Retro is losing its meaning. Let’s explore how to salvage the term by reflecting upon gaming history together!
Classic
There are lots of things to fight about but we here at TWRM know that the most important battle of our age is Solitaire vs Minesweeper! Which is better?
Mega Man 11 feels like going home. An old Rockman veteran critiques the latest Mega Man game with an eye on gimmicky gameplay.
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.”
―Arnold Bennett
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The…
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes ofman.”
-Proverbs 27:20 [ESV]
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
“What is your favorite Nostalgic Classic?”
How can I see things from a character’s point of view if they’re constantly breaking the fourth wall to spell out their point of view?
When was the last time you saw the 1987 NES boxing-classic Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! in…
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
I’ve been through two PlayStation One’s that stopped working because of lens problems, two PlayStation 2’s, a slim and a regular black one, that just decided they had had enough, an Xbox that cried itself to sleep, a Gamecube that became a paperweight, and a PS3 that’s rapidly deteriorating and recently refuses indomitably to run even its own PS Store.
But you know what? My Super Nintendo still works. In fact, it works just fine. Works better than my PS3.
To be clear, I do, but I actually prefer the term “classic” over “retro”. Here’s why.
