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Caption: [Music] hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on benl language.com I&#39;m glad you could make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about retro games retro games we&#39;ve talked about games before video games board games games card games but there&#39;s another genre of games that I find um pretty interesting and those are retro games so retro um I actually don&#39;t know what the root word is um maybe it&#39;s retrospective or something like that but a retro thing is something from the past um so let&#39;s see retro definition does it come from a different word like it says it&#39;s just a prefix but I&#39;ve oh no there&#39;s the adjective y That&#39;s just the whole word retro um okay so there is no Bas longer word cool um but a retro something is that is retro is that it used to be in fashion it&#39;s old or it&#39;s maybe um nostalgic of some kind in in some way and so things from like the 80s or the &#39;90s or the other 2000s can be considered retro because they&#39;re from the past they might be cool or interesting and and um have that different touch that isn&#39;t as modern so you can find things like retro um fashion Retro Music right um vinyl for example is sort of retro nowadays because it&#39;s not many people use vinyl as their daily music listening so it&#39;s considered retro but today we&#39;re talking about retro games which are video games from uh really like this pretty much just the 80s 90s ER eras cuz like their video games are relatively new in human invention um pong was in like the 60s or something let&#39;s see that was I think the first official video game pong original date let&#39;s see if that comes up with something uh 72 so yeah early&#39; 7s and then I think like the 70s were when like there were some arcade games nothing super duper um really uh that like sticks out in our minds I guess and then like towards the late 80s late &#39;70s and 80s is when video games started to become way bigger and definitely in the 90s um &#39;90s video games were totally popping off um really popular then in the 2000s even right that&#39;s so if anybody that kind of grew up in in the 9s or the 2000s definitely um video games were a part of that childhood um almost assuredly um to the point like and now mobile games video games are humongous among everybody um not even like because it started out as a more Niche thing right usually younger boys would play video games in and then it it started basically expanding to everybody and now we&#39;re at the point where um pretty much everybody has played a video game at some point everybody&#39;s heard of them it&#39;s it&#39;s super mainstream basically like um movies and the video game Market is massive and the the Retro Game Market is actually also really interesting because you might think that things have just gotten better and better and better and in some ways they have but also they&#39;ve just gotten different right there&#39;s a certain point where video games were good enough to be amazing right like um same thing with movies there are movies nowadays that look better that are really good that are bigger crazier more wild but doesn&#39;t mean that they&#39;re necessarily better than movies from the&#39; 60s right there&#39;s movies that can be pretty old and have a really great story have really good characters be really interesting and fun um because the there&#39;s a certain point where the technology is good enough that you can create um top tier art top tier creation um without being limited necessarily and so these retro games that had a lot of these constraints about about like what you can do um you can&#39;t do um amazing visual Graphics you can&#39;t have too complex of um storylines because you only have uh 5 megabytes to to work with right there the games were constrained in a lot of ways but they were there was a lot of options and possibilities there was enough options and possibilities to create something truly amazing so there&#39;s a lot of people that like these older games and they play old video video games they they collect things about them because that is the style that they really like um I&#39;ve said before that I don&#39;t really play a ton of video games um recently actually just a couple days ago I started recording some um video game play through things for this this channel um playing a game that I like and that&#39;s like the first time I played a video game in like a year um but I still find them interesting I follow like big news I I I I watch people play them sometimes and I occasion actually that&#39;s not true I have played other video games because I have a little handheld device called amiu that runs retro games so it&#39;s about it&#39;s smaller than a phone so it&#39;s smaller than my phone it&#39;s about the same weight though it&#39;s relatively heavy and it&#39;s a fairly simple computer that um runs um old video games and it can run them because old video games require basically no power to run no no um real uh computing power I guess and it&#39;s it&#39;s it&#39;s a great way to spend a couple hours on an airplane because they are simple games to understand to control and it&#39;s mostly story and text based which is really great for like my interests cuz I don&#39;t really want to like learn how to play a really complicated fighting game or um massively multiplayer online game or whatever and so I much prefer the sort of the simpler style of a game that I might know and understand and you can just read text on screen and follow a sort a relatively simple video game that is still a lot of fun um I&#39;m definitely not I wouldn&#39;t say like a big retro gamer I don&#39;t collect retro stuff I don&#39;t have a CRT television which is an old style of of TV that um actually runs better for um old old games which is interesting and but I do I do think that they&#39;re really interesting and I think I&#39;m running out of time because I&#39;ve been babbling about random things but one of the reasons I find retro games to be really interesting is because of this idea of constraints or of of restrictions making more creativity or um restrictions read creativity um and what that means is that when there are restrictions in place saying you can&#39;t do this thing you can&#39;t do this you can&#39;t do this you have to do this it makes people be more creative so the example I like to use is the music in a lot of old video games has a very distinctive sound right you when you hear it you immediately think that&#39;s from an old video game that&#39;s from the uh Game Boy that&#39;s from the NES right there&#39;s this very distinctive music um look it up if you don&#39;t know what I&#39;m talking about look up like NES music or something like that and you&#39;ll hear this like distinctive style of music and that music like it sounds like that because there&#39;s relatively simple um physical Hardware that can play music in these machines and they&#39;re relatively constrained to I think like eight different kinds of sounds and they function based off of very simple sound waves so you get very you don&#39;t really get like an instrument sound you get a very specific like artificial music sound however if that&#39;s all you have to work with that can create really really interesting music and there&#39;s actually an entire genre of people that make music now even now in 2024 just out of that those sounds right I think 8 bit music if you look it up um you can find a ton of different things that make 8bit music um which is very simple uh this sort of very simple sounds that can become really really interesting and creative and there is some amazing music made just in this style absolutely incredible and for example one of my favorite soundtracks for an old video game is for the the Fire Emblem 8 soundtrack which you can probably look up and just hear the music and it just doesn&#39;t sound like it it has all these constraints to it it sounds like an artist making music and creating something amazing for a video game but there is a relatively um simple back like specific sound waves that are being sent to our ears and that I think is really cool and those constraints make for pretty interesting um games so whether you go play old game like games like the original I think the original or like the what ever whatever generation of Pokemon or like I said some of my favorite um games growing up are the Fire Emblem games or old Mario games even like getting into like the PlayStation one right there&#39;s a bunch of games with like Crash Bandicoot all the a bunch of different like Street Fighter games there&#39;s so many really good games from that time period when there was actually a good bit of um of of constraints to building a video game and and I find that really interesting and I do enjoy playing video games uh when I play games like on an airplane or something I often do it on as a as a as a retro game because um I find that interesting but yeah okay I&#39;m going to stop rambling on I didn&#39;t actually get to as many things I wanted to talk about today but hopefully you enjoyed and um learned a little something let me down in the comments below did you ever play retro games do you like them do you find them interesting but I&#39;ll see you again tomorrow for another episode have a good one bye
Title: Daily Dose of English 172 - Retro Games
Language: en