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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (lemmy.world)
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I went to a Gamestop the other day, and they had a little section for pre-owned games for older systems (think Xbox360, PS2, DS, etc). I was perusing and grabbed some games, but I noticed something, the cases that have the XBOX360 games have a giant "RETRO GAMING" on it in the centre. So I am like wtf, I grew up with the XBOX360, what the hell do they mean "retro".

So I went and asked like friends and other people if the XBOX360 is retro now, and basically everyone was like "yeah". I was talking to my EX about it and she was like "the xbox came out in 2005/6. There is more time between us and the xbox360 than there was between the xbox and the SNES when the xbox came out. Was the SNES "retro" when the xbox360 came out?"

I am like not ready, not willing to accept the XBOX360 as retro. Because that is saying my thing that I grew up with is "retro" or "old" now and im not ready to accept that because im not ready to be old.

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[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This hurts me. I have vivid memories of playing Halo 3 and Hexic back when I was in middle school.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First time?

Halo (combat evolved) came out when I was a junior in highschool.

Before that, it was GoldenEye and then Perfect Dark.

And I even got to play some Timesplitters at PS2 launch because the rich kid got the multitap and extra controllers.

Heck, we're (significantly) farther away from the CE anniversary launch than it was from the original.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When your fact about CE Anniversary hit for OoT and OoT3D, I felt crippled.