/vr/ - Retro Games

What, the Nintendo is doomed meme? It's been a thing since the 80s when the NES came out.

6th gen will never be retro.

>>3060390
Nothing in OP I thought implied doom. The statement seems to be claiming that our current retro will change to "newer" systems.
>>3060392
both the noun and adjective forum of the term Retro is "whose style or design is imitative of those of the recent past" recent past being key.

>>3060408
nev·er
ˈnevər/Submit
adverb
1.
at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever.

>>3060420
See I feel like you are just trying to shitpost now.

>>3060408
Why don't they use an age/era classification instead of the broad term retro?

>>3060425
This coming from the guy who's ignoring that "Retro games" is a title.

>>3060408

I dunno, I still see stuff like Space Invaders and Pac-Man or Donkey kong being used in pop culture to refer to retro games.
Just like how Charles Chaplin movies are still used as iconic retro movies even though stuff like, I dunno, There's Something About Mary is nearly 2 decades old.

>>3060440
You point out an interesting thing because in movie media anything from the 70s or older was seen as retro in the late 90s but now culture view 80's movie media as retro likely because the 80s was 30 years ago. However in gaming media many retro titles/systems are under 30 years old. It begs the question of where the line starts? Hell the Dreamcast which is both 6th gen and counted as Retro is only 17 years old. Movie snobs would scoff at trying to pitch a film so young as retro or aged.

>>3060556

No, I'm not talking about 80s or even 70s movies, I'm talking Chaplin which is from the 20s.

>>3060557
I know what you were talking about but your statement open the door on how strange retro culture seems to work, where in TV the line seems to be 30 years or older and most critics see Chaplin's work as the pioneer days more so then retro and throw back which is used a bit in that media with films of the 80's and before. Games seem interesting because the bar is a lot lower letting things be labeled as retro that are not even 2 decades old. It makes one wonder when culture will move the bard again and things like OPs post will fall under retro.

>>3060570
To be fair games spike a lot faster in development. Every 4 years was a massive change in tech and engineering. What took Hollywood decades to fine tune video games got in years.
I also feel that's why viewing games as art or something of serious media is so hard, it seems very fresh due to all it's advancements and it feels like it was only a few years back that it's main aim was for kids.

>>3060381
>1561x257
I can't even read it much less agree with it

Nintendo has been coasting on the insane success of the Famicom for decades though. That's a fact.

/vr/ is for games from 1999 and earlier.

The year 1999 does not float, in the future the Xbox 360 will not be a 1999 console.

There is only one scenario where this could happen, and it's right here.

>>3060615
Your pic isn't making much sense to me.
Regardless you know that date when vr first came up wasn't up that high right? N64 and PS1 weren't counted as retro here at first then were added. Then a bit later Dreamcast was added. It goes with logic that someday we will see GC,Xbox and PS2 count for the board.

>>3060623
>N64 and PS1 weren't allowed when /vr/ was first added

>>3060381
Yeah I agree with this. Getting old is scary.

you know who's really getting shafted in all this, people who grew up into really obscure systems, the commodore/master system/msx/atari guys

>>3060682
>Commodore
>MSX
>Atari
>obscure
Uh...

>>3060685
you know what I mean, it's barely talked about in /vr/ or the internet

>>3060381
If it made a fucking point. It sounds like something a politician would say.

>>3060689
Vat. Commodore machines have one of the biggest online communities of any retro platform.

>>3060694
That guy's underage.

>>3060381
I don't know because I don't read blogs on 4chan. But the fact that he blogs on 4chan and can't form a proper sentence in the two I did read leads me to believe he's a cunt I would disagree with.

>>3060694
yeah and the msx communities are also relatively huge, it's kinda like the amiga in the sense they still saw some development long after the hardware was abandoned.
but /vr/ is all about nintendo though.

>>3060707
That's because 90% of /vr/ are 15 year olds who came here after watching an AVGN video.

>>3060689
I feel like there's a certain point where games were TOO simple, or at least too simple to discuss.

How many Atari or Intellivision games took place on a single screen, where you played a character who could only move in two or four directions and perform one or two rudimentary actions?

>>3060718
Yeah those 15 year olds are already in their 30s as stated by the screen cap in the OP.

>>3060729

>>3060615
Retro PA was good times.

>>3060727
Nope. I could talk about Pong in depth.

>>3060718
If a 15 years old watch an AVGN video in it's prime at 15 they are 24 now anon...

>>3060707
>>3060718
In humor it's exactly what OPs post is getting at

>>3060390
>right wing
SJWs in the 80s?!

>>3060623
You got the wrong board bucko, ps1 and n64 always was retro by the rules of this board since day one.

>>3060381
No.

>>3061782
I don't think 80's Usenet nerds mean social justice when they refer to left and right wing. More like free, open platforms that can be built and programmed for by anybody with the know-how vs closed proprietary platforms which lock people out of releasing their own software without Nintendo's permission and can only be bought from Nintendo. Discounting bootlegs, of course.

Was bootleg Nintendo stuff common in North America in the height of the NES? I'm not from there but it's an interesting question.

>>3061782
Is this bait or are you actually this ignorant?

I remember some point right around the year 2005 when Christian fundamentalist censorship in the US came to a screeching halt and SJW censorship in the US took off like a fucking rocket to instantly replace it.

Overnight, what was a violent murder simulator became a toxic male power fantasy, what was a sinful whore became misogynistic rape culture and what was heathen sacrilege became white privileged cultural appropriation.

>>3061852
>Was bootleg Nintendo stuff common in North America in the height of the NES? I'm not from there but it's an interesting question.

No. It was never a thing in developed countries with functioning law enforcement to crack down on commercial piracy.

>>3061883
2005? Nah more like the 90s. During the Reagan/Bush 41 years, it was predominantly Christian fundies/soccer moms but as soon as the White House switched parties...

>>3061892
In the UK, I had a famiclone. There were shops that sold these Brazilian fake NESs that looked like N64 controllers. This was probably shortly after the time when the hardware patent expired, but they always came with a bunch of games so they were still copyright infringing.

>>3061892

Defining bootleg as an unlicensed reproduction of another game? Not much of it was in north america.
Defining bootleg as an unlicensed product, however? There was plenty of those. Learning Tree games were one example. They weren't in the majority but they were definitely around.

And it's not about having functioning law enforcement. It's about the law enforcement placing priority on corporate interest.

>Out of the hundrends of games to come out of the Gamecube and Wii systems, maybe a few dozen were good.

The same's true of the N64, yet people still love it. Gamecube and the non shovelware Wii games have held their value pretty well compared to the Playstation 2/3 and Xbox/360 games.

>>3060390
source? there are still internet posts from 1989?

>>3060727
>games were TOO simple
>intellivision
>too simple
>>>/out/

>>3061935
Internet isn't only World Wide Web.
It's Usenet.

>>3061863
Is this bait or are you actually this ignorant?