How To Make Old Games Feel New Again

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

As a young lad my gaming library was pretty limited, so I needed to find ways to make those games last. You can only play a game so many times before you’ve explored every nook and cranny of it, and once that happened it was time to get creative. (Top photo courtesy of Retro Game Challenge by XSEED Games) Over the past few months I’ve been revisiting some of my childhood favorites, and I’ve found that the same tricks I used as a kid to breathe new life into those titles work well as an adult as well.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1626309484","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"halo,the-legend-of-zelda","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); These are three of my h25 com สล็อต​ favorite game-refreshing challenges. As a rule, I didn’t include anything that involves mods or external cheat devices. All you need is the game, and in one case a friend. Train on Enemy Rockets Helpfully documented here by Youtuber ShadowMarioXLI, the Enemy Rockets cheat for Goldeneye turns the Train level into a blazing inferno of chaos. Narrow corridors and exploding crates are the worst combination h25 com สล็อต​ for rocket fire, and getting to the end required some serious patience and strategy. And once you got to the end you had to pray that the rockets launched by Trevelyan and Xenia Onatopp didn’t blow Natalia away before you even had a chance to fire off a saving shot. This was my h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ dad and my favorite way to spend a weekend afternoon, passing the controller back and forth after each fiery h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ death just to see who could get farther. The Maw Grand Prix Sure, Halo: Combat Evolved‘s multiplayer alone was enough to keep me and my h25 com สล็อต​ friends busy for countless evenings, but when we finally needed a break from killing each other we turned our attention to competitive racing. The rules of the Maw Grand Prix are simple: up until that final warthog ride to freedom, you and your partner are a shining example of teamwork. But once those elevator doors open, it’s every man and woman for themselves. Fighting through the entire last level of Halo is a steep price for this payoff, but some of my favorite Halo memories are of careening h25 com สล็อต​ around corridors with my friend furiously in pursuit. The Zelda Three Heart Challenge This is one of the best known gaming challenges, but I’m including it because I’ve attempted it multiple times with multiple Zelda titles, and it remains at the top of my gaming bucket list. The three heart challenge is simple enough – beat the Legend of Zelda title of your choice, but do it without collecting any additional heart containers along the way. It’s sinister in that simplicity too, because making it the end of a Zelda title with only three hearts is a lesson in patience and frustration. I’ve attempted the challenge in Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, and A Link Between Worlds, and I’ve never completed it. What I’ve found during the challenge is that my normal approach to Zelda combat – blitz, blitz, blitz – leaves me way too exposed to damage. The key to completing the three heart challenge is not getting greedy. Get in, deal one strike of damage, then get out again before your enemy has a chance to counter. Those are just three of my favorites. Any Kotaku readers have their own ways of breathing new life into old games?

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