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Retro gaming -remember playing these?
With the retro fad in full swing at the moment with everyone buying retro bags, clothes and anything with the word ‘retro’ stuck in front of it, we’re going to take alook at retro gaming. The retro gaming craze has seen people digging out there old video game consoles and start playing then again, rather than splash out on a new console. Tetris, the Mario Bros and Pacman to name a few games we used to spend hours in front of. An advantage of retro gaming is that the games and consoles are cheaper to buy than the current generation of consoles and games. Now these games wont be as ‘pretty’ as the games of today, but they still are enjoyable to play. Here’s afew of them to take us down memory lane.
Tetris. Nintendo had the brilliant idea of selling Tetris with their new hand held console, the Game Boy, which ended up clocking up 27 million consoles sold worldwide. The aim is simple, different shaped blocks drop down from the top of the screen and by making a line you make it disapear. The more levels you go through the faster to game will get, trying to make you fail to clear the blocks and get game over. Simple, yet very addictive, Tetris was aimed at no-one in particular, so it ended up appealing to the whole family.
Pacman. Most people will have heard of Pacman, but the people in their forties will remember him more fondly. An arcade game, basically you guided Pacman, a yellow ball with a mouth, around a maze trying to eat all the white balls without getting caught by the ghosts. When Pacman was released in 1980 the whole world went crazy for the game and books, songs, and various merchandise was made in the name of the yellow ball.
The Super Mario Bros. At his highest point Mario was more well known to children than Disney’s Mickey mouse. Originally appearing in the game Donkey Kong, Mario and his brother Luigi recieved their first game on Nintendo’s NES console, and has gone from strength to strength. The Mario’s would have to save Princess Peach from the giant dinosaur known as Bowser, a journey which required mushroom power ups, coin collecting and shell jumping. Mario has appeared in a wide range of games- from kart racing, to sports such as tennis and golf, to RPGs and puzzle games.
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