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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on December 02, 2010, 05:18:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on December 02, 2010, 05:13:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on December 01, 2010, 04:39:03 pm ---

If that were Metallica, yes it would be sad.


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Yep, sad but true.



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I was hoping I wouldn't have to say it :)

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But tasty enough.

Green Day and Blink 182 didn't make good music till they started getting popular. Good grief, punk was at least 15 years old by then.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Vigo on December 02, 2010, 12:15:07 pm ---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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I don't think anyone has said that retro means something has to culturally fall out of popularity.  "The 20 year rule" applies to 20 years from the original release date and/or the height of the items popularity.  The NES came out in 85 and was a run-away hit from day 1... ditto with the snes.  The snes was released around 91' (yeah yeah 92 outside of japan) so you could argue on that one, but again nothings set in stone and the system is "around" 20 years old and it's popularity wasn't as lasting as the nes.

I don't see how anyone could deny the nes's retro status, it parctically invented the term for modern pop-culture.

Q*Bert_OP:

--- Quote from: Cakemeister on December 02, 2010, 05:13:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on December 01, 2010, 04:39:03 pm ---

If that were Metallica, yes it would be sad.


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Yep, sad but true.



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 :cheers:

Frigo:

--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on December 04, 2010, 11:40:30 am ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on December 03, 2010, 12:46:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Frigo on December 03, 2010, 11:50:28 am ---
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on December 02, 2010, 10:37:20 pm ---1 - Green Day and Blink 182 are huge sellouts
2 - The SNES isn't 20 years old yet (not in the new world anyways)...  Genesis however is.
3 - Frigo is not Retro
4 - Who cares?!

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Aw.  :(

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Hey, at least you aren't a sellout.  :dunno

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Yet

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It's true; I can be bought and sold as long as the price is right. Just ask this guy:

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