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>these consoles are now 5 years older than the dreamcast was when it was allowed on this board
When will /vr/ get over the fact these are old?

>> No.5521238

release date != lifespan

>> No.5521243

They're old, maybe vintage, but will never be retro.

>> No.5521246
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5521246

We really should include them now.

>> No.5521247

>>5521224
My young cousin who’s first console was a PS2 when he was a kid is now married and has 2 children. It baffles me how these aren’t /vr/ yet. Because they are certainly retro by this point.

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>>5521224
>It's been over 200 years already, why the fuck isn't the industrial revolution considered part of the Renaissance yet?

>> No.5521256

>>5521224
>I'm a transitional oldfag who grew up with these and /v/ is too autistic and fast-paced for me *pays mortgage installment of shitty starter home*

>> No.5521259

>>5521224
Those marked the beginning of modern style games with horseshit like Halo, 3D GTA, COD, etc. They may be old now, but they don't belong in /vr/.

>> No.5521268

There's more to being retro than just being old. That said, GBA really should be allowed but whatever.

>> No.5521269
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5521269

Post-Y2K consoles will NEVER EVER be considered retro here.

Deal with fucking it, zoomer scum.

>> No.5521272

>>5521224
>retro: relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned
How is this a defined era again?

>> No.5521274

>>5521268
You can talk about GBA games since most of them that are worth shit are actually just SNES remakes and those are allowed

>> No.5521282
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>>5521268
Nah, GBA isn't retro either. No '90s handheld system could have been as powerful as a GBA is.

>> No.5521283

>>5521224
> This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier. With the release of the 8th generation of consoles, the Sega Dreamcast will now be considered "retro", though the remainder of the sixth generation (Xbox, PS2, GameCube) will not.

So pretty much when the PS5 comes out they should allow those consoles

>> No.5521294

>>5521252
actually the most valid fucking argument i've read

>> No.5521295

>>5521272
Because this board uses a definition of the term (and a cutting line) that are arbitrary but perfectly and openly defined. The fact that you can't really read a simple sticky and still feel entitled to determine whatever rules you want indicates you're a zoomer, so why do you want to talk about "old games" anyway? Just go practice your floss dancing

>> No.5521303

>>5521259
Wrong. Modern games started with Wolfenstein 3-D.

>> No.5521312

>>5521252
kek

>> No.5521313

>>5521224
take my advice and cry for a new board

>> No.5521314

>>5521295
actually, I'm fine with the arbitrary definition the board uses. Is retro the best way to sum it up? Should be /vautist/

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5521315

OH NO NO NO

>> No.5521334

>>5521224
trolling aside, how bad would this board be if 6th gen was included? PS2 alone has a massive library, which games would you hate to see discussed on here?

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>>>/vg/250993920

>> No.5521376
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5521376

I think we should just give it a linear 20-year (or whatever) age for the console now to be considered acceptable
yay or nay

>> No.5521380

>>5521238
Muh fifa

>> No.5521387

>>5521376
>I think we should add an arbitrary rule that covers the system I really want to post about

>> No.5521397

>>5521224
Dreamcast released in the 90's. The other consoles did not.

>> No.5521398

>>5521367
>vg

>> No.5521409

>>5521252
This, basically we should just rename this board into "20th century gaming" to end these tedious threads

>> No.5521418

>>5521409
MAKE IT SO.

>> No.5521438

>>5521398
Yeah, so? That's your only option. Take it or leave it.

>> No.5521439
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5521439

>>5521387
Not at all. I'm a supporter of the current rules, but it would add a solid threshold for new material since things will begin to get stale in a few years. You could even stretch it to 25 years. Just a thought.

>> No.5521440

>>5521376
It's spelled 'yea'

>> No.5521441

>>5521243
So "retro" means nothing then. Retard.

>> No.5521458

The major failure of this board was that it already passed the easiest line, which would be the transition to 3d gaming being the norm (5th gen) as that marked a massive change that can be readily understood by anyone. Another line, less well defined than that but still better than what we have now, would be cutting off the moment where online console gaming became the norm (7th) since that's been the most notable shift since 3d happened and marks something none of us want. Where it is now is fucking useless. Any issue someone could have with the 6th gen also existed in the 5th, it was comparatively a very static period of time where 5th gen trends were refined (or bastardized, take your pick).
I don't think we need to have a sliding concept of retro that moves with the times, I'd rather see a new board for the time between this board's focus and whatever is relevant on /v/, but we do need a line where we can actually explain it in a satisfying way instead of just going with it because that's the way it is.

>> No.5521461

>>5521252
>>5521409
BIG ROUND NUMBER

>> No.5521479

>>5521458
None of that matters, because 2000 is a big a round number.

>> No.5521482

>>5521224
Xbox is a 750 megahertz Pentium 3 PC, which you could buy before 2000.

>> No.5521490

>>5521315
>De-Delete this, it doesn't align with my youth.

>> No.5521493

>>5521224
The world lost part of it's soul after 9/11.
So anything past 2001 will never be retro.

>> No.5521514

>>5521252
This.
This board encompasses games made in a certain time period, sort of like Neolithic and Paleolithic are distinct periods.

>> No.5521537

>>5521252
>that guy who thinks he was smart for posting this in the last thread
My dude, you are going to have to change the definition of the word "retro." >>5521315

>> No.5521547

>>5521224
This board is stale and 6th gen is retro by anyone’s definition who isn’t a literal fucking boomer. At the very least the GameCube and gba.

>> No.5521548

>>5521282
They absolutely could have. Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy of lateral thinking with withered technology lived on with the GBA. The GBA was an ARM7TDMI and a simple line-based PPU. The ARM7TDMI was first available in 1994 and shipped with the Nokia 6110 in 1998. There was nothing new about the GBA when it came out in 2001. It definitely could have shipped in 1999 with only a slightly higher price tag.