{"id":23017,"date":"2026-05-08T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/from-smashing-pumpkins-to-ferris-bueller-new-australian-indie-video-game-mixtape-is-a-blast-of-nostalgia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:37:25","slug":"from-smashing-pumpkins-to-ferris-bueller-new-australian-indie-video-game-mixtape-is-a-blast-of-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/from-smashing-pumpkins-to-ferris-bueller-new-australian-indie-video-game-mixtape-is-a-blast-of-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Smashing Pumpkins to Ferris Bueller: new Australian indie video game Mixtape is a blast of nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the game by Melbourne-based Beethoven and Dinosaur, you play as a teenage girl the night before moving to New York \u2013 drinking, skateboarding and getting into trouble, all soundtracked by 80s and 90s classics<\/p>\n

When Johnny Galvatron was 14, his cousin gave him a copy of the Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 seminal 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. For Galvatron, a rambunctious teenager in Geelong who defined himself by his musical taste, it was love at first spin. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a track like Tonight, Tonight from any other band,\u201d he reminisces.<\/p>\n

A song from the album plays at a critical moment in Mixtape, the second game from Galvatron\u2019s Melbourne-based studio, Beethoven and Dinosaur. It\u2019s a narrative adventure game about Stacy Rockford, a teenage girl in the fictional 90s American suburban town of Blue Moon Lagoon.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the game by Melbourne-based Beethoven and Dinosaur, you play as a teenage girl the night before moving to New York \u2013 drinking, skateboarding and getting into trouble, all soundtracked by 80s and 90s classics
\nWhen Johnny Galvatron was 14, his cousin gave him a copy of the Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 seminal 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. For Galvatron, a rambunctious teenager in Geelong who defined himself by his musical taste, it was love at first spin. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a track like Tonight, Tonight from any other band,\u201d he reminisces.
\nA song from the album plays at a critical moment in Mixtape, the second game from Galvatron\u2019s Melbourne-based studio, Beethoven and Dinosaur. It\u2019s a narrative adventure game about Stacy Rockford, a teenage girl in the fictional 90s American suburban town of Blue Moon Lagoon. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the game by Melbourne-based Beethoven and Dinosaur, you play as a teenage girl the night before moving to New York \u2013 drinking, skateboarding and getting into trouble, all soundtracked by 80s and 90s classics When Johnny Galvatron was 14, his cousin gave him a copy of the Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 seminal 1995 album, Mellon Collie …<\/p>\n

From Smashing Pumpkins to Ferris Bueller: new Australian indie video game Mixtape is a blast of nostalgia<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}