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5509386 No.5509386 [Reply] [Original]

Let's settle this

https://www.strawpoll.me/17836327

>> No.5509396

GBA will never be retro, ever.

>> No.5509405

>>5509396
There's more time between the pyramids of Giza and the Colosseum, than the Colosseum and now. T. rex is closer to us than to stegosaurus. It will eventually get lumped in with the rest.

>> No.5509406

>>5509386
Faggotry with the poll aside, my favourites are atomic purple and midnight blue.

>> No.5509409

>>5509396
All gen 6 systems are over 18 years old now. It's time we included them on /vr/ already like we did with the Dreamcast.

>> No.5509413

>>5509409
I don't know about that, but GBA is almost entirely 2D and so incapable the Donkey Kong Country port had to be massively downgraded.

An eventual logical cutoff is when consoles gained the ability to update games after shipping, so they were no longer immutable. SOP now is to have a slightly broken game out by fall and fix it by xmas.

>> No.5509417
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>>5509396
Do you believe edgy Sonic is retro?

>> No.5509419
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>>5509417
BIG ROUND NUMBER YEAR

>> No.5509423
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5509423

>>5509409
>It's been over 200 years already, why the fuck isn't the industrial revolution considered part of the Renaissance yet?

>> No.5509431

>>5509386
Shit thread. How exciting, we get to say which Gameboy Color we like best.

>> No.5509442

>>5509423
This is such a retarded comparison holy shit lmao

>> No.5509481

If you didn't have atomic purple GBC and N64 controllers, you were not my nigga.

>> No.5509495

>>5509442
Nah, it's pretty apt.
Go whine to gookmoot for /v2k/ if you want a place to discuss your sixth gen garbage, kiddo.

>> No.5509516

>>5509442
It's exactly accurate because that's how naming time periods works.
Retro vidya period = before 2000
That's it. That's how it works.
If you want a different time period, you can make your own underwater basketweaving forum.

>> No.5509534

>>5509516
Wrong, retro means anything older than the current generation of games.

>> No.5509535

>>5509516
Is there any rationale behind that, besides 2000 being a big round number?

>> No.5509545 [DELETED] 

>>5509535
2000 wasn't picked because it's a round number, it was picked because it's in between the 5th (retro) and 6th (non-retro) generations. If you're confused about why some games are retro and some art, look at some screenshots and you can see that PS2 and Xbox games just don't look retro, they look modern. Argue about how it's subjective all you want, you're still a stupid zoomer.

>> No.5509549

>>5509545
I'm 30. That makes me a millennial, not a zoomer. I played GBA as a kid. Excellent 2D games, with less resolution than NES. It couldn't do 3D well so I entirely skipped those turds. Brother had Doom, and it had a brightness setting which made it playable.

>> No.5509557

>>5509549
The board doesn't define "anything 2D is retro, anything 3D is not". That'd be retarded as fuck.

>> No.5509565

>>5509557
Today's games have more in common stylistically with the fourth generation than the fifth generation does.

>> No.5509567

>>5509534
How can art have a "postmodern" period if modern means the current time period? Hmmm, big think. It' almost like temporal naming schemes are abitrary.

>> No.5509568

The 90s didn't end until 9/11

>> No.5509578

>>5509568
What happened on the ninth of November?

>> No.5510053

>>5509578
Obsessed

>> No.5510142

>>5510053
Fuck off yank, the world doesn't revolve around your shit nation.

>> No.5510160

>>5509406
All of the transparents are better than atomic purple.

>> No.5510167

>>5509567
>I don't know what the definition of postmodern is
You have to be 18 to post here, kiddo.

>> No.5510170

>>5510160
You have the shittiest taste I've ever seen someone have in my life, and I've seen Andrew Dobson.

>> No.5510194

>>5509386
Assuming the GB's in the image are numbered from 1 in left to right fashion starting from the top: The correct colors are 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11. All others are heresy.

