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Recently, I installed Windows 98 and XP in my virtual machine, and once again reviewed two games that had an important impact on my study and life.

Seeing the familiar large Windows98 appear in the ultra-thin display screen with 4K picture quality, I can't help but sigh that time is fleeting.

In 1999, in the summer at the turn of the century, in the golden age of domestic stand-alone games, the mother of a literary girl sat with me in front of a computer with a big back, and her gentle hand gently pressed on my small hand holding the mouse.

With the deafening roar of the CD-ROM drive, a fishing boat rowed slowly with lakes and mountains on the originally dark screen. Behind the fishing boat is a slowly unfolded scroll, written on the Book of Tang Poems, with a vigorous pen and a simple picture.

My life as a PC player officially kicked off along with the book.

1 this game, which only adapts to the following systems of Windows98, should be able to put several labels on Steam if it is reset and put on sale: RPG, puzzle solving, ink style, open world, multi-ending.

With the Dunhuang mural "Feitian", the antique game cover, this game sold by Nanjing Yingyeda (the Taiwanese OEM manufacturer that once helped Xiaomi mobile phone) in 1996, even if it uses today's game aesthetic standards, grasp the splash ink landscape color artistic conception, very freehand style of traditional Chinese painting picture, it is enough to be known as "the light of domestic games" on the major game social media.

The plot of the game is actually a bit old-fashioned now: the prince was kidnapped and exiled from the people in the palace, and when he grew up, he explored the story of his life according to the poem clue of "We met in the Changsheng Hall on the night of July 7 that year." in the middle of the night, no one whispers double vows to heaven. Players in the game with the protagonist encounter Li Bai, Wang Wei, du Fu, Meng Haoran and other famous poets, visit Lushan, Yellow Crane Tower, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Zhongnan Mountain and other places of interest.

The most rare thing is that this is a game that can really learn Tang poetry. All the interactions in the game can be completed by clicking the left mouse button, coupled with very good Chinese pronunciation, even children who have just come into contact with the computer and do not know a few big characters can play more smoothly.

When the player walks into the new scene, there will be poems depicting the scene that jump out of the game. Almost all the plots, interactions, puzzles and colored eggs in the game complement each other with Tang poetry. Moreover, they can hardly feel the mechanical learning mode of the so-called "easy learning machine for children to fall in love with learning", such as Bubugao and good memory stars, which appear more than a decade later, but actually integrate the elements of Tang poetry into the game. Really achieved the "painting in poetry, poetry in painting" at the same time, but also a good consideration of the game.

At this point, players must choose words consistent with "Dengle Youyuan" and "Acacia" in order to get chess pieces. For example, when playing Gobang with Meng Haoran, players have to choose two poems first. When playing chess, they must wait for the pieces to show the words in these two poems before they can fall, otherwise they will directly skip the player's turn.

At this time, the corresponding jar shows the picture of "the legendary fairy flew away early in the Yellow Crane, leaving only the empty Yellow Crane Tower." for example, in the puzzle game at the Yellow Crane Tower pass, the protagonist needs to complete the game of pushing the box. get the inkstone hidden in the depths and then go out smoothly. BGM is a recitation of Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower". The picture related to the poem will flash on the box that needs to be pushed. When the poem is read, the player can push the box that draws the corresponding picture of the poem, otherwise he will be punished.

Just once through the Yellow Crane Tower puzzles, so that I could not even read the words at that time, I firmly engraved "Yellow Crane Tower" in DNA.

But for a little boy who can't read all the words, it's still too difficult to play strategic games like Gobang. In those days when I had to dial on the phone to surf the Internet, I didn't have any means to check the strategy. In this kind of situation, I had to go to my humanoid plug-in-mom.

Then my devil mother will help me play a riddle game at the cost of reciting a poem.

"Mom, I can't get past the Gobang in Zhuli Pavilion. Can you come and play it for me?"

