Paul of Couch Campus asks in his editorial if gaming should take advantage of nostalgia or whether it as a whole is a damaging aspect to many new genres and titles.

The reason I find myself asking this question is because me and my friends were discussing about games we played in our childhood, with the typical titles like Sonic, Mario, Zelda, Streets of Rage, and Street Fighter making the grade. Bringing up the notion that they don’t make games like they used to, but this brought up the thought of times change, and games moved on with the times. By this statement I do not mean in regards to technology, but in the sense of consumers needs. As, in my childhood the idea of playing games was seen by many as a child’s activity, but as the gaming industry has grown, so has the main age group of the gaming generation.

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