As we all know, Internet cafes are mainly used to surf the Internet and play online games, and single-player games are just an ornament, just to make the game menu look good. Not many people will go to Internet cafes to consume in order to play stand-alone games.
Have you all played these games?
However, the world is not absolute, and if this kind of thing had been placed more than twenty years ago, it would not have been a strange thing.
So what is it like to play a single-player game in an Internet café?
The specific situation depends on the times, and the times are different, and the feelings will be different.
Around 1998, when home computers were not yet widespread, online games had not yet become popular, and if you wanted to play computer games, Internet cafes were one of the options.
However, at that time, most of the Internet cafes could not be regarded as Internet cafes in the true sense, because they did not provide any Internet services, and could only be called computer game rooms.
Players here are divided into two categories, one mainly plays LAN battles such as Dune, Red Alert, and Warcraft 2, and the other focuses on single-player games such as Diablo, Dragon Knights, and Paladin.
Although the number of computer players is far less than the size of the arcade, it is fortunate that the circle is relatively small, and the players are also very harmonious and friendly, and there is no contempt chain.
For the majority of single-player gamers, the biggest problem at that time was how to save the game. At that time, unlike now, there was no storage medium such as USB sticks and network hard disks, and game archive files could only be stored in the "SAVE" folder of the local computer.
This raises a big question, you can't be the only one on a computer, and if another player overwrites your hard-earned game saves, you won't have a place to cry.
I have a deep understanding of all this, when it took an afternoon to get out of the Maze of the General Tomb, the next day I read the file and found that Li Xiaoyao had crossed back to Yuhang Town, and all the archives were covered.
The feeling of going back to the pre-liberation night almost broke down on the spot. The network fee is secondary, the most painful thing is that the progress of the game that they have worked so hard to call is so gone, and anyone will not be willing.
But even then, what can be done? You can't always be there 24 hours a day, remind others not to overwrite your archives!
At that time, the operating system began to transition from the DOS system to the WIN system, everyone was a computer idiot, only knew how to turn on the power-off pinyin typing, for PC common sense did not know anything, where to know that there is such a thing as game archive files.
In order not to let others move his own archive, he secretly changed the name of the game icon of "The Legend of the Paladin Sword", called "This Game Is Toxic Don't Point", and the result was self-defeating, and the point was more people.
Seeing that this plan did not work, he came up with another clever way to paste a small note on the seat to remind other players not to overwrite the Xth save of so-and-so's game.
As a result, this practice was that there was no silver in this place, but it aroused the curiosity of more people, and after that, Li Xiaoyao never went out of Yuhang Town again.
In the end, the owner of the computer game room really couldn't stand it, and specially built a personal folder for me to save the game archive, and also taught me a lot of computer knowledge.
It can be said that the computer knowledge enlightenment teacher of his childhood was the owner of the computer game room.
Before entering the millennium, the atmosphere of single-player games in Internet cafes had always been very good, but when the time moved to 2007, after entering the university era, everything changed.
This period has completely become the world of online games. The major Internet cafes play online games accounted for 60%, play CS, Warcraft RPG battle accounted for 30%, the rest of the added up not even 10%, as for the single players can not even see the shadow.
At that time, the university had an unwritten rule that freshmen were not allowed to bring computers to the dormitory in the first academic year, so freshmen ran to Internet cafes after class, and Internet cafes around the school were full. Serious suspicion is that there is some kind of shady deal behind this.
In just ten years, the decoration of Internet cafes is getting better and better, but the game experience of the single-player party is getting worse and worse, which comes from an invisible pressure.
Society is a large circle of life, internet cafes are a small circle of communication, the surrounding students are either five seats black, or with the guild together to play online game copies, only single-player players are immersed in their own world, isolated from the outside world.
For single-player gamers, if they behave too low-key, they will have a feeling of being out of place with the surroundings, and if they are too high-profile, it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of X.
In the era of online games that emphasizes people-to-people connections, single-player players are usually lonely and difficult to understand. The most heard sentence is what does it mean to sit there alone and hit the computer?
In short, playing single-player games in Internet cafes is an act that will be despised by classmates, and the only good news is that finally there is no need to worry about the problem of game savings. When the sophomore school allows the use of personal computers, you can play with the single computer in the dormitory unscrupulously.
However, the previous sentence has also been upgraded, how to say it?
Obviously, you can download it for free on the Internet to play, why pay for a game DISC?
Hearing my roommate's questioning, I think he has his own reasoning, but I also have some ideas of my own.
For such a problem, there is no need to argue too much, everyone just has different views on single-player games. I took a game disc called "Legend of Tianhe" from the drawer and gave it to my roommate.
Try this game, the plot is quite touching.
His roommate took the disc with the letter, and although he did not specify whether the game was fun or not, at the class reunion a few years later, he still remembered the plot of "The Legend of Tianhe" and was unforgettable.
Maybe this is a unique charm of single-player games!
Since I officially joined the work after entering the society, I have never stepped into an Internet café again, and even the time to play games has become very limited.
However, for yourself, the time of playing stand-alone in the Internet café is always a precious life experience, whether the taste is sour and sweet, or bitter and spicy, it is worth remembering.