/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5591520
1978's Space Invaders is taller than GBA is wide, and wider than GBA is tall, but it's monochrome with the color coming from physical overlays.

>>5591520
What are you babbling about silly zoomer

Gba will NEVER EVER be retro here, sixth-gen shithead.

>>5592093
Absolutely based

>>5592093
Genesis is literally stronger than gba how the fuck is it allowed piece of shit mods

>>5591520
Since we are talking 6th gen here, what is your favorite PS2, I like the red one.

GBA is just a portable SNES. I honestly don't see why it's not allowed here.

>>5592303
read the rules

>>5592303
debunked

>>5591520
>bitmap game
what?

>>5592360
read up on 16 bit console archs and you'll understand what he means

>>5592267
We go by date, not by specs, retard.

Culturally GBA games are vastly different from '80s games.

>>5591520
Why was the original GBA screen so fucking terrible?

I remember getting one for Christmas with Minish Cap and playing it THREE TIMES total. You couldn't see shit in that screen. I had to play with my GBC for almost another year so I could get a SP and finally bring myself to play Minish Cap.

>>5592303
Because the rule is "on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier". Since there's no hard rule for what "retro" means, they had to pick a hard date as a cutoff and chose 1999. Nothing more, nothing less.

>>5592645
> BUT THE RULES

Lol nerd

>>5592381
>Culturally GBA games are vastly different from '80s games
>Culturally
How so? An educated aesthete such as yourself should be able to explain.

>>5592303
Isn't GBA capable of fewer background layers than SNES?

As far as I'm concerned, any 2D sprite game is retro.

>>5592946
That idea doesn't work because then we'd have threads for Undertale, AVGN The Movie The Game, Celeste, and tonnes of other 2D indie and doujin garbage that gets shat out these days.

A set cutoff date is the best way to decide what is retro.

>>5592417
They were honoring Gunpei Yokoi by continuing his practice of designing portables with the shittiest displays.

Can you really tell when a GBA game was made just from the color saturation? Are post-SP games more muted?

>>5592645
That year was chosen just because someone had fee fees looking at a big round number. There should be more objective rationale behind it.

The cutoff date in the rules that never changes even as a dozen years go by and systems get more and more outdated is fucking idiotic.
There's also 6th gen console talk that is allowed but not the rest of the consoles from that same gen.
The stupidity is impressive.

>>5592093
Based and Chadpilled.
>>5591520
Take your gba sixth gen bullshit back to /v/
>>5592742
stop shitting up our board. /vr/ doesn't need your /v/ tier trolling just leave if this is all you do.

>>5592973
What would such an "objective rationale" be then?

>>5592417
Real champions don't use backlit screens.

>>5592973
You can make an argument for nearly any point after 1990. /vr/ has had long-ass debates over which version of DirctX was the turning point between modern and retro. Using the turn of the millennium as the cutoff simplified a matter that just doesn't have a clear-cut answer.

>>5592978
No matter how much you complain and shitpost, PS2/Cube/Xbox games will never be as retro as games from 1st through 4th gens.

>>5592645
1999 was literally 20 years ago. That's not retro, that's ancient. That's like if somebody in 1999 thought that only games from the Atari era were "retro" but not NES games. Once again boomers showing their boomerness.

>>5592989
They will be eventually, because time passes.

>>5593000
I think you're putting too much stock in the word "retro". This is a board for games made before 2000.

>>5593030
No, it's a board for games too old to be discussed on /v/.

>>5592093
>Gba will NEVER EVER be retro here
Sixth gen will be retro one day. There's no hiding from that fact, no more than you can hide from the fact you're only going to get older.

>>5593034
>inb4 they actually make /v2k/

>>5593034
It's already retro. People for whom the GBA was a part of their childhood are now in their mid-20s.

GBA will never be acceptable here. This is like arguing PS3 should be accepted because some late 90s PC games can run at a higher resolution than the PS3. Again, GBA will never be retro by this board's definition. You are wasting your time with these threads.

>>5593034
>>5593040
>rock music will be hip hop one day

>>5593043
GBA games are very similar to games from the 16-bit era.

>>5593040
I meant within the scope of what's considered retro by /vr/'s standards.

>>5593043
It isn't now, but it will be. All it takes is for people who were young when it came out to get older. Assuming the site lasts that long, this board isn't going to still be limited to 5th gen or earlier 20 years from now. The the definition has to expand eventually.

>>5593040
Me, but 30.

You actually can discuss GBA games here, as long as you don't post any images of the device or game boxes. The janitors were not of age when it was current, so they do not recognize any Game Boy Advance titles.

>>5593047
If you're going by genres and visuals, GBA fits with SNES much more than wobbly polygons do.

>>5593047
What a truly horrible analogy. How does that in any way relate to retro gaming?

>>5593047
If the kids who played a game when it first came out are now adults, that game is retro. Retro just refers to older games. If you were 10 when the GBA came out you are now 28 years old. Sorry for reminding you of your mortality, boomer, but it's the truth.

This shitty website doesn't scale, so /v/ is unusable.

>>5593071
/v/ is unusable because it's/v/, not because the site doesn't scale

>>5593090

If every large board inevitably turns into an ocean of piss, why do you think /vr/ will be an exception.

GBA should be allowed though

>>5593048
And Xbox games are very similar to late 90s Windows games. Not going to be retro ever though, just like the GBA: never retro.

>>5593048
So is Undertale. We don't want your modern bullshit here. Fuck off.

>>5592417
lol, dumb yuro poorfag

>>5592093
coping for the inevitable onslaught

>>5593103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxtj7-Po7U

>>5593121
>another year goes by
Any day now! Keep waiting!

Another day, another bunch of annoying zoomers crying over their childhood not being allowed on here.

>>5592093
based and red pilled

>>5591520
>>5591530
cringe

>>5593061
Retro refers to something new that imitates or is influenced by an older style, like shovelknight.

An actual old game like SMB is vintage.

This board should say it's for the discussion of vintage games for system released up 1999. The worst thing about this board is the board metadiscussion

Your definition is not good English. We have existing words for defining this shit.

>>5593059
Games dont age. They are still the same style and genre they ever were. Saying it's <current year> is stupid because a snes and MD style is nothing like a native gba game.

>>5593254
There's a big difference between a dictionary and a community. Learn, autismo.

>>5591520
>hehe, look mom, i got away with posting a non-retro system on /vr/
kill yourself homo

>>5591520
lots of gba spam threads lately...

>>5593271
Some tards have been shitposting that GBA belongs here because most of its games have sprite graphics.

>>5593279
pls no ableism pls k thx :-)

>>5592297
Same. It’s a shame the Slim can’t play HDD backups.

>>5592960
It's not a real shitty display until it's a wonderswan display, swear that bandai somehow managed to cheap out more than gunpei would have

>>5593048
Doesn’t matter, just because a game has a old school look doesn’t mean it’s retro and isn’t allowed here. By that measure this board would be spammed with undertale shit.

>>5591520
not retro
>>>/v/

>>5592267
>t. sub-80 IQ

>>5593313
Would you kindly fuck off back to tumblr?

>>5593029
Time has kept on passing and hasn't changed yet.

>>5593467
It has changed. The current janitors are too young to recognize GBA games so I can post about them as much as I want.

>>5592093
It's been retro for a while.