Todavía recuerdo cuando era niño, con un billete de diez yuanes arrugado en la mano y corrí a la esquina de la tienda de videojuegos para mirar la pila de casetes amarillos con las palabras "64-en-1" y "Super Mario" impresas en ellos. The boss mysteriously took out a transparent case with a black chip inserted inside and attached a handwritten label - "Sky Era". De hecho, no existen copias pirateadas genuinas. It is a great blessing to be able to turn on the phone and light up the screen. Pensándolo bien ahora, los gráficos del cartucho eran tan irregulares que podían usarse como sierras, pero en ese momento pensé que era el mejor juego del mundo.
Now that I have downloaded "Sky Age" on my mobile phone, I was stunned by the free flight in the opening scene. The 360° viewing angle is turned, the clouds flow under the feet, and the land of Kyushu is panoramic. Todavía quería inconscientemente presionar las teclas de dirección y moverme, pero me tomó mucho tiempo arrastrar los dedos por la pantalla antes de darme cuenta: ¡el "Sky Age" en el GBA en ese entonces solo podía voltear el mapa uno por uno! I remember that in order to see the whole map, I walked around the border for half an hour. As a result, I hit a wall of air, and a line "Please buy a genuine cassette" flashed in front of the black screen. Que te jodan, lo que compré fue una versión pirateada.
What excites me the most is actually space dressing and ever-changing fashion. There was no dyeing system in pirated cassettes back then. Sólo había tres conjuntos de ropa de personajes. Changing colors was a "hidden secret code" - you had to enter a mysterious password on the title screen, and the success rate depended on luck. Now you can match hundreds of fashions with just a few clicks of your finger, and you can even adjust your hair color to a variety of colors. Pero lo que recuerdo es que esa tarde, mi compañero de escritorio me prestó su tarjeta "Gold Finger" y sacó una capa verde fluorescente que no estaba disponible en el servidor. I was so excited that I pressed the A button under the desk for fear of being discovered by the teacher.
Los lindos monstruos me hicieron estallar en lágrimas. Back then, the pets in the cassette were just a few pixel blocks, and they moved like mechanical dances. Now the monsters in this game can act coquettishly and roll around. When their furry tails sweep across the screen, I just want to reach out and touch them. But there is always a voice in my heart saying: That stupid bird that could never learn the "fireball technique" is your real partner. Although it was stuck in the wall and trembled when walking, I kept it for a whole summer vacation.
Romantic adventures and real social interactions were a fantasy in the era of pirated cassettes. Where did the "destined one" come from in the stand-alone cassette? At most, in the two-player mode, you and your brother are crowded in front of the sofa. One person is in charge of moving and the other is in charge of attacking. If you don't cooperate well, you will blame each other. Now you can meet real players in the game, fly together to see the scenery, and like each other in the space. Pero para ser honesto, extraño la época en la que incluso los archivos guardados se perdían y teníamos que empezar de cero cada vez que encendíamos la computadora, pero aun así lo disfrutábamos.
El modo de carga es 0, descarga gratuita. But in our days, pirated cassettes cost us all our breakfast money. Hoy en día, puedes experimentar el contenido completo con el que soñaste en aquel entonces con solo tocar un dedo, pero siempre parece que carece de sentido ritual. Quizás lo que extraño no es el casete pirateado en sí, sino a mí mismo en cuclillas frente al televisor, incluso el ruido en la pantalla se sentía como un mar de estrellas.
When I opened "Sky Era" and flew over the first mountain in Kyushu, I suddenly laughed. It turns out that the little man who could only move up, down, left and right can now really fly freely in the sky. Youth seems to be back, but this time, it is no longer stuck in the bad files of pirated cassettes.
I hope every old player can find his own piece of sky on his mobile phone. ✨