{"id":8821,"date":"2023-02-01T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/pushing-buttons-should-goldeneye-007-have-stayed-in-the-90s\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:37:59","slug":"pushing-buttons-should-goldeneye-007-have-stayed-in-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/pushing-buttons-should-goldeneye-007-have-stayed-in-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Buttons: Should GoldenEye 007 have stayed in the 90s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare that games of the past hold up to today\u2019s technology. New remasters of two landmark action titles bring back memories, but do they hold up?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two beloved games from the past have been rereleased in the last week: 2008\u2019s nauseating sci-fi horror Dead Space has been resurrected with modern technology, and 1997\u2019s first-person-shooter gamechanger GoldenEye 007 (pictured above) has arrived on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, looking somewhat less fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Dead Space (pictured below) was not my thing \u2013 I\u2019m too sensitive for horror (I sometimes cry at adverts). But GoldenEye 007 brings back a host of great memories for me, as it does for anyone who was playing games during the Nintendo 64 era. Try to find a millennial who doesn\u2019t have fond recollections of gathering at that one friend\u2019s house after school for split-screen death matches, or a Gen Xer who didn\u2019t nearly miss a university essay deadline because of it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/feb\/01\/from-goldeneye-007-to-dead-space-why-rereleases-are-risky-business\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/967fb2c152301bb5a4318b3123e26daed7b41cf9\/43_0_1265_759\/master\/1265.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fba623b23b95ddf12f8d669f0cacc582\" title=\"Pushing Buttons: Should GoldenEye 007 have stayed in the 90s?\" \/>It\u2019s rare that games of the past hold up to today\u2019s technology. New remasters of two landmark action titles bring back memories, but do they hold up?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nTwo beloved games from the past have been rereleased in the last week: 2008\u2019s nauseating sci-fi horror Dead Space has been resurrected with modern technology, and 1997\u2019s first-person-shooter gamechanger GoldenEye 007 (pictured above) has arrived on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, looking somewhat less fresh.<br \/>\nDead Space (pictured below) was not my thing \u2013 I\u2019m too sensitive for horror (I sometimes cry at adverts). But GoldenEye 007 brings back a host of great memories for me, as it does for anyone who was playing games during the Nintendo 64 era. Try to find a millennial who doesn\u2019t have fond recollections of gathering at that one friend\u2019s house after school for split-screen death matches, or a Gen Xer who didn\u2019t nearly miss a university essay deadline because of it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s rare that games of the past hold up to today\u2019s technology. New remasters of two landmark action titles bring back memories, but do they hold up? Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Two beloved games from the past have been rereleased in the last week: 2008\u2019s nauseating sci-fi horror &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/pushing-buttons-should-goldeneye-007-have-stayed-in-the-90s\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Buttons: Should GoldenEye 007 have stayed in the 90s?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8822,"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\/8821"}],"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=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}