...Galaxian, Pac-Land, Libble Rabble, Rompers, Tinkle Pit [sic]. And others. They were possibly the best arcade devs of the golden age , and no slouches afterwards.
Galaxian is an interesting one to me. It fits in the “iconic and prolific 80s Namco” group (well, it was 1979) but Galaga basically made it obsolete.
only by people who are wrong
The original Switch launched over nine years ago, and the Wii is coming up on 20 this November. It's time to let go.
Wii looks better connected to a CRT than to any modern TV. If that's not enough to make it retro I don't know what is.
Correctly.
I recall people on forums referring to SNES and even late games like Chrono Trigger as "retro" as early as 2001.
So a six year old game in 1997 for a system that was still getting new games is retro, but a 20 year old console isn’t?
There early ports are good, but Namco's games on the NES get really shit later on. I kinda of liked Mappy Kds and Splatter House, though you can tell both were rushed out. My Issue with Namco is that in that era they never really found out a way to make good home-console style games. There best games were all in the arcade.
Namco defined the golden era of arcades, mappy is the real stand out for me, i'd take it any day over pac-man or galaga(close second). Xevious is one I never really understood the appeal for. The core gameplay is kind of boring. Same with tower of Duraga, In both games, the player character always feels too slow.
I guess the Graphical leap. The transition to 3d would make anything 2d look primitive back them. Plus the gaming industry has kind of settled since the 2000s. A ten-year gap is nowhere near as radical as it used to be. Games from 2006-8 feel a little different, but the fundamentals can still be seen in modern games (Demon's souls, COD MW), unlike back then where single generational leap would change the entire industry.
I'd say Metal Wolf Chaos, but it has been remastered on modern platforms.
I'm re-reading Nintendo Power from the start and the upcoming games include "classics" being released for the console such as Galaga, Pac-Man, Millipede, and Donkey Kong Classics (the two-in-one cartridge), despite this only being 1988 when these games weren't even a decade old yet.
PS1 maybe
Pretty much, just a Zoomer's opinion here but I'd say anything that can produce anything graphically realistic in a fully fledged game can't be retro, PS1, N64 blah that generation is the maximum retro could really be. PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and anything beyond all have games that graphically could hold up today (if not look better since it had none of the retarded post processing modern games have)
Some people don't understand context, they'll point out the dictionary definition of "retro" and argue that it applies to something like the Wii but then the dictionary term for "ancient" could also be similarly applied.
The three of you are describing something very different than how we have very much come to use the word retro to mean "old." I can explain with a simple anecdote.Pretty much, just a Zoomer's opinion here but I'd say anything that can produce anything graphically realistic in a fully fledged game can't be retro, PS1, N64 blah that generation is the maximum retro could really be. PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and anything beyond all have games that graphically could hold up today (if not look better since it had none of the retarded post processing modern games have)
This is why the consoles are dying, in the 1980s and 1990s you had a very different ecosystem between computer and console, with ports rarely working out successfully, and the consoles themselves specializing in different genres.