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Japan Makes Awesome Time Travel Games
Over the past few months I’ve been anxiously awaiting the new PS3 title Tokitowa. While some are looking forward to the love story aspect or to its attempt to make a playable anime, the core of my anticipation is something altogether different: I’ve been dying to play another Japanese time travel story. To me, time travel is the perfect narrative setting. It can be used as a backdrop for any other type of story: mystery, action, romance, or even a magical girl anime. And when it comes to the exploration of time travel as a concept — and the sheer fun of a time travel adventure — there are few places better to look than Japanese games.
This Looper 8-Bit Video Game Travels Back In Time To Kill Itself. Or Something.
As far as I know, there’s no video game tethered to Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi thriller. That’s a shame, as Looper sports exactly the kind of fictional universe I’d like to expanded on in playable form. So, good for me then, that filmmaker Deepak Chetty did the next best thing by making a retro-styled trailer for an old-school Looper game that never existed.
8-Bit George Washington And Adolf Hitler Fight With Cyborg Dinosaurs In This Time Travel Art Show
Sure, you could debate legislative achievements and spheres of influence to determine who history’s greatest leader was. But you could also imagine an old-school video game where Teddy Roosevelt and Josef Stalin — looking a lot like Nintendo’s Mario — face off riding weaponised extinct giant lizards. Artist Jude Buffum has done the latter and we are all richer for it.
Time Travel Is Easy Once You Get Around Relativity
Going back in time may seem like an impossibility, but so did air travel at one point. According to Mark Thompson, the astronomy guy from BBC’s The One Show, it’s all a matter of side-stepping Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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