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Nostalgia Monday: Half-Life 2 (PC, 2004) - The Game That Redefined Everything
There is a moment early in Half-Life 2 where you emerge from a train station into City 17 and everything stops feeling …
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Nostalgia Monday: Crash Bandicoot (PS1, 1996) - The Marsupial Who Defined a Console
There is a specific kind of muscle memory that never fully leaves you. The weight of an original PlayStation DualShock …
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Nostalgia Monday: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64, 1998) - Still the Template
The problem with writing about Ocarina of Time is that everything it invented has been so thoroughly absorbed into the …
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Nostalgia Monday: GTA San Andreas (PS2, 2004) - The Biggest Game of a Generation
There is a particular flavour of ambition that defined Rockstar Games in the early 2000s, and San Andreas is where it …
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Nostalgia Monday: Halo 3 (Xbox 360, 2007) - Finishing the Fight, and Actually Doing It
“Finish the fight.” Bungie’s marketing tagline for Halo 3 was the kind of promise that gaming …
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Nostalgia Monday: Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, 2005) - The Game That Asked What Games Are For
Shadow of the Colossus is the game that people who do not usually play games are most likely to cite as the thing that …
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Nostalgia Monday: Metal Gear Solid (PS1, 1998) - Hideo Kojima's First Statement
Hideo Kojima made Metal Gear Solid in the same year that Saving Private Ryan came out and the world was reconsidering …
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Nostalgia Monday: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PS1, 2000) - The Perfect Arcade Game
Some games are good. Some games are great. A very small number of games are calibrated so precisely that the gap between …
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Nostalgia Monday: Super Mario 64 (N64, 1996) - Where 3D Gaming Learned to Walk
The closest analogy to playing Super Mario 64 for the first time in 1996 is probably the moment in The Wizard of Oz …
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Nostalgia Monday: Resident Evil 2 (PS1, 1998) - The Survival Horror Peak
Raccoon City in 1998 was the first time a mainstream game felt genuinely dangerous. Not difficult: dangerous. The police …