It just so happened that Uncle Monster had just finished re-completing the Shaanxi Chinese version of "Four Drive Brothers", and suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a mobile game of the same name that had jumped many times.
So I asked an Australian friend to send me a waifu game pack to try it out, and guess what?
Originally, the purpose of the manufacturer to win the IP license was nothing more than to eat a mouthful of sentimental food, even if you designed it as a traditional mobile game player who designed a kryptonite card to spell the value, it is not unacceptable, but the crappy reading commentary of the four-wheel drive fighter dubbing and the BGM full of "plastic feeling" are really difficult to mouth.
My biggest question about this mobile game is: Since I have spent money to buy the image authorization of "Four-wheel Drive Brothers", why not buy ** as well?
You know, the "4WD Brothers" IP work without the XEBEC soundtrack is like a four-wheel drive car without a battery, with no model and can only be played with your hands.
Interestingly, even so, there are still people who are willing to pay for this product.
A perfect era
More than a decade ago, a brand called Audi Double Diamond (Auldey) made a red and blue logo modeled after Tamiya Shuangxing, and then began to sell cheap pirated mini four-wheel drive toys with great fanfare.
Later, I heard that there was a lawsuit between the two factories, and then Shuangxing worked as a foundry for Tamiya for a period of time.
Either way, the advent of "4WD Brothers" and the Audi Double Diamond brought an indescribable romantic symbol to the Y2K (millennium) era, and the mini 4WD is just a microcosm.
In 2022, a game called "Perfect Day" was released on Steam, and the most impressive clips for me were Brother Cao's Commissary and Zhenhua Four-wheel Drive King.
Although the last day of the 20th century in the game does not coincide with my personal memory of the first time I first encountered a mini 4WD, both the layout of the shop and the details about playing with the 4WD are surprisingly consistent with the images that have long been etched into my mind.
Young people naturally like the protagonist, and at the age of straightforwardness, they rarely pay attention to characters or plots other than the protagonist, even if "Four Wheel Drive Brothers" is essentially a group animation, but children will still define the Liehao brothers as the protagonist, and even give Xiaohao a level to become the protagonist of the protagonist.
I don't know how many people resonate with this feeling, but in any case, 80 percent of the boys in our primary school shouted "whirlwind charge tornado" when playing with 4x4s.
Y2K on top of spinning top and yoyo
There is a wonderful difference between a mini 4x4 and a real rally car, as well as a formula car.
Compared to controlling his own car as a real driver, the mini 4x4 rider is more like a head coach, a logistics team, and a R&D staff.
And like the GP chip in the animation, it's a bit of a sci-fi overblow, and the AI chip that can memorize the running method and receive instructions doesn't seem to have been used in toys yet.
This also leads to the fact that so far players still can't just find a venue and put the four-wheel drive car on it, there is a runway to follow the runway, there is no runway, players with experience should know what to expect, at least change the chassis, heavy change to a new car.
However, when it comes to mini four-wheel drive toys, there is less time to race with others when you really turn on the switch, and more time to assemble a new box a little bit.
In the process of assembling, the most feared thing is that after the car is assembled, I find that there are several more parts, and I still haven't figured out whether the lubricating oil in the box is added to the gear mating or added to the motor.
In the past few years, the mini four-wheel drive car was no longer a toy that only the children of wealthy families could afford to play, but for the student party, they still had to pay a heavy price for three days of lunch.
However, this is only a ticket to the lowest level, and the more advanced aluminum alloy body, hand-wound motor, and rechargeable battery are basically fantasy for us.
At that time, a bowl of fried noodles in a small restaurant cost two yuan, enough for adults to eat very full, and the chicken fillet in the small shop at the school gate was only five cents a cup.
I once dreamed of conquering the world with toys
Oh, when it comes to the small shop at the school gate, the boss is in his early thirties, although he always looks like he has a dark face, but he does not hesitate to smile when he greets us students who are willing to consume
From black and white rabbit stationery sets to sticker collection books for pirated Dragon Balls to small runways for mini 4WD cars, as long as there are everything in the popular shops in the school, and the boss's knowledge of these products fools us into obedience, as if this is not a small shop, but a toy kingdom, and he is not the boss, but the toy king;
I'm sure many of the children felt the same way I was at the time, looking forward to the day when they could run their own shop and then boast to new students about their own mini 4x4 knowledge.
However, at that time, none of us may have imagined that the emergence of the Internet today has made people deeply "parallel", and the genuine national bank has gradually entered the major shopping malls, and the mini four-wheel drive cars of the small shops have disappeared from the streets and alleys like chartered airport rooms.
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