But this experience is really similar
to when I was in college. I used to be a fan of an e-sports game called "StarCraft".
At that time, it was about 2008, and it has been about 10 years since StarCraft appeared in China. , this game has been popular in China's stand-alone game industry for a long time. When it was the hottest, no matter how big the river is, north or south, as soon as you enter the Internet cafe, almost all the machines are playing this... Later Red Alert 2, CS, War3, all took his place, and there were similar The glory period, and then it was replaced by other games like him. China's stand-alone game industry has passed away one era after another like this for many years.
In short, the light that once belonged to the interstellar in my university has dimmed. For Chinese game fans, it is already a classic memory, a legend, It's just the youth of more older generation players...
Even so, there are still some nostalgic players in China who have been holding on to this interest. It's just that young people like me in college don't play online and play dota like most of the classmates around them. It's really rare
to watch football, play football, get to know football stars, know football history, buy related magazines, and talk about themselves with many fans. The sport that I love comes from my eyes.
I love this game to such an extent: I play it (although it is not that great), not only play it myself, but also influence several classmates and friends around me to play along; Game community (and mix well); often watch live broadcasts of various professional games; know a lot of professional players; talk about the culture, phenomena, anecdotes, etc. related to this game. Tell you a lot, and so on. And in my heart, I actually had the ethereal and illusory dream that I wanted to play games and make achievements...
10 years ago, Blizzard released the second generation of Interstellar. Many die-hard players who insist on Interstellar are very excited. I too, participated very actively, and even became a small moderator in the official StarCraft 2 forum of NetEase, the agency manufacturer of StarCraft 2, and even got the chance to play against professional players or something...
But due to various reasons, StarCraft 2 failed to catch fire in China, and our fans hoped that he could return to glory. There are many reasons. For example, many old players feel that the former Interstellar cannot be replaced, and that Interstellar 2 is not good enough, and many people of that generation have already married and established their own businesses and will no longer indulge in a game like they did when they were young. For example, the game's configuration requirements are high, the difficulty is high, the charging method is behind the times, and the NetEase agent's publicity is not good enough, etc.... I
remember that at that time, I often skipped classes in college, often went to Internet cafes, and often stayed overnight. Internet cafes are basically the world of online games. If you have to talk about single-player games, there are the most people in Dota.
So someone like me who insists on playing old games from ten years ago is obviously an alternative.
You can imagine how difficult and exciting it is when I occasionally see a person playing StarCraft in an Internet cafe. At times like this, I would take the initiative to get up and talk about it, but this would only make others feel embarrassed or scare them. Most of the time, the other party just said that they were playing occasionally and so on, not a die-hard like me...
The Internet cafe I often go to is the Jiahe Internet Cafe near Xueyuan Road, Hexi District, Tianjin. Pretty good internet bar. To say that you can occasionally see people who play Interstellar in Internet cafes before, then after Interstellar 2 comes out, a huge one has 200+ computers and occupies two floors in the noisy environment of a large Internet cafe. Players who play Interstellar and Interstellar 2 I'm basically the only one who
remembers
that it was the beginning of 2011.
I went to the Internet cafe all night as usual, and I stumbled upon someone playing Interstellar. The most amazing thing was that he was an uncle who looked nearly 40 years old!
I was naturally very pleasantly surprised. I stood behind and watched him play for a while. Naturally, he didn't play very well. Then I went up to the condom and told him how to fight, how to fight and what to do. Although he was very embarrassed at first, he still had a good chat. I joined him to play later. Naturally, I played better than him, so I won a lot of games with him. That night Both of them had a great time.
I thought this was just a simple and happy episode, and I never thought that I would meet him at the same Internet cafe later. More than once, of course, every time we have a lot of fun together. Gradually, the two of them became familiar with each other. He said that he didn't use Q very much, so he left each other's mobile phone numbers. Then sometimes before I came to play Interstellar at night, I would make a phone call and ask him to play black or something together
after I got used to it . After talking a lot, I later found out that he is engaged in contracting projects. It seems that he has already married, but I can't remember clearly. Interstellar was playing when he was young, and he didn't have much energy to contact with new games, so it's good to have a bite. Anyway, he will play on the map of entertainment points. I'm usually busy with work and don't have much time to play. Although he doesn't even pay attention to interstellar professional games like me, he never watches games, doesn't know any stars, and he doesn't know a lot of deep things in the game, but he really likes playing this game, otherwise It won't take so many years to come to play
. Except that we are both male, it is really similar to the experience of Qiuyue and Xueye in the Garden of Words: chance encounters, friendship with each other, having common topics, and then slowly getting to know each other. something.
