Retro Video Shows What Wordle Would Be Like If It Was Made in the 80s
Popular word guessing game Wordle has attained the sort of fame only previously achieved by major mobile outings like Words with Friends or Pokemon GO. From humble beginnings in November 2021, the game’s player base has grown exponentially, and players are eager as ever to share their results and discuss their strategies. However, YouTuber Squirrel Monkey imagines a version of Wordle divorced from the facets of modern gaming, created during a time in which computer access was rare and mobile gaming was totally unheard of.
In a YouTube video titled «If Wordle Existed in the 1980s…,» Squirrel Monkey offers an explanation of how the popular game is played while parodying the overtly blunt and often ludicrously corny instructional videos of the day. Featuring authentic VHS warble and muffled VO recorded in an echoey room, it’s hard to believe that the video was produced in the modern day. Plus, the video highlights an MS-DoS stylized recreation of Wordle that’s so strikingly genuine it would make the developer of the recently-released Bloodborne PSX demake blush.
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Part of the video’s charm comes from the hilariously out-of-touch words chosen by the presenters. Painstakingly hammering in guesses like “carom” and “xylan” on what might be a yellow-tinged IBM Model M keyboard, the video inadvertently offers a glimpse at how difficult Wordle might be were players left to their own devices sans perhaps a dictionary. Were the five-dollar words seen here to actually appear in a real game, players who believe Wordle to have become more pretentious since its recent acquisition byThe New York Times would certainly be up in arms.
The second half of the video imagines what
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