>> No.5510438

>>5510170
All of the others make a statement and catch the eye, atomic purple is the most milquetoast of the gbcs. Beat out only by the solid colored ones. If you enjoy being a drone and falling in line with the other normies I guess AP has a use for you.

>> No.5510442
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5510442

>>5509386
We all know it anon. We decided it many years ago.

>> No.5510457

>>5509386
None of the above. I actually prefer a custom DMG model I saw a while back. If I had to choose one of the official Color models, then it would have to be the translucent green. It has much of the gimcrack about it, I know, but it just has more appeal to me than the other variants.

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5510471

>>5510442
Yellow is objectively on the lower-tier of GBC colors.

>> No.5510476

I'm torn between Lime Green (2) and Atomic Purple (7).

>> No.5510482

>>5509423
Jesus this comment is so retarded it ends all debate. You will never understand /vr/ or how the rest of the internet mocks you for thinking a ps2 isn't retro.

>> No.5510486

>>5510471
You are objectively on the lower-tier of humankind.

>> No.5510490

>>5509386
Actual poll: https://www.strawpoll.me/17838970

>> No.5510518

>>5509535
Yes, Xbox, GameCube, PS2, GBA don't look or feel old fashioned. You are obsessed over something that will never change.

>> No.5510552

>>5510490
Shit poll. It doesn't have the official names.

>> No.5510576

>>5510167
Missing the point. The naming scheme of "modernism/postmodernism" developed new meaning different from their root words. /vr/ has done the same. Retro vidya in the context of this board is a unique culture and time period of vidya, regardless of the fact that there are other games outside that time period that are considered old/retro. You can call it /vr/, /pre2k/, /poopoopeepee/, doesn't matter. In the same way a new piece of art can be in a modernist style, but can never be in the modernist period, there can be retro games that are not in our arbitrary time segment called retro.

>> No.5510707

>>5509386
Purple, SNES and Gamecube brandish the same color, and they are "in between" consoles like the GBC was in between the GB and GBA

>> No.5510712

>>5509386
All the Daiei Hawks Nintendo systems.

>> No.5510737

>>5509386
I was about to vote for the transparent orange. Son of a bitch.

>> No.5510739

>>5509386
poll is for fags, best colors are pink, atomic purple, and both the Pokemon RBY + GS special editions.

>> No.5510919 [DELETED] 

>>5510482
>Jesus this comment is so retarded it ends all debate.
Seething because it shuts down your "games become retro over time" belief.

>You will never understand /vr/
He understands the retro gaming period (1st~5th gen) better than you do.

>or how the rest of the internet mocks you for thinking a ps2 isn't retro.
Go back to "the rest of the internet" then to discuss your "retro PS2" shit.
Shitposting /vr/ because you can't get your way doesn't help your cause.

>> No.5510940

>>5510518
I would argue GBA does to some extent. The former don't.

>>5510919
This. And even I like the 6th gen, but it doesn't belong here. Maybe if Hiro is kind enough he will add an exception to early GBA titles.

>> No.5510987

>>5510940
A kid today would think GBA is absolutely ancient with its unlit 240 x 160 LCD and AA batteries.

>> No.5511032
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5511032

Here's an idea:

GBA the hardware is retro because it's a very good way to play GB and GBC games.

>> No.5511040 [DELETED] 

>>5511032
Nothing wrong with that. You still can't talk about GBA games here though.

>> No.5511185

>>5509386
I like the transparent Orange, Green and Red gameboys. Would probably go for the Orange one.

>> No.5511274
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5511274

T E A L
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>> No.5511285

>>5511274

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTIzRhX8y74

>> No.5511474

>>5510987
Joke's on him, AA batteries are a far superior option to proprietary batteries. Furthermore, current gaming devices still use AA batteries, even it not all of them do.

