I've long been of the opinion that nostalgia should be left in the rose-tinted memories of the past, where it belongs especially in the case of video games. The sad fact is that our wonderful memories of yesteryear's games often don't age well when presented with modern gameplay advancements and HD graphics (caveat: Megaman 9).

This sentiment was unfortunately lost on Calling all Cars game designer, David Jaffe who sought to recreate the magic he felt playing circa 1993's Rock 'n Roll Racing without appropriately modernizing his creation modernizing itself to today's standards.

He explained that this was indeed a bit of a mistake on his part over the course of an eight minute YouTube video on the topic:

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