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We’re all smitten with Mixtape because it looks like we get to play a John Hughes movie for real

Mixtape is a highlight from the Xbox Games Showcase. It promises nostalgia, teenage dreams, and a banging soundtrack.

As you skate your way to the party of a lifetime, the “soundtrack of a generation” plays, drawing the characters into dreamy memories of their formative years. You get to play through the narrative vignettes that shaped them into the people they are as they leave high school – “the greatest hits of teenage friendship, from the first kiss to the last dance.” The list on the game’s website gives a few names: DEVO, Roxy Music, Lush, The Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and many more.

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