A Blockbuster Video-Simulator Game Is Flying Off the Shelves

Samuel Gauthier has a ton of nostalgia for the early ’90s, even if he was, like, a newborn then.

Gauthier, an independent video game developer who cofounded Blood Pact Studios, is one of the two creatives behind Retro Rewind, a video-rental-store simulator game currently selling like The Lion King did in 1995. OK, so maybe sales have not been that strong, but Retro Rewind has been in the Steam Store’s top 10 since its release on Tuesday, when it debuted at number one. Steam is a popular platform for studios and indie developers to share and sell their latest PC games.

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Retro Rewind players run a Blockbuster Video-like movie-rental store set in the early 1990s, complete with spoofs of real blockbusters of the era. The game includes 14,000 (fake) movie titles, the vast majority of which were created by AI prompts. Gauthier

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