I still remember that at that time, I grabbed the pocket money I had saved for a week, ran to the used bookstore in front of the school, and rummaged through the yellow cassettes in the carton. The cover shows Sailor Moon, but the insert shows Contra; it says 128-in-1, so I can play with just that. When exchanging cassettes with classmates, I have to repeatedly tell them "Don't lose my records" - even though most of them have no archiving function at all😅. But it was these pirated cassettes that accompanied us through countless late-night summer vacations: I played the reduced version of "Golden Sun" on the GBA, secretly played the Chinese version of "Monster Hunter P3" on the PSP, and the stylus on the NDS poked the screen of "The Support Group" until it blistered... That kind of rough but pure happiness, my heart still beats faster when I think about it now.
Recently I saw a new game "Box Office Seller" in "Qitan Dimension". I originally thought it was just an ordinary simulation business, but as soon as I started playing it, the flavor of youth came back🎬. Although it is not available on a handheld console, when I play it on my mobile phone, I am inexplicably reminded of the little mod I used to play "Harvest Moon" on the PSP to make movies - now there is finally a serious Movie Tycoon game! You play the role of a down-and-out director, starting from the Internet, gradually collecting stars such as Andy Lau and Stephen Chow (of course it is fictional, but really realistic), choosing scripts, doing promotions, competing for Oscars, and even signing top stars to form an exclusive lineup. What touches me the most is that it packages classic movies like "Jurassic" and "Titanic" into script jokes. If you choose "Space Rescue" to shoot, you can actually restore the famous scenes of "Gravity". This planner must be an old player who understands the jokes of our generation😭.
Compared with the past when playing pirated cassettes, those manufacturers had castrated the genuine content and caused freeze bugs, but now the remastered version of the mobile game is simply conscience-exploding. There are no in-app purchase traps (can you believe the zero-payment model?), all stars and scripts can be unlocked through gameplay, and even the UI has a retro feel to the game console interface of the year. I played for two days and already built my own "dream team": Let Tony Leung and Scarlett star in the live-action version of "Your Name." The box office grossed 4.6 billion. The sense of counterattack was as good as the time when I used pirated cassettes to get through the hidden levels of "Final Fantasy."
Youth has not gone far, it just changed the cassette slot. If you also miss the excitement of "buying a cassette and having to read the catalog on the back to guess the content", why not come to "Box Office Seller" and make a blockbuster with your own hands that the whole class will go to the pirated cinema to watch🌠.