Hello, my friends, I have been listening to Yuanchang for several history classes on game console development, and I am a little tired, so today Yuanchang plans to change his taste and tell you the past and present of the first computer game that Yuanchang has played - Monopoly 2.
The predecessor of "Monaign" is actually a board game powerful chess. Of course, to be precise, there was another name before "The Strong Chess", called "Monopoly". I won’t talk about the specific grudges, love, and hatred. Anyway, by chance, I created the first widely circulated board game of Monopoly.
With the popularity of computers, merchants have also begun to make a large number of computer versions of Monopoly games, but they are all very simple. To put it bluntly, they replace the paper map with pictures in the computer, and turn plastic characters into stickers in the computer. The most useful improvement is that they no longer have to find someone to be a bank, but the computer plays this role, and the calculations are very fast, so they don’t have to worry about meeting a stupid bank.
As one series of works are released, players gradually lose their initial surprises and expectations. Until "Monopoly 2" developed by Daewoo Information.
↑ Monopoly 1
Of course, when it comes to Monopoly 2, we should briefly mention his brother, Monopoly 1. In early 1989, a 20-year-old Taiwanese boy, Yao Zhuangxian, spent three months using Quick Basic + assembly development + drawing, and using Taiwan as the territory, developed the Monopoly generation. He knocked on the door of Daewoo Information Company with this game. The Monopoly generation was recognized by the company. The boss at that time, Li Yongjin, bought out the game for NT$100,000. In December 1989, the classic Monopoly was launched. More than 30,000 units were sold in total (in that era, you could get the money back if you sold 1,000 units).
↑ Monopoly 2
In January 1993, "Monopoly 2" was completed and released (this is also why when Monopoly 2 started the game, the game time was January 1, 1993). Overall, the second generation has made great progress compared to the first generation, with the picture transformed into 256 colors, and an interactive system based on props and cards has been added. Multiple maps have been made, and the mouse has been supported, background music has been added, and the classic fairy system has been added. It can be said that the 2nd generation has basically confirmed the game mode of the Monopoly series. Players can choose the single-player mode to pass the game level. A Tuzai passed the three levels of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Taipei alone to achieve a turnaround. He can also turn on the multiplayer mode with his friends and bring a computer to play multiplayer game.
↑ The colorful card system
The biggest feature of "Monail 2" is that it provides many interesting special cards and the effects of possession of immortals. Thirty-six kinds of cards have different functions, such as Junfu Cards can split everyone's cash equally, and Monster Cards can completely razed a building to the ground. After meeting different gods, they will possess them for seven days and use their own magic power to help or frame them, which adds a lot of variables and fun.
After talking about the origin of Monopoly, let’s talk about the first close contact between Yuan Chang and Monopoly. It was the fall of 1995. One afternoon when I just entered high school life, under the basketball stand on the playground, my good friend Daji said to me mysteriously, after school, he went to his house to show me an NB game. I thought to myself, what other games can surprise me if I have been a 10-year-old young man. With a question mark in his head in his arms, he ran straight to Daji's house after school.
Daji led me to the computer (Apricot at that time didn't understand this thing was called a computer), turned on the power supply, and turned on the self-test. The cursor on the black screen stayed at C:_ and then Daji knocked on the following spells.
cd rich2
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Damn, a miracle happened, and a colorful picture suddenly flashed on the screen
Next second, I had sat in front of the computer and started to select people
↑ A Tuzai
↑ Big Crazy
↑ Sun Xiaomei - This name comes from the "Xiaomei Brand" ice cream that Yao Zhuangxian liked when he was a child
↑ Xiao Guaiguai
↑ John Joe
↑ Mrs. Qian
↑ 陈大子
↑ Diana
↑ Look at my handsome bicycle
↑ You can’t select people in single-player mode. You can only start with A Tuzai, and you can’t select maps. You can only start with the first map. Well, everyone else drives, and our A Tu rides a bicycle. It seems that Monopoly 2 tells us how to counterattack the tall, rich and handsome guy.
