Switch Sports Is A Reminder That Games Always Forget Their Past
Switch Sports is one of my most anticipated games of the year. I have written before, several times, that the Wii is my favourite console because it was the best at what I regard a gaming console’s most important job - it made gaming fun for everyone. A key part of this success was pack-in title Wii Sports, which I consider the greatest sports game of all time. So a follow-up is under intense pressure. However, given the huge gap between the two instalments, it also invites us to look back, and folks, we’re old.
History has gotten further away for us as a culture. My parents were born in the late ‘60s, and grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. That means the music they listened to, the movies they watched, and the shows on television were all from the ‘70s and ‘80s too. The ‘50s, which ended just seven years before they were born, might as well have been a foreign country.
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I was born in the early ‘90s, and this was not the case for me. Sure, my immediate cultural touchstones were those of my era - Britney Spears, Oasis, Star Wars prequels, Pixar’s golden era, The Simpsons, Friends. But I had access to and appreciation for the time before I was born too. Trips in the car were just as likely to be accompanied by Prince or Duran Duran than they were Christina Aguilera or Arctic Monkeys. I had Toy Story on VHS, but then a few years later I had The Breakfast Club and Weird Science on DVD. The ‘80s were just as familiar to me as the time I lived in - like my parents, I needed to go back to the ‘50s to find an era that was a foreign country to me.
You might be wondering what this has to do with Wii Sports. I saw a tweet over the weekend that told me there had been the same
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