"Yes, it's just that playing games for you will take up your mother's time reading. In order to compensate my mother, if I help you through this, I will teach you to recite an ancient poem, okay? it is such a long short sentence in the game that you are so smart that you will soon be able to recite it."

"well, you can help me get through this first."

"well, I'll teach you to recite poems while playing chess. It just so happens that it rarely rains today, so I'll teach you a poem about rain. Come on, read with me from the first sentence: dark clouds overwhelm the city."

"Black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it."

"that's a good boy. Next, let's read the second sentence together: Jia Guang opens to Rijin."

With the help of my mother, a humanoid plug-in, I finally passed the weekly catalogue of Datang Poems before I went to primary school. But I owe a lot of recitation debt.

There are two ways to pay debts, one is to memorize a four-sentence poem every time Mini Game (regardless of customs clearance), and the other is to memorize a long poem every time you get through Mini Game.

I was worried that my mother would deliberately lose Mini Game and make me recite more short poems, so I gritted my teeth and stamped my feet and chose the latter.

Naive, I just fell into the plan of my mother. Waiting for me in front, is "Mulan poem", is "pipa line", is "will enter the wine".

In order to pay the debt of recitation, after the game, in order to complete the recitation task promised to my mother, she took me for a walk after supper every day. I would learn ancient poetry word by word with her, and she would also tell me the story of Tang poetry behind the plot contained in the game.

So, in the nights at the turn of the century, I knew Li Bai, who took off his boots and Yang Guifei grinded, and wrote a hundred poems about wine fighting, and Wang Changling, Gao Shi, and Wang Zhiyi, who talked about laughing poems in the restaurant. I got to know a poet with a vivid personality behind the Records of Poems of the Tang Dynasty, and he also formed a bond with poetry and literature.

The protagonist ties the knot with the poet fairy Li Bai when most of his peers are still struggling to nibble on "the bright moonlight in front of the bed, like a cold frost on the ground," I have been able to "go to the army for thousands of miles. Guan Shan du Ruo Fei", "the cut sound of the song is intertwined with each other, just like a string of big beads and small beads falling into a jade plate".

The fate between history and history began when I went to a friend's house to play games when I was in the second grade of primary school.

In that game, I can operate warriors and various arms of arms to gallop freely, conquer cities and lands, generals and cool martial arts skills, a move will be able to destroy the sky and earth, small soldiers broken arms flying everywhere.

Of course, such a game could not stand a little boy, so I immediately asked my friend the name of the game, and he told me it was "X Zhuan of the three Kingdoms".

It took me a long time to know that the word was "English", but at that time I remembered it as "knight-errant".

The next day, I led my grandfather to run all day in the major game CD stores at that time, and finally bought a pirated disc in a dilapidated shop, which was a pirated disc with the word "The Legend Of Three Kingdoms". It was a "biography of the chivalry of the three Kingdoms" whose archiving function was damaged.

After entering the game, I was stupid. Is there something wrong with the way I open it? Why do you always feel like playing two completely different games at a friend's house? (however, they are two completely different games)

At that time, I simply thought that the plot did not move forward, so I did not unlock the scene of hundreds of people fighting each other, so I went on with a question mark on my face.

I later learned that the Legend of the three Kingdoms I bought was a series of games released by Heluo Studio in 2002. Shortly after the game was released, Heluo disbanded. People should be more familiar with their previous works, "biographies of Knight-errant Jin Yong", "Legend of Knight-errant in Wulin" or "Biography of Chivalry", "Legend of Knight-errant in Heluo" and "Chivalrous way" (Chivalrous Hidden Pavilion).

The big map of the game, all cities and towns in the map can explore the plot and play of the whole game can be simply understood as the open world chess version of RPG's "unparalleled serpent": proficient in the history of the three Kingdoms, in the modern protagonist traversing the three Kingdoms era of chaos, forming a bond with the generals of the three Kingdoms, crusading against Dong Zhuo, who is possessed by demons and gods, and pulling time and space back to the right track of the three Kingdoms. Players are free to travel on the mainland of China, as far as Jianyu Wudu in the east, Wuwei Xiqiang in the west, Menghuo in Nanman in the south, Xiongnu desert in the north, and all cities on the map are free to explore. Players are free to choose the order of exploring towns and warriors.

