Recently, I installed Windows 98 and XP in a virtual machine, and once again reviewed two games that had an important impact on my learning and life.
Seeing the familiar large-scale Windows 98 appear in the ultra-thin display of 4K picture quality, I can't help but sigh that time is like a white colt passing through the gap.
In 1999, in the summer of the turn of the century, in the golden age of domestic stand-alone games, the mother of the literary girl at that time held me and sat in front of the computer with her big back, and her gentle and large hand gently pressed on my small hand holding the mouse.
With the deafening roar of the light drive, in the originally dark screen, a fishing boat slowly rowed out with the lake and mountains. Behind the fishing boat is a slowly unfolding scroll, with the book "Tang Dynasty Poetry", the pen is sharp and vigorous, and the picture is simple.
My career as a PC player has officially opened with the book.
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This game, which only works for Systems below Windows 9 8, if reset and put on Steam release, should be able to attach several labels: RPG, Puzzle, Ink Wind, Open World, Multi-Ending...
With Dunhuang mural "Flying Sky", antique game cover
Released in 1996 by Nanjing Inventec (the Taiwan OEM manufacturer that once helped Xiaomi mobile phones), even if it uses the current game aesthetic standards, it captures the Splash Ink Landscape color conception and the very freehand style of the Chinese painting screen, which is enough to be praised as the "light of domestic games" on major game social media.
The plot of the game is actually a bit old-fashioned when put to the present: the prince was abducted in the palace and exiled to the people, and when he grew up, he explored the story of his life according to the verse clues of the jade pendant "The Hall of Eternal Life on the Seventh day of July, when no one whispered in the middle of the night". In the game, players follow the protagonist to meet famous poets such as Li Bai, Wang Wei, Du Fu, Meng Haoran, etc., and visit lushan mountain, yellow crane tower, big wild goose pagoda, zhongnan mountain and other famous places in poetry.
The most rare thing is that this is a game that can really learn Tang poetry. All the interactions in the game can be completed by clicking the left mouse button, with a very good full-Chinese voice, even if you have just touched the computer, you can not read a few characters, you can play more smoothly.
When the player walks to a new scene, a verse depicting the scene will pop up
Almost all the plots, interactions, puzzles, and Easter eggs in the game complement Tang poetry, and almost do not feel the mechanical learning mode of the learning machine that appeared more than ten years later, such as backgammon and good memorable stars, which are known as "let children easily fall in love with learning", but the elements of Tang poetry are truly integrated into the game, and truly achieve "painting in poetry, poetry in painting", while also taking into account gameplay.
At this point, the player must select words that match the words in "Nobori Yuhara" and "Acacia" to get the chess pieces
For example, when playing backgammon with Meng Haoran, the player must first choose two poems, and when playing chess, they must wait for the pieces to show the words in these two poems before they can fall, otherwise they will directly skip the player's turn.
At this time, the corresponding altar shows the picture of "the old people have taken the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here"
For example, in the puzzle game of the Yellow Crane Tower level, the protagonist needs to complete the game of pushing the box, get the brick platform hidden in the depths, and then go out smoothly. BGM is Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" recitation, the box that needs to be pushed will constantly flash the picture related to the verse, which sentence the poem reads, the player can push the box that draws the corresponding picture of the poem, otherwise it will be punished.
Just by going through the Yellow Crane Tower puzzle game, I couldn't even recognize the words at that time, and I firmly engraved "Yellow Crane Tower" in my DNA.
But for a ligature-indisting young boy, it's still too difficult to play a more strategic game like backgammon. In the era when I had to use telephone dialing points to access the Internet, I didn't have any means to check the strategy. In this kind of checkpoint situation, I had to go to my humanoid plug-in - mom.
Then my devil mom would help me through a puzzle game at the cost of memorizing a poem.
"Mommy, I can't play backgammon in Takerikan, can you come and help me play it?"
