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But even the old game consoles that have been discontinued for more than 20 years, no matter how nostalgic, the official version of the mini version will be harvested, but what many people don’t expect is that there are still people who are still working for NES console Developing games.
▲ Star Dew Grain
This is too much like many retro pixel games. Retro games are generally made in the form of pixel arrays, but they are made on a completely modern platform, and there will not be any old antiques in the support platform. There are many such games at present, such as “Star Dew Grain Language” is a very successful pixel vegetable game, ranked on the top of the Switch download list all year round.
Today is different. These games are almost completely able to run on the old host platform. There are also many restrictions for this, such as volume and capacity and development tools.
It also behaves like a typical 8-bit console game. A little elf wearing a purple hat crosses 26 levels. On the way, he needs to cross the Gothic castle and dark caves, and finally rescue the princess. .
“Since childhood, NES has been one of our favorite game consoles,” Nicolas Bétoux, a developer at Morphcat Games, which develops Micro Mages, told the Washington Post. “We develop NES games out of fun and curiosity in our spare time.”
Do you think this game is just for the entertainment of the developers? It ’s a big mistake. Micro Mages has achieved incredible success. Last year it generated 150,000 euros on Kickstarter. It is a victory for hundreds of people to develop a 3A game mode. In addition, today’s game console ecosystem is turning to digital subscriptions. For example, EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft have made breakthroughs in game subscription. But there are still a small number of people who return time to the era when the physical medium dominates.