With Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition, Toronto - based indie developer DrinkBox Studios mashes up 2D Metroid - inspired exploration and platforming with brawler - style combat, then seasons it all with heavy doses of Mexican culture, video
game nostalgia, and lively humor.
Fortunately, Wreck - It - Ralph succeeds in its efforts with a solid mix of humorous adventuring, retro
game nostalgia, and heartwarming story beats — one that gamers and non-gamers will easily relish.
In it,»80s on screen nostalgia meets a novel about video -
game nostalgia for the 1980s.
Steven Spielberg is the director of very profitable movie and shameless
gamer nostalgia cash - in Ready Player One, which is mostly set in virtual reality.
We live in a world dominated by video
game nostalgia.
Shovel Knight is the prime example of a game paying ample homage to the retro era of decades past without exploiting or relying on
gamer nostalgia.
Time for some 90's
game nostalgia!
Video
game nostalgia is no different in this regard.
This lead to a lot of titles that stood out from the rest and gave rise to video
game nostalgia.
Video
game nostalgia has been both a positive and a negative for the video game industry.
When it comes to video
game nostalgia there is no one recipe for success.
It's hard for gamers to develop the kind of video
game nostalgia for these games when they never go away, or are always being tweaked and changed.
Let the video
game nostalgia drip into your body.
I'm a sucker for pre-rendered settings, which most PlayStation RPGs utilized (one of my biggest sources of video
game nostalgia).
To further capitalized on
gamer nostalgia, Nintendo says it will re-launch the NES Classic in 2018 for anyone who wanted one but wasn't able to find one.
It won't just be one of the purest forms of video
game nostalgia released in recent memory, though, as Bandai Namco will also be significantly upgrading the number of Digimon available while playing with the virtual pet device.
Not exact matches
Pokémon Go's instant popularity appears to be the result of
nostalgia for the classic 20 - year - old cartoon franchise and players» desire to win kudos within the
game by capturing as many characters as possible.
Like the best «Super Mario»
games of the modern era, it seamlessly blends
nostalgia - laced gameplay with fresh twists.
It takes something tinged with
nostalgia in the «Zelda» series and mixes it with 20 - plus years of modern
game design.
«One of the things that I think Nintendo really hit [with Super Mario Maker] was the
nostalgia factor in their marketing,» says Christine Arrington,
games analyst at IHS.
Sponsor logos are seen at BuzzFeed's Throwback Thursday:»90s
Nostalgia Night presented by Hasbro
Game Night and Canon PowerShot at the Canal Room on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 in New York.
For
nostalgia's sake we hope Villeneuve is listed in
game as «Driverone Williams» or «John Newhouse».
Nostalgia and sentiment are what old timers
games are for.
One of those who has become a bit of a
nostalgia player, Roberto Baggio was one of the most talented players of his generation but still went missing in the big
games, particularly for Italy.
F1
games have been around for a while now and there have been some absolute classics over the years, so we thought we'd go for a trip down memory lane and sample some F1 gaming
nostalgia from the past.
Born in an era when organized girls» sports were few, many of the
nostalgia cheerleaders were frustrated athletes who threw themselves into the
games — sometimes literally.
Francis Benali reminisces over an iconic day in Saints history against Arsenal, the very last
game played at The Dell in 2001, and our history section provides more
nostalgia.
We were meant to go and visit The
Nostalgia Box (a vintage video
game museum) this weekend and were completely rained out.
Millennials sick of adulting can descend into this dimly lit bar to play a few Nintendo or Sega
games and take the edge off the
nostalgia with a craft beer or cocktail.
From a gameplay perspective, Transmission looks like the next action adventure
game to satisfy the
nostalgia of yore, while also maintaining a sense of individuality.
If you want to add some 80s
nostalgia to your date night, there's no place better than Coin - Op
Game Room.
Every so often I come across a
game that reminds me of a
game from my childhood that brings me on a
nostalgia trip for days or even weeks on
Metal Gear Solid fans will be happy because this
game is chock full of
nostalgia moments and flashbacks to previous Metal Gear
games.
This
game contains
nostalgia, good characters, great story, an amazing final boss, and the perfect ending!
If your
nostalgia for the early 90s extends to muddled graphics, tinny sound effects, and tepid gameplay, you'll be thrilled with this
game.
Once you do though, the
nostalgia that fans of the movies will be worth the price of the
game, with fast paced deathmatches on lightbikes and arena matches that can be chaotic fun.
A Tim Schafer - orchestrated adventure as vivid and bizarre today as the original PC
game was 17 years ago, remastered with subtlety for a strong dose of
nostalgia.
This is a boring buggy excuse for a
game that claims to be a
nostalgia trip.
There's definitely some
nostalgia playing into my opinion of SSX — the original was one of the first
games that The Armchair Empire received for review — but even taking that out, I'd still say SSX is a damn fine title and definitely worth your time and attention.
While the
nostalgia of the genre is there, the developers were sure to make the combat fun and varied enough so there wasn't a mashable way to charge through the
game.
I appreciate that Kemco does its business by tapping into people's
nostalgia for
games from the SNES and PlayStation One era, but insulting fans that have fond memories of those
games with trash like Antiquia Lost needs to stop.
This
game makes a mockery of the original golden axe arcade classic, whilst it has features adapted to a modern
game which are meant to draw you back to the good old days with that beautiful chuckle of
nostalgia they are few and far between and were executed with so much more style and entertainment 25 years ago when golden axe graced lives.
For 1200 MS Points, the compilation will appeal to fans of the arcade titles if only for the sake of
nostalgia because there are plenty of better fighting
games available.
Double Dragon for the Xbox Live Arcade will provide some quick entertainment for
nostalgia fiends, but the
game doesn't hold up as well as you might hope.
Every so often I come across a
game that reminds me of a
game from my childhood that brings me on a
nostalgia trip for days or even weeks on end.
There's nothing here but a bunch of half - hearted references and wistful
nostalgia for old video
games, both of which you can get plenty of for free on the internet.
Returning players will definitely be left with a strong sense of deja vu, but if they finished everything last year's
game had to offer and were hungry for more they could still get their money's worth here, especially if they're up for a big dose of
nostalgia.
In the end, however, no amount of
nostalgia can absolve the
game of its ropy gameplay, patchy plot, substandard production, generic (and sometimes poor) level design and thin content; the campaign takes around eight hours to complete and that's the only mode on offer.
And with the remastered next - gen GTA V due to arrive shortly, it seems that, at least as far as video
games are concerned,
nostalgia is the future.
It was a
nostalgia trip for me going back through the 1990s playing DKC's on the super nintendo... Absolutely phenomenal
game.