{"id":9460,"date":"2022-04-27T14:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/letter-from-the-editor-when-nostalgia-aint-what-it-used-to-be\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:19:25","slug":"letter-from-the-editor-when-nostalgia-aint-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/letter-from-the-editor-when-nostalgia-aint-what-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the editor: When nostalgia ain\u2019t what it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOne of the many peculiar sensations of advancing in age is the constant reframing of what\u2019s considered old. Alongside the ever-growing creak of the bones and the gentle shock in the barbers when the hair that\u2019s falling on your shoulders becomes increasingly white there\u2019s the dry horror of people celebrating the \u2018retro\u2019 pleasures of a game you could swear only came out months ago.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s a feeling that\u2019s been bubbling up again with this week\u2019s release of Nintendo Switch Sports, a follow-up of sorts to a game that defined its era, and in many ways went on to inform every subsequent era since. You won\u2019t need to be reminded of the outrageous success of Wii Sports when it launched at the tail-end of 2006; such was the ubiquity of the tiny little console everyone will have their own memories of gathering around tatty CRT TVs in increasingly sweaty and smelly living rooms with Wii Remote-enabled tennis or boxing, or Christmas Day bowling sessions with the family that would invariably spill over into the early hours of Boxing Day.\n<\/p>\n

\nThere\u2019s an innocence to those memories – sweetened through the distorting lens of nostalgia – that\u2019s all the more alluring in these troubled times. Who wouldn\u2019t want to forego the misery of the modern always-connected world where convenience has steamrollered any semblance of calm for an afternoon carefully curating the 1000 songs that\u2019ll go on your first generation iPod (and who wouldn\u2019t swap the soul-sapping noise of Twitter for the more charming mess that was MySpace – especially given recent news of a certain egomaniac choosing to spend his fortune on the platform rather than addressing any more pressing concerns).\n<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n

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