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    [QQ=Czanthor]For those who don't consider SNES retro, might I ask what you first console was? It seems to me that you see anything previous to your first console as retro, and I was wondering if this was the case with all of you, too.[/QQ]

    My first computer was an Atari 520 Ste. My first console was a NES.

    They were bought for me when I was five years old.
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    SNES is old-skool in my eyes, not retro. Games like Asteroids, Pong etc. are retro to me.

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    Atari and previous is retro. SNES still seems fairly "advanced" to me because I had nothing but NES for so long. Retro probably means "anything before the first gaming system a given person had", and that varies from person to person.

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    8-bit/pre 8-bit are Retro.
    16-bit is Classics.
    32-64 bit is Golden Age.
    Anything more recent is Current.
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    Hmm. I'm not sure about the 'Golden Age' comment. But otherwise, that's a pretty fair assessment.
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    Well, I had trouble deciding weather to have 16-bit or 32-64-bit have that title. But I decided with the 3-D graphics, games were able to explore the third demension fluidly. I also think this is the time when games started going more mainstream.
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    >>> As Unne said, Atari and previous is retro like "Pong" the first videogame ever made..
    >> The black orb glitters ominously... but nothing happens..

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    space wars is actually the first game ever made. A bunch of scientists messing around with the new micro chip tech eneded up making a very basic game before video games existed it even had 2 player

    any thing from before the 8 bit era i consider to be retro and my first system was some very old thing with just variations of pong on it then a atari 2600
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    space wars is actually the first game ever made. A bunch of scientists messing around with the new micro chip tech eneded up making a very basic game before video games existed it even had 2 player
    >>> The first pong was older than micro chips..
    >> The black orb glitters ominously... but nothing happens..

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    yeh i probably messed up there space wars was made in 1961 it ran on pdp-1 mini comps so it is the first game
    Last edited by Yrkoon; 06-27-2004 at 12:07 AM.

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