Or do we need another decade before we can call IPod games retro?
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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I think 25 years is plenty long enough.
The Atari 2600 was newer when the first iPod was released than the first iPod is now.
Being a Millennial and older now is like what being a 500 year old immortal would have been back when it took that long to see meaningful technological change.
Exactly.
Imagine a 13 year old kid now-gtav is the same age as them and they're still playing it.
Thats the crazy thing. Advancment peaked.
Are deliberatly trying to make hurt me?
I was originally going to compare it to the NES, and then I realised that I needed to go back a lot further....
I had a similar thought, I sold those things so many years ago, it is retro. It was before the gameboy advanced (okay only by like 8 months if I saw the correct dates). I actually thought they came out further apart and advanced was later but apparently March and November dates. 2001 was a good year, Xbox year too.
Maybe I am just young, but this seems incredibly obvious.
I am probably going to get downvoted for this.