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[–] Beardsley@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I'll fight anyone who says 1998 is retro. I'm getting old, but give me a few more years damn.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Those few years between 1992-1998 were as .. game-changing .. for games as probably the two decades that followed. We started it with side scrollers, Dune and Doom and ended it with Diablo II, StarCraft and Half-Life.

For the kids here who haven't experienced Half-Life, you should play Black Mesa. For the retro farts who have played Half-Life, you should also play Black Mesa. It's the Half-Life you couldn't have in 1998 because of the slow hardware. I weeped from feels playing it.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Blizzard used to give me such warm fuzzies.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Now they just price gouge you, and sexuality harass the employees.

[–] sparky1337@ttrpg.network 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I spent sooooooooo much time on StarCraft and Diablo II. First video game I remember playing was Wolfenstein 3D, then Duke Nukem. Found RTS soon after.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

I remember upgrading my PC from 4MB to 8MB, just to be able to play Duke3D, cost me a pretty penny as well

[–] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 10 months ago

The incredible imaginations that some people had kept me playing the custom games in starcraft for so much longer than the base game ever would have. I can't believe how much time I spent in various rpgs, defenses, and the wild cat-n-mouse modes.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Old fart here. I played Wolfenstein 3d, then played the shit out of Doom and Duke Nukem 3d but missed out on Half life until recently. Knowing the context of the era it came out in, I can totally see how amazing it must have been. Hell, it's still incredibly fun for me in this era.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 27 points 10 months ago

Bro, we lost that fight. I was watching a Youtube video of a guy clearing games from his Steam backlog and introduced one with, "So, many of you watching probably weren't alive when this game came out. Everyone talks about what a classic this is, but I don't think I've met anyone who has actually played this game."

I died a little inside when it turned out he was talking about the first Half-Life.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You are a bad person.

Why must you be so hurtful.

[–] sparky1337@ttrpg.network 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I launched Arkham Asylum on steam earlier this week and it recommended a 9800GTX lmao.

1GB ram, 2GB if you were running Vista.

[–] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're gonna have to rethink definitions at some point. Yes, video games are still a comparatively new medium, but nobody would call a 2010 film a retro film, nevermind books or paintings.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I define "retro" as anything made before an average Army Private was born, so about 19-20 years. By this standard, games released in the early 80's were retro when the current generation of Privates was born, so how do we call that ? I propose the term "paleogaming" for those.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By that definition, 9/11 is retro.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 1 points 10 months ago

It's definitely cheugy.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If in 1998 you would have argued that 1972 is retro, then I'm sorry to tell you that 1998 is retro

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, you're retro! runs away sobbing

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am retro. You have no power here.

Embrace it! Gonna happen anyhow whether you want it to or not

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've hurt my hip. Leave me alone.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Come, now. Let's settle you down for your 3rd nap, huh?

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

You mean the late 1900's

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Last millennium, even.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hell, I can remember when the word retro meant something new inspired by something older. Now it just means old / classic.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

You and me both, but to be fair it's a year closer to the creation of console gaming to modern day. So I'll let it pass.

People who call my music vintage or classic can get right the fuck back, though.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I understand saying you don't feel like 2010 is retro, but 1998? That's been retro for a long time. You're in a really extreme place in your head when you stick to not calling something that's 25 years old retro.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Hate to break it to you, but they play rock from the 90s and 00s on the CLASSIC rock stations now.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

If you really want to get depressed, Farmville is probably retro for some people.