This week is Vintage Video Games Week at the New Statesman where we'll be getting nostalgic about our fave digital games from our childhoods:https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/welcome-vintage-video-games-week …
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This was a lovely read:
@LouisStaples on gaming while growing up gay https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/how-female-game-characters-helped-me-when-i-was-growing-gay …Show this thread
"With the loss of text, we lose an understated emotional impact that just can’t be delivered through voice acting." This was a really smart and surprising read: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/bring-back-text-boxes-why-video-games-were-better-they-used-voice-actors …
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The last one for our penultimate day of Vintage Video Games week is our
@RBanerjee23! On why noughties fave Shadow of the Colossus was actually a huge success:https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/epic-battles-and-beautiful-scenery-why-2005-s-shadow-colossus-was-giant …Show this thread -
today is the LAST DAY of Vintage Video Games Week </3 First up we have
@chris_mandle on gaming in the pre-Google erahttps://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/gaming-pre-google-era-was-often-impossible-so-why-do-i-miss-it-so-much …Show this thread -
our last pieces of the series! First is
@jamesrbuk writing about Aliandor and the relationships we develop with the characters we play:https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/ali-my-game-avatar-and-i-ve-spent-more-time-him-most-my-real-friends …Show this thread -
AAAAAND our very last one:
@NickyWoolf on Goldeneye and the wonders of the N64 https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2019/01/love-letter-goldeneye-finest-multiplayer-game-ever-made …Show this thread
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No love for Myst or Marathon? (the latter clearly inspired by 'Aliens' and 'Holy Grail' with the colonists shouting "run away" every time the aliens turned up). I spent hours playing Myst. Ooh and text-based Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.pic.twitter.com/eSr9yJl4sL
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there are too many games to go through! would love to have polled on people's favourites
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1. that person needs to charge their gba 2. minish cap <3
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Would text boxes become like black and white photography—a deliberate artistic choice that some people consider "better"?
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The point about directing actors in a non-native language is great. I once voiced Tony Blair and Winston Churchill for a Ukrainian animation, and the script was translated by Americans, so I had to work out what they wanted and also suggest slightly more British idioms.
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