"Yes, it is to help you play the game will take up your mother's reading time." In order to compensate for your mother, if I help you get through this, I will teach you to teach you to memorize an ancient poem, okay? It's such a long short sentence in the game, you are so smart, you can quickly memorize it. ”
"Well, you can help me pass this pass first."
"Well, I'll teach you to memorize poems while playing chess, and it just so happens that it rarely rains today, so I'll teach you a poem about rain, come, read it with me from the first sentence: Black clouds crush the city and destroy it."
"Black clouds are crushing the city."
"Really good, let's read the second sentence together: Jia Guang opened to Ri Jinlin."
With the help of my mother's humanoid plug-in, I finally passed the week of "Tang Dynasty Poetry" before going to elementary school. But owe a lot of debt for recitation.
There are two ways to repay debts, one is to memorize a four-sentence poem every time you play a mini-game (regardless of whether you have passed the level or not), and the other is to memorize a long poem every time you open a small game.
I was worried that my mother would deliberately lose the mini-game to make me memorize more short poems, so I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet and chose the latter plan.
Naïve me, in this way, I was caught in the plan of the mother. Waiting for me in front of me is "Mulan Poem", "Pipa Line", and "Will Enter the Wine".
In order to pay off the debt, in addition to the game, in order to complete the recitation task promised to my mother, she took me to the walk after dinner every day, I would learn ancient poems with her word by word, and she would also tell me the Tang poems behind the plot of the game.
Therefore, in the night after night at the turn of the century, I knew Li Bai, who let Gao Lishi take off his boots, let Yang Guifei grind, and fight wine and poetry, met Wang Changling, Gao Shi, and Wang Zhizhuo, who talked and laughed in the liquor store, and got to know the poets behind the "Tang Dynasty Poems" who had a vivid personality, and also became acquainted with poetry and literature.
The protagonist is related to the poet Li Bai
At a time when the vast majority of my peers are still struggling to nibble on the "bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground", I have been able to turn the "thousands of miles to the plane, Guan Shandu ruofei", "noisy cut miscellaneous bullets, large beads and small beads falling on the jade plate" backwards like a stream.
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The fate of history begins when I was in the second grade of elementary school and went to a friend's house to play games.
In that game, I can operate martial generals and various kinds of soldiers to run across the city, attack the city strategically, and the martial generals also have cool martial arts skills, and one move can destroy the world and destroy the earth, and the stumps and broken arms of the creeps fly around.
Such a game was certainly not enough for a little boy, so I immediately asked my friend the name of the game, and he told me that it was called "Three Kingdoms Group X Biography".
After a long time, I didn't know that the word was "English", but at that time I wrote this word as "hero".
The next day, I dragged my grandfather all day to run around the major game disc stores at that time, and finally bought a pirated disk in a dilapidated small shop that was one word different from "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", which was a "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" with a broken archive function.
After entering the game, I was stupid, could it be that there was a problem with the way I opened it? Why does it always feel like playing two completely different games than playing at a friend's house? (However, these are two completely different games))
At that time, I simply thought that the plot was not advancing, so I did not unlock the scene of hundreds of people beating each other, so I played with a question mark.
Later, I learned that the "Legend of the Three Kingdoms" I bought was a game from the "Heroes" series released by Heluo Studios in 2002, and soon after the game was released, Heluo disbanded. It is very familiar to people to be more familiar with their previous works "The Legend of Jin Yongqun", "The Legend of The Heroes of the Wulin Group" or the "Legend of the Heroes", "The Legend of the Heroes of the Heluo Group", and "The Way of the Heroes" (Xia Yin ge) series after this.
