![]() In addition to “The Two Swords” series developed by SoftStar - the “Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy” series and the “Xuan-Yuan Sword” series, which are widely famous on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there were also works adapted from martial arts novelists Louis Cha and Gu Long such as “Heroes of Jin Yong” and “The Twin Heroes”.Ĭhinese Paladin:Sword and Fairy,Softstar, 1995. As a result, throughout the 1990s, various martial arts, fantasy, and historical adaptation games came into being. Unlike the current cultural atmosphere where indigenous thinking is flourishing in Taiwan, back then the young generation still had a strong attachment to traditional Chinese culture. Many Taiwanese game designers were players of classic Japanese games such as “Dragon Quest”. Due to colonial history, Taiwan and Japan have a particular cultural proximity. Thanks to the government's IT industry strategy in the 1980s and the popularity of home computers in the 1990s, a number of video game companies emerged out of the software manufacturing industry. The 1990s was the golden age of Taiwanese video games. In addition to localized Japanese and American games, the most popular pirated discs were Taiwanese PC games. In fact, the vast majority of games in circulation at the time were pirated versions, priced at 5-10 RMB. As a consequence, the pirate market thrived. We kids either didn’t have access to copyrighted game CDs, or simply didn’t have enough money to buy them. At that time, the average income of mainland households was much lower than that of Hong Kong and Taiwan. ©Screenshot by Yang JingLuckily, I soon found a store selling pirated games in a downtown computer market. These were landmark titles in the history of video games, but I didn’t really enjoy them, partially because my English wasn’t good enough to understand the game stories and instructions. The vendor who assembled the machine took the liberty to install two games: "Tomb Raider 2" and "Quake III: Arena". I will always remember the summer of 1998, when my father bought our first computer, a 7,000 RMB desktop PC. ![]()
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