Later, he also said that he wants to buy a laptop, it doesn't matter if it breaks, as long as it can play old games like Interstellar, let me help with reference or something.
During that time, on the way to the Internet cafe, I would sometimes look forward to it. Maybe he will be waiting for me tacitly at the old time and place today,
but after all, he is busy with work, and I do not have a fixed time. Although there are such I look forward to it, but I often hope to fail
. The time to meet gradually becomes less.
Later, the internal test of Starcraft 2 national server began. I was a moderator in the Netease Starcraft 2 game forum. At that time, the account of the internal beta version was very rare, and the game just started. It still caused a stir. I played this game earlier because of the moderator status, and I still have more than one number in my hand.
One night, after a long absence, I met him in an Internet cafe again. I was playing Starcraft 2, so I asked him to try it out on a whim.
To be honest, it's really not easy for an uncle who is in his 30s and 40s to learn a new game all over again. I spent at least an hour patiently at first, taught him the basics and became familiar with the whole game almost hand-in-hand, and then the two of them were eager to try and play together.
They also paired names like "Rejoice is so confident" and "Pantene is so shiny". As a result, he said, no, no, this person is obviously a black shop. I said, no no no, this is called professional! There are many people who have taken the initiative to come to the door with the mentality of specializing in cracking down, so these days, how can I be so embarrassed to say hello to the opposite side when I can't afford a similar name? It doesn't matter whether it's three seven or twenty one, it's just one word anyway, do it! Don't be cowardly! The uncle also slapped his thigh, and decided that the
game was just starting anyway. Everyone was a novice, and most of them were novices, with all kinds of strange tactics... As for my uncle and I, we also let go of our hands and feet, whether he had it or not. A tacit understanding, discussing a strange tactic at a high speed, and we will all work together to do evil tricks together. Once we have agreed on how to cooperate, we will sway our arms... It can really be said that we have forgotten the age gap, and I am very happy. I played games together in an Internet cafe, and my uncle even played with me all night long... It was a kind of pure happiness that belongs to the origin of the game. I don’t need to
think about it. I feel that we are a bit similar to the old and young killers in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold". We don't need too many words, but I'm afraid we already understand each other's meaning. Maybe you're too naive, or maybe I'm too precocious, just because of a very incredible thing - a game, two people who are not too young in age and who were originally separated by the ends of the earth, just like this for a short period of time in their lives. There was a happy intersection
in time. The time that night was really pleasant and impressive. I'm afraid I will never forget it in my life.
So today, when I saw Qiuyue go to Yukino's house, and the younger junior cooks for the older teacher who is still a woman, I felt tears...
Although what I encountered was not love, but friendship. But I still said to the two of them in harmony with the phrase "Maybe this is the happiest moment of my life so far"! It really resonated with me.
Later, because of my studies, and because of work, I naturally had fewer and fewer opportunities to meet in Internet cafes. Even if there were opportunities to meet, there would be fewer opportunities to play together.
Later, after I left university, I would to work in Beijing. He also carefully told him his new mobile phone number. He used to run around a lot because of work, and naturally he would come to Beijing a lot, so he also said that he would have the opportunity to play together in Beijing.
Unfortunately, after I came to Beijing, I gradually stopped playing this game for various reasons, not to mention that the current computer is also unable to play even if it is installed due to configuration reasons.
After a long time, I really didn't expect that he would suddenly call on purpose. I thought he had forgotten his cell phone number. Said that I finally bought a new computer and wanted to ask me some questions about installing Starcraft 2 or something. Although I was a little surprised, it was a pity that I was busy with work, life and all kinds of messy things at that time, so I couldn't answer him properly,
and then I really didn't contact him again, and there was no news before. The mobile phone has been lost and replaced, so when I finally got bored one day, I suddenly remembered that I turned on the mobile phone, but also forgot that his number was long gone. Then I remembered that I don't even know his name...
Until I watched this film late at night, I suddenly wanted it very much, even if I sent a text message or a QQ chat to greet him:
Where are you now ? ? How are you doing? The old friend
really has a feeling of wanting to cry... I
think of the lyrics of Jay Chou's old song "The Last Battle", as the end:
some things are really too late, I can't go back~~~
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