The game's large map, all the towns in the map can be explored
The plot and gameplay of the entire game can be simply understood as the open-world wargame version of RPG's "Great Snake Matchless": proficient in the history of the Three Kingdoms, the protagonist in the modern era travels to the era of the Three Kingdoms in the chaos of time and space, and the three kingdoms generals who are scattered everywhere, crusade against Dong Zhuo, who is possessed by the demon god, and pulls time and space back to the right track of the Three Kingdoms. Players can freely travel around the Shenzhou Continent, east to Jianye Wudu, west to Wuwei Xiqiang, south to The Southern Barbarian Mengyu, north to the Xiongnu Desert, all cities on the map can be freely explored, players can freely choose to explore the town and raid the order of warriors.
In the game, up to 30 generals of the Three Kingdoms era can join the protagonist's team, each general has a unique and complex active and passive skills, some warriors and skills are properly matched, you can produce BUG-like buffs, plus a rich equipment system and a unique timing system, so that the gameplay of the battle is full.
On top of that, the entire game was completed with only the left and right mouse buttons, which was very friendly to me, who had to use two-finger Zen for typing at that time.
In the process of playing, the plot of the friendship with the warriors is almost all closely related to the history of the Three Kingdoms, the player can pass five levels with Guan Yunchang, slash six generals, go in and out of the enemy line with Zhao Zilong, and escape with him in the Ulin while listening to the neurotic song of Cao Cheng Xiang "hahaha"...
Why do you laugh?
Even in a specific plot, if there is a corresponding general in the team, a special plot will be triggered. For example, in the plot of rescuing Liu Bei, Yan Liangwen ugly will be encountered, at this time, if there is Guan Yu in the team, it will trigger the plot of Guan Yu's single challenge, after cutting Yan Liang and xue Wen ugly, when fleeing to Changshanpo, if there is Zhang Fei in the team, it will also trigger the plot of Zhang Fei alone after the longboard bridge is broken. Plots like this abound in the game.
In addition to the common Three Kingdoms famous generals, players can also associate with two famous female generals of the Three Kingdoms period, by triggering a specific hidden plot, and even bring the two heroines back to the modern era after completing the level.
Such an exciting gameplay and a deep sense of substitution plot are of course unbearable for a little boy who is keen on fighting and killing and has just opened his love sinus (and now he can't stand it).
However, because Heluo has made almost all the raiders into the explanatory books of the genuine game, there is almost no beginner guidance in the game. The game says it is free to explore, but through the limitation of level and enemy strength, players still have to attack the warriors in a certain order. In addition, pirated CDs did not have a save function, and once the protagonist died in battle, the entire game had to be restarted, which was very difficult for me, who was still in the game at that time and had no strategy to check.
The difficulty also aroused my competitive spirit. I am like a time traveler with the ability to reincarnate, constantly exploring in this time-space chaotic world of the Three Kingdoms, constantly dying, but constantly getting stronger through trial and error. From being killed by small soldiers in the wild at the beginning, to groping out the recruitment order of the three kingdoms warriors, being killed by strong enemies because of insufficient training, to learning the strongest martial arts of full-screen second kill after exploring all the items on the map, and finally passing through the difficult level, which lasted a year.
Because pirated games do not have a save function, in order to save the progress all the time, I did not turn off the computer for several weeks before passing the level, and the computer was turned on and hung, in order to make the computer not so hard every time I played the game, after completing the weekly game, I began to explore how to complete the game in the shortest possible time.
Under my unremitting exploration and optimization for dozens of weeks, I gradually reduced the time from 2 weekends and 4 days to 1 weekend and 2 days, and in the end, I was able to complete the game in about 4 hours.
Until now, "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" is the game I have played the most, the longest playing time, and the only game I have studied how to speed it up.
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During the game level, I asked for help from the former humanoid plug-in, my mother, but this time, my mother did not have deep game experience and could not help me. After playing the game for a while, she said to me: "This game mother will not play, but the plot of the game seems to be basically linked to the history of the Three Kingdoms, just at home there is a full set of comic strips of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", if you don't have to turn it over, maybe you can find clues related to the game." ”
At that time, I was in a hurry to go to the doctor, so I credulously believed my mother's "ghost words" and began to use the time when I couldn't play games on weekdays to pick up the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" comic strip and watch it.
