Talk:Retrogaming

message: "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)
replies: text: I agree. However, I think even "low quality" would be rather ambiguous and silly. Compare to this: "it is not possible to create high-quality oil paintings", or "it is not possible to play high quality music with a piano because its capabilities in sound generation are more limited than today's synthesizers." Perhaps we just want to state that the old systems posed more limitations on the amount of colors and pixels and the complexity of rendering algorithms compared to today's systems, and this often gave a special outlook to the graphics that was made. --Viznut 07:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

text: ...and actually, the whole sentence containing "graphics were not very good" is just wrong. Games definitely did try to appeal to the audience with graphics already in the 70s (with innovations such as the use of pixel-based shapes, color, etc). And already in the late 80s, there were many magazine articles that criticized the trend of focusing mainly on graphics instead of originality or gameplay. Perhaps the whole sentence can be removed. --Viznut 08:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

text: "Not very good" by today's standards, perhaps. Back when those games were new they were incredible. Remember when the Playstation was released? It had amazing graphics for its time, and now they are regarded as rubbish. As time marches on, so does technology, and so do peoples' expectations. --bicostp 02:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Classic Games Graphics

message: 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)
thread_title:  Re-write 

message: *Against There's no reason to merge this or the several others tagged for merge by a new editor who created a new almost entirely WP:OR topic based article that most likely will be deleted. These articles discuss a game genre and not a "type of gamer".  --Marty Goldberg (talk) 18:42, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sidenote: WP:MM? You skipped some steps. --Muhandes (talk) 14:47, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: "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)
thread_title:  Article description and cover art picture 

message: "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)
thread_title:  Isolation from human contact? 

message: 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?
:I don't think there's an intentional retrogaming aspect to Minecraft - my opinion was that the blockiness was simply down to making manipulation of the surroundings easy.  There are no sources that I know of which would support otherwise.   a_man_alone (talk) 18:07, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retro aspects to modern games? 

message: 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 gaming69.178.112.95 (talk) 09:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: Perhaps something useful in this source from 1999
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(not watching, please ) czar 18:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: 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)
replies: text: I support this, I actually have personally only seen "retrogaming" as one word for this article, most other sources and content surrounding it seem to use the two word spelling. - Fluddulation! 14:44, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Support. A bit late on this but as a retro game enthusiast myself I never see anyone use Retrogaming one word as it's always been Retro gaming two words. This should absolutely be moved. Bro3256 (talk) 00:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Retro gaming]]? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Tropic Haze case