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My teen coworkers told me that he found an old Xbox 360 in his basement and has had a lot of fun playing "retro" games like Tony Hawk Underground and Burnout 3. (hexbear.net)

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 6 hours ago

local Hexbear confounded by process of time moving forward, people referring to games that came out several years before they were born as "retro"

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

A 19 year old today would have been 8 when the 360 was replaced by the XBone, and may have kept playing on one for a few years beyond that. It wasn’t quite that long ago when that generation was still current. Perhaps these particular kids / child labourers are so young they think the “retro” cutoff line is the start of the pandemic.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

If they're teenagers then Tony Hawk Underground is literally older than them, as it came out in 2003

[-] Snackuleata@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Never played the original THUG but THUG 2 was probably my most played game in middle school.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago

Eric Sparrow is history's greatest monster

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

just got to embrace the future 😎 360 is so old now

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 19 points 13 hours ago

I looked forward to weekend at my Dad's because his roommate had an Atari 800.

So you can all shut the fuck up and kindly step off my lawn.

grillman

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 29 points 16 hours ago

The meaning of "retro" got frozen at the 2D/3D transition for quite a while, but it's long past time to move to a new definition: a console becomes retro when they sunset the online connectivity

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I vote to use the fashion definition. 20 years ago is retro. It’s simple. Yeah it makes me feel old. But still…

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

I think two decades old is plenty retro

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 12 hours ago

The Nintendo New 3DS in shambles.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"Retro" just means "it happened before I was old enough to enjoy it".

Just like "old" means "anyone older than me".

Maybe a more objective measure is "if it is older than people who are now adults, it's retro".

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[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 13 points 13 hours ago

Hm, feel like we need one more gen til the 360 is "retro/vintage", feels too recent still for those monikers.

Like for the Original Xbox it feels right, but 360's too new imo.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

Tony Hawk Underground came out 21 years ago

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

And it was on the original xbox, not the 360

[-] Tripbin@hexbear.net 5 points 12 hours ago

I dont feel like anyone waited till the GB/GBC was 20 years old before it was considered retro.

[-] Halloweenbean@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago

Every xbox since the Xbox one has basically been the same Xbox. Even the switch is basically just a super gameboy.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 28 points 16 hours ago

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago

I am the ancient seer on top of the mountain that played Final Fantasy 1 when it was first localized. meemaw

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 9 points 15 hours ago

Final Fantasy is a 1987 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago

Yep.

[-] neo@hexbear.net 1 points 8 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDY2nXVLZ0

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 hours ago

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 36 points 17 hours ago

Nah man. Let him know this is the way. No always online. No microtransactions in EVERYTHING. We need to go back

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 29 points 16 hours ago

I want game manuals back

[-] uSSRI@hexbear.net 19 points 16 hours ago

Oh yeah, I'd devour those whenever I was waiting for my turn on the TV. Used to be helpful shit in there, too

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

I'd read them in the car on the way home from the local non chain video rental store. I was never allowed to rent mortal kombat though

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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 14 points 16 hours ago

Play Tunic!

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 30 points 17 hours ago

( specter ooOOoOoh I’m younger than TES Oblivion oOOooh)

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago

dean-frown

[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 21 points 16 hours ago

burnout 3 is probably in my top 10 games of all time

[-] toys_are_back_in_town@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

that was the one where there was a mode where you had to basically do vehicular terrorism, causing as much damage as possible in a single accident right?

that slapped, i wonder how many people used the training for their exit