In the comments section of a YouTube video called, "Can Video Games be a Spiritual Experience," user 00WARTHERAPY00 told this story. These are his exact words.
在一部叫作「電動可以是場心靈體驗嗎」的 YouTube 影片留言區中,用戶 00WARTHERAPY00 說了這個故事。這些是他本人的話。
Well, when I was four, my dad bought a trusty Xbox. You know, the first ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. We had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together, until he died when I was just six.
嗯,四歲的時候,我爸買了台可靠的 Xbox。你知道, 2001 年推出,耐用結實的第一代那台。我們一起玩各種遊戲玩得好開心、好開心,直到他在我才六歲時去世了。
I...couldn't touch that console for 10 years. But once I did, I noticed something. We used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge—actually, pretty awesome for the time it came. And once I started meddling around, I found a ghost...literally.
我...有十年沒辦法碰那台遊戲機。不過當我去玩時,我發現一件事。我們以前常玩一款賽車遊戲,《越野挑戰賽》--就它發行的年代來說,真的是款滿不賴的遊戲。然後當我開始隨便玩玩時,我發現一個幽靈...真的幽靈。
You know when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? Yep, you guessed it. His ghost still rolls around that track today. And so I played and played and played until I was almost able to beat the ghost. Until one day I got ahead of it, I surpassed it, and...I stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure I wouldn't delete it.
你知道計時賽開始時,目前最快的單圈成績會被紀錄成幽靈車手嗎?沒錯,你猜對了。他的鬼魂如今仍在那條賽道上遊走。所以我一直玩、一直玩,玩到我差不多要能擊敗幽靈了。直到有一天我領先它、我超過它了,然後...我停在終點線正前方,只是要確保自己不會刪掉幽靈車手的紀錄。
Bliss.
喜悅。