I still remember when I was in high school, I hid the GBA in the middle of the textbook, and when the teacher turned around to write on the blackboard, I quickly clicked on the "Made in Wario" mini-game. That tense and exciting feeling is more exciting than playing a serious masterpiece now. As soon as you open the "Decompression Box" on your mobile phone, you instantly feel like you are back in the classroom where the sun shines through the cracks in the window and chalk dust floats in the air.
But to be honest, the experience difference between the original handheld version and the modern replica is quite big. When I played "Made in Wario" before, each mini-game only lasted a few seconds, and the button feedback was particularly solid. Press the A button to jump and the B button to attack. The clicking sound itself is a kind of stress relief. Although the touch screen of mobile phones is more sensitive now, it lacks the mechanical solidity in the hand, just like using a virtual joystick to play "The King of Fighters" and it always feels wrong. Fortunately, these mini-games in "Unzip Treasure Box" are designed to be very short, and combined with vibration feedback, they can regain some of their soul.
There is another thing that makes me sigh: the GBA screen back then was only 2.9 inches. The pixels were so big that you could count them, but the colors were so bright that it was hard to take your eyes away. Nowadays, mobile phone screens are large and delicate, and the resolution is several generations higher. When you play the animations of cute little animals or bubbles in "Unzip Box", there are so many details that an old-timer like me can't help but zoom in and look. However, there are disadvantages to a larger screen - back then, when you lowered your head to play secretly, the viewing angle was small and it was difficult to be discovered; now the phone is so bright that the boss can see it at a glance, which is so embarrassing 😂.
The charging models are even more different. In the past, you could buy a pirated cassette for tens of dollars and you could play it until you finished the game without any in-app purchases. This "Decompression Box" is free and can be downloaded for zero yuan. It has a lot of content, including kneading mud, cutting fruit, breaking bricks, popping pimples (this one is really annoying)... You can change the gameplay with just a few swipes, which is much more fun than playing one game in the past. Of course, modern mobile games inevitably have advertisements, but this one only occasionally pops up a small pop-up window, which can be closed by clicking on it. It does not affect the rhythm of fishing, which is very conscientious.
If you also miss the paint-worn handheld console from back then, but don't want to dig out the antique batteries and charging cables again, then this “Decompression Box” is your time machine. Open it, poke it a few times, and your youth is back. Even if you just pop a bubble secretly for 30 seconds while the leader is taking the water, it will make you smile. The happiness we hid under our desks all those years is now in the palm of our hands💪