Retro question

[Wing-0]

When does a game or console begin to be considered retro?

I have no idea for the criteria to classify stuff like that.

[Zucca]

I classify all games retro before there was actual 3D.
Of course there are games made after the "discovery" of 3D and I consider some of those as retro games too.
Most people consider retro games as games that are 8-bit. But some consider, ie, Quake as retro too.

Nowdays I think Playstation 1 and Saturn are strongly becoming to retro.
Also even Playstation 2 has some retro styled non-3D games, so it's not always the age that is the meter of retro.

Wikipedia has pretty good article on "Retrogaming".

[The HuBBs]

Retro is usually given to the generation of consoles before the last. So the newest gen of systems to become retro is the N64, Dreamcast, PS1, saturn, etc.

[Semix]

I'm more interested in what (if any) the 8th gen consoles will bring.

[Neo48]

Sorry Semix, but Sony and Microsoft seem more interested in capturing the casual market that Nintendo has with their new products (Move and Natal). You'll have to wait a while I think.


Gaming for me started on the gameboy...but I strongly consider the N64 to be my retro system.