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Those simple graphics, at times banal, but still fantastic. Soundtracks made of just a few chords, but still capable of making you travel on the wings of the imagination. The details not at all defined, the simple plots, the essential gameplay. THE video games they used to be like this, gaming was just born and it certainly couldn't jump through hoops.
The surprising thing is that all this is now coming back. Yes, because pieces of history like Pac Man or Tetris, Super Mario and Tomb Raider they find a new life. It is the phenomenon of retrogamingan increasingly strong trend that is not only worth a lot, but which involves video games, consoles and above all slot machines.
The charm of retro slots
Retrogaming, in fact, has especially affected gambling platforms, giving new life to pieces of history. As we can observe above SlotMania, a free gaming platform, there are various slot machines inspired by titles of the past, which now find a new place and a new life. This is the case of GTA San Andreas or Tomb Raider, but the highlight is the one produced by the software house Pragmatic Play: Shining Hot. It is a slot available in four variations (Shining Hot 100, Shining Hot 40, Shining Hot 20 and Shining Hot 5, depending on the paylines) which allows players to take a leap into the past. This was the idea behind the project started by Yossy BarzelyChief Business Development Officer of Pragmatic Play, who said he wanted to project players back in time, offering titles in perfect Las Vegas style, for a completely new gaming video experience.
In the wake of this success, obviously, others have also arrived: from Bomb Bonanza at Sugar Rushpassing through Cosmic Cash. Slot machines with a retro flavor aim to conquer both a young audience, the one most linked to mobile gaming and online platforms, and a more expert target, who perhaps tried those same games live in the 80s and 90s.
An expanding market
But retrogaming doesn't stop at gambling, on the contrary: it invades and colonizes many different sectors. To understand the extent of this phenomenon it may be useful to take a look around Retrogaminghistory, an all-Italian portal dedicated to retro games. On the beautiful cover we find a game that just couldn't be more nostalgic: we're talking about Slap and Beans 2with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill protagonists of a classic side-scrolling fighting game. But not only that: here Evil Diarya pixel art action video game that was published at the end of 2023 by the independent software house Ratalaika Gamesor Astlibrawhich is Chinese Whisper Games wants to land on Nintendo Switch after bringing it back to PC.
In short, retrogaming is a continually expanding market in which, perhaps, it is a good idea to invest. Public and legal gaming did it, but other segments of the great gaming universe are about to do it too.
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