• The Picard ManeuverOP
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      I think my mind is frozen in time, because the line for what is “retro” to me is solidly between the transition from 2D to 3D.

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        For me it’s anything prior to 360/PS3, because from then on the graphical and gameplay leaps have been incremental compared to what came before. You really don’t consider N64 or PSX retro?

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          Hmm, I guess N64 would be to me. Maybe because I didn’t have PlayStations (went from Nintendo to Xbox), they all seem more modern to me.

          Maybe it’s more accurate to draw my mental line as cartridge consoles vs CDs.

    • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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      We called the NES retro gaming when the N64 was out. The PS3 is retro gaming, too. So GTA5 and Skyrim are retro re-releases.

      • @inverted_deflector
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        I often thing about this. Technology moved so fast in those days and then it sort of plateaued. Things are certainly getting more powerful of course but nothing like that old generational leap we used to feel.

        I think it’s also a testament to the age of the medium as well. Most gaming fans are young gen xers or millennials. The medium grew up with its fanbase and with that comes the perspective of a youth. A 7 year old looks back at their preschool years like ancient history, a teen the same of grade school. Combined with how antiquated the tech was it felt holder. Median gamer age is rising and if you ask a 35 year old about when they were 25 it would feel a lot closer.

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          Yup. The 360 came out 15 years before the Series X was released, yet the graphics improvement from 2005 - 2020 is minuscule compared to 1990 - 2005.

        • ivanafterall
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          I thought the PS5 felt like more of a generational leap than the PS4 did.

          • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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            I feel like the jump from the PS360 to the PS4/One was reliability.

            I didn’t spend too much time with the PS4, but it felt like there was less crashing, and better console reliability.

    • Sombyr
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      The day I added a GameCube to my retro setup was the day I accepted everyone gets old eventually.

  • @lgmjon64@lemmy.world
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    Did this once with a Soylent Green reference. I wasn’t even the oldest person there and nobody knew what I was talking about.

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    I work with people who haven’t even seen fucking Ghostbusters.

    It’s a painful existence to feel this old, but I console myself with the knowledge that most of them will be renting until they’re about 60.

  • We had a teacher make a “Bueller? Bueller?” reference once. You could see her die inside when we didn’t laugh.

    It’s not like we didn’t get it, it just wasn’t funny. I don’t know if that would have made it worse for her.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      Hey, before the internet, “memes” had to last for a long time. She’s just showing off how environmentally conscious she is by not throwing that one out yet.

  • @Brickhead92@lemmy.world
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    Not a movie but a song reference tale of woe:

    Some propaganda training meeting at the office and there were treats to eat. One of the guys grabbed an apple pie and had a bite, but it also had lime in it so he said

    Coworker: “Yuck, I hate lime with apple”

    Me: “I guess you prefer your lime in the coconut.”

    Coworker: “I’ve never had lime with coconut before.”

    Me: sigh