One of the staples of my childhood and growing up was watching The Wizard of Oz on television every year. It always arrived at the same time, it never changed (this was before any digital touch-up work had been done to it), and it always ended happily. I’ll be honest, I probably haven’t watched it again since I was a child. The cheerful tones and dream sequence ending of it all would only awaken a bitterness for that loss of childhood that in many ways it represents. However, I know the story as though I’d seen it yesterday, and so when I put The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road into my DS, I found the world I knew vastly changed. The story had warped, become interactive, and it awakened in me both a nostalgia that I hadn’t realized I’d feel, and a warm feeling at the way in which Media Vision transformed the tale into a genre I hadn’t quite expected.

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