This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Old Faux: From YKTTW
HeartBurn Kid: Mega Man 9 is not an NES game. It has NES-style graphics, sound, and gameplay, but it is not designed for NES hardware. The game even has downloadable content, fercryinoutloud.
- Castle Crashers, a 4-player Beat 'em Up on X Box Live Arcade, fits this like a glove.
- As does Alien Hominid, the previous creation by its programmers.
Isn't "Retraux" a little redundant? Retro already means to imitate or emulate the style of something from the past. In other words, technically every time someone calls Space Invaders a "retro" game they're probably wrong.
Yes, "retro" does not mean "old". This page should be renamed or deleted.
Kudos Force: Methinks that "vintage" would be a better term to use.
Prfnoff: I have no idea how true this vague generalization is, so I took it out:
- I'm sure that just about any movie based on a true story from over ten years ago has a few moments of this, if not the entire movie.
Kudos Force: I think that I may have come up with the perfect replacement title for this trope: " The Fauxldies" (a portmanteau of "faux" and "oldies"). How about that?