Legend of Grimrock - To Faux First-Person 3D dungeon crawler RPGs like Eye of the Beholder.The Wii version of A Boy and His Blob - 80s cartoons.Double Dragon Neon is a throwback to old-school Beat Em Ups, especially older Double Dragon games, as well as The '80s themselves.La-Mulana is a throwback to classic Nintendo Hard metroidvanias, most notably Maze Of Galious and Castlevania.It uses the classic job system mechanic seen in Final Fantasy III and V, a visual style similar to that of Final Fantasy IX, towns rendered in a style resembling the pre-rendered graphics of the PS1 games, and a world map similar to the ones seen in all Final Fantasies prior to Final Fantasy X. From the same developer and publisher as The 4 Heroes of Light comes Bravely Default for the 3DS, a throwback to Final Fantasy games from the SNES and PS1 years.The success of the Doom reboot inspired a wave of indie "boomer shooters", which hearken back to '90s First-Person Shooter games like the original Doom games, Quake, Redneck Rampage, and Blood, with a focus on fast-paced run-and-gun gameplay, large arsenals of exotic weapons, retraux graphics that evoke the sprites and low-polygon models of '90s games, old-school gameplay mechanics (especially key hunts for progression and a lack of Regenerating Health in favor of health pickups), a Totally Radical "extreme" aesthetic, and lots of blood, brutualities and gore.
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DOOM (2016) takes the trope near its logical extreme, bringing back nearly everything from the classic Doom games, plus elements from most of id Software's other classic shooters like Quake.