Monday 3 December 2012

Retro Game Wallpapers

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Within the first few hours I spent playing Final Fantasy IX, I predicted  that opinions over it would be sharply contrasting. Much of today's  following of the Final Fantasy series consists of people who were brought on  board with Final Fantasy VII, which is often credited with single-handedly  bringing RPGs into the mainstream. So, we have a lot of FF fans out there  who never experienced the first two thirds of the series, and never bothered  to get the previous games because of a stigma against anything on outdated  consoles.
So how much of Final Fantasy IX is a retro experience? To begin with, FFIX's  plot shows the effort to return to the style of pre-PSX Final Fantasies. The  world of FFIX is vastly medieval, with technology playing a limited role.  It's still a world of mixed genres, but when you spend the game walking  through castles and cobblestone paths instead of concrete roads and neon  skyscrapers, you can tell the difference.
Retrogaming, also known as old-school gaming, is the hobby of playing and collecting older personal computer, console, and arcade video games. These games are played either on the original hardware, on modern hardware via emulation, or on modern hardware via ports or compilations. Participants in the hobby are sometimes known as retrogamers in the United Kingdom, while the terms classic gamers, or old school gamers are more prevalent in the United States. Similarly, the games are known as retrogames, classic games, or old-school games[1]. Retrogaming is often linked to, although not the same as, indie gaming (the hobby of playing games that are not published by any conventional publisher).[2] Additionally, the term old-school could apply to a newer game, but with features similar to those of older games, such as "old-school RPGs"
In the wake of increasing nostalgia and the success of retro-compilations in the sixth and seventh generations of consoles, retrogaming has become a motif in modern games, as well. Modern Retro games will impose limitations on color palette, resolution, and memory well below the actual limits of the hardware in order to mimic the look of older hardware. These may be based on a general concept of retro, as with Cave Story, or an attempt to imitate a specific piece of hardware (as with La Mulana and its MSX color palette).

Modern retrogaming began to gain traction thanks in part to the independent gaming scene, where the short development time was attractive and commercial viability was not a concern. More recently major publishers have started to embrace modern retro with releases like Mega Man 9 (an attempt to mimic NES hardware), Retro Game Challenge (a compilation of new games on faux-NES hardware), and Sega's Fantasy Zone II remake, which actually used emulated System 16 hardware running on PlayStation 2 to create a 16-bit reimagining of the 8-bit original.

Modern retro may sometimes be more broadly applied to games that feature retro-style designs with more modern graphics, like Pac-Man: Championship Edition, Space Invaders Extreme, Super Mega Worm, or 3D Dot Game Heroes.

The nostalgia-based revival of older game styles has also been accompanied by the development of the modern chiptune genre of game music. Chiptunes are characterized by severe limitations of sound imposed by the author's self-restriction to using only the original sound chips from 8-bit or 16-bit games. These compositions feature in many retro-style modern games and are popular in the demoscene.
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers
Retro Game Wallpapers

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