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[–] tal@olio.cafe 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not even Halo CE man,

I mean, he's right, though. It's been a while.

Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001, 24 years ago.

Go back to 2001 and hack off 24 years, and you're at 1977. In 1977

late in 1977

the Atari 2600 was released, so the equivalent would be an early Atari 2600 game. If you were playing Halo: Combat Evolved when it was new and someone proposed playing an early Atari 2600 game, it'd be hard to call it anything but retrogaming with a pretty hard emphasis on the "retro".

EDIT: It also does kind of highlight, I think, how the rate of change of video games has kind of slowed a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games

It looks like only nine Atari 2600 games were out in 1977. I think the only game on there I have played is Combat. I remember having fun with it, but if you compare Combat and Halo: CE versus Halo: CE to a current video game, the rate of change has fallen way off.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My local game store had about fifty copies of Combat when I was a teen. They sold for 1USD each. They never sold.

Combat inflation is real.