Brothers, I was browsing the forum yesterday and saw a mobile game called "The Romance of Immortals and Saints". I clicked on it and took a look, and it instantly took me back twenty years ago. I still remember when I was a child, I saved my breakfast money and went to the canteen to buy a five-yuan pirated cassette. The boss patted his chest and said, "This is the latest masterpiece." But when I plugged in the GBA, the title screen changed to one word, and the content was still "Pokemon" Ruby? This is youth!
Talking back to "Immortal Sword", although the quality of the current mobile game is inferior to that of the GBA back then, looking at the SSS-level quality and PC game-level graphics, what comes to my mind is the pixel style of playing the pirated version of "Immortal Sword" on the PSP. Where can I get a redemption code at that time? Basically, if you buy the cassette, you will get a strategy book full of typos, and you have to fumble through it all by yourself. It's better now. If you enter vip666, vip777, or vip888, you can receive benefits. Thinking about the time when we called and sent text messages to electronic soft magazines in order to get hidden props, our hearts bleed.
But to be honest, the current mobile game replicas have indeed improved. Zero krypton, love and romance, 3D graphics, the impact is exciting. But I always feel that there is something missing - the ritual feeling of blowing the golden finger with your mouth when inserting and unplugging the cassette, the desperate feeling of pulling out the battery and restarting after the computer crashes, the sense of loyalty when exchanging pirated cards with classmates, "I have sixteen games in the card, I will exchange it for your modified version of Super Mario".
The world of cultivating immortals in "The Romance of the Immortal" is definitely more carefree and relaxing than the pirated cassettes of those years, but I still miss the blue GBA that was dropped twice, and the pirated version of "Castlevania" White Night Concerto with all the stickers peeled off. You can't go back to your youth, but it's nice to be able to relive your dream of being a fairy on your mobile phone.
One last question: Who still has the kind of pirated cards that cost five yuan a plate and had blurry covers? Take it out and let me see what your youth looks like😭