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Message: [QUOTE="The Almighty Hamster, post: 983, member: 358"] I was born in 2006, only four years off of being Gen-Alpha, so my definition of 'retro' is around sixth gen. There are probably people on this forum twice as old as me who would strongly disagree, but let me try and justify. I grew up playing seventh/eighth-generation consoles and also older consoles like the MegaDrive + emulators of the SNES, Super Famicom, NeoGeo, PC Engine etc. etc. I think the idea of what is retro has gradually shifted from the cliche image of 80's arcade games to more recent consoles. You see this represented in games like Bombrush Cyberfunk or those polygonal fifth-gen-style games. Even Angry Video Game Nerd has started covering "newer" stuff. However, Minecraft, Angry Birds, LittleBigPlanet, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Prince of Persia, Metal Gear Solid IV, Half Life 2 - those seem way too recent to be considered retro, so basically anything made before the "brown-sludge visual" era of the PS3 and Xbox360 where everything was edgy can be classified as such. Also, if it looks [I]too [/I]good then it's probably too recent to be retro. That being said, I played VRChat not too long ago and there was a giant annual virtual shopping centre event and it was the trippiest, most futuristic thing I have ever seen. Some Bladerunner or Ready Player One type stuff. So maybe in the next five to ten years, we can justifiably say that seventh generation consoles are retro too in comparison to the technology we currently have. It just doesn't register in my mind as "retro" yet because I grew up playing them. I think the term 'retro' is now defunct. It worked when video games had only been around for about 40 to 50 years but we are far beyond that now. Can we class Rock 'n' Roll as classical music in the same light as Mozart because it's "old"? No, there are different genres, graphical and visual aesthetics, hardware and software and gameplay elements that define periods that cannot be compared to games prior. Pong should not be in the same category as Super Mario Galaxy! That is unbelievably stupid. "Retro" seems like a useless, vague blanket label for anything that isn't strictly new. [/QUOTE]

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