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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by sharpiewater@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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I went to a Gamestop the other day, and they had a little section for pre-owned games for older systems (think Xbox360, PS2, DS, etc). I was perusing and grabbed some games, but I noticed something, the cases that have the XBOX360 games have a giant "RETRO GAMING" on it in the centre. So I am like wtf, I grew up with the XBOX360, what the hell do they mean "retro".

So I went and asked like friends and other people if the XBOX360 is retro now, and basically everyone was like "yeah". I was talking to my EX about it and she was like "the xbox came out in 2005/6. There is more time between us and the xbox360 than there was between the xbox and the SNES when the xbox came out. Was the SNES "retro" when the xbox360 came out?"

I am like not ready, not willing to accept the XBOX360 as retro. Because that is saying my thing that I grew up with is "retro" or "old" now and im not ready to accept that because im not ready to be old.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Music and games aren't quite the same deal. If you need specialized equipment to play a game, it's retro.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about handhelds?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Handhelds are really their own deal. I'd argue vintage is anything up through the OG Gameboy.

Retro would be anything other than that, with the possible excrptions of the Nokia NGage and Neo Geo Pocket (B&W) which would also be vintage.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not sure I’m following this definition, everything after the game boy is retro? Or is it only the game boy and older?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vintage is everything up to the Gameboy, retro would be the stuff in color.

Prior to Gameboy you had LED and LCD stuff like this:

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that definition of retro has no end point, by that definition the switch lite is retro.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switch lite is still on sale new so it's not retro. :)

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Damn. But wait.. the Xbox 360 isn’t on sale..

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's just the cord that came with the system, nothing very special about it. And it's still perfectly compatible with modern TVs

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Modern TVs in the US don't have the coaxial RF jack...

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I bought a brand new TV around Christmas and it came with one.

An adaptor costs like 10-15 bucks anyway

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I never realized it's legit a mini transmitter to your TV's Antennae @.@.

Like wireless HDMI.

But now we stuck with DRM for failed ATSC 3.0 release :/

Imagine what could have been.