I still remember running to the game console shop in front of the school with a crumpled twenty yuan in my pocket. The boss mysteriously took out a box of cassettes from under the counter with a white strip on it and a crooked "XX in 1" written on it. The happiness was even greater than receiving the express delivery now. Everyone knows about pirated cassettes. The cover is printed like a mosaic. If you insert it into the GBA, you may get a corrupted screen or lose the save file. What I'm most afraid of is that halfway through the game, the battery will run out and the save will disappear. It feels like the sky is falling. But I still miss the experience of opening a blind box like drawing cards. Each card contains an unknown world of adventure. 😭
Over the years, there are not many mobile games that can really bring me back that feeling of "comrades-in-arms". Recently, I discovered the online version of "The Lost Story", which makes me feel young again. To be honest, how could there be any online connection for pirated cassettes in the past? At most, you can play a game and I can play a game, passing the machine to each other and playing with each other. Now it actually supports up to 6 people to explore in the same world, and the room system is black. This was something I couldn't even imagine before. For a moment, I don't know whether to lament technological progress or envy today's children. ✨
What's even more amazing is that there are 36 combinations of character images, and hair color, clothing and gender can be freely combined. I made a little person with black hair and a red scarf. At a glance, I remembered the protagonist on GBA who accompanied me throughout the summer vacation. I felt that my youth was back. Moreover, character data is saved independently and does not need to be bound to the world. What does this mean? It means that I can take the character that I have worked so hard to develop and visit my good brother's world, help him chop down monsters, look at the scenery, and then leave with a slap on his face. In the past, if you borrowed a cassette from a friend and he washed the save file for you, that friend could really break up with you. This sense of binding of "people are here and towers are here" is really annoying and funny in retrospect. 😂
I also want to praise the pet skin-changing function. When I was playing Pet Raising, I only had a few skins. In order to change the color, I wanted to use gold fingers to change the code. Now it's better, you can change your pet's skin at will, and you no longer have to go out with the same khaki monster to embarrass yourself. This hand really understands the itch in the hearts of us old guys. The online version can be polished with such care, and it can be seen that it is not simply moving old things to a new platform, but really wants to continue this old story. 🎮
Not to mention, I have to create a room and see who of the old guys is online. This weekend, let's think of it as giving our youth an online lesson that is more than ten years late. If you want to join us for adventure, please sign up. The room password is the same as the old rules and our graduation year. 😌