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Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 01, 2010, 12:24:20 pm ---The first time I heard metallica on the classic rock station I've listened to for years I almost ran off the road.
Holy god, I thought THE SAME THING. It just happened a few days ago. Enter Sandman was on the classic rock station....
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If that were Metallica, yes it would be sad.
--- Quote from: Vigo on December 01, 2010, 02:33:50 pm ---I would call the earliest of arcade video games 'Vintage' (Pong, Computer Space, Deathrace). When the 80's arcade video games hit, I would use 'Retro' for those games.
8 and 16 bit console games are not retro in my book. I would call them 'classic'.
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Consoles are just consoles, perhaps followed by the year or period of years.
--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 01, 2010, 04:14:51 pm ---3 years ago I was working at an Elementary school and I asked the kids "Do you know what Nintendo is?" They stared at me for a while with blank faces (because to them it's a brand, not a system). Then I said, you know.. the old Nintendo? One kid yelled, "Oh I know! You mean Nintendo 64!"
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On Halloween I was at a bar where I saw a group who were done up in Nintendo Mario world costumes. I asked the girl dressed up as Luigi what games they played, and by her response it seemed like none of them knew what Donkey Kong was.
hypernova:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 01, 2010, 02:56:41 pm ---For everyone else, thats funny because "The day that never comes" is a Metallica song. :laugh2:
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Tsk tsk. The joke loses its humor when you explain it! :(
Howard_Casto:
Actually the term Retro is quantifiable. Anything older than 20 years is retro. Mind you the term isn't officially given a time limit, but genreally speaking when something is around 20 years old or older it is considered "RETRO" judging by when most people use the word.
So the nes is retro as is the snes. N64 and more modern systems aren't retro yet. That being said, unless the the item in question is really old (say more than 35-40 years) it's still retro. So classic arcade games would still be retro as well.
Of course games from the mid to early 70's are getting into that really old category. They could be considered vintage or classic.
Again, none of this is set in stone, but these numbers are based on when people start using the terms in our hobby in particular.
Mikezilla:
--- Quote from: hypernova on December 01, 2010, 07:39:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 01, 2010, 02:56:41 pm ---For everyone else, thats funny because "The day that never comes" is a Metallica song. :laugh2:
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Tsk tsk. The joke loses its humor when you explain it! :(
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That was for the people who didnt get it, but I know what you mean. If you were reading down, you would have seen cotmm's post first anyway. ;D
Vigo:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 02, 2010, 11:01:55 am ---Actually the term Retro is quantifiable. Anything older than 20 years is retro. Mind you the term isn't officially given a time limit, but genreally speaking when something is around 20 years old or older it is considered "RETRO" judging by when most people use the word.
So the nes is retro as is the snes. N64 and more modern systems aren't retro yet. That being said, unless the the item in question is really old (say more than 35-40 years) it's still retro. So classic arcade games would still be retro as well.
Of course games from the mid to early 70's are getting into that really old category. They could be considered vintage or classic.
Again, none of this is set in stone, but these numbers are based on when people start using the terms in our hobby in particular.
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Not to argue semantics, but going by the 20 year rule, I would argue that NES and SNES are not quite yet retro. Since retro means that it has culturally fallen out of popularity, then the end of the NES and SNES's popularity would be the marking point, not the beginning. The NES didn't fall out of fashion until the SNES and Genesis became the norm in the early 90's. SNES didn't really fall out until the Playstation and N64 hit the scenes in the mid-90's. You could say that that games like Super Mario Bros. are retro, but on a whole, I would say the NES has another year or so of not being retro, SNES has at least 5 years. ;D
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