When people are calling modern things they know are modern “retro”, I think it’s just a simpler form of saying “retro-style”. I mean, when I’m talking about modern retro styled things that aren’t videogames, I personally say “retro-styled” myself; and I consider that to be what people also mean when they call modern things “retro”.

For games, I have to disagree that Retro can also mean games that look old. Again, I consider these to be “retro-styled” as well, not “Retro”, which to me indicates its actual age. VVVVVV isn’t retro, it’s retro-styled. Alwa’s Awakening is an NES style metroidvania game released in 2017, designed to feel exactly like something that could run on real NES hardware. Then in 2022, they actually did just that; they ported the game to real NES hardware and released it as the “8-Bit Edition”. To play it, you either need to flash it on a cart and play it on a real NES, or simply emulate it on modern hardware. In my opinion, this game isn’t retro at all; it’s “retro-styled”, even if you consider the fact it released on an actual retro console.

I consider GameCube/PS2/XBOX to be undoubtedly retro. So anything Gen 6 and earlier. To me 16-bit era and earlier is just “more retro”. Gen 7 I think is arguably technically retro, but it just doesn’t feel retro to me.

I mean, 360 & PS3 games still feel like they’re just modern games with less detailed graphics, and the Wii feels kind of like part of the Wii U era to me; and that association with the Wii U makes it very much not feel retro. But any games released before Gen 7 feels unique compared to modern games, therefore giving that feeling of being retro.

In regards to what feels retro to me, I personally consider Gen 6 GameCube/PS2/XBOX and everything older to be undoubtedly retro.

I think that the Gen 7 Wii, PS3 & Xbox 360 should technically be considered retro now due to their age, but personally generation 6 and earlier is what feels retro to me.

Maybe they’ll come out with some official mousepad. I can’t wait to see if they do Mario Paint and a new Mario Maker with this too, though.

Another day, another crappy Nintendo action.

I bought it when it came out even though I couldn’t reasonably afford it, because at the time my stupid teen-aged self wanted to collect every Nintendo published game on the Switch, and thought the game was going to be sold out if I didn’t get it. I was well aware it was scummy of Nintendo at the time, but I bought it because I was sure they wouldn’t do it again. I even got the limited time Fire Emblem English translation and still haven’t touched it yet.

Now they’re gonna release it on the eShop right!?.. Right?

That’s funny, I think you’re probably right. This is the message at the bottom of the page only if you select the “Physical” option first. If you select the “Digital” option, the cancer and reproductive harm message doesn’t appear.

Yeah, figured that out recently from my own physical PC collection. This wasn’t game assets, but I thought it was really awesome one day when I found a really early development test video of the Lemony Snickets game for PC. It was just a raw video file sitting on the disc in a folder. The video was an in-engine recreation of this scene and the characters had no voices or animations, placeholder models, and were just moving around the scene in a T-Pose and, it was so interesting and cool to personally bump into it because that was a childhood favourite movie of mine.

I can’t find the video online, so when I get proper internet in a few days, I’ll try to upload it.

Put the headset on full blast? Got it!

Oh cool. I didn’t know the company was Australian, but I’m Australian and got this from a regional op-shop here (aka thrift store). You can tell it’s Australian from the G rating on the bottom-right.

[Goes and cries in a corner]