>> No.5511510

>>5510482
>You will never understand /vr/ or how the rest of the internet mocks you for thinking a ps2 isn't retro.
who cares what other people think, mocking, really. where do you think you are, people will already mock you for playing older games but who cares. just play with the era you grew up with, if you grew up with ps2 well... sucks to be you i guess

>> No.5511962

>>5509423
Absolutely based.
Except you are objectively wrong. 100% Retro means 2nd generation of video consoles or older. Third generation is like 50% retro, fourth its 25%, after that its not retro anymore. As soon as you hit 32bit you are essentially on modern architecture.

>> No.5512007 [DELETED] 

>>5511962
I'd say Dreamcast is the first truly modern console, no idea why we ended up allowing it on /vr/.

>> No.5512010

>>5512007
Big round number. That's it.

Dreamcast is a general purpose computer that can run emulators.

>> No.5512792

Some Game Boy Advance cartridges are worth more than MSRP now, even ones I got when new just to play them. People who had it as a kid have careers now. That makes it retro.

>> No.5512818

>>5512792
No, that doesn't make it retro.

>> No.5512827

>>5510518
> I don't feel nostalgic so it's not retro

> Letting your emotions dictate you
What are you, a woman?

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>>5509405
>>5509409

>> No.5512865

>>5509409
I can accept the Neo Geo Pocket Color getting made retro.
The GBA is far too modern tough. This would turn stuff like Kingdom Hearts into retro series.

>> No.5512948

>>5511274
Teal is best boy.

>> No.5512982

>>5512843
/vr/ is just the same as that shit already

>> No.5513765

I'm going to make a GBA containment thread when this 404s. Dreamcast is so sixth gen many of its games were directly ported to Xbox and NoFriendo LameCube.

>> No.5513783

>>5513765
Make a Gameboy general instead, and then talk about GBA in it. The jannies likely won't mind.

>> No.5515739

Friendly reminder that consoles made after the year 2000 will never be considered retro.

>> No.5515758
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>>5515739
Vintage, you mean. Plenty of recent games are actually retro.

>> No.5515770

>>5515758
No, I mean retro. For example we can talk about modern replicas which are retro but not vintage. However to be retro, an item produced today must be replicating a console originally made before the cutoff.

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>>5515739
>>5515758
>>5515770
I've been thinking about this.

Going by its definition, "Retro" is used wrongly when talking about older games as it only implies imitation of a by-gone style.
Vintage would be more appropriate since it literally means "wine age"; the time when wine was the best = the golden age for the art, which is what most people into "retro games" would consider the pre-2000 era to be.

>> No.5516187

>>5516173
Most of fifth gen has turned to vinegar.

>> No.5516234

>>5515758
Whta makes this "retro"? If pixel art is retro, then realistic graphics are retro too, as we had both coexisting since ever.

>> No.5516246

If the mods add too much to /vr/ at once, the board wouldn't be changed, it would be destroyed. Completely unrecognizable to the current /vr/ userbase.

>> No.5516259

>>5516173
Your opinion is wrong. Retro is the word that is used in this context here. You can't change it.

>> No.5516267

>>5516246
If they go too far the other way, 90% of the users will be zoomer collectors, because we're approaching the point where adults in their 30s aren't allowed to talk about their childhood games. This subchan will be shitty like /g/ if the rules don't adapt to the passage of time.

>> No.5516307

>>5509386
If the Dreamcast is retro the GBA is too and you can't change my mind.

>> No.5516310
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>>5516307
Based.
Revert the sticky to banning Dreamcast when?

>> No.5516312

>>5515739
Zoomers are already calling the PS2 retro and there's nothing you can do about it.

>> No.5516319
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>>5516307
>>5516312
BIG ROUND NUMBER

What do you bet the admins and janitors have never played this game?

>> No.5516320

>>5509386
I still have that see-thru purple one with blue in it somewhere

>> No.5516331

>>5516312
Zoomers also play garbage like Fortnite, Minecraft and Overwatch.
Who gives a shit what they think?

>> No.5516342

>>5516331
They probably think the same about us, but still, you can't change the fact retro doesn't mean what you think it means.

