Saturday, 17 March 2012

Nostalgia and Video Games: 'SAVE IT!'

Ooh, I have been writing a lot of TV Character blogs lately, haven’t I? Well, as they say: “Now for something completely different.”

I love replaying old video games. I much prefer it to playing new ones! Yes, the graphics are shoddy and the gameplay is awful, but it always brings back so many memories.

 
As a child, my mum used to work all day Sunday. So I would go round to my best friend’s house and play Tomb Raider with her, her sisters and her mum. We would sit all day on the living room floor and my friend’s mum would make us an amazing Sunday dinner. I remember playing the St. Francis Folly level in the first Tomb Raider and everyone getting so stressed out because we couldn’t make the jumps. We would spend hours in a room stuck on puzzles and the relief when you finally cracked it (only to get killed and have to start again…) The entire day was the highlight of my week and playing Tomb Raider was a tradition we carried on right up to the last game. Now living at university, it pains me to know that when I play the next game, I won’t have Trish screaming ‘SAVE IT’, or Ruby asking for her turn, or Emily saying “I can do the first Tomb Raider in a day”! Why would I not want to play those games and remember those memories?

I've grown up watching the evolution of a game series, so why wouldn't I love to go back and see the origins of it? Those games were classics for a reason! Not just that, but they are also still challenging! I still have to skip the London levels and Tomb Raider 3 because I simply cannot do them! Even the Tomb Raiders that I can do in a day (namely Chronicles), there are parts I still struggle on. I will say I believe this to be because the games are hard, and is no fault of the gameplay!

 
So, yes. I’ll play Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty. But nothing will ever beat those days of sitting on the living room, watching a badly pixelated Lara Croft perform superhero jumps and shooting something resembling a dinosaur.

And as a side note: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO SPYRO?!?

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