "Birdman Squad". It's not that these four games are worse than the "Old Four", but the popularity is different.
As for why you chose this cassette... I have to say that children's consumption motivation is sometimes so simple, nothing more than that The Governor watched a whole set of "Three-Eyed Boy" animation on the TVB channel that year, and he has a sense of affinity for this work, and there is just this game in the cassette, nothing more.
However, "Three-Eyed Boy" is not mentioned for the time being, there will be opportunities in the future, and what the governor wants to talk about today is another game in the cassette tape that is also adapted from Osamu Tezuka's original work - "Fire Bird: Phoenix Chapter".
Compared with "Three-Eyed Boy", "Fire Bird: Phoenix" is not highly well-known in China, at best, it is a rush to buy a cassette for a certain game, and then wait until other games that can be played are tired of playing, and then make up to play the unpopular works.
In Bird of Fire: Phoenix, the player plays as a big-nosed uncle dressed in red, climbing mountains and wading through the water to collect fragments of the phoenix mural, and finally putting together a complete phoenix mural.
The game is set in the Yamato era, and each level can get a puzzle piece, but what is confusing is that there are 7 levels in total, and every time you open Yamato Stage 7, you will return to Yamato Stage 1, and no new puzzle pieces will appear. Looking at the phoenix that had just spelled out the lower half of his body, I didn't understand the doorway and went through the Yamato era for three weeks in a row, and found nothing... After more than an hour, I wondered: Is this stuck?
Later, by chance, I found a hidden entrance in a scene near the end of Yamato Stage1, and finally found that I had successfully entered a new stage, the afterlife.
Compared with Yamato, the scene of the afterlife is simply the difference between hell and heaven, there are no green mountains and rivers, birds and beasts, some are just endless rocks, very sci-fi metal devices, strangely shaped alien creatures, full of despair, combined with the scene of "the afterlife", is this the end of mankind?
After defeating the boss of the Afterlife Stage5, the player collected a total of 12 Phoenix Mural Fragments, according to the remaining vacancies, there are still 4 fragments left that have not been collected, and after completing the Afterlife Stage 5, the level is back to the Stage 1, it seems that the remaining 4 fragments must be hidden in some hidden levels.
Then, I spent a lot of time exploring the hidden entrances of the major levels in the afterlife, breaking almost every stone in the level, and finally found the road to the new level in the seemingly dead stone of the stage 1 pictured in the afterlife, which was really hidden too deeply.
This time, the player once again travels through time and space to the primeval era, where human civilization no longer exists, an era when dinosaur amphibians and insects dominated the land.
In an extremely dangerous environment, the player not only has to deal with the attack of the evil beasts, but also faces the fury of nature, struggles to survive in the extremely cold land and the hot volcano, and finally collects all 16 pieces of the Phoenix mural. At the end, a phoenix emerges from the flames and soars into the sky.
Seeing this, the governor looked confused: What is this? What is the reason why the protagonist restores the phoenix mural? What is the meaning of the phoenix that finally appears from the flames? Where is the "king" in the subtitle?
Unfortunately, when I was young, I was unable to understand the mystery behind the story of "FireBird: Phoenix", until later my grandfather brought back three sets of Osamu Tezuka's comic books for the New Year, namely "Three-Eyed Boy", "Astro Boy with Iron Arm" and "Fire Bird".
The "Bird of Fire" comic is divided into more than a dozen chapters such as "Dawn Chapter", "Future Chapter", "Yamato Chapter", "Universe Chapter", "Phoenix Chapter", etc., and the characters appearing in each chapter have a certain seemingly inconsistency, and the Fire Bird is the core chapter that runs through the entire story, as a super-life body, it has the ability to travel through the past, present, future, and even various parallel spaces, witnessing the good and evil, sin and punishment of all living beings in the universe. The protagonist of "Phoenix Chapter" is also a member of all sentient beings under the witness of the Bird of Fire.
There is only one controllable character in the red and white machine version of "FireBird: Phoenix", but in fact, in the comic version of "Phoenix", there are two protagonists in the story, they are good and evil, their lives go to extremes, but the ending is the same.