>> No.5516346

>>5510476
i never knew other colors existed until people started talking in this thread.
i mean i knew a guy with a red one but there's always red, soi what's the point? it was too big for the system, distracted from what was going on.

>> No.5516364

>>5511274
LoOk At Me EveYone I'm SUCH a cEnTrIst
teal gameboys are for boring people.
yellow gameboys and "special edition" pokemon shit always had boogers jammed into the vartridge slot.
red gameboys were always beat up because the children that owned them did things like watch Rated Nc17 movies and chew tobacco and hit things with steel baseball bats.
Silver gbcs belonged to adults who couldn't make friends with people their own age.
the only kids who actually played games, who were happy and intelligent, owned LIME GREEN or PURPLE gbcs.

>> No.5516373

>>5516364
back to plebbit

>> No.5516526

>>5516364

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYdg0GISJ4

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5516549

The green looks okay with my favorite socks. That's the beauty of the Game Boy Color, you can create your own style that expresses your individuality.

>> No.5516559

>>5516549
Do you have any toe socks? I have several, I wear with the thinnest toe shoes. I wore those shoes exclusively for a while but had to buy some thicker ones after a day in a city with tile pavement made my feet hurt.

>> No.5516567

>>5516559
Nah I don't have any toe socks, I wish I did :( should I get some?

>> No.5516570

Purple

>> No.5516571

>>5516567
They're good for wearing with thong sandals. Feet Gang may like to see them.

>> No.5516575

>>5509386
had the solid purple one so I got a soft spot for that one. I really like the hot pink one as well and the one in lime green. the transparent models are not that interesting to me for some reason.

>> No.5516582

>>5516549
E X P R E S S Y O U R S E L F T H R O U G H C O N S U M P T I O N

>> No.5516598

>>5516549
Back to /g/, faggot.

>> No.5516606

>>5510142
>Yank
>Doesn't revolve around you

Of course it does. India and China have all the people, the US has all the money, oil and exploitable resources. Two big markets by people and one by goods and currency. The world either revolves around us, or it revolves around China or India. Take your pick.

>inb4 my 60mil population eurotrash flag is important

Only if you put all the European countries together into a German puppet state masquerading as a diplomatic union, and even then, not really.

>> No.5516614

>>5516342
They're objectively right, though. If your console takes a disc instead of a cartridge, its too new to be retro.

>> No.5516635

>>5516614
So the PS1 isn't retro? How about the Mega Drive? See, you sound retarded as mods who think Dreamcast is a retro console but the GBA isn't.

>> No.5516662

>>5516614
>>5516635
It stops being vintage when the games stop being immutable, which became the norm in 7th gen. But even Donkey Kong Country had revisions.

>> No.5516983

>>5516549
christ

>> No.5516992

>>5516549
Are those from Sock Dreams?

>> No.5517001

>>5516342
retro is subjective, entirely. for this board tho, there is a set definition.

>> No.5517003

>>5516526
>hurr bulbasaur must be a green party member because he's a grass type
this is very low level thinking. so-called "environmentalists" might choose bulbasaur because of their own preoccupations, but bulbasaur himself is not so frovolously drawn to these things.

>> No.5517036

>>5516992
Yes.

>> No.5517046
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5517046

I'm giving our tripfriend validation and there's nothing you can do about it

>> No.5517205

>>5516549
Fucking delete yourself already, you attention wanting, mutilated husk.

>> No.5517310

>>5517036
Do you run around every day with those socks? How many pairs do you have? Do you go outside with them? Do you live alone?

>> No.5517504

>>5509413
dkc was fine, and even had extra shit...all 3 of them infact. you hit the mark on shipping shit fucked and just adding dlc

>> No.5517507

>>5509481
these were pretty much the standard though

>> No.5517512

>>5512843
/vr/ is still like that, just with more pixelated waifus and older memes. Let me guess, OLD GOOD NEW BAD LMAO

>> No.5517513

Dad's wife's son said his Smoke N64 controller was made of a different plastic that doesn't get slippery. Was he bullshitting? Did he read something like that in Nintendo Power?

