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Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:16 pm
by Buffalo
So in the Playstation Network thread there we were discussing what we think 'retro' games now are.
Post 1998?
Over 6 years old?
What do you think?
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:17 pm
by Super Dragon 64
Gotten to.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:20 pm
by Buffalo
Huh? I'm just making a new thread as that one was veering a bit off topic, mate.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:22 pm
by Ginga
What kids think isn't my concern.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:23 pm
by TheTurnipKing
generally speaking I consider that last gen stuff is just old, and "Retro" is anything more than a generation old.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:23 pm
by Alvin Flummux
Anything pre-1998 sounds about right. In ten years, it'll be anything pre-2008.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:24 pm
by PJ
Two decades old? So anything up until 1999-ish?
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:24 pm
by HSH28
TheTurnipKing wrote:generally speaking I consider that last gen stuff is just old, and "Retro" is anything more than a generation old.
Except that would make PS2 and Xbox games 'just old' while GC games would be 'retro' by that definition.
Which doesn't make an awful lot of sense.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:25 pm
by Mafro
At this point I'd probably consider anything up to the N64/PS1 era retro.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:26 pm
by Ginga
strawberry float, he's still going...
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:29 pm
by TheTurnipKing
HSH28 wrote:TheTurnipKing wrote:generally speaking I consider that last gen stuff is just old, and "Retro" is anything more than a generation old.
Except that would make PS2 and Xbox games 'just old' while GC games would be 'retro' by that definition.
Which doesn't make an awful lot of sense.
Er, GC, PS2 and Xbox are of the same generation.
Oh, right. You mean because Nintendo have - snrk - started the next gen early. It's a transitional thing, it'll be a minor irritatnt for a few months, but it'll be right in perpetuity.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:30 pm
by EnragedYogi
If it doesn't harness the power of the cloud, it's retro.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:31 pm
by Alvin Flummux
EnragedYogi wrote:If it doesn't harness the power of the cloud, it's retro.
The Ten Commandments are current gen.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:32 pm
by TheTurnipKing
EnragedYogi wrote:harness the power of the cloud
I love the mental image of Microsoft trying to sell people rides on this carriage pulled by an empty horse harness trying to claim it's powered by "the cloud".
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:32 pm
by Spindash
If Gamestation would stock it in their retro section *sniff*
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:34 pm
by NickSCFC
Anything over 10 years/2 generations old, though I may class Dreamcast as retro but not the PS2.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:34 pm
by Harry Bizzle
whogivesashit.jiff
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:35 pm
by KK
When the manufacturer stops making the machine.
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:36 pm
by NickSCFC
KKLEIN wrote:When the manufacturer stops making the machine.
So PS2 became retro this year?
Re: Define 'retro'
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:38 pm
by TheTurnipKing
KKLEIN wrote:When the manufacturer stops making the machine.
I guess now would be a bad time to point out that TecToy still makes Master Systems in Brazil?
