4 Retro Games That Are Still Beautiful | Minisode - Beautiful Games Club

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What does 'retro' even mean? 🕹️

The Beautiful Games Club is a community for people who love games that move you - emotionally, visually, creatively. Each episode, we pick a game that deserves some extra special attention and explore it together, one beautiful game at a time.

Last time we did a minisode we looked forwards at games that weren't out yet. This time we're doing the opposite.

Conor, Mike, Angel and Jane each bring a game from back in the day, and we all try to make the case that it still holds up as genuinely beautiful. We start by failing to agree on what retro actually is, get sidetracked into playground games, and end up somewhere near Freud.

There's an Atari 2600 athletics game Mike was playing at two years old, a 1997 PC adventure with a hero who has to switch into "sport mode" before he can jump, the JRPG that taught Conor to read and soundtracked his wedding, and a PS2 launch title that kickstarted Kingdom Hearts.

Along the way: floppy disc stacks, anti-piracy grids on sheets of paper, why old games looked better on a CRT, and the discovery that Wii Sports turns 20 in three months.

So. Which retro game has aged the most beautifully?

The picks:

Activision's Decathlon (1983) - Mike

Little Big Adventure 2 (1997) - Jane

Final Fantasy 7 (1997) - Conor

The Bouncer (2000) - Angel

Host: Conor Guests: Mike, Angel and Jane

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