>>4730
>Anything prior to 2003, and anything on the Dreamcast or GBA regardless of year, according to the Board Owner
I'm the new board owner. I'm personally in the (unfortunately small) camp that believes "retro" really and truly means pre-NES/SMS stuff like Atari games, Colecovision, Pong Consoles, 70's/early 80's Arcade games like iRobot, Sinistar and Space Invaders, Vectrex, VIC-20, C64 and stuff. Of course when we say we're talking about "retro games" a lot of people mean Nintendo games, some mean 16-bit stuff and others pretty much everything before the 6th gen. The 6th gen really is the first "modern" generation (excluding the Dreamcast) but it was a great time for video games because all these companies were experimenting with this cutting edge hardware, and it was still possible to make games without fuckhuge multi-million dollar budgets (and technically it still is possible but the current slew of wham-bam-thank-you-mayam investors we have in this fucked up system don't believe in long term investments anymore, nor do they want to take risks nowadays)
Of course pre-1985 stuff is not what we exclusively come here for because MOST people who like "retro" games mean differently despite the literal definition. I personally love talking about Japanese home computers, SEGA consoles, arcade games and stuff that falls into similar categories, but I enjoy the broad topic of this stuff in general. In the sense of /vr/ terms defining "retro", I do believe the Dreamcast should be considered retro because it was the end of an era. It was the time where arcades/arcade games drew their final breath, and the platform as a whole was really ambitious. The Dreamcast gave us a very bright look into the future of video games that unfortunately died along with the console. Its it's own special period, like the apex of all the things we collectively love about 20th century video games even if it's not necessarily the best console of it's era.
I don't believe that anything afterwards should be considered retro ever because of how different the world of games was in the 20th century as opposed to the modern industry. However I do find early 6th gen discussion acceptable since it'sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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