This is the 880th original article of the Old Boy Game Box, written by @Noah Console
A few days ago, when the editor was brushing jokes on the Internet, he accidentally saw such a picture, which made the editor fall into deep melancholy.
As a generation of post-80s players, we were relatively short of game resources when we were children, but because of this, those limited classic games were particularly precious.
I still remember that the original Internet café did not even have access to the broadband network, and everyone could only play a few stand-alone games that could be connected to the local area network, and even toss and turn in a few specific maps, but everyone never felt bored back then, and many years later they can still recall many indelible good memories.
Today, the editor will reminisce about a few of the most popular and popular game maps in Internet cafes back then, and see how much you played back then?
Counter-Strike: White Room
The CS classic hostage map (cs_assault), which has accompanied countless post-80s players in their childhood and even youth, has many names and nicknames among the people, including 72nd Street Warehouse, Warehouse, White House, Front and Rear Doors, Red and Blue Boxes, etc., but the editor is still used to calling it White House.
It is so called because the most prominent building on this map is a white-roofed warehouse that houses the bandits' base camp. This white warehouse has three entrances: the main entrance, the back door, and the pipe, and there are so many offensive and defensive options that it even makes people feel that the balance of this map is a bit broken.
In addition to fighting at the gate, the map of the white house also provides sniper points on bridges and buildings, and the police can even directly spy on the movements of the bandits' lair through the monitoring car in their hometown.
The land of the White House offers players a wide variety of tactical options, which can be extremely challenging and uncertain.
Although the white room is a hostage map, when I was a child, whether I played police or bandits, I basically ignored those wronged leaders. Because the balance of the white room is really poor, if the bandits stick stick to their hometown, it is impossible for the police to take those stupid AIs out of the warehouse intact.
So everyone will never play this diagram to go to the mechanism, most likely to buy B31 and grenades directly to the door, game after game of tireless fighting, occasionally someone sniper will be spit out of the seat to complain about the sixth, the post-80s players are in such a not perfect white room map to spend one happy Internet café time after another.
Counter-Strike: Desert 2
Scorching Sand City II (de_dust2), which is what players call Desert 2, is one of the most representative classic maps in the CS era.
Compared to the previous White House, the Desert 2 map has a concise and clear design and a balanced tactical layout, with both an open field of view and narrow passages and corners, providing players with a variety of tactical options. At the same time, the design of buildings, obstacles, and cover in the map is just right, allowing players to use the terrain to defend or attack.
The Desert 2 map is very balanced in terms of tactical layout, and both police and bandits can have their own advantageous areas and offensive routes.
Among them, the spawn point of the police is relatively close to Area A and Area B, so that they can quickly deploy some key positions, such as Avenue A and Hole B, or directly occupy high ground such as Platform A and the entrance of Area B.
Bandits have a variety of offensive routes in the Desert 2 map, including Avenue A, Trail A or Hole B, which can be organized to attack, and the offensive strategy can be flexibly adjusted according to the defensive situation of the police. As mentioned earlier, Desert 2 has the problem that areas A and B are too far apart, so that bandits naturally have the advantage of laying mines, and can bury mines at different locations in areas A or B, so that the police can take care of one or the other.
Desert 2 is full of gameplay, making this map very popular both in the folk and in competitions. As one of the early CS classic maps, this map has witnessed the development and growth of CS, accompanying countless old boy players to spend sleepless nights in Internet cafes one after another.
Red Alert 2: Arctic Circle
One of the iconic maps of Red Alert 2, and even now one of the favorite maps for novice players, players can find endless fun in a single-player game 1 vs. 7 cold, an 8-player melee in an Internet café, or a 4 vs. 4 vs. 4 battle.
The Arctic Circle map is extremely easy to play, especially for players born on small islands, as long as the bridge is broken, an isolated island will be formed, which makes it easier to defend.
From a competitive point of view, the Arctic Circle map design is also excellent. This is a map that blends land and naval battles, and the tactical choices are more complex than the other classic map, Ice and Snow. The Arctic Circle has a large number of resources, the layout is symmetrical and fair, and there are a large number of neutral resources such as oil wells and airports distributed at each key point.
When I was a child, the Arctic Circle of "Red Alert 2" was also one of the game maps with the most players in the Internet café, and at that time, everyone didn't know so much about the game, and they often agreed to develop for 1 hour each, build countless apocalypse, prism tanks, and then gather on the road of the inner circle of the Arctic Circle to fight. It will also attract the attention of countless friends around, and now I think back on it is really full of childish happiness.
Over time, the Arctic Circle has become one of Red Alert 2's most iconic maps, entertaining both beginners and experts, and still holds the deep affection and memories of countless players.
Warcraft 3: Guarding the Sword Pavilion and Guarding Athena
As a classic RTS game, "Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne" was not many players who could play it back then, and more people were addicted to those interesting RPG maps on Internet café computers, among which the guard map was the most popular.
Xiaobian was most impressed by the two maps of Guarding Sword Pavilion and Guarding Athena, of which the former not only applied the classic theme of the Three Kingdoms, but also integrated the two major gameplay elements of tower defense and RPG.
The latter Guardian Athena is more classic, the design concept is extremely advanced, in the original Guardian Athena map, you can get a glimpse of the three-way soldier line, spring water base, brush soldiers and eat books and other basic settings in later MOBA games, in the subsequent update, it is added to the tower defense, character training and other elements, it is full of fun to play.
However, for a kid like Xiaobian back then, the happiest thing was not to appreciate the exquisite design of these two maps, but to enter the game directly into the classic Greed is good 99999 and whos your daddy, and then feel how lonely it is to be invincible.
The reason for the length of this article is to take stock here,The popular games of the post-80s Internet café in Tiannan and Haibei may have subtle differences,What are the most popular stand-alone games on your side back then?Which map do you like the most?Welcome to talk about all game friends in the comment area!
Author: Noah Host
Editor: Xiao Chen