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Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 30, 2010, 09:41:30 pm ---The first time I heard metallica on the classic rock station I've listened to for years I almost ran off the road.

Retro is a moving target. One day crysis will run in an emulator on a phone.

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Holy god, I thought THE SAME THING. It just happened a few days ago. Enter Sandman was on the classic rock station. I almost simulatenously barfed and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- my pants. The rest of the day sucked... Metallica is my favorite band of all time and hearing them on the same channel my mom listens too just made me sad all day.  :cry:

newmanfamilyvlogs:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 01, 2010, 12:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 30, 2010, 09:41:30 pm ---The first time I heard metallica on the classic rock station I've listened to for years I almost ran off the road.

Retro is a moving target. One day crysis will run in an emulator on a phone.

--- End quote ---

Holy god, I thought THE SAME THING. It just happened a few days ago. Enter Sandman was on the classic rock station. I almost simulatenously barfed and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- my pants. The rest of the day sucked... Metallica is my favorite band of all time and hearing them on the same channel my mom listens too just made me sad all day.  :cry:

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I guess you thought it would be the day that never comes?

Vigo:

--- Quote from: opt2not on November 30, 2010, 07:32:32 pm ---If NES and SNES is retro, then what do you call games before that?  Classics?  Relics?  ANCIENTS??

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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'.

N64? I would call that 'Past-Gen'.  ;D

Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on December 01, 2010, 02:09:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on December 01, 2010, 12:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 30, 2010, 09:41:30 pm ---The first time I heard metallica on the classic rock station I've listened to for years I almost ran off the road.

Retro is a moving target. One day crysis will run in an emulator on a phone.

--- End quote ---

Holy god, I thought THE SAME THING. It just happened a few days ago. Enter Sandman was on the classic rock station. I almost simulatenously barfed and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- my pants. The rest of the day sucked... Metallica is my favorite band of all time and hearing them on the same channel my mom listens too just made me sad all day.  :cry:

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I guess you thought it would be the day that never comes?

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See, thats just ANOTHER reason why you are cool.  :applaud:

For everyone else, thats funny because "The day that never comes" is a Metallica song.  :laugh2:

shateredsoul:
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!"

 :'(

*edit* also, when Mega Man collection came out I saw an 11 year old playing it at a kiosk at gamestop. He was watching his brother play who said he hated it. But his brother responded, "How could you hate it! Mega Man I a classic!", then the little kid responded, "I don't care, it still sucks!"

I would consider Nintendo retro, If it's before nintendo it's still retro only if it was in the arcade (not consoles.. that's too old).

According to google: Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again

To me, any console before nintendo has not become functional or the norm again. Wii and these virtual consoles has made anything as old as nintendo "cool" again (the exception being good older arcade games).

I think any home console before Nintendo isn't even played by most kids ;). I played atari after getting Nintendo, I didn't understand what to do at all as a kid. NES games and beyond are still easy to pick up, colecovision, atari, and all that stuff still confuses me sometimes! So how do I capture the cow? So that block is a knight and that duck/seahorse is a dragon? and how the hell do I throw the basket ball!! and why are there so many buttons!  Most atari games were in the arcade anyways, so you can play a better version in those classic collections.

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