International Karate 2000

After three years of calling New Orleans, Louisiana the home of the Pokémon North America International Championships (NAIC), the tournament is moving to Chicago, Illinois in 2027.

It may be almost 30 years old, but with its unforgettable commentator and brilliant gameplay, International Superstar Soccer 64 is completely timeless.

I think my favourite thing about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy so far is the specific ways in which the developers at Square Enix inject nostalgia. The games launched to date - Remake and Rebirth - manage to nod warmly towards aspects of the original RPG without it ever feeling trite. You can see it in so many aspects of the way the games are curated: the way certain musical sequences are teased as motifs, and then brought in, full-throated, for certain boss fights; the redesigns of (in)famous monsters, and how certain major enemies are deployed in slightly remixed ways for maximum effect