games

20524 readers

311 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

3rd International Volunteer Brigade (Hexbear gaming discord)
Chapo Gamedev Discord
ChapoChat NationStates Region
Vanilla Minecraft Server
The Axe and Sickle DnD Discord

Rules

No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, or transphobia. Don't care if it's ironic don't post comments or content like that here.
Mark spoilers
No bad mouthing sonic games here :no-copyright:
No gamers allowed :soviet-huff:
No squabbling or petty arguments here. Remember to disengage and respect others choice to do so when an argument gets too much

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why are younger generations embracing the retro game revival? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

65 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PS2 era is already like early modern gaming to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PS2 is just modern to me. The phrase "older game" automatically conjures images of the Atari 2600. "Game" makes me think of maybe around the SNES or early PS1. Any game with 3D graphics, voice over, tutorial levels, and full soundtracks, that's just a current era game to me.

I'm old and dusty I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"older" doesn't have a specific meaning for me, could mean Atari or could mean 10-15 years ago depending on context.

But "retro" is definitely anything before the 3D era, even though I played a lot of games before 3D kicked off in earnest. It's just such a clean divide for me.

Technically I guess I started playing games when there were a very small number of 3D titles floating around. I didn't have any of those though, and I upgraded from NES to SNES about 4 years after the SNES released.