At high-tech Tokyo Game Show, old skool ones are the best


  • TECH
  • Saturday, 22 Sep 2018

Visitors play at old video games at the Tokyo Game Show on September 21 2018. (Photo by Martin BUREAU / AFP)

MAKUHARI, Japan: At the Tokyo Game Show, the world’s top firms compete to show off their very latest in high-tech gaming gadgetry: from head-spinning virtual reality to cutting-edge multiplayer eSports. 

But crowds were flocking not only to the latest smartphone shoot-em-up, but classic games from the 1980s like Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers, as manufacturers wheeled out revamped versions of their old games consoles to capture a new market.

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