The version of the comic strip I saw was the deep blue cover comic strip issued by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, which was the most widely circulated and influential in China, and it was the ingenuity of Xu Zhengping, Chen Guangyi, Liu Xiyong, Hu Ruofo, Zhang Lingtao and a large number of other comic strip artists in the industry, and truly reproduced the magnificent and heroic world of the Three Kingdoms in Luo Guanzhong's pen with pictures.
Character modeling and utensils, palace rooms, combat readiness, scenes, etc. are exquisitely written, and the character actions, looks, and storyboards of each page of the picture are exquisite, with the wonderful story of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", even if it is compared with the mainstream Japanese comics and national comics, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" comic strip can also be said to be the only level of dimensionality reduction.
I was fascinated by the distinctive Characters of the Three Kingdoms depicted in the comic strips, and every night I always fell asleep with the deep blue cover comic strips on my pillow, and even when I ate, I had to put a book next to the rice bowl and eat through the story of the Three Kingdoms. After reading almost all of my free time, 60 comic strips were quickly finished, and I was still a little unsatisfied.
At this time, my mother told me that in fact, a small part of the story in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" comic strip was selected from the original book, and if you want to understand the whole story, you still have to look at Luo Guanzhong's entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Out of love and curiosity about the world of the Three Kingdoms, in the first semester of the fourth grade, when other students rushed out of the classroom to play after class, I took out a thick copy of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from my bag and nibbled it.
Once between classes, reading and reading, I suddenly lay on the table and cried, startling my classmates, some came to comfort me, some asked the reason, and some thought I was bullied and indignant, I didn't say a word, just crying, they didn't understand my sadness.
Because the invincible Guan Yu died.
If I want to go to elementary school, I will be able to rank the saddest things I have encountered, Guan Yu's death should be able to rank second, and the first one must be Zhuge LiangXingwu Zhangyuan.
After reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I became an authentic Shu element, than the same age students know a lot of stories of the Three Kingdoms period, in the language class to learn "Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows", I can tell them what happened before this happened Liu Huang Uncle San Gu Maolu, Zhuge Liang burned Xinye, and then Liu Bei into Shu, Guan Yu flooded the Seven Armies of the Story, to satisfy my little vanity.
Coincidentally, not long after I finished reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Teacher Yi Zhongtian came to a hundred pulpits to taste the Three Kingdoms.
After being exported (mistakenly) by Teacher Yi Zhongtian with a berserker axe, my view of history was completely and completely subverted, and it turned out that Cao Cao's image in zhengshi and his image in the novel would be so different.
So I decided to read the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, which Teacher Yi often quotes.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" should be the hardest raw meat I have ever eaten in my life. After all, it is not easier to let elementary school students who have hardly even learned ancient Chinese to see the history of the text, which is not easy than playing a Japanese game without a translator. What's more, I bought Pei's annotated version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and every time I read a sentence or two, there will suddenly be a large paragraph of annotation that Pei Songzhi does not know where to carry, which makes people dizzy.
Probably in this style
Fortunately, I was curious in my childhood at that time, and it may also be because the summer vacation was too idle, and I really spent a few months to read the biographies of the main characters in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Reading the Shoji shoshi at the beginning is really no different from playing a Japanese game without a translation. Fortunately, before I had the basis of playing "Tang Poetry" to memorize Tang poems, coupled with the plug-in blessing of the ancient Chinese dictionary, I insisted on hard reading, I gradually understood the general meaning of each word, after reading the Wei Guowu general biography, and then reading later, it was very different from the speed of reading vernacular text.
In order to commemorate my successful "clearance" of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I was idle at that time, and I also memorized Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair" and "Exit Table" by the way.
