Because ‘Monkey Island’ Crossed With ‘Star Trek’ is Something the World Needs More of

  Back in my day, there was no bitching about 60fps and 1O80p and all of that BS. If we chose the Genesis over the SNES, it was because that scary kid in class, the bastard and who’d take a dump in our schoolbag so we’d find it smeared all over our books after recess (true story), told us to. Tech specs were a factor, but in a different kind of way. 

A lot of today’s gamers have gotten themselves terribly superior attitudes from somewhere. You’re just playing a video game on a different system to someone else, you’re not Marie Antoinette giving the common folk the middle finger. Although, in extreme cases, you probably do deserve to be beheaded.

So here we are, looking back a couple decades. There’s no HD, no whining about frame rates or Digital Foundry’s latest PS4/Xbox One comparison or any of that business. Just simple Monkey Island-style point and click blurriness.

UK artist Andrew Scaife makes retro-sexy recreations of iconic TV shows, in the form of stills. There’s Star Trek in the header there, but he’s also mocked up images of Friends and all kinds of favorites in between. There’s a spangly new artbook of lots of them, titled Point + Click, which you can check out over on Scaife’s site.

Here’s a couple more. Man, these are tickling my nostalgia bone in all the right ways. 

Why aren’t these actual video games again? Developers, get on this now.

Via Kotaku.