local Hexbear confounded by process of time moving forward, people referring to games that came out several years before they were born as “retro”
A 19 year old today would have been 8 when the 360 was replaced by the XBone, and may have kept playing on one for a few years beyond that. It wasn’t quite that long ago when that generation was still current. Perhaps these particular kids / child labourers are so young they think the “retro” cutoff line is the start of the pandemic.
If they’re teenagers then Tony Hawk Underground is literally older than them, as it came out in 2003
True, and I just checked Burnout 3, the other game OP mentioned, it’s from 2004. These are both Playstation 2 era games. These games aren’t just older than any teenager, they’re also older than the Xbox 360 the teenagers supposedly found. Who knows whatever it was they actually found, or are actually playing.
The meaning of “retro” got frozen at the 2D/3D transition for quite a while, but it’s long past time to move to a new definition: a console becomes retro when they sunset the online connectivity
“Retro” just means “it happened before I was old enough to enjoy it”.
Just like “old” means “anyone older than me”.
Maybe a more objective measure is “if it is older than people who are now adults, it’s retro”.
I vote to use the fashion definition. 20 years ago is retro. It’s simple. Yeah it makes me feel old. But still…
Nah man. Let him know this is the way. No always online. No microtransactions in EVERYTHING. We need to go back
Oh yeah, I’d devour those whenever I was waiting for my turn on the TV. Used to be helpful shit in there, too
I’d read them in the car on the way home from the local non chain video rental store. I was never allowed to rent mortal kombat though
( ooOOoOoh I’m younger than TES Oblivion oOOooh)
I looked forward to weekend at my Dad’s because his roommate had an Atari 800.
So you can all shut the fuck up and kindly step off my lawn.
