Friday, 20 February 2009

Retro Essay

Hey People

Just a quick note that I forgot to mention before on my last post. I know that Chris is researching Retro Games for his assigment and was going to tell him about this easay that I found.

Its an university lecture that defines a retro game and why nostaliga is so important in the current generation of video games

Its at http://www.utc.fr/~nesposit/publications/esposito2005history.pdf

Cheers People

Luke

2 comments:

  1. Looks like a good essay, ideas of nostalgia and retro are slippery theories to deal with, they are wrapped up in layers of postmodernism and are hard to talk about from a truley objective standpoint but a great area of study. What is a "retro" game anyhow?

    Is it anything pre the generation of console that is current? Is PS2 retro? Does the Wii problematize what we class as retro gaming as half of its purpose is to work as an emulator...

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