Careful players must have noticed that the red and white version of "Bird of Fire: Phoenix" also has a subtitle "The Adventure of My King", and the governor has not read the comic version before, and has been wondering whether this "My King" is of the same nature as the costume TV series that calls himself "朕", and the kind of person who is revered as "My Emperor". After I read the comic version, I finally understood that "My King" was actually a name - that is, the big-nosed uncle controlled by the player in the red and white machine game!
My king was born in a fisherman's family, and should have had a plain and happy life like everyone else, but fate was cruel, and when his father held my king and planned to thank the mountain god, he accidentally fell from the mountain, his father died on the spot, and my king also fell into serious injuries, although he survived, he was left with a lifelong disability, leaving only one left eye and one right arm.
▲ The newborn child can still live if he falls like this...
The surviving king and his mother lived on each other for 15 years, often discriminated against and bullied by the villagers, and once when they really couldn't stand it, our king ran to the home of the person who bullied him and pushed the whole family off the cliff, because of this incident, he was chased and killed by the villagers, and he could only jump into the river to escape.
At this time, my king met the second protagonist of the story, Akane Maru. Akane Maru is a sculptor who is determined to find the Bird of Fire, and he has a kind heart, and when he sees my king's depressed appearance, he treats him with courtesy. However, unexpectedly, the murderous Wang En would take revenge, not only to snatch Akane's clothes, but when he saw Akane's intact hands, he was jealous, cut off Akane's right hand with a knife, and then flew away.
There is a saying in the drama work "Confinement" that "others are hells", and the oppression and prejudice of the villagers against my king has become the hell of my king; and the cruelty and ruthlessness of my king have also created the hell of Akane Maru. A sculptor who loses his precious right hand, like a basketball player with a knee injury, basically declares the end of his professional life. Fortunately, Akane Maru is surrounded by mentors and friends who helped him get out of the mizu, giving him hope again.
At the same time, the great evil man who slashed Akane Maru, my king, also met the woman who affected his life, Suyu, my king coveted the beauty of Suyu and forcibly asked her to be his wife, strangely, Suyu did not resist much, but honestly obeyed.
In the days with The Fish, my king was still engaged in the business of killing people and overstepping goods, and one day his nose suffered from a strange disease, which became swollen and large, and the pain was unbearable. In order to help him alleviate his symptoms, The Fast Fish mixed a kind of ointment, and my king's subordinates saw that the ointment powder was sticky, suspected to be poison, and my king was immediately angry when he heard it, and rushed home in a hurry to kill the Fast Fish.
At the time of her death, Suyu told the truth: it turned out that she was not an ordinary person, but was incarnated by a small ladybug that my king had saved by chance, and she was grateful for my king's saving grace, so she became an adult to repay her. When he learned the truth, my king regretted that it was the only tenderness he felt in the world, but he was destroyed by his own hands. Having lost his beloved, he shouted the name of the fast fish while wandering dazedly on the snow.
Later, our king was escorted to the capital, and the highly respected monk Zhengda kindly took him in, and told him about the Buddhism of karma and retribution, and in the journey of following the liangjing monk Zhengyun in all directions, my king's hostility was reduced a lot, but he who experienced an unfair fate since childhood was still disgusted with everything in the world.
Later, our king was misunderstood as a mountain thief who stole things, was thrown into a cave prison, and was tortured to extract a confession. During his two years in prison, my king carved Buddha statues day and night, and the Buddha statues he created were fierce in appearance, but each one was as agile as if he had life. With the improvement of skills and changes, as well as the character of my king, today's he is no longer the maniac who killed people without blinking, he has become calm and calm, and his body has long faded the old anger.
Later, when my king learned that the monk Zhengda of Liangjing did not stand up to prove his innocence, in order to let him pass the trial of suffering and eliminate the hatred in his heart, and his hard work finally got his wish, and he had no regrets, he chose to become a buddha in the flesh and complete his final mission. In the face of what the teacher had done, my king pondered the meaning of life and finally realized it.
In the days to come, I will travel in all directions to build Buddha statues and ghost tiles for people, and with his miraculous skills, his fame will continue to spread throughout Japan.
Back to Akane Maru's side, he is now a red man under the court officials, and has undertaken the project of the largest Buddha statue in Japan, as long as the project is completed, wealth and fame will roll in. Akane's life has become better, but she has forgotten her original intention.
