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no one wants to come home, turn on a game and feel 
like they’re still working at the office PC.

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 But the 

particular aesthetic phenomenon of techno-nostalgia is 
also working a very clever, stealthy trick. Just as 
Hamlet’s deliberately archaic play-within-a-play 
enhances the audience’s suspension of disbelief, in that 
the surrounding onstage action looks by comparison far 
more “real,” so the blatantly archaic technological 
design in some parts of the videogame make the 
cutting-edge visuals in the thick of the action seem 
even more novel and exciting. 

 

Modern videogames, as we have seen, glory in their 
graphic richness: spacecraft with scarred hulls, fighters 
with stubble, trees with individually swaying branches. 
But this does not necessarily reduce the player’s 
involvement in the game. What spoils “identification” 
is simply a lack of symbolic richness to suck you in. If 
a game with a beautiful graphic iconic construction also 
enjoys symbolic richness—as in Zelda 64—it is a 
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50 This is also the reason that, videogame journalists and hardcore system 
fetishists aside, PC-based videogames are far less popular than 
consolebased ones—quite apart from the fact that the latter hardware is five 
times cheaper.