In the game, as many as 30 famous generals of the three Kingdoms era can join the protagonist's team, each general has a unique and complicated initiative and Passive Skill, some generals and skills are matched properly, they can produce the general gain of BUG, plus rich equipment systems and unique timing systems to fill up the gameplay of the battle.

Most importantly, the whole game can complete all the interaction of the game only with the left and right mouse buttons, which is very friendly to me who had to use two-finger Zen for typing at that time.

In the course of playing, almost all the plots bound up with the generals are closely related to the history of the three Kingdoms. Players can go through five passes with Guan Yunchang and go out seven times in the enemy line with Zhao Zilong. While listening to the psychopath song of "ha" by Prime Minister Cao, he ran away in Wulin with him.

Why is the prime minister laughing? Even in a particular plot, if there is a corresponding general in the team, it will trigger a special plot. For example, in the plot of rescuing Liu Bei, Yan Liangwen will be encountered. At this time, if Yu is involved in the team, it will trigger an one-on-one plot of Guan Yu. After killing Yan Liangzu and Wen Chou, if there is Zhang Fei in the team, if Zhang Fei is in the team, it will also trigger the plot of Zhang Fei alone after the break of the long Banqiao. Plots like this abound in the game.

In addition to the common famous generals of the three Kingdoms, players can also bond with two famous female generals during the three Kingdoms period, and even bring the two female masters back to modern times after customs clearance by triggering a specific hidden plot.

Such exciting play and deep sense of the plot, for a keen on fighting and killing, love at the beginning of the little boy is of course unbearable (and can not stand it now).

However, because Heluo put almost all the strategies into the instructions of the genuine game, there is almost no novice guidance in the game. The game is free to explore, but through the level and enemy strength restrictions, players still have to attack warriors in a certain order. In addition, the pirated CD has no archiving function, and once the protagonist dies in the battle, the whole game will have to start all over again, which is very difficult for me, who is still qualified and has no strategy to check at that time.

This kind of difficulty also aroused my competitive spirit. I am like a time traveler with the ability of reincarnation, constantly exploring and dying in this time-space-confused world of the three Kingdoms, but getting stronger through trial and error again and again. From being killed by small soldiers in the wild at the beginning, to figuring out the recruitment sequence of the generals of the three Kingdoms, being killed by a strong enemy because of insufficient training, to learning the strongest martial arts of full-screen seconds after touching all the items on the map, and finally difficult customs clearance, which took a year.

Because pirated games have no archiving function, in order to keep the progress saved all the time, I left my computer on for several weeks before customs clearance. In order to make the computer not so hard every time I play the game, after a week of customs clearance, I began to explore how to clear this game in the shortest time.

Under my unremitting exploration and optimization for decades, I gradually reduced from four days in the first two weekends to two days in one weekend, and finally, I was able to clear this game in about four hours.

Until now, the Legend of the three Kingdoms is still a game that I have passed through customs the most and played for the longest time, and it is also the only game that I have studied how to get through quickly.

3 during the game pass, I asked my mother, who used to be a human plug-in, for help, but this time, my mother did not have deep game experience and could not help me. After playing the game for a while, she said to me, "Mom won't play this game either, but the plot of the game seems to be basically linked to the history of the three Kingdoms. There happens to be a full set of comic books about the Romance of the three Kingdoms at home." maybe you can find clues related to the game. "

At that time, when I was in a hurry to seek medical advice, I believed my mother's "nonsense" and began to take advantage of the time when I could not play games on weekdays to pick up the "Romance of the three Kingdoms" comic strip.

