Retrogaming CUT OFF!!!

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The CUT OFF for Retrogaming

Pong/Atari Era
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No votes
8-bit Era (NES, Sega Master)
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9%
16-bit Era (SNES, Genesis, Turbo Grafx-16)
5
14%
32-bit Era (Saturn, PS1, N64)
12
34%
128-bit Era (Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, XBOX)
15
43%
 
Total votes: 35
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Cerulean wrote:
vlame wrote:Question: Are there any N64 games that aren't 3D?

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Well, from a technical standpoint, it is 3D
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Well I typically think that an era becomes retro when its generation is 3 years past its end. A generation is typically 6 years long, so for me, the genesis became retro in 1998 because its era ended in 1995, the saturn in 2002 because it ended in 1999, and dreamcast this year. I know that a lot of people classify the dreamcast as retro, but I thought the system was just too modern to be called retro untill now.
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Cerulean wrote:
vlame wrote:Question: Are there any N64 games that aren't 3D?

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racketboy wrote:
Cerulean wrote:
vlame wrote:Question: Are there any N64 games that aren't 3D?

paper mario
Well, from a technical standpoint, it is 3D
2d sprites tho......meh whateva.
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Technically Killer Instinct Gold
Mortal Kombat Trilogy was 2D
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lordofduct wrote:NES just isn't as old school as SMS or MX merely because still today everyone can easily pick up an NES anywhere. Where as SMS was very hard to come by and didn't sit in the lime light very much.
Thats an interesting point, Do you think that the obscurity of a particular console or game adds to its desirability?

I think it does for me. I hate to be elitist cos then I get lumped with the PC gamers and such like but I d love that feeling when people come round and see me playing something the've never seen before because they were too busy with a sony machine to notice the rest of the great stuff happening over the last 10 years.

Anyway I digress, I woukd agree that any system that you can no longr buy new fom a high street shop is considered retro and retro games are still being made now, see Geometry wars, links crossbow training and the variuos 2D fighters that are still kicking about
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Post by All Hail The New Flesh »

To me, I wait until 10 or 20 years after the release or the death of the console, so I guess right now The Dreamcast is the cut-off.
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The N64 can't do true 2D. It has no separate 2D blitting hardware. It can only emulate 2D with flat polygons, and even that's a pain in the ass due to the 4 kb texture limit. The N64 is simply a horrible, horrible system to try to do anything 2D with.
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