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>retro (adjective)
>imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past: e.g. retro 60s fashions.
How do old-school video games imitate themselves? What makes them retro?

>> No.5987579

>>5987453
They don't, vintage is a more appropiate term.

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5987593

>>5987453
>underage (You)

>> No.5987750

>>5987593
>"why are games like street fighter alpha 3, dodonpachi, age of empires 2 etc. considered to be 'retro' when they weren't imitating earlier styles/graphics of video games, but were rather aiming to be cutting edge and innovative at the time?"
>n-noo ur underage!!

>> No.5987809

>>5987750
>"why are you posting when underage"
>let me repeat my newfaggotry from my original shitpost

>> No.5987896

>>5987809
Mentally ill

>> No.5987919

>>5987809
gottem

>> No.5987921

>>5987750
All those games are gay and shit.

>> No.5987928

>>5987453

Yeah the name of the board has always been obviously wrong. Oh well.

Teach gamers that "strafe" does not mean "walk sideways" and even then, with whatever superhuman power you have used to do that, you will still probably be unable to get 4chan's community of nihilistic idiots to change its ways.

>> No.5987935

>>5987896
Rehashing old autistic shitposts is mentally ill kiddo