Therefore, when the king came to Akane Maru again, and the high official asked him to compete with Akane Maru to see who made the ghost tile better, Akane Maru was shaken. The ghost tiles he made with restlessness in his heart were utterly lost in front of the works created by the king who poured all his anger into his heart.
After losing to the evildoer who had taken his right hand, Akane Maru was not only angry, he exposed in front of everyone the fact that my king was once a murderer, and finally my king was ordered to cut off his right hand and drive him out of the capital.
Our king, who seems to have lost everything, did not lose the belief in being alive, on the contrary, he saw the appearance of this world clearly and realized that in this ugly world, there is still the beauty of life. He decided to use his power to bring salvation to the people of the world.
In a sense, our king finally completed his own rebirth and reincarnation.
On the other hand, Akane Maru, after avenging an arm to our king, the ghost tiles he made were used on the Great Buddha Hall and gained official positions and fame, but the good times were not long, one day the palace warehouse caught fire, and Akane Maru, who was afraid that the Great Buddha Hall would be affected by everyone, threw herself into the fire like crazy to extinguish the fire, but was swallowed up by the fire.
Before dying, the Fire Bird that Akane Maru had been longing to see day and night appeared in front of his eyes, and the Fire Bird told him: You are going to die, and after death you will be reborn as a bug, and after death, the bug will become a turtle, until the day of the destruction of the world, you will never have the opportunity to be reborn as a human.
Listening to the firebird's merciless verdict, Akane Maru desperately greets her end and is burned to ashes by the fire.
The story of "Phoenix" is the end of a bad man who gets the way and the good man falls. After experiencing the pain of losing his beloved and suffering from physical and mental torture, the evil king was finally enlightened and made the mission of redeeming people's hearts;
The kind Akane Maru regained her strength after her right hand was slashed, and won the chance to succeed by relying on her talent, which should have had a good ending. Helplessly, at the same time as his fame and fortune, he also lost his original intention, and even cut off the right hand of my king for his own selfish desires, and eventually he himself was also burned to death by the fire, and he could never be a man and teach people to sigh.
In fact, whether it is Akane Maru or my king, there is no real meaning of Happy Ending, one of them broke his arms, one was buried in the sea of fire, nothing more than my king from evil to good, good villains can live with great enlightenment, than Akane Maru's pursuit of fame and fortune will eventually become empty, and it looks better to break away from humanity and enter the five animals! (Although I always felt that the Fire Bird's punishment for Akane Maru was too heavy...) ）
In fact, "Firebird: Phoenix" is not a game that particularly restores the essence of the manga, in order to reduce the oppressive atmosphere of the work, KONAMI has created extremely light game music for it, and also added a more suitable for the relaxed elements of the horizontal version of the game, so we certainly did not think when we were young, there is such a thought-provoking story behind the game.
Of course, KONAMI still tries to restore some elements in the manga as much as possible, such as not knowing what the weapon fired by the protagonist I Wang is, combined with the story, it turns out to be the knife he used to carve the Buddha statue.
This white prop can increase the upper limit of my king's blood after eating it, and I thought it was a moth, but in fact, this is the shell that my king's wife, Fast fish, used to fill the ointment.
Inigami is the most common food eaten by my king in the original game, and one rice ball in the game can replenish all the health.
The feathers of the Fire Bird first appeared in The Dawn, and although it is mentioned in the manga that drinking the blood of the Fire Bird can be immortal, it is not mentioned whether its feathers have the same effect. Eating the feathers of the FireBird in the game can be invincible for a short time.
The Round Mirror is also from the Dawn Chapter, which is the instrument used by queen Beimihu, and the manga does not mention its use, but in the game it can make my king invisible for a short time.
As for the "bricks" that appear most often in the game and are used as pedals, they are the "ghost tiles" used in the manga to be placed on the top of the temple.
Like the rest of The Bird of Fire, The Phoenix is essentially a story about "reincarnation", the cycle of life, the cycle of good and evil, the cycle of cause and effect, and... The reincarnation of the levels. And "Phoenix" is only a small part of the huge chapter of "Bird of Fire", which is 22 volumes long and spans dozens of worlds, if you are interested in the complete story of "Fire Bird", the governor still recommends that you go to see the comic version!
All right! Today's article is written here, classic games are never outdated, strange games can also be remembered for a lifetime, I am the game governor, we will see you next time!