Nostalgia is a strange, bitter-sweet thing. Some say we look at the past through rose-tinted glasses, and when it comes to childhood memories involving computer games – the glasses aren’t so much rose-tinted as blacked-out. Our past-selves simply couldn’t comprehend the leaps and bounds of technology and graphical fidelity has made in the past decade or two.
And so, re-playing our cherished memories can be something of a painful experience.
Now that horror as a genre has got over its brief and bizarre obsession with little poorly-shampooed girls as antagonistic little terrors, we can all get back to feeling concerned for their welfare. The opening FMV of Lylian: Episode One – Paranoid Friendship pulls no punches on that front, depicting the titular and blank-eyed heroine writhing on the floor trying to roll towards her frankensteined teddy bear, Bob, who is then snatched away by a particularly spooky looking orderly. It’s…
“FINISH HIM” – It’s been nearly twenty years since we first heard that phrase emanating from our local arcades, pumping fistfuls of coins into the slot as we proved to the gathering crowds just who was better, Scorpion or Sub Zero. The exclamation point being the resultant bloody OTT Fatalities performed on the unlucky loser. Spinoffs, movies, more games and an entire franchise later and we find ourselves in present day. Thankfully Mortal Kombat has also shed the majority of…