The version of the comic book I read is the dark blue cover comic book issued by Shanghai people's Art Publishing House, which is the most widely spread and influential in China. It is painted by Xu Zhengping, Chen Guangyi, Liu Xiyong, Hu Ruofu, Zhang Lingtao and a large number of famous comic books in the industry, which really recreates the world of the three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong with magnificent heroes.

Character modeling and artifacts, palace, war readiness, scenes and other elaborate pen, each page of the character movements, expressions, mirrors are vivid, coupled with the "Romance of the three Kingdoms" wonderful story, even now compared with the mainstream day, the "Romance of the three Kingdoms" comic strip can also be said to be the only level of dimension reduction.

I am deeply attracted by the distinct characters of the three Kingdoms depicted in the comic strip. Every night, I always go to sleep with the books with the dark blue cover beside my pillow. I even put books beside my rice bowl and eat through the stories of the three Kingdoms. After I spent almost all my spare time reading, I finished reading 60 comic books very quickly, and I still haven't finished my mind.

At this time, my mother told me that in fact, the Romance of the three Kingdoms comic strip has selected a very small number of stories from the original book. if you want to know the whole story, you still have to read Luo Guanzhong's whole Romance of the three Kingdoms.

Out of love and curiosity about the world of the three Kingdoms, in the first semester of the fourth grade, when other students rushed out of the classroom to play, I took out a thick copy of the Romance of the three Kingdoms in half classical Chinese and half vernacular and gnawed it up.

Once during the break, I was suddenly lying on my desk crying, startling my classmates. Some came to comfort me, some asked why, and some thought I was bullied and filled with righteous indignation. I didn't say a word. I was just crying. They didn't understand my sadness.

Because the invincible Guan Yu died.

If I had to go to primary school to rank the saddest thing I had ever encountered, the death of Guan Yu should be ranked second, followed by Zhuge Liang Xing Wuzhang Yuan.

After reading the Romance of the three Kingdoms, I became an authentic Shu element. I learned more about the stories of the three Kingdoms period than my classmates of the same age. I was able to tell them about Uncle Liu San Gu Mao Lu, Zhuge Liang burning Xinye, and the story of Liu Bei and Guan Yu flooding the seven armies before that, satisfying my little vanity.

Coincidentally, not long after I finished reading the Romance of the three Kingdoms, Mr. Yi Zhongtian came to give lectures on the three Kingdoms.

After being outputted by Yi Zhongtian's teacher with a crazy battle axe, my view of history was completely subverted. It turned out that there was such a big difference between Cao Cao's image in the official history and that in the romance novel.

So I decided to read the Chronicles of the three Kingdoms, which is often quoted by teacher Yi.

The Chronicles of the three Kingdoms should be the hardest raw meat I have ever eaten in my life. After all, it is no easier for pupils who have hardly learned classical Chinese to read the official history of classical Chinese than to play Japanese games without translation. What's more, what I bought is Pei's annotated version of the Chronicles of the three Kingdoms. Every time I read a sentence or two, a long note from Pei Songzhi suddenly pops up, which makes people dizzying.

Perhaps the painting style was good because I was curious when I was a child, or maybe it was because I was so free during the summer vacation that I really spent a few months reading all the biographies of the main characters in the Chronicles of the three Kingdoms.

At first, reading the official history of biographies is no different from playing Japanese games without translation. Fortunately, there was the basis of memorizing Tang poems in Datang Shilu, coupled with the add-on of the ancient Chinese dictionary and insisting on reading it. I gradually understood the general idea of every word and sentence. After reading the biography of Wei Guowu, I read it back. It is also very different from the speed of reading vernacular.

In order to commemorate my success in "customs clearance" and "Chronicles of the three Kingdoms", when I was so idle at that time, I also memorized the "Longzhong pair" and "master list" passed by Zhuge Liang.

During the summer vacation of studying the annals of the three Kingdoms, I finally bought the "The Legend Of Three Kingdoms 5" I had read in my heart. Later, in the game video store, I found domestic games on the themes of the three Kingdoms, such as the Chronicles of the three Kingdoms 7-9, the Legend of Zhao Yun of the three Kingdoms, and the Fantasy of the three Kingdoms. I also watched the Red Cliff directed by John Woo, and saw many completely different images of the three Kingdoms in many different games and film and television works.