>> No.5517514

>>5510471
>frog poster is utterly retarded
clockwork

>> No.5517520

>>5516331
but minecraft is basically 8bit..aka a nes game?

>> No.5517523
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>>5517520
Last year's Return of the Obra Dinn has 1-bit graphics

>> No.5517691

>>5517523
I pixel is a little square formed by 3 little squares, wow totally worth wiring an article about.

>> No.5517748

>>5517691
No, it's an infinitesimal point sample.

>> No.5517752

>>5517748
No, it's a little square

>> No.5517762

>>5517752
Squares are often used to display pixels, but pixels themselves are just points.

>> No.5517769

>>5517762
I just checked, it's a little square

>> No.5518037

>>5517310
yikes that's a lot of questions.

No I usually only wear them in the bedroom, too lazy to count them, only during Pride events, and no I live with my boyfriend.

>> No.5518401

THIRTY (30) YEARS OLD
Hard to believe

>> No.5518416

>>5509386
His thread is the reason 2 jannies lost their privileges. They were too lazy to even check the non topical poll

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>>5509386
>Which Game Boy Color color is objectively correct?
How about this one?

>> No.5518785

>>5517769
>>5517691
>>5517752
how do you explain light displays that use pixel work to convey imagery in front of casinos?
the smallest unit is a lightbulb - not a square.

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>>5510442
Truth has been spoken.

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Clear, obviously.

>> No.5518917

>>5518785
Also, DLP projectors have right triangular mirrors shining points onto screens. CRT phosphors are never squares, and they don't map directly to pixels. e-ink displays have round capsules. There's all sorts of non-square pixels.

>> No.5518919

>>5518416
Really? Is that why this board's quality has improved?

>> No.5519250

>>5518864
i have a purple clear one but this one is definitely the winner, gorgeous

>> No.5519484

>>5518037
Why bitch about so many question when you clearly want the attention kek, but thx for answering

>> No.5519487

>>5518037
Faggot

>> No.5519553

>>5518037
get aids nigger

>> No.5520064 [DELETED] 

>>5519484
Sorry :x

But yes, I lurves my Sock Dreams socks. Actually I would really love to be a sock model...do you think I have potential?

>> No.5520143

>>5520064
You should try coding just for fun if you're going to wear programming socks.

>> No.5520150

>>5520064
If you could go ahead and kill yourself that'd be just neato. Thanks.

>> No.5520157

>>5520064
Neck yourself stupid faggot

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>>5520150
>>5520157

>> No.5520167

>>5520064
Why did you delete? jancel doesn't like you?

>> No.5520181

>It's the year 2500
>Discussing 501 year old games is ok but discussing 499 year old games is not

>> No.5520192

>>5520181
Vintage games will be talked about as much as early silent film, not even the good later ones.

>> No.5520324

>>5520160
Why haven't you killed yourself already?

>> No.5521075

>>5509423
Underrated comment.

>guys Limp Bizkit are as old now as the Beatles were in the 1990's, why aren't Limp Bizkit considered oldies?

>> No.5521215

>>5518037
D I E. and stuff.

>> No.5521219

red because it makes it faster

>> No.5521454

>>5521075
it is tho

>> No.5521457 [DELETED] 

>>5516549
Why did you delete?

>> No.5522731

Nothing above the second generation should be considered retro. Kill yourselves, stupid millennials.

>> No.5522759

>>5522731
No one under 55 allowed here?

>> No.5525459

>>5509386
Purple is best cause everyone had that 1. Majority rule.

>> No.5525495

>>5509557
he's not that wrong though. the big change within the industry and the move towards modern games came with early 3D models and dropping 2D sprites entirely. that's why playing a 3D Zelda or FF game or MGS1 was so revolutionary because the game principles of the most well-known titles never existed in a 3D realm before.

>> No.5525534

>>5525459
Do you mean Atomic Purple, or Grape? Atomic Purple is the definitive color.