You might be tempted to skip all the dialog (as I did at first) but to appreciate all the hard work that went into this game you should just read along and enjoy because Retro City Rampage doesn't stop
at video game references, oh no, it dives into pop culture of the 1980s from movies to music.
Not exact matches
The King off Kong (PG - 13 for a sexual
reference) Get a life documentary about dorky
video game diehards competing to be dubbed the best dweeb
at Donkey Kong by the Guinness Book of World Records.
In a dystopian future where everyone plays
video games and makes
references to «80s pop - culture, only one man can be the best
at video games and «80s pop - culture
references.
A mysterious
video posted on Youtube by user «OnigawaraV» made it pretty plain that something was up, providing several tantalizing clues in
reference to the fifth installment of the series, whose release was confirmed
at this year's
Game Developers» Conference.
All of the band names are
video game references: «Sex Bob - omb» refers to Super Mario enemy Bob - omb, and «Crash and the Boys» and «The Clash
at Demonhead» were both NES
games.
Sci - fi fans in particular should have a lot of fun uncovering the many
references to popular TV shows, films and
video games that litter the landscape even if many of them are rather cringe - worthy in their attempts
at humour.
The stormtroopers only have a quickly discharged torch as extra equipment but ewoks can see better in the dark and have something called wisties (which must be the first time anything from Caravan of Courage has been
referenced in a
video game) they can throw
at people and which work like a sanitised version of white phosphorus.
It was a treat for me to play a
game in which I can laugh
at some of the Spanglish dialogue which is all too common for the first - generation Mexican - American such as myself, as well as seeing a ton of
video game references given the Aztec art treatment.
Bonnie Ruberg over
at Heroine Sheik had some interesting things to say about the
referencing of
video games in Indigo, and I for the most part agree with her sentiments: http://www.heroine-sheik.com/2005/10/14/the-first-of-fightclub-discomfort-self-reference-and-gaming-as-camp/
Using elements from virtual environments of CAD workspaces,
video games, and CGI films, DeLucia applies these
references to the physical space
at MCASB to highlight the disparity between the illusion of screen - based media and the reality of 3D space.
The modular paintings have often been described as send - ups of Minimalism, or as
references to
video -
game icons, but these connections were not intended.4 Kim Conaty, curator
at the Rose Art Museum and a contributing author to the substantial catalogue that will accompany Bradley's museum exhibition, found the artist's reading of these works entirely unexpected and it informed her writing on the paintings as a whole.