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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 85 points 4 months ago (7 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

you shut your mouth right now

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

I can't believe you've done this

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago
[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's ok, I don't play Zelda. It's more like I think Pokémon Blue was 10 years ago old but actually it was probably gen 4 (is that called Platinum?)

... I wish I hadn't looked at Wikipedia now. Platinum was the third installment in gen 4 and that was 16 years ago. Apparently we're up to gen 9 somehow

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

And I hate to tell you but gen 9 came out almost 3 years ago. We're about due for gen 10

Pokemon X/Y was 11 years ago.

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't even know what X/Y is!

Visibly crumbles into dust from old age

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That's just not true.

Those are Link.

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just got started working in a retro arcade.

It has a PS4 in it. 💀

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Released over 11 years ago

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But it's also just the previous console generation and brand new ones were still in stores three years ago.

[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

On that note, perhaps it would make more sense to look at when a console "dies off" than when it first released? In that sense, the PS4 is still a pretty recent console arguably still modern.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 4 months ago

Video games 20 years ago:

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Its been 19 years between now and the release of the Xbox 360, while it was 9 years between the releases of the Xbox 360 and Nintendo 64.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I hate math

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would you say something like that? It's like you are wanting to hurt us.

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I just find it fascinating how spans of time can feel so different

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Anything that plays games on discs, including PlayStation, feels recent to me.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The are people living today who can remember the first video games.

If the idea of paintings was first invented two decades ago, you wouldn't call any of it "retro".

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My grandparents remembered playing Pong.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I really ought to try Spacewar! sometime. Literally older than Jeopardy.

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[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

No retro means Atari, NES, Super Famicom, Genesis.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Wii came out in 2009

It is pretty old

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy 9 points 4 months ago

No it came out just a few years ago, I was just reading about it in Nintendo power the other day! God Twilight Princess is gonna be so sick when it finally comes out!

Right?

Right guys?!?

[–] djvinniev77 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

lol. It’s Frieren!

Even more lol, in this thread no mention of the elf represented in the pic.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it has 3D hardware it ain't retro.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

That was only in the Super FX cartridges wasn't it? Is mode 7 really 3D, or just rotating and scaling of a single background layer?

Are our modern GPUs just mode 7 run millions of times on a much smaller scale...

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've just got off of my 360 playing Halo 2. I was playing the level with the tank, Ladies Like Armour Plating. Very fun :)

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the first chapter of Metropolis. One of my favorite sections. That chapter name actually depends on the difficulty setting. On easy and normal it's 'Ladies Like Armor Plating' but on heroic it's 'Ladies Like Grinding Treads' and on legendary it's 'Ladies Like Superior Firepower.' I think it's the only instance in the franchise of a chapter title changing based on difficulty.

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought I'd remembered different names for it! I never made that connection though. I did try playing on Legendary this time around but it was too difficult. Halo 2 seems much harder than Reach, which was the last one I completed on Legendary. Maybe I'm just out of practice...

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Halo 2 on legendary is absolutely brutal. The jackal snipers will one-shot you almost as soon as they spawn, so you need to memorize the spawn locations and triggers and make sure you have a BR to headshot them before they get into position.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The first PlayStation was released 30 years ago and was produced until 18 years ago.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's just inaccurate. 30 years ago is 1994. Even the N64 wasn't out yet.

Edit: I see the confusion. It releases in Japan a few days before 95'. Always thought the N64 came out before the PlayStation

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 4 months ago

The true retro gaming systems: Tiger Electronic Handhelds.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of all the PlayStation consoles to come up with, why the PSX?

Not criticizing, just curious

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's literally the first one?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, it's technically not. While the PS1 was sometimes called the PSX in development, that name didn't make it to the production model. There was, however, a PlayStation system that saw production under the PSX name, which was a combination PS2 and DVR. That's probably the one @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world is thinking of.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yeah for some reason I always called the older boxy gray version the PSX, and the slimmer white one the PS1.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The mini one was officially the PS One as the full name of the system. The official abbreviation for the original grey model was the PS or PS1, depending on whether or not Sony had started developing the PS2. Then they just started adding Slim to distinguish the small models and Xbox proudly took up the duty of naming consoles things that are confusing and don't make any sense.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only millennial that actually feels things that happened more than a decade ago are old?

Like I get it, the ps3 wasn’t before my time, but it’s ancient now given how we just got the ps5 pro.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. You are.

It got even worse when COVID hit. I could have sworn that 2019 was just last year, yet here we are, and the 2020s are almost halfway over. It literally feels like I'm missing an entire decade of my life.

Technology seems to be behind 10 years as well. I mean we've had 4K monitors for over a decade now, yet you still need to spend nearly $2000 for a GPU powerful enough to run games at that resolution and a modern refresh rate. Meanwhile back in the 2000s, we went from 480i gaming, to 720p/1080i, to 1080p, all within 5 years. Smartphones from 10 years ago were black slabs running Android or iOS, and today they're black slabs running Android or iOS. Windows 10 has been around for almost a decade now too. Back in the 90s, we went from Windows 3.1, to Win95, to 98, to Me. Advancements in technology and software come in small, incremental improvements, when not too long ago a new life-changing thing was coming out every 2-3 years. The only tech I've noticed keeping up with the times is internet bandwidth. In 20 years I went from dialup to 256kbps to 3Mbps to 15 to 30 to 80 to 500; now I have Gigabit internet and my monthly bill has never been smaller.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I think what you’re noticing is corporate greed. There have been substantial life changing discoveries in the last decade. The problem is that corporate investors can’t find ways to exploit it so they shelve the patents. Another thing that happens is someone holds a patent but can’t or won’t allow someone to use it because the price isn’t right so it sits without any use.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Classic - PS3 / 360 /

Retro - PS1 / N64, Ps2

V I N T A G E - SNES / NES / Genesis

It's my system to make me feel less old do not judge me

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Shit, when I hear retro i think Atari

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