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It's ok, I don't play Zelda. It's more like I think Pokémon Blue was 10 years ago old but actually it was probably gen 4 (is that called Platinum?)
... I wish I hadn't looked at Wikipedia now. Platinum was the third installment in gen 4 and that was 16 years ago. Apparently we're up to gen 9 somehow
And I hate to tell you but gen 9 came out almost 3 years ago. We're about due for gen 10
Pokemon X/Y was 11 years ago.
I don't even know what X/Y is!
Visibly crumbles into dust from old age
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That's just not true.
Those are Link.
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I just got started working in a retro arcade.
It has a PS4 in it. 💀
That's overkill.
Released over 11 years ago
But it's also just the previous console generation and brand new ones were still in stores three years ago.
On that note, perhaps it would make more sense to look at when a console "dies off" than when it first released? In that sense, the PS4 is still a pretty recent console arguably still modern.
Video games 20 years ago:
Its been 19 years between now and the release of the Xbox 360, while it was 9 years between the releases of the Xbox 360 and Nintendo 64.
I hate math
Why would you say something like that? It's like you are wanting to hurt us.
I just find it fascinating how spans of time can feel so different
Anything that plays games on discs, including PlayStation, feels recent to me.
The are people living today who can remember the first video games.
If the idea of paintings was first invented two decades ago, you wouldn't call any of it "retro".
My grandparents remembered playing Pong.
I really ought to try Spacewar! sometime. Literally older than Jeopardy.
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The Wii came out in 2009
It is pretty old
No it came out just a few years ago, I was just reading about it in Nintendo power the other day! God Twilight Princess is gonna be so sick when it finally comes out!
Right?
Right guys?!?
No retro means Atari, NES, Super Famicom, Genesis.
lol. It’s Frieren!
Even more lol, in this thread no mention of the elf represented in the pic.
If it has 3D hardware it ain't retro.
SNES confirmed not retro.
That was only in the Super FX cartridges wasn't it? Is mode 7 really 3D, or just rotating and scaling of a single background layer?
Are our modern GPUs just mode 7 run millions of times on a much smaller scale...
I've just got off of my 360 playing Halo 2. I was playing the level with the tank, Ladies Like Armour Plating. Very fun :)
Ah, the first chapter of Metropolis. One of my favorite sections. That chapter name actually depends on the difficulty setting. On easy and normal it's 'Ladies Like Armor Plating' but on heroic it's 'Ladies Like Grinding Treads' and on legendary it's 'Ladies Like Superior Firepower.' I think it's the only instance in the franchise of a chapter title changing based on difficulty.
I thought I'd remembered different names for it! I never made that connection though. I did try playing on Legendary this time around but it was too difficult. Halo 2 seems much harder than Reach, which was the last one I completed on Legendary. Maybe I'm just out of practice...
Halo 2 on legendary is absolutely brutal. The jackal snipers will one-shot you almost as soon as they spawn, so you need to memorize the spawn locations and triggers and make sure you have a BR to headshot them before they get into position.
The first PlayStation was released 30 years ago and was produced until 18 years ago.
That's just inaccurate. 30 years ago is 1994. Even the N64 wasn't out yet.
Edit: I see the confusion. It releases in Japan a few days before 95'. Always thought the N64 came out before the PlayStation
Of all the PlayStation consoles to come up with, why the PSX?
Not criticizing, just curious
It's literally the first one?
Interestingly, it's technically not. While the PS1 was sometimes called the PSX in development, that name didn't make it to the production model. There was, however, a PlayStation system that saw production under the PSX name, which was a combination PS2 and DVR. That's probably the one @[email protected] is thinking of.
Ah, yeah for some reason I always called the older boxy gray version the PSX, and the slimmer white one the PS1.
The mini one was officially the PS One as the full name of the system. The official abbreviation for the original grey model was the PS or PS1, depending on whether or not Sony had started developing the PS2. Then they just started adding Slim to distinguish the small models and Xbox proudly took up the duty of naming consoles things that are confusing and don't make any sense.
The true retro gaming systems: Tiger Electronic Handhelds.
Am I the only millennial that actually feels things that happened more than a decade ago are old?
Like I get it, the ps3 wasn’t before my time, but it’s ancient now given how we just got the ps5 pro.
Yes. You are.
It got even worse when COVID hit. I could have sworn that 2019 was just last year, yet here we are, and the 2020s are almost halfway over. It literally feels like I'm missing an entire decade of my life.
Technology seems to be behind 10 years as well. I mean we've had 4K monitors for over a decade now, yet you still need to spend nearly $2000 for a GPU powerful enough to run games at that resolution and a modern refresh rate. Meanwhile back in the 2000s, we went from 480i gaming, to 720p/1080i, to 1080p, all within 5 years. Smartphones from 10 years ago were black slabs running Android or iOS, and today they're black slabs running Android or iOS. Windows 10 has been around for almost a decade now too. Back in the 90s, we went from Windows 3.1, to Win95, to 98, to Me. Advancements in technology and software come in small, incremental improvements, when not too long ago a new life-changing thing was coming out every 2-3 years. The only tech I've noticed keeping up with the times is internet bandwidth. In 20 years I went from dialup to 256kbps to 3Mbps to 15 to 30 to 80 to 500; now I have Gigabit internet and my monthly bill has never been smaller.
I think what you’re noticing is corporate greed. There have been substantial life changing discoveries in the last decade. The problem is that corporate investors can’t find ways to exploit it so they shelve the patents. Another thing that happens is someone holds a patent but can’t or won’t allow someone to use it because the price isn’t right so it sits without any use.
Classic - PS3 / 360 /
Retro - PS1 / N64, Ps2
V I N T A G E - SNES / NES / Genesis
It's my system to make me feel less old do not judge me
Shit, when I hear retro i think Atari
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