time is a freak!
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Nope, "retro" is staying as 16-bit & earlier; just like "classic rock" is pre 80's...
I die a little Everytime I hear 90's grunge on the classic rock station.
Then where the 90's grunge belongs to?
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Hey, fuck you, too, buddy.
It would be still plenty fun to play PS1 games on a CRT as a poor kid in 2011, I suppose.
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Nope, "retro" is staying as 16-bit & earlier; just like "classic rock" is pre 80's...
I die a little Everytime I hear 90's grunge on the classic rock station.
Classic rock is limp biscuit
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And yet, somehow consumer tech didn't advance much since 15 years ago. Only more ads and more paid subscriptions. Same for games.
What are you talking about? I have a 500hz OLED that is way better than anything I've had before and by miles, and no gpu in history would have the horsepower to use that monitor except the 50 series Nvidia cards. We got ray tracing, and on the fly overlays now too. VR headsets are pretty good too.
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Apart from still having a crt, honestly all of that feels even farther back to me than it actually was. I was alive for dial up yet that feels like ice age type shit. I wish I had a better crt though. Or that literally any company would make modern ones.
Oled are the modern CRT. You get amazing picture and smooth motion, and you still have to baby it like a crt.
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What are you talking about? I have a 500hz OLED that is way better than anything I've had before and by miles, and no gpu in history would have the horsepower to use that monitor except the 50 series Nvidia cards. We got ray tracing, and on the fly overlays now too. VR headsets are pretty good too.
Only throwing more computing power at it, for negligible benefit. That's not what i call progress.
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Close for me.
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It was 20 years ago, not 15.
The Xbox 360 is now as old as the NES was when the 360 released. While there's no actual definition of retro I feel the general idea is around 20 years old, meaning the 360 generation and all first year games are now retro.There are a few definitions, all plausible in some way. One is simply "20 years or older", which I feel doesn't really work with how much technology has slowed down. 20 years ago was 2006. 20 years before that was 1986. The difference between 2006 games and today is far more minor than 1986 games and 2006. Another is "when games weren't all native widescreen and weren't widely played online", which would be anything pre-Xbox 360 and PS3. I like this one, and also "anything that isn't playable on current console hardware", which would be (some) Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii or earlier - technically Wii U counts, but almost every notable game from that era was ported to Switch. It's currently similar to "20 years or older", but focuses on accessibility rather than technology.
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Super Mario Bros (NES) to Mario 64: 11 years.
It was pretty wild growing up while Moore's Law was full steam ahead.
I can think of 3 different PCs I built and overclocked during college. Now, my everyday use computer is 8 years old and it's still pretty dang good.
10 years used to be several massive generational leaps in technology. Now it's slightly better graphics.
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This is your friendly reminder that GTA V originally released 12 years ago.
Skyrim was 14 years ago.
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It was 20 years ago, not 15.
The Xbox 360 is now as old as the NES was when the 360 released. While there's no actual definition of retro I feel the general idea is around 20 years old, meaning the 360 generation and all first year games are now retro.The game in the screenshot came out in November of 2010 so people were playing it 15 years ago.
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I got a couple Dell Optiplex minis for $5, just dropped Bazzite on one to use as a HTPC/retro console emulator. Debating on what to use the other for, possibly a Home Assistant setup? Idk, but for that cheap I wasn't gonna pass 'em up!
FIVE dollars? Bestow up me your wisdom thrift-related!
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FIVE dollars? Bestow up me your wisdom thrift-related!
I wish I had some great wisdom to share... Corporate upgrades. They were selling off all the "Useless" computers that were easier to replace than upgrade. i5's w/ 4gb of DDR3 & a 500 gig drive aren't going to run too much modern (windows) software; but DDR3 is cheap to upgrade, and $5 for a system I can get going for an hour's worth of time is a no brainer.
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Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition also got released recently. Great game for a decent price.
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The 90s are to today as the 60s were to the 90s.
wtf. I didn't come here to be so blatantly attacked like this!
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the 90s were only 10 years ago!
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Then where the 90's grunge belongs to?
The top hits stations.
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I wish I had some great wisdom to share... Corporate upgrades. They were selling off all the "Useless" computers that were easier to replace than upgrade. i5's w/ 4gb of DDR3 & a 500 gig drive aren't going to run too much modern (windows) software; but DDR3 is cheap to upgrade, and $5 for a system I can get going for an hour's worth of time is a no brainer.
Ah good old "right time right place"! My employer is remarkably averse to letting things go, they keep things for decades, then suddenly, seemingly overnight, BLAP! all gone.
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The Xbox One is almost 15 years old at this point.
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