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Old 03-11-2014, 01:57 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
It's called nostalgia
There is some of that for sure, but these games are also big among people that are way too young to be nostalgic about that kind of stuff. For a certain generation there is a certain hipness to it. There are 8 bit artists, 8 bit musicians and other things. For some people it is just hip to be retro even if they were not alive when 8 bit was first popular.
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