Retro Game Challenge

Apparently the whole retro trend hasn’t skipped the gaming world (but we knew that already, right?) - I just read an article on No More Gamers Anymore with thoughts on the new game - Retro Game Challenge which Michael, author of No More Gamers Anymore wrote here.

Briefly: a crazy Japanese guy send you back in time to play games from the 80s with his former self. The games are not actually old, but they are designed and drawn to look old. You are not allowed to leave the 80s until you beat his challenges.

(Being trapped in the 80’s sounds like quite a nightmare to me)

On the top screen is the actual game, but on the bottom is the TV, the console, and two kids (you and the crazy guy’s younger self). The majority of the humor comes from the kid you’re playing with. He makes references to things that really happened in the 80s, asks you naïve, childlike questions, comments on your playing (”Nice!” “Ouch!” etc.), and is always there to bother you.

Michael comments on his own blog about the difference between games back then and games now - and the fact that now you share your achievements with the whole world where as back in the eighties it was you and the occupants of the living room, and that was that.

I suppose that is true of everything - since the world has shrunken into a global village over the last 30 years.

I think this game should be marketed not to the current gaming generation, but to their parents who were gamers in the eighties - for them it is a walk down memory lane, speaking a language they can understand, where as on the younger generation, a game like this would probably be totally lost.

Just to give you a bit of a taste - here is the trailer.