User:Lixiaofossil

It was 1996, when video game consoles were scarce in China and personal computers were Martian technologies to common Chinese families. One of my friends’ father was a scientist worked in Chinese Academy of Sciences, something related to ballistic missiles, so the government awarded his family three computers for his contribution to his fatherland. I frequently visited my friend’s home because of this, to play video games with him on the computers, games nobody could explain the origin, they just existed when the computers were brought home, from the hindsight, those computers must be purchased as secondhand from Europe or North America, with so many software already in hard disks.

Anyways, we had computers and plenty of games to enjoy, even no manuals, we managed to figure out how to play via looking up dictionaries and via experimenting. Mostly we played Doom and Doom II together, but one day I suddenly said:

“Pal, I think we’ve played too much Doom, how ‘bout something different? What’s that folder ‘UFO’?”

My friend exclaimed:

“How could I be so forgetful?! It’s a timeless classic! You gotta try it!”

That fateful day, I became the first batch of Chinese fans of “UFO: Enemy Unknown”.