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All posts must be about retro games or consoles
For the purposes of posting here retro is anything from the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube generation and older. So any platform released 2001 or earlier.
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Absolutely no discussion about piracy or where to obtain ROMS.
Discussing emulators and emulation is fine.
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There’s no hard and fast rule that says how old a console needs to be for it and it’s games to be considered retro.
There are a lot of people that say that anything from two generations ago is retro. That would put the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Wii in the retro camp.
Do you think the PS3 generation is retro or if not what consoles do you consider to be retro systems?
Nope. It can do 480 line in progressive, but so can the PS2.
Regarding the retro qualifications, I don't think people realize that there is as much time between the Xbox 360 and now as between the NES and the PS2.
When people think of "retro" as pre-3D stuff they don't realize they're talking about maybe 20 years in commercial gaming history. Counterstrike has been online longer than all generations of 2D home consoles.
Enjoy how old that makes you feel, because I was rounding down a bit. In 2026 you will be able to say that about the X360.
As in, by 2026 there will be as much time since the X360 as between the NES and the X360.
That's less than three years from now. Tick. Tock.
N64 had 3d games.
Yes. I never said it didn't. I think you may have misread what I was trying to say or maybe are responding to something else?
I read this as 3D being the last 20 years, but I assume from your response you meant there was only 20 years of gaming before 3D came into the picture?
Gotcha. Yes, that's what I meant.
20 years is generous, actually. You have to go to very early gaming to get into the 70s and include all the Pong-likes. If you go by programmable home consoles and start with the 2600, that's only 18 years between its 1977 launch and the PS1's 1995 release.