The Spring Festival in 1999 came as scheduled. When the Spring Festival Gala was still being played on TV, Wang Jianguo quietly left his grandmother's house with New Year's money in his arms.

In the public toilet at the end of the street corner, he and his friend Li Dali met. The two of them looked at each other under the dim street lights, and walked towards the computer room with the constant sound of firecrackers and the smoke everywhere.

The computer room on New Year's Eve is not quiet at all. There are people playing in front of almost every computer. In addition to the fewer people watching, the attendance rate is even higher.

After all, for children like Wang Jianguo and Li Dali, they can only get New Year's money and have the money to play on computers on New Year's Eve.

You should know that the maximum salary of a worker in Beijing will not exceed 300 yuan these days. The price of surfing the Internet in a computer room is 5 yuan per hour.

In other words, even if a worker earns all his income, he can only spend sixty hours.

Even financially independent people can’t play with computers for long, let alone children like them.

Therefore, they usually come here to enjoy the pleasure of having no money.

Just find a computer to stand behind and watch others play. Although there is no actual operation, in fact, if you watch too much Pig Run, their game level is not bad.

If they hear their bragging, they are like masters among the masters.

Of course, this is just a verbal statement.

When the two of them really lined up the money on the table and said to the boss, "I want to get on the plane", both of them were trembling.

"Which area do you want to go to? There is a net area of ​​10 yuan, and there is no net area of ​​5 yuan." The boss said with a little sleepy look.

"Just five yuan, just five yuan." The two children said one after another.

"Okay, No. 13 and No. 14, three hours a day, go and play." The boss collected one person and recorded the time in the notebook and said.

Of course, two children will not choose the Internet area. The Internet area is expensive and there is a reason why it is expensive, which means that it can connect to the Internet.

Some people chat on the Internet and some people play online games.

The two children think that chatting online is stupid. Ten yuan per hour is just to chat with strangers who don’t know where they are online. Why isn’t it stupid?

In addition, there is also online games.

Today, the mainstream online games, besides Wanhu's "Stone Age", are some Korean online games.

The common feature of these online games is that they all adopt a point card charging system, which is charged according to time.

In other words, it not only costs ten yuan to spend an hour on the Internet, but also requires some card money when playing games. This is a high-end consumption, which is unaffordable for two children.

After turning on the computer in the non-online area, the game that the two of them went straight to was "Starcraft" which was recently popular in Internet cafes.

The game "Starcraft" was introduced to Beijing from two channels, one in the United States and the other in South Korea.

Many of these bosses who open computer rooms are guys who like to play computer games themselves. They can open computer rooms and generally have some overseas relations.

Therefore, they also come into contact with those foreign games earlier.

Games such as "Red Alert", "Warcraft", "Delta", "Half-Life" and other games are the first people to come into contact with.

These computer room owners often install these games on their own computers according to their preferences.

You ask them how they cracked these games?

In fact... sometimes computer games of this era cannot be cracked. As long as there is a verification key, the game can be activated without restrictions.

Even the Chinese agency distribution company of Warcraft, in order to reduce the share of Blizzard in the United States, is outrageous that it only sells one activation code.

Those who support the genuine version, buy the genuine version, and those who do not support it are not stupid, so they will be activated according to the genuine activation code.

Although Wanhu is a company headquartered in China, it has not released "StarCraft" in China. Therefore, "StarCraft" is now popular on the domestic market, and one of them is considered to be pirated.

Putting the pirated version aside first, the game "StarCraft" can be launched first, and it is loved by players in several other real-time strategy games, not because it has built-in Simplified Chinese. It is because the completion of this game is much higher than other real-time strategy games.

All the progress of the entire game can be estimated, unlike other real-time strategy games, which are too random and lack the feeling of competition.

In addition, this game has become popular in the United States and South Korea, and a large number of video files have poured into China.

The Americans can still understand the video files, but the Koreans can't understand the operations.

However, although I can't understand their amazing hand speed, under their operation, the showdown in StarCraft is very good.

It is precisely because of this beauty that attracts players.

This kind of tactical and strategic showdown, macro and micro-operation showdown, is much more interesting than the tanks crushing the building in "Red Alert", and the building will lose blood and explode.

In addition, with foreign videos, learning is also very fast, so the game level of "StarCraft" is much higher than other real-time strategy games.

In addition, there are many homemade maps in the pirated game file package. The fun of these homemade maps is also very great.

Wang Jianguo and Li Dali, when they open "StarCraft", they want to play homemade maps.

The two of them turned into Ma Run, or machine gunners, and took risks on this homemade map and killed one enemy after another. Although the picture itself is not very fun, it is extremely fun for the two people.

As time passed without realizing it.

"Dali, I seem to be a little hungry!" Wang Jianguo said.

"I...I'm hungry too..." Li Dali's stomach was also roaring.

"Then let's buy some food..."

"Boss, we want to eat instant noodles."

"Noodle instant noodles? It only tastes braised beef, ten yuan a bowl." The boss opened his eyelids and said.

"Ten...10 yuan per bowl! Why is it so expensive?" Wang Jianguo stuttered a little.

"Why can't it be so expensive? Now you go out and find yourself to find where else can you sell instant noodles nearby?"

"Okay... Then let's have one bowl... no... two bowls..."

The heat from the clear boiling water flows into the instant noodles cup from the mouth of the hot pot.

The two of them held the instant noodles cup in the slightly cold air in front of the computer, picked up the fork and took a bite. Li Dali said, "It smells so good..."

"Yes..." Wang Jianguo nodded in agreement.
Chapter completed!