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"Classic games were developed in a time when graphics were not very good" - the "not very good" part is simply wrong (as the graphics COULD be good, the thing they could NOT be is high quality). Also it is definitely not NPOV, how about changing the wording to "of a low quality" or something similar? ?-- 80.128.116.168 23:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Someone's put "This game is part of the retrogaming phenomenon" on loads of articles about old games, even though those games have no particular connection to retrogaming; they are just old games. I've tried to remove this where I've found it. I think the person just wanted to link them all here, but that should be done with a template or category, not irrelevant text in the article. 86.168.28.241 ( talk) 23:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
A serious re-write of this entire article is required to bring it up to modern standards. The areticle was rated as Start class nearly three years ago but I would now consider it to be stub-class (anybody agree?) due to the lack of references, and the one reference that is on the page is irrelevant to the article's subject matter.
This is a task that could well be handled by the Retro Games task force, but any editor should fee free to try to improve the article. AirRaidPatrol 84 ( talk) 21:15, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Text and/or other creative content from this version of Retrogames was copied or moved into Retrogaming with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
"Foreveralonism" stems from the internet meme "Forever alone" and is badly biased against "retro gamers" as well as practically not used anywhere on the internet. A google search for "foreveralonism" shows about 50 results, one of the first few of them returning the user to this article. Replacing it with "classic gaming" - as written before "foreveralonism" - seems logical.
The game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" can hardly be considered a retro game; it was released in 2007, uses 3-dimensional graphics and was released for gaming consoles like, amongst others, Playstation 3 and XBox 360. I suggest deleting this picture from the article. 80.219.27.101 ( talk) 06:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
"Retrogaming is often linked to, although not the same as, indie gaming (the hobby of playing games that are not published by any conventional publisher) as well as several types of clinical depression associated with extended isolation from other human contact."
There is no reference to the supposed effects from lack of human contact. While there is evidence for possible negative psychological effects of playing video games, there is no reason for this to be mentioned in an article regarding retrogaming; most controversy focuses on modern games depicting sexuality, violence and action in realistic, 3-dimensional graphics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversy). 80.219.27.101 ( talk) 22:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
I am thinking of Minecraft's pixelly art style here here when I say: aren't there new games created specifically to market to retrogamers which have retro aspects but aren't actually from the time period? and in that case shouldn't the article cover that?
An editor contends that "Old School" is not a valid term for retro games, and has removed it twice, with Draconian statements that any re-insertions are now prohibited. As per Bold Revert Discuss I will start the discussion, and believe that "Old School" is a valid description - here are three links which all use the term when referring to retro games and the topic in general:
a_man_alone ( talk) 11:32, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
is it really neccesary to list every single console, and a handfull of publishers in the "games" section? also the "legtal issues surrounding..." section is about emulation, not specifically retro gaming 69.178.112.95 ( talk) 09:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Perhaps something useful in this source from 1999
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czar 18:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed that "retro gaming" (two words) seems to be a more prevalent spelling than "retrogaming" (one word). Thus, I'd like to move the page to the spelling that's more often used, however, I want to reach WP:CONSENSUS first. Liliana ( UwU) 02:45, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Something should be added there that the case isn't exactly about the emulator, it's also about the piracy being done behind the scenes that lacked proper and legal evidence from Nintendo to be pushed properly. The creators of Yuzu and Citra were sharing, illegally, a full google drive stash full of pirated games with their patrons from patreon.
There are screenshots of what they shared there, talks with Nintendo about it from one of the users once it was found, and some users also confirming what was happening there, but I presume that something like that isn't wanted here so here is instead a news link about it: https://wccftech.com/yuzu-telemetry-piracy-nintendo-user-data/ DFRodri ( talk) 15:35, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
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To-do list for Retrogaming:
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"Classic games were developed in a time when graphics were not very good" - the "not very good" part is simply wrong (as the graphics COULD be good, the thing they could NOT be is high quality). Also it is definitely not NPOV, how about changing the wording to "of a low quality" or something similar? ?-- 80.128.116.168 23:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Someone's put "This game is part of the retrogaming phenomenon" on loads of articles about old games, even though those games have no particular connection to retrogaming; they are just old games. I've tried to remove this where I've found it. I think the person just wanted to link them all here, but that should be done with a template or category, not irrelevant text in the article. 86.168.28.241 ( talk) 23:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
A serious re-write of this entire article is required to bring it up to modern standards. The areticle was rated as Start class nearly three years ago but I would now consider it to be stub-class (anybody agree?) due to the lack of references, and the one reference that is on the page is irrelevant to the article's subject matter.
This is a task that could well be handled by the Retro Games task force, but any editor should fee free to try to improve the article. AirRaidPatrol 84 ( talk) 21:15, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Text and/or other creative content from this version of Retrogames was copied or moved into Retrogaming with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. |
"Foreveralonism" stems from the internet meme "Forever alone" and is badly biased against "retro gamers" as well as practically not used anywhere on the internet. A google search for "foreveralonism" shows about 50 results, one of the first few of them returning the user to this article. Replacing it with "classic gaming" - as written before "foreveralonism" - seems logical.
The game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" can hardly be considered a retro game; it was released in 2007, uses 3-dimensional graphics and was released for gaming consoles like, amongst others, Playstation 3 and XBox 360. I suggest deleting this picture from the article. 80.219.27.101 ( talk) 06:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
"Retrogaming is often linked to, although not the same as, indie gaming (the hobby of playing games that are not published by any conventional publisher) as well as several types of clinical depression associated with extended isolation from other human contact."
There is no reference to the supposed effects from lack of human contact. While there is evidence for possible negative psychological effects of playing video games, there is no reason for this to be mentioned in an article regarding retrogaming; most controversy focuses on modern games depicting sexuality, violence and action in realistic, 3-dimensional graphics ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversy). 80.219.27.101 ( talk) 22:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
I am thinking of Minecraft's pixelly art style here here when I say: aren't there new games created specifically to market to retrogamers which have retro aspects but aren't actually from the time period? and in that case shouldn't the article cover that?
An editor contends that "Old School" is not a valid term for retro games, and has removed it twice, with Draconian statements that any re-insertions are now prohibited. As per Bold Revert Discuss I will start the discussion, and believe that "Old School" is a valid description - here are three links which all use the term when referring to retro games and the topic in general:
a_man_alone ( talk) 11:32, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
is it really neccesary to list every single console, and a handfull of publishers in the "games" section? also the "legtal issues surrounding..." section is about emulation, not specifically retro gaming 69.178.112.95 ( talk) 09:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Perhaps something useful in this source from 1999
{{
cite news}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)(not
watching, please {{
ping}}
)
czar 18:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
I've noticed that "retro gaming" (two words) seems to be a more prevalent spelling than "retrogaming" (one word). Thus, I'd like to move the page to the spelling that's more often used, however, I want to reach WP:CONSENSUS first. Liliana ( UwU) 02:45, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Something should be added there that the case isn't exactly about the emulator, it's also about the piracy being done behind the scenes that lacked proper and legal evidence from Nintendo to be pushed properly. The creators of Yuzu and Citra were sharing, illegally, a full google drive stash full of pirated games with their patrons from patreon.
There are screenshots of what they shared there, talks with Nintendo about it from one of the users once it was found, and some users also confirming what was happening there, but I presume that something like that isn't wanted here so here is instead a news link about it: https://wccftech.com/yuzu-telemetry-piracy-nintendo-user-data/ DFRodri ( talk) 15:35, 9 March 2024 (UTC)