1/10/2024 0 Comments Nostalgia 90s duck gameIt’s still pure Nintendo magic - anyone can play and love it!Ī 4-player Ferrari Racing Zone - all you need is 6-feet x 6-feet for an awesome raceway! Post-pandemic, I’ve been setting out Wii Sports and it’s always a huge hit. There aren’t many games of the mid-200os people can say, “Yeah, even my grandma played that!” besides Wii Sports! (Maybe Guitar Hero/Rock Band). It’s not the first thing you’d think of, but after doing this since 2013, I can say without a doubt that Duck Hunt is unofficially the most popular videogame of all time.Īnd no one can even play it anymore, unless you’re crazy like me and kept your tube TVs! (I was hoarding CRTs and videogame stuff before I started Games Done Legit, as part passion, part preservation, and part running videogame tournaments that required them). (Cue Super Mario Bros. end-of-level music and fireworks. It’s just really cool for me to see over and over videogames don’t have had to be the driving force of your life for you to feel so attached to these pixely games from your past.īy now, as each generation picks up the previous one’s love for Mario and Sonic, I’m starting to feel sure I’ll be able to see folks enjoy these gaming treasures for a long, long time. Duck Hunt is a Officially a Shared Experience I know there’s more to it, but that’s pretty damn interesting, and probably explains our emotional reactions to videogames. I heard a talk by one of the game developers here in Cleveland and learned that our brain maps the experiences we have in videogames as if we actually experienced it.Įver think about how you never say “Mario beat the level”? You say, “ I beat the level.” I think that kind of tells the story. Who didn’t want to do the Trench Fun in their own X-Wing when they saw this in 1983, even though the graphics looked like a “My First Shapes” toddler workbook? Likewise, if you’ve ever played any of the Star Wars arcade games and got to feel like you’re dramatically saving the galaxy to the John Williams’ triumphant score, I dunno, it’s just a different feeling since you were a participant in the triumph and not a viewer. I feel so much closer to what it must have felt for Freddie Mercury to write it and perform it when I perform it, too. And though I feel like I’m with Luke when he blows up the Death Star, my brain still knows I’m a passive observer.īut when I play “Bohemian Rhapsody” on piano and/or sing it, I’m actively bringing something small into the world myself for a few minutes. I mean, I really, really love Queen and Star Wars for instance, and I’m extremely connected to both pretty emotionally.īut I didn’t help make “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Just great seeing people enjoy old videogames like I hope they will!īetween the art, graphics, and the fact that you control what happens, people certainly connect to videogames in an even stronger way than with passive or reactive entertainment. I made this complication of our recent event.
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