Where will retro-inspired developers turn next?

In the early 2010s – a time of mainstream popularity and growth in the indie game development scene – a number of titles came out that revelled in the ‘retro’ era. Shovel Knight charmed everyone with its diligent attention to the NES palette and old-school sensibilities, Super Meat Boy channelled Nintendo’s ‘hardcore’ platforming level design (and even borrowed its use of “Super”), and Volgarr The Viking was an arcade-style love letter to classic beat-’em-ups. For a while, 1980s and 1990s game design was jumping into a renaissance, thanks in no small part to developers who were raised in the familiarity and nostalgia of these eras having developed the skills to channel it in their own work. In the late 2010s, we also saw N64-like titles jump into the ring, with…

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