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Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« on: February 14, 2009, 07:48:34 pm »
The game's name is Retro Game Challenge. It is for the Nintendo DS. The premise is that you have been sent back in time to the mid-1980s and must meet specific challenges in 80s Nintendo games before you will be sent home.

The games are not real 80s games. Instead, they got Namco (creators of Pac-Man among many others) to make games they might have made in the 80s. The result is that you have a collection of games that feel like some of the better classic Nintendo games, without being direct copies.

This game is thirty dollars for a bunch of quite good old-style Nintendo games, plus they can go in your pocket. I highly recommend acquiring it, particularly because the company localizing it is using it as an experiment to see if there's enough appeal in old-school gaming to make a market of it.
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Re: Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2009, 11:51:49 pm »
There will always be a market for anything that fetishizes the past.
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Re: Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 12:26:24 am »
Quote from: Ben-San on February 14, 2009, 07:48:34 pm
The premise is that you have been sent back in time to the mid-1980s and must meet specific challenges in 80s Nintendo games before you will be sent home.

That is cute.
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Re: Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 02:32:26 am »
If I was sent back to the mid-80s I would probably stay.  Go out to Vegas and bet massive sums on sporting events.
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Re: Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2009, 05:52:26 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on February 14, 2009, 11:51:49 pm
There will always be a market for anything that fetishizes the past.

Which is why there is an endless stream of reprints of older games, yes.

However, this is something unusual: a set of new, high-quality games in genres that are no longer produced, compiled and released for a low price. I would definitely like to see more of this.
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Re: Buy This Video Game (For Reals)
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 03:36:52 pm »
Speaking of classic NES games on the DS, does anyone have a card in the mode of the R4? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_storage_devices

My card of choice is the Edge DS: http://www.edge-ds.cn/?lang=en

I had it for a few weeks before selling it to my cousin at cost (he wanted to give one as a gift and they're currently out of stock).

You can get an NES emulator for it and load every NES game (which, all told, are easily under a gig).

Really fun. But this game sounds fun (and legal) as well.
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