How do you define "retro"? Pretend that halfchan's /vr/ never existed.I personally hesitate to include anything made after the NES generation.

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Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 01:19:45 No.57

How do you define "retro"? Pretend that halfchan's /vr/ never existed.

I personally hesitate to include anything made after the NES generation.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 01:52:18 No.59

Is it old enough that the generation that grew up on it are at least 30 years old? Then it's retro. SNES? Retro. PS1? About to be retro in a few years.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 03:08:24 No.61

>>59

Ouch, but then retro is a moving line. I'll never accept PS1/N64 3D shit as retro.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 03:40:42 No.64

>>61

>I'll never accept PS1/N64 3D shit as retro.

It's too late, anon. Nothing can stop it now.

Anonymous 08/05/15 (Wed) 10:03:18 No.71

>>61

The term "retro" has nothing to do with quality of the games.

>>59

Sounds reasonable enough. Though I'd personally consider PSX/N64 as retro just because I played them as a kid. Just like the NES, SNES ect.

Anonymous 10/02/15 (Fri) 18:53:27 No.482

The definition can really change with generations. Some 20 years from now people will probably call the PS3/Wii/360 retro. If you really have to draw a line though it would be everything pre-90's as that's what's usually referred to as retro outside of video games.

Anonymous 10/03/15 (Sat) 00:26:23 No.484

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>>482

>Some 20 years from now people will probably call the PS3/Wii/360 retro.

Jesus fuck.

Anonymous 10/06/15 (Tue) 04:54:31 No.501

just follow the classic car route

when the game was made at least 25 years ago or older, it becomes 'retro'

Anonymous 10/20/15 (Tue) 16:16:28 No.547

: relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned <a retro look>

— retro noun

Off the dictionary.

So I would put the distinction on any sort of significant technological innovation. What's retro is prior to any innovation, and what's not retro after said innovation. For example, retro cartoons were before there were color. We could consider retro games reminiscent of before there was 3d, or each platform could have their own specification of "retro" if they were around long enough, e.g PC.

>>61 could have a point.

Anonymous 10/20/15 (Tue) 16:32:16 No.548

>>547

That's a pretty good distinction, I like that.

Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 03:01:44 No.549

Could be just because of what I grew up with, I go as far as N64/PSX/Sega Dreamcast myself

Anonymous 12/01/15 (Tue) 23:43:56 No.671

Anything made during or before the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. Cancerous "modern" game design took hold after that and things have been shit ever since.

Anonymous 12/02/15 (Wed) 02:50:58 No.672

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>>671

>Cancerous "modern" game design took hold after that

Anon pls.

Anonymous 12/11/15 (Fri) 08:39:17 No.675

>>57

Honestly, at this point, a retro game would be an early Gamecube/Xbox/PS2 game. Any game made between 2000 and 2004, Like Dark Cloud, Windwaker,etc. Personally I like to define retro by how much time has one by and the difference between generations. We're at a point where clearly the technology of the 6th gen is being way overpassed by our current state of technology, thus it is retro. To say a console like the SNES,etc. is the last retro console is just artificially defining the term.