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Boomer's avatar

Someone once told me any game or console older than 10 years is retro, and I immediately turned to dust after hearing that! 😝

For me it's any console that doesn't have a wireless controller as standard. It's all about the cables!

Makster's avatar

EDIT - I got it wrong, the 360 was released 18 years ago! It'll be 19 years coming up this year

Horror and Cats's avatar

Seeing as Gen Z believes that if you had Flappy Bird, you are a retro gamer, I'd say the 360/PS3 can be called retro lol. Definitely right on the cusp of it though. That generation at the beginning, especially on the 360, had some truly dated looking/controlling nonsense so there were still clear growing pains on the path to the controls schemes and conventions most gamers and devs hold as standard now.

Ford James's avatar

I reckon so, yeah. When the next generation rolls around, the PS4/Xbox One can probably be considered retro too. I think if new games are no longer being produced for the platform, retro is apt, outside of edge cases like the odd new SNES/Game Boy games that surface every now and then.

EveOnlineTutorials's avatar

Imma agree with Boomer here, any console that doesn't have wireless controllers is retro, for us, wires are the bane of our existence, having to sit on the floor because our bed was too far away, my room after being adopted was huge. I had to put pillows on the floor to play lol.

Thomas's avatar

I'm definitely happy to call it retro. I think 360/PS3 games have a fairly distinctive look. I'd love to see a retro game that recreates the dead-eyed character models, weird lighting and huge low poly environments of that era.

I think one of the reasons it feels weird though is that it's when 2D games became popular again, and 3D controls were standardised. It feels like games as a medium "settled" in that generation

MURRRAAAAY's avatar

yeah I’d say they definitely are, usually it’s anything over 10 years falls into the retro bucket

Sturmer's avatar

I see no difference between 360 games and what modern xbox offering to a games, so cant call it retro haha

Kane Carnifex's avatar

You can emulate a Console with a PC. Even the newest Console is nothing to a PC. And do you think a controller is only for Console?

I was working full summer to get my first PC. Yes i had a X-BOX because of HALO :P

but this dead exclusiv games on console is shit show.

You can get a City bike or Downhill bike. But trust me goging downhill with a Citybike is bullshit. Going City with a Downhill is fun due the stairs :P

PS: Have Emulates SNES on my PI with orginial Controllers.

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