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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

An adaptor costs like 10-15 bucks anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Interesting! It's absent on my Vizio and Samsung although they are nearly a decade old now. I know over-the-air RF signals are still broadcast but they're digital now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Disagree, but that standard every proprietary console except xbox and ps are retro.

It's simply few generations older. If teenagers today weren't born, It's retro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Naturally I'm biased because the stuff I grew up on is officially "Vintage" at this point. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yea it doesn't feel right, I'm sure we'll soon have classic and modern retro categories

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about handhelds?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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