“HBO Max’s 8-Bit Christmas may fulfill your ’80s-nostalgia needs quota at least until the next season of Stranger Things buries us in [plumbs the depths of memory] Lotto hightops and Sizzlean.

“Scripter Kevin Jakubowski adapts his own novel about a middle-aged dad and the holiday-dazed memories of his youth, when he coveted mightily a Nintendo gaming system, and would do anything he could to get it, almost but not entirely within reason.

“Now that we’ve outlined the movie’s conceptual rigamarole, we can get to the question here: Will it be earnestly involving, or are we just gonna be distracted by all the anachronisms?”

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