During the summer vacation of studying romance of the Three Kingdoms, I finally bought the "Tale of the Three Kingdoms 5" that I had been thinking about before. Later, I found the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" 7-9 series, "The Legend of Zhao Yun of the Three Kingdoms", "Fantasy of the Three Kingdoms" and other domestic Three Kingdoms theme games in the game audio store, watched the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series, and also watched Wu Yusen's "Chibi", and saw many different games, film and television works in the three kingdoms image.
Playing the Three Kingdoms game, reading the history of the Three Kingdoms, and watching the drama of the Three Kingdoms in my childhood have greatly improved my view of history and my ability to learn. In the future, whenever I encounter a problem that is difficult to solve, the first thing I think of is to look around to find the channels to solve this problem, and when I encounter controversial topics on the Internet or in real life, I can also try to look at the problem from an objective and rational point of view.
What's even more rare is that after experiencing this, I like to like the game at the same time, but also like to like history, like to read.
In the future, I don't need to be driven by games, I don't need to be nagged by my mother, and I will read at least 1-2 history or literature books every semester. Nowadays, even if I am busy at work, I will read more than 10 minutes of books before going to bed before going to bed.
This hobby has also brought me a lot of advantages, the most direct embodiment of which is in language learning. In addition to completing my daily homework, I hardly did much extra work, and I easily got high marks for poetry appreciation, literary appreciation, and essay and exams.
Especially in high school, every time the teacher asked the whole class to recite a long poem such as "The Teacher's Table" and "Pipa Line", I could laugh out loud when I looked at the sad faces of other students, which had been firmly engraved in my DNA as early as more than ten years ago.
Looking back on my experience, in fact, there are many coincidences, if I was born 10 years later, I may not be able to contact the "Tang Dynasty Poems", "The Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", which are edutainment and education of domestic stand-alone games; if there is no guidance from my mother again and again, I have not caught up with the period of national history driven by Yi Zhongtian's teacher Pin Three Kingdoms, I may just simply like to play games...
In my childhood, I played games and read books, and many coincidences came together unconsciously.
Whenever this happens, I will thank my mother for her good education, and also thank such excellent domestic games as "Poetry of the Great Tang Dynasty" and "The Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", which is Xu Changlong's love for games of their generation, so that I can play a game that can really be entertaining and educational 23 years ago.
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After junior high school, with the demonization of Yang Yongxin and others and the increasingly rampant piracy of games, I saw fewer and fewer domestic games in video stores, and even these video stores began to close down one by one. "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" has been suspended for a long time, and all kinds of money online games have begun to become popular among classmates, and I want to play the Three Kingdoms game, which can only be selected from the glorious "Three Kingdoms Matchless" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series next door.
In 2015, Heluo Studio was reorganized, and during the summer vacation when I was a sophomore, I played "The Legend of Chivalry", and in a trance, it seemed that I was back to the happy time when I had just touched "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms".
In 2018, Sega released the first trailer for Total War: Three Kingdoms, the ink pen walking dragon snake accompanied by the melodious Han Le Fu poem "Fifteen from the army, eighty to return", full of elaborate history of the Three Kingdoms finally appeared in the game again, which is more tearful than seeing the cake drawn on E3 in 2077.
After playing the game, I found out that this game is only a half-finished product of the historical plot of Dong Zhuo. By 2021, Total War: Three Kingdoms was discontinued. At this time, the game itself has not even been updated to the three-legged plot, and the game finally ends in the "Three Kingdoms Game Without three kingdoms, but with the chaos of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty".
In recent years, the domestic stand-alone game market has flourished again, but the Three Kingdoms games I am looking forward to, or the ancient Chinese history games with professional considerations, seem to be far away.
But at least there are two classic games that can never be bored to play, "Tang Dynasty Poems" and "The Legend of the Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", which have always accompanied me. Whenever I feel "electronic impotence" and can't play any game, I will go back to these two games again, so that my heart will once again return to the summer at the turn of the century, back to the childhood I can never go back to, and re-feel my original intention as a gamer.
Old tours are nowhere to be found. There is no place to be found, only the heart of a teenager.