I remember about a few months ago, I chatted with my friends who had just finished the graduate school and joined the work, and talked about the matter of touching fish at work:
"Do you remember a placement game that we played at that time that could hang up, and recently the video of touching the fish mobile phone brushed enough?"
"Remember, call the battle endless, I'll go and search."
"That's it, I remember it was on a website, you look for it."
"I'm super, the site is yellow"
This "yellow" website is called u77. Actually, my friends and I are probably quite Mars, because at this point, it's been yellow for about three years.
"U77 always has good games" (hereinafter referred to as U77), is a Flash game platform, and 4399, 7k7k and other daily updates dozens of hundreds of small games different, U77 mainly Hanhua foreign boutique Flash route, heavy quality is not weight. It is also because their Sinicization brings a certain degree of originality to the website, coupled with the clean and concise web pages, many small game enthusiasts have begun to assemble here, vaguely like a community gathering.
The early U77 was mostly placed in my mind, and this kind of game was also the source of U77's "fishing website" by players. This kind of game does not require the player to be immersed in the game for a long time, and there is no complicated operation, but every time you take a minute to cut back, there are things in the game that can make you click a little and give you pure and simple happiness.
For example, one of the games called "Endless Battle" is my first memory of U77, in this interactive interface where the combination of text and graphics is slightly "frigid", through the automatically generated battle description of the system in the lower left corner, players can hang their characters in the background to grow slowly, and occasionally cut back can also strengthen their skills and equipment.
Or Doomsday 2, which leads warriors and mages into monster dungeons and begins an exorcism war. This placement game is more informative than the endless battle, including team formation, equipment, skills, artifacts, missions, assembling robots, rebirth and other elements, born from the previous game Doomsday Crisis 2 has always been respected by players at that time.
In addition to adventure, it is also a good choice to have a "wild survival" during the work of fishing, this "Any Island" can let you use the mouse in the office to go on an adventure on an isolated island, while trying to solve the problem of food and clothing, making tools to make your island life more comfortable.
The main "touch the fish" and "easy" labels of this kind of game when playing gives people a very different feeling from today's various mobile games, and it is very good to take the time to come back and tap a mouse on the web page to develop a character. So after many years, when I searched for this site, I felt very sorry when I found that it had been closed.
Unlike most of the small companies that cannot operate under the epidemic, the U77 website has been inaccessible as early as November 2019, but there are not a few people who seem to be "hindsighted" like me, and everyone is suddenly trying to play the small game of "touching the fish", only to find that this often forgotten game site has long been closed.
There are many reasons for the closure.
The U77 in the player's field of vision has always been tepid, although there are many excellent placement "touch the fish" boutique games, but it also stops here. In July and August of 2019, the website stopped updating, from the "access anomaly" of the website in early October to the "inaccessible" in November, and many players learned through searching for messages: the company was dissolved.
In the official view, the collapse of U77 seems to be an "inevitable" result. Through the founder of the website as early as 14 years ago to express the company's future development concerns, with the success of another project in the hands of the "Adventure and Mining" mobile game, the operation of the U77 website was also transferred to others, so calmly faded out of everyone's vision.
Adventure & Mining was the second highest on Apple's paid list and 109th on the best-seller list at the time
Another important factor in the collapse of U77 is that the Flash game environment is deteriorating. Although Flash is a product of the representative era, it is still invincible to the invasion of the years, especially under the "attack" of Apple founder Jobs - the point of Criticism of Joe's helper does exist: Flash's closedness is too poor to cause the user's information security to be guaranteed, and only for the PC platform, the compatibility is not good, and can not meet the needs of users across platforms.
Born in 2007, "King of Fighters Wing", known as "the strongest fighting flash in history".
The studio later made Mobile Suit Andy and Reloaded War Hime.
Adobe discontinued support for Flash Player on December 31, 2020
The increasingly inferior Flash environment, coupled with the ecological environment of the circle is not large, has ushered in the end of this holy place where many people "touch the fish".
But the story of U77 is over, and the player's story is not over yet. Even after many years, there are still players in the U77 bar who "generate electricity with love" in this type of game, and in March this year, the user posted a post in the bar introducing a game editor he wrote and providing it. Despite years of silence, there is still community content today that proves players' acceptance of this type of game.
The U77 true love player who promoted the official group in the picture at the beginning of the article did not seem to be satisfied with this after posting the article with feelings in Tieba. In August 2021, the user named ljmtsl2010 updated a post saying that he was trying to revive the site U77, and he is also the current official group owner.
However, even if the "resurrection U77" post was posted in the U77 bar, it only got a reply from two users, not to mention whether it is difficult to restore the website, without user support is already a very "pouring cold water" reality.
Three replies, one of which is the poster's own complaint
But just last month, the account updated its post again, announcing that the U77 website was revived. We can't infer his mood at this time from a simple sentence of "Hi DaPu Ben, the U77 website has initially been revived" and a website connection, but as an editor in the game industry, my various groups are talking about this news is the best circumstantial evidence, and it is because of this that I found that this game site, which emphasizes "tepid" and "calmly fading out of the player's vision" in my writing, has such a high status in the hearts of these old editors (is it that the fish has been touched longer than me?). My generation still needs to learn more).
Now, you follow the link to the new U77, and you can see the familiar simple interface and the Flash games that can evoke your memories - but now you need a little operation to use Flash, of course, this operation is definitely difficult for the "old driver".
The fly in the ointment is that the resurrection of the U77 website is the same as when it was founded, and even the "looking for game resources" link makes the whole resurrection process more difficult. In the announcement of tesla, the webmaster now, we can see his gratitude for the strong support of the group friends and people in the official group, but he also said that this time it is still "power generation with love", the site is still relatively simple, in order to save labor costs, the game is also restored one by one through a slightly bulky recovery method.
And after the resurrection of the website, more problems have also surfaced, such as many mobile users feedback that the website can not be accessed, and the website was attacked not long after the opening, although things are being solved one after another, but for such a "power generation with love" organization, U77's "resurrection road" is indeed not easy.
However, just a few days ago, Tesla issued an announcement to users, explaining that users are most concerned about some issues, the most concerned of which is the profitability of the website. Tesla said that the source of the charge is from the access to Google ads, which will not affect the player experience and will be manually reviewed.
Now that games such as "Endless Battle", "Doomsday 2", "Arbitrary Island" and other well-received games on the former U77 have been moved to the new website for the first time, players can still be happy to touch the fish.
The source of the picture is known, U77 station commander Stella
Looking at the increasing amount of user data on the site (fishing party), perhaps this is what Tesla and his friends are pursuing - "sharing what they like to others", which is the enthusiasm of the ancient Internet. Before I wrote this article, I also contacted the friend for the first time:
"The game you said earlier, someone restored the site, can play"
"Such a cow, the URL will be sent to me soon."