Do PS1/N64/Saturn/Gameboy feel retro to you yet?

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LIsJustice
02/19/2018
03:22 PM
#1
Well?


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Figure everyone would consider 8/16-bit eras retro so let's start with the 32/64-bit one.
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Caution999
02/19/2018
03:23 PM
#2
They've been retro since at least 2010 imo
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DevsBro
02/19/2018
03:23 PM
#3
Yeah, I would say so.

6th gen still doesn't though.
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Second_Chances
02/19/2018
03:25 PM
#4
on the sites I went to in 2006 anything before the PS2 was already considered retro
Seitar
02/19/2018
03:25 PM
#5
Imo early 7th gen is already starting to feel retro.
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Gafemage
02/19/2018
03:25 PM
#6
Caution999 posted...
They've been retro since at least 2006 imo
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donkeyjack
02/19/2018
03:30 PM
#7
Still no.
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Balrog0
02/19/2018
03:32 PM
#8
definitely

I mean, think of it this way, we already thought of SNES as retro by the mid-2000s, right? And it came out in 1990. The Saturn came out in 1994.
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DevsBro
02/19/2018
03:33 PM
#9
Balrog0 posted...
definitely

I mean, think of it this way, we already thought of SNES as retro by the mid-2000s, right? And it came out in 1990. The Saturn came out in 1994.

Sure but the question is about how it feels and not whether it's mathematically consistent.
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Foppe
02/19/2018
03:34 PM
#10
...why do you have Gameboy in the title?
It was released before the Snes...
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Turbam
02/19/2018
03:34 PM
#11
Hell, GameCube/PS2/Xbox feels retro
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Balrog0
02/19/2018
03:49 PM
#12
DevsBro posted...
Sure but the question is about how it feels and not whether it's mathematically consistent.


yeah that's true

some of the early 3D games actually feel more retro to me than late 16-bit games since I feel that later pixel based games, especially on SNES/Genesis with their ability to scale and rotate sprites easily, aged better than early polygonal ones
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Genocet_10-325
02/19/2018
03:50 PM
#13
Foppe posted...
...why do you have Gameboy in the title?
It was released before the Snes...

He should have said Gameboy color
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LIsJustice
02/19/2018
03:50 PM
#14
Genocet_10-325 posted...
Foppe posted...
...why do you have Gameboy in the title?
It was released before the Snes...

He should have said Gameboy color

I've always associated GBC as just being the Gameboy in color with a few exclusives.
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Monolith1676
02/19/2018
03:51 PM
#15
Foppe posted...
...why do you have Gameboy in the title?
It was released before the Snes...


GB is the best. I still got my original one from 1989.
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IloveJesus
02/19/2018
03:51 PM
#16
Turbam posted...
Hell, GameCube/PS2/Xbox feels retro
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Balrog0
02/19/2018
03:53 PM
#17
IloveJesus posted...
Turbam posted...
Hell, GameCube/PS2/Xbox feels retro


now this is something that is mathematically consistent with previous generations but does not ring true to me

I think possibly because I basically stopped gaming for real around this time, so I'm not 100% sure how games have changed in the interim. I feel like with earlier retro generations, there were pretty big shifts in the styles and sorts of games that came out. Like adventure games going from text to point and click to not being a thing any more, for instance. Or the rise and fall of JRPGs. Dunno what has happened since the PS2, though.
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Solar_Crimson
02/19/2018
03:57 PM
#18
5th Gen is definitely retro at this point.
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Darkrobotisback
02/19/2018
04:00 PM
#19
The PS1 literally has a CD-Drive...
the most primitive form of optical disk media
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DevsBro
02/19/2018
04:02 PM
#20
Balrog0 posted...
DevsBro posted...
Sure but the question is about how it feels and not whether it's mathematically consistent.


yeah that's true

some of the early 3D games actually feel more retro to me than late 16-bit games since I feel that later pixel based games, especially on SNES/Genesis with their ability to scale and rotate sprites easily, aged better than early polygonal ones

Also true. PS1's 2D games still look great and play great because 2D graphics fell out of popularity shortly thereafter (except of handhelds which were a step back technologically anyway) but the 3D games look terrible and some of then play terribly too because that gen was the Atari 2600 of the 3d era.
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Foppe
02/20/2018
01:42 AM
#21
Darkrobotisback posted...
The PS1 literally has a CD-Drive...
the most primitive form of optical disk media

Laserdisc.
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r4X0r
02/20/2018
01:45 AM
#22
Balrog0 posted...
DevsBro posted...
Sure but the question is about how it feels and not whether it's mathematically consistent.


yeah that's true

some of the early 3D games actually feel more retro to me than late 16-bit games since I feel that later pixel based games, especially on SNES/Genesis with their ability to scale and rotate sprites easily, aged better than early polygonal ones


That's exactly how I look at it. You play something like Donkey Kong Country on the SNES and it looks much better and plays much better than ... take your pick of poor early 3d games.
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MabusIncarnate
02/20/2018
01:48 AM
#23
Close, but my first console was that Atari/Colecovision compound console so 16 bit and prior is real retro for me.
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_Rinku_
02/20/2018
01:52 AM
#24
Yeah. Someone born on the day the N64 was released can legally drink now. That's retro for a game console.
masticatingman
02/20/2018
01:54 AM
#25
They have been for a few years already at least.
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