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    Jul 09, 2020 4 minutes

    GOLDEN OLDIES

    Dear Retro Gamer,

    Having just seen a teaser for Gran Turismo 7 pop up on my Twitter feed, I have had a sudden revelation as to why I cannot get into modern gaming. Gran Turismo is a game that I have just never got into. Since the first one was released in the late Nineties it has never appealed to me. It’s the same story with many of the other ‘big’ games from around the Noughties onwards. Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, they’re all ‘meh’… So what gives? What is it about retro games?

    Retro games,

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