The best example of this must be 2016’s Doom. It employed all the technical bells and whistles that you would expect from a 2016 id Software game with a base gameplay straight out of 1993. No fancy aiming down the sights or reloads, just endless gory killing. Would this strategy play out the same 10-15 years ago? Maybe not. But almost 10 years after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, gamers finally got sick of ‘cinematic’ FPS games that follow the same trend instead of doing something fresh.

Another easy example is the release and popularity of the NES Mini. It even caught Nintendo by surprise just how many people want to play those classic titles from 30 years ago on a console that is basically a component board with a plastic shell, HDMI output and a 1:1 ‘remake’ of the original NES controller. That being said, it still is the best way to get the most ‘authentic’ NES experience without buying a used one. The picture quality and porting was done right and the nostalgia factor gave it the final push it needed to sell out worldwide.

Talking about NES games, we shouldn’t forget about titles like Shovel Knight that are built to emulate the difficulty of the late 80s-early 90s 2D side-scrollers and tap into that 8-16bit style of those days. Modern games are becoming increasingly disconnected and try to become interactive movie-like 6-hour experiences offering little to no challenge for the player and a heavy price tag.

We can only hope that this trend continues and developers continue to inject game mechanics from old games into new experiences, effectively moving the industry away from eye-candy cash grab games that can never justify their full price.

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Super Mario Bros
One of the most successful video games of all time. Super Mario Bros was released in 1985 and it was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.
The main character of the game, Mario, goes on an adventure to save the beautiful Princess Peach Toadstool from King Bowser Koopa. Princess Peach Toadstool has the power of reversing the black magic of King Koopa, which explains his motives for kidnapping her. King Koopa uses his magic on the Mushroom Kingdom and transforms the Toads of the land into mushrooms and stones. In the multiplayer mode, the second player will take control of Mario’s brother Luigi when the first player loses a life.

NBA JAM
A basketball arcade video game that was loved from million people too. It was designed in 1993 by Midway Games, the company that also developed Mortal Kombat, Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter and others.
NBA Jam provided an innovative amount of features including special powers such as “on fire” dunks and “super powered” alley-oops. A key feature of NBA Jam was the exaggerated nature of the play – players jumped many times above their own height, making slam dunks that defied both human capabilities and the laws of physics. There were no fouls, free throws, or violations except goaltending. This meant the player was able to freely shove or elbow his opponent out of the way.

Metal Slug
Metal Slug was released on 1996 and it was developed by SNK.In this amazing game, the player has to constantly shoot at a continual stream of enemies in order to reach the end of each level. At the end of each level, the player must confront a boss who is often considerably larger than regular enemies and needs more shots than the rest enemies to defeat. On the way through the level, the player finds weapons upgrades and “slug” vehicles that can be used not only as weapons but also as added defense.
Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving were the only playable characters in the first game, and each was reserved solely to the first and second player, respectively. From the second installment, characters can be chosen independently, and Eri Kasamoto and Fiolina “Fio” Germi were added to the cast. These four are typically considered to be the quintessential Metal Slug team.

Street Fighter
Now the game that you spent a bunch of coins on the arcade machines with your friends for that epic multiplayer mode. Street Fighter! The first Street Fighter was released in 1987 by Capcom and created by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto. The player competes in a series of one-on-one matches against a series of computer-controlled opponents or in a single match against another player(multiplayer mode). Each match consists of three rounds in which the player must defeat an opponent in less than 30 seconds. If a match ends before a fighter is knocked out, then the fighter with the greater amount of energy left will be the round’s winner. The player must win two rounds in order to defeat the opponent and proceed to the next battle. In case that the third round ends in a tie, then the cpu opponent will win by default or both players will lose. During the single-player mode, the player can continue after losing and fight against the opponent they lost the match to. Also, a second player can interrupt a single-player match and challenge the first player to a new match.
Street Fighter is still a very successful video game on the latest platforms PS4 and XBOX ONE.

Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is about the adventures of an ape(called Donkey Kong). It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981. Everything started when the ape kidnapped Mario’s girlfriend Pauline. The player takes the control of Mario in order to rescue her and tries to avoid obstacles that Donkey Kong is throwing and climbs the ladders. Donkey Kong first appeared in the eponymous arcade game in 1981 as an antagonist. He would become a protagonist in later games. Donkey Kong Jr. first appeared in the arcade style game Donkey Kong Jr. released in 1982. The plot was that Donkey Kong Jr. saves his father, Donkey Kong, from Mario. Many series of Donkey Kong were released during the years with the latest in 2014, which is Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

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