r/RetroGaming is very strict about retro. They say the Nintendo 64 is retro while the PlayStation 2 is modern. This despite the fact the PlayStation 2 is now 25 years old.

So I got to wonder about this community deems as “retro”.

Or a better question: what’s considered retro and not retro? What’s the fine line between retro and modern?

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Ha, nice! Sounds about right. Something that has “become fashionable again”. Like 8-bit graphics in modern games. The prefix (hence the dash) meaning “backward” is more literal, like retrospect, which means to look back.