Okay, maybe a hundred years ago it was an exaggeration, but the development of technology in recent years makes it definitely possible to feel this way. Players have completely left behind the times of long cables, huge transports of computers or paying attention to ensure that the game has a multiplayer mode. Does that mean it’s worse today? It’s hard to say, what’s certain is how moved you can be when you remember it work party, overcoming together Country or giving to yourself Gameboya.
LAN, Hot Seats and Internet cafes
I love that today we can play online, wherever and whenever we want. Sometimes, however, I have moments of weakness and I think to myself, this was once upon a time. Below are some of my memories and maybe they will awaken some of you.
Home fights
As Saturday came, two things were certain. Parents will tell you to clean the room and… It’s time to meet your friends from class or in the yard, after all, it’s a day when there is no school and you can sit quietly and turn on hirołsów; as the spin-off of the Might and Magic RPG series was often called, Heroes of Might and Magic. The third part in particular is one of those classics that is warmly remembered by many players, and among millennials, probably more than half of us. The turn-based one legend did not become famous thanks to its single-player campaign, which seems to exist (it is, and even more, divided into seven campaigns), but thanks to its mode Hot Chairs. All you had to do was choose the map, the number of players and, of course, the castles!
Everyone had one your turn and a location somewhere hidden in the fog of war. The key was to develop faster than the others, but it was also worth taking a peek at where someone might be hiding. This created house rules, sometimes you could spy on them, other times it was sacred not to observe your friends’ turns. The fight was real not only digitally but also in real lifewhere emotions were fueled by competition, cocktails and chips. In a way, it was the moment of the perfect combination of the world of board games and the digital revolution. Completely different from consoles, or rather not consoles. I don’t know if in the 1990s and early 2000s. whoever called these devices that. We have always had TV games, but this cannot be confused with PlayStation Whether Nintendo, which could be seen during cousins’ visits to Germany.
The good old two-player game
Pegazusy and games for this hardware weren’t the cheapest, but at least they always came with two controllers. Which probably made my parents think that everything could be played by two people, but fortunately I only know it from stories. For me, there was a joint hunt for these games that allowed us to play them together. Elbow in the elbow, shared TV. This is probably one of the pleasures that has best transitioned into the online reality. Thanks Discord, even though there is no physical contact, the core of the game has moved on. Cheering each other on and keeping the best equipment possible together.
On the other hand, the randomness of some sets may be missing, especially when played on PlayStation or computer. It used to be that there was always at least one joystick at home, and if the parent was even a little interested, there was also a steering wheel. Jazz Jackrabbit on one keyboard? Sure! Fighting Force on the steering wheel, because of course the owner of the console has the right to play with a pad? Sure thing! All that mattered was to play together.
Nintendo always knew better
However, nothing stuck out to me as much as these magical moments with Gameboy. To this day I love portable technology, just look at it sukces Nintendo Switch and I know I’m not alone in this. From the first announcement, I was enchanted by the vision of this console. I think so many critics, It was also surprising how real it turned out to be a message — back then — artificially conveyed in the trailer. After all, who will pass around half a pad to play on a tight screen? It turned out that many! And it wasn’t the first such experiment Nintendo.
At the height of Pokemon fever, it was hard to find anyone who knew there was a hidden method to evolve Pokemon. I still remember the feeling of being cheated that I shared with my friend who devoted all his free time to training. Kadabry to the maximum level, because then it will definitely turn into Alakazama! Today I know that I was missing a cable and someone with a second console to replace it. This accessory opened up new possibilities, joint fights and exchanges. When I finally had the opportunity to use it after many years, it was even more wonderful than I imagined.
However, 8 years would pass before this day came. And in 2001, Nintendo was supposed to show me its ingenuity in the successor of their portable console, v Gameboy’u Advance’sie. Of course, not mine, as the computer barely appeared at home at that time (thank you for the communion money), but my friend’s. Gameboy was still that thing that had Pokemon on it, but Advance Wars they completely destroyed this image. A turn-based game for several people, anywhere, seemed to be the pinnacle of technology back then and I no longer expected any other miracles from this small device. Of course, this happened, Nintendo wouldn’t be itself if it didn’t try to fit two players on one console. WarioWare Inc. is a collection of fun, absurd mini-games that tell you in one word what to do and the player has five seconds to understand the context. Crazy, fast, fun, total chaos that’s even crazier together. One person holds the left side of the console, the other holds the right side, let’s fight!
Lanparties and internet cafes, fun without limits
Back then, nothing said you were a teenager like stopping the childish behavior mentioned above. Adult So we meet at an internet cafe after school and go to play CSa, and for the weekend he brings computers to this friend whose parents are away for the weekend.
An interesting era of points that will never come back. It’s hard for me to imagine today that any game installed in cafes was original. Well, none of us cared about that when we were dating in class CSa then all divisions ceased to matter. Years have passed, and I still remember what an unexpected, great teammate a friend with whom we didn’t get along at all turned out to be. Bah! Once he even tried to mix me up with others, but… cafejce? They were partners there. Five or eight zlotys per hour, just enough to use my pocket money every week to console myself with games at a different level and gently dream about a then unimaginable profession professional player. Cafes were not only a meeting point, but also the embodiment of South Korean legends, which were written about in gaming magazines. They play in StarCrafta and someone else pays for it?!
If not a cafe, then you just need to take your computer with you. Now it sounds easy, put your laptop in your backpack and get to work. Even taking a computer is not the same challenge. The so-called cathode ray tube screens weighed hundreds of tons, plus cables, speakers… But what wouldn’t you do for a sleepless night spent traveling together? devil hord or the glory of the best player Quake’a,
So, was it better? No, let’s not go crazy, it was just different and nice to remember.
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