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What do you regard as retro? (kbin.earth)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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r/RetroGaming is very strict about retro. They say the Nintendo 64 is retro while the PlayStation 2 is modern. This despite the fact the PlayStation 2 is now 25 years old.

So I got to wonder about this community deems as “retro”.

Or a better question: what’s considered retro and not retro? What’s the fine line between retro and modern?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

2 console generations.

After PS3? modern. On or at PS3? retro.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

anything that came out before 2011

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Anything pre ~2000, graphics came on incredibly in the years at the end of the 90s start of the 21 century. The difference between FF7 (1997)

https://idisplayit.co.uk/images/companies/1/products/Blog/Q1%202024/ff7/final-fantasy-7-still.jpg?1707754262295

and FF10(2001)

https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Final-Fantasy-X-Cast.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=825&dpr=1.5

is vast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anything running 480i/p is retro. If it's higher than that, it's modern.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I used to be stricter with that. Now I consider retro any platform that are 2 generations behind (for the ones still active in the market). So PS3/360 and earlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'd say anything before the PlayStation era.

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