OK, I admit, this game shocked me. It turned out that games can still be played on the computer, and it was such an NB game. Since then, Ojiri's family has become my gaming base. Later, after the college entrance examination, Ojiri's mother also specifically thanked me. Because she often went to play games, her son's time to play games was greatly reduced, and she performed well in the college entrance examination. (Haha, it seems that playing games can help people)
↑ Hong Kong
The first time I played multiplayer mode, I remember it was an afternoon in my second year of high school, and everyone skipped class and ran to Daji's house. I remember there are A Zhou, Zhao Xin, and A Tan. Plus me and Daji. I'm playing this map of Hong Kong. I chose John Joe. Everyone fights for themselves. At this moment, the brothers had already put aside their brotherhood and had all kinds of secret tricks and deceiving tricks, and used all kinds of martial arts. As soon as I came out, I seemed to be taken to prison by A Zhou and squatted. Then he said in all kinds of swearing that he would definitely pass by the court next time and would not sue you, but the result would be that he would sue you. It seems that everyone is already a politician, and no one’s promise is reliable at this moment.
As the game progresses, everyone bought all the land and built houses higher and higher. Every time the dice is rolled, it becomes like walking on thin ice. Either they set foot on their own land to expand the original high-rise building into skyscrapers, or they unfortunately entered the bandit area and were forced to pay an astonishing toll. I was so confused in the early stage of my stunting (framed in prison to watch the fun for several days). Every time I rolled the dice, I had to pray that I would not walk to a certain skyscraper. Of course, even the leading Daji and others were still frightened when they left. After all, every piece of land might affect the entire battle situation.
↑ Reappearing the land next to the prison 20 years ago
I still remember that at that time, I only had the third land on the left side of the prison, which was my skyscraper. Sadly, the land price of this land is far from comparable to the two lands near the sea. A 3-story building is far more than my skyscraper. In the end, my brother was the first to leave.
↑ Stock market
Oh, starting from the 2nd generation of Monopoly, there is one more stock system than the traditional board game Monopoly. The second generation of stocks is easy to make money, because the lowest price is 10 yuan per stock. As long as the price reaches 10 yuan, you will buy it boldly, and then use a gold card, silver card, red card, etc., and you just wait to see the assets go up. However, given the uncertainty of trading opportunities (you need to go to the stock grid to trade stocks), it is not impossible for a bad brother to buy and sell stocks until they have been sold. Therefore, the focus of the second generation is on land purchase and sale and house construction, and real estate is the key to victory.
↑ Monopoly 3
July 96 "Monopoly 3" was also listed. In terms of the characters, the lines and expressions of various characters were added, and since then there were various classic dialogues and expressions of joy, anger, sorrow and joy; in terms of the game, the game added the concept of price index, so that even if the game has inflation due to stock reasons (because the third generation becomes the one who can buy and sell stocks by passing by the stock market), it can still maintain a certain speed (the price index is to adjust prices when everyone's average assets reach a certain level to avoid everyone's stock speculation to hundreds of millions in the later period, and real estate becomes meaningless). The game also adds many classic props, such as machine dolls, remote dice, and car cards, which add a lot of fun to the game.
Because Daji's computer configuration is too low, our battlefield has become a computer room in the street alley (yes, you read that right, it was not called an Internet cafe at that time. I went in and had a row of CRT monitors, all of which were single-player games that each fought for). The charge should be 8 yuan per hour. For us civilians, the most cost-effective way to play is to play Monopoly 3 together.
↑ Mainland
Every time you enter the computer room, sit around the computer and run Monopoly 3 skillfully. Then, choose the largest map and start the intrigue Monopoly journey. You usually shout and yell and swear to break off your relationship. When the boss calls out time to get off the plane, you will immediately restore your brotherhood.
↑ Monopoly 4
Then, we took the college entrance examination, and after graduation, we went to universities in various places, and the battlefield became a student dormitory again, and Monopoly 3 also became Monopoly 4. Although Monopoly 4 is recognized as the most classic generation, I personally understand that since the stock system has been modified again to be able to buy and sell every day (the market is closed on holidays), everyone is crazily trading stocks. Some of the original Monopoly board games are a small failure. In addition, the main themes in the boys' dormitory at that time were StarCraft, Diablo and Counter-Strike. So, the Monopoly who remained in the memory of the Ape Chang was basically the second and third generations.
later launched the Monopoly 5, 6, 7, and 8 generations. Although Yuanchang has played it, he can't find the passion of sitting around a small monitor with his brothers and shouting. Although he knows that we are already past thirty years old, with old and young mountains on the back, I really hope to have another chance to have another game with the good brothers of that year (Avenge the revenge^_^)
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