Dear friends, I recently discovered a small game called "Quick and Easy Dodge" on my mobile phone. You can avoid obstacles with skates. The operation is extremely simple. You just need to slide left and right to control the extension and opening of the two legs. As I was playing it, I suddenly felt that it felt too much like the time when I played pirated cassettes on GBA.
I still remember that when I was in junior high school, I saved up my breakfast money for a long time and went to the black Internet cafe in front of the school (which actually sold pirated cards) to buy a blue cassette. The boss said it was "64 in 1". But when I got home and plugged it in, I found that there were three games repeated twenty times, and the rest were all garbled characters. But at that time, regardless of this, a "Ski Boy" could be played for a whole afternoon, just like the current "Quick and Easy Dodge", which is to avoid obstacles left and right, and avoid obstacles higher and higher.
Could the original version of this game be an arcade transplant from a small foreign manufacturer? But the pirated cards we played back then had to be translated into Chinese by the boss himself with handwritten stickers, and they were all called "Skating Adventure" or something like that. This genuine mobile game now on mobile phones actually has bonus levels and a combo system, and the graphics are much smoother than the pixel matrix of the year. But to be honest, I still miss the "gear-dropping metaphysics" of pirated cassettes - when you play the last level and suddenly the battery runs out and the records disappear, you feel like you were beating your chest in youth.
Now when I play this game on my mobile phone, although I no longer have to play the cassette or shoot the machine, the tension of "dodge one more obstacle to win" is exactly the same. Maybe this is what old players call "gameplay". It has nothing to do with the platform and everything to do with memories. 🤔
Have any of you experienced the "pain" of pirated cassettes? For example, the screen suddenly goes black while playing, or the character name changes to "Gong Xi Fa Cai" or something like that? Come to the comment area to chat and see whose pirated card was the most outrageous back then!