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

In the public toilet at the end of the street, he and his friend Li Dali met, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled under the dim street lamp, taking advantage of the incessant sound of firecrackers and the smoke of gunpowder in the sky, and walked towards the computer room together.

The computer room on Chinese New Year's Eve is not quiet at all, there are people playing in front of almost every computer, and even in addition to the slightly fewer onlookers, and even the attendance rate is a little higher.

After all, for children like Wang Jianguo and Li Dali, only when the New Year is Chinese New Year's Eve, can they get the New Year's money, and they can have the money to come out to play on the computer.

You must know that the highest salary of a worker in Beijing will not exceed 300 yuan this year. The price of Internet access in the computer room is five yuan an hour.

In other words, even if a worker spends all his income playing with the computer, it is enough for 60 hours.

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

Therefore, they usually come over when they have no money to enjoy it.

Find a random computer to stand behind and watch others play, although there is no actual operation, but in fact, I have watched too many pig runs, and their game level is not bad.

If you listen to their bragging, it seems that they are the masters of the masters.

Of course, this is just lip service.

When the two of them actually lined up the money on the table and said to the boss, "I'm going to get on the plane", both of them had trembling hands.

"Which area are you going to go to? There are 10 nets and 5 nets. The boss said with a little sleepy eyes.

"Five, five. The two children said.

"Okay, No. 13, No. 14, three hours alone, let's go play. The boss charged fifteen yuan for one person, and said after recording the time in the notebook.

Of course, two small children will not choose the Internet area. The reason why the Internet area is expensive is that you can connect to the Internet.

On the Internet there are people chatting and there are people playing online games.

Two little children think it's silly to chat online, ten dollars an hour just to chat with strangers who don't know where they are, isn't it stupid?

In addition to that, there is also the ability to play online games.

Today's mainstream online games, in addition to 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, and they are all charged according to the time.

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

And after the two people turned on the computer in the non-online area, the game that went straight was "StarCraft", which recently became popular in Internet cafes.

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

Many of these computer room owners are guys who like to play computer games themselves. They can open a computer room and generally have some overseas connections.

Therefore, for those games abroad, they also came into contact with it relatively early.

Games like Red Alert, Warcraft, Delta, Half-Life, and so on, they were the first people they came into contact with.

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

How did they crack these games, you ask?

In fact...... Computer games in this era are sometimes uncrackable, and as long as there is a verification key, the game can be activated without restrictions.

Even the Chinese distribution company of "Warcraft" sold only one activation code in order to give Blizzard in the United States a share less.

Those who support the genuine version, buy the genuine version, and those who don't support it, the brain is not stupid, and it is activated according to the genuine activation code.

Although Wanhu is a company headquartered in China, it has not released "StarCraft" in China, so it is now popular in the domestic market "StarCraft", and one is a pirated copy.

Piracy or not piracy aside, StarCraft is a game that can be the last to come first, and players like it in several other real-time strategy games, not because it has built-in Chinese Simplified. It's because the completion of this game is much higher than other real-time strategy games.

All the progress of the whole game is estimable, unlike other real-time strategy games that are too random and lack the feeling of competition.

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

The video files of the Americans can still be understood, but the operation of the South Koreans is simply incomprehensible.

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

It is precisely because of this good-looking appearance that it attracts players.

This kind of tactical and strategic duel, macro and micro manipulation duel, is far more interesting than the tank crushing the building in "Red Alert", and the building will bleed and explode.

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

In addition, there are many self-made maps in the pirated game file pack. These homemade maps are also a lot of fun.

Wang Jianguo and Li Dali, when they open StarCraft, what they want to play is a self-made map.

The two of them take on the form of Ma Run, that is, the machine gunner, and take risks on this homemade map, killing one enemy after another, although the map itself is not very fun, but for the two of them, it is extremely fun.

Playing and playing, time passed unconsciously.

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

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

"Then let's buy something to eat......"

"Boss, we're going to eat instant noodles. ”

"Instant noodles only have the flavor of braised beef, and they cost ten yuan a bowl. The boss opened his eyelids and said.

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

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

"Okay...... Let's have a bowl...... No...... Two bowls of bar......"

The hot air rising from the clear boiling water flows from the spout of the kettle into the instant noodle cup.

The two of them held instant noodle cups in the slightly cold air in front of the computer, lifted the fork and took a bite, Li Dali said, "It's so fragrant......"

"Yes......" Wang Jianguo nodded in agreement.

Ten yuan instant noodles, can it not be fragrant?