In my childhood, playing games of the three Kingdoms, reading the history of the three Kingdoms and watching the dramas of the three Kingdoms have greatly improved my view of history and learning ability. In the future, whenever I encounter a problem that is difficult to solve, the first thing that comes to my mind is to look around for ways to solve the problem and encounter controversial topics on the Internet or in real life. I can also try to look at the problem from an objective and rational point of view.

What is more rare is that after going through all this, I like not only games, but also history and reading.

From now on, I don't need to play games or nag my mother, and I will read at least 1-2 books on history or literature every semester. Nowadays, no matter how busy I am at work, I will read more than 10 minutes before going to bed before going to bed.

This hobby has also brought me a lot of advantages, which is most directly reflected in Chinese learning. In addition to finishing my daily homework, I hardly spent any extra work, and I could easily get high marks in poetry appreciation, classical Chinese appreciation, composition and exams.

Especially in high school, every time the teacher asked the whole class to recite long poems such as "Master's Table" and "Pipa Xing", I could laugh when I looked at the sad faces of other students. These articles were firmly engraved in my DNA more than a decade ago.

Looking back on my experience, in fact, there are a lot of coincidences. If I had been born 10 years later, I might not have been exposed to "Datang Poems" and "Chivalry biographies of the three Kingdoms", a domestic stand-alone game featuring teaching and entertainment. If I hadn't been guided by my mother again and again, if I didn't catch up with the hot period of national history driven by Yi Zhongtian's teacher, I might simply like to play games.

Many coincidences unwittingly come together in my daily life of playing games and reading books in my childhood.

Whenever this is a time like this, I would thank my mother for her good education. I would also thank excellent domestic games such as Datang Poems and biographies of the three Kingdoms, which are Xu Changlong's love for games of his generation. 23 years ago, I played a game that could really combine education with fun.

4 after junior high school, with the demonization of Yang Yongxin and others and the increasingly rampant pirated games, I saw fewer and fewer domestic games in video stores, and even these video stores began to close down one by one. "The Legend Of Three Kingdoms" has been on hold for a long time, and all kinds of online games with circle money have become popular among my classmates. I want to play the game of the three Kingdoms. I can only choose from the glorious series of "unparalleled of the three Kingdoms" and "Records of the three Kingdoms" next door.

In 2015, Heluo Studio reorganized, and during my sophomore summer vacation, I played the Legend of Chivalry, and in a trance, I seemed to have returned to the happy time when I first came into contact with the biographies of the three Kingdoms.

In 2018, Sega released the first trailer of "Total War: three Kingdoms". Accompanied by the melodious Han Yuefu poem "15 from the military March, 80 to return", the elegant history of the three Kingdoms finally appeared in the game again, which made me burst into tears more than seeing 2077 cakes painted on E3.

After playing the game, I found that the game was a semi-finished product that only crusaded against Dong Zhuo's historical plot. By 2021, Total War: the three Kingdoms will not be updated. At this time, the game Noumenon has not even been updated to the plot of the tripod, and the game finally ends in the tide of bad reviews of the game of three Kingdoms without three Kingdoms but with the chaos of the eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty.

In recent years, the domestic stand-alone game market is booming again, but the three Kingdoms games I look forward to, or the games with professional and elegant ancient Chinese history themes, still seem to be a long way off.

But at least there are "Datang Poems" and "biographies of the three Kingdoms", which are never tired of playing classic games have been with me. Whenever I feel "electronic impotence" and can't play any games, I will go back to these two games again, let my heart go back to the summer at the turn of the century, to my childhood that I can never go back to, and to feel my original heart as a gamer again.

Old travel can be found everywhere. There is no place to find, only the heart of a teenager.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag). Author: Mustakawa.

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