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Finding nostalgia in the pixelated video games of decades past

  • Written by Nicholas Bowman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
Instruments of nostalgia and psychological well-being?Brian Kenney/Shutterstock.com

Every day, it seems, new ultra-high-resolution video games are released, syncing with players’ social media accounts and ready for virtual reality headsets. Yet old games from the 1970s and 1980s are still in high demand. The Nintendo Corporation has moved...

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