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My June theme, continuing my traipse through history, is the 1950s. I'm finally down to a single decade a month until the end of the year. With regards video games, since no video games were made, unless you count Tennis for Two on an oscilloscope in 1958 - and who wants to play what is basically proto-pong (new band name found), I'll have to go with trying to match anything 50s related in modern video games. This is my first list of titles. 

Current

Destroy All Humans! - I put this in current because it's been remastered and rereleased only a few years ago. This was an old favorite of mine from the OG Xbox days. I still haven't played the remaster all the way through yet. It's set in the 50s and makes a lot of jokes at its expense. The sequel is set in the 60s and the one after that, the 70s. It never gets old hearing Richard Horviz doing Pox as Crypto's superior. I used to have the soundtrack too which has a lot of references to the Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack to The Day the Earth Stood Still. It was the first game I thought of when thinking about games set in the 50s. 

Bioshock 2 - I put it in current like the previous one because of the remaster. So, Bioshock 2 begins in 1958, then jumps to 1968, but it's still in Rapture which has a very art deco design as it was fictionally created in the 40s. So... a bit of a stretch, but I've never really thoroughly played Bioshock 2 as I did 1. Maybe this is my chance. 

Atomic Heart - I'm really excited to try Rebellion's game set in 50s Britain. I was pleasantly surprised by their Sniper Elite series one day when I had access to one on Game Pass. 

Little Acre

This is an adventure game with gorgeous art reminiscent of Broken Age or other Tim Schafer penned adventures set in 50s Ireland. Cool. 

Deliver at all Costs

Set in 1959 in various U.S. towns, you deliver stuff with wreckless abandon. It reminds me of the old top-down view GTA games a little bit. It just came out too. Seems fun. 

The Invincible

I'm not sure why this got on a list of games set in the 50s but it is based on Stanislaw Lem's 1964 novel of the same name, and I am hugely into Lem's work at the moment. So, I'm am really excited to play this anyway. 

Lost Horizon 2 (Switch)

Another adventure game that looks interesting and set in 1956. 

Jazzpunk (PS4)

A wacky, funny game set vaguely in 1959. Could be interesting. 

Old

Resistance Series (PS3) - I'll take any excuse at all to get back to this series and really play all three games thoroughly. 

Deadly Premonition (360, PS3, Switch as Origins) - So, I think this is actually set in 2009, but there's something about the town you visit being stuck in the 50s from some experiment gone wrong. I don't know. I tried this game a while back and enjoyed it but didn't finish it. Why not give it another go?

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (360, PS3) - Alternate history game where Nazi's invade the US in the 50s. I played this way back and didn't finish it from some rather wonky controls, if I remember right, but why not revisit it? It's a FPS with lots of things going boom!. 

Singularity (360, PS3) - Raven Software did this and it's good. I feel like I never actually finished it back in the day though. I'd like to revisit it. 

Older

War of the Monsters (PS2) - Setting be damned, the 50s birthed Godzilla, so kaiju are on the list. I'd like to see how this plays. 

Pretty good for a first list. I hope to get to it next week. This week has been a wash for gaming. Welcome Summer!