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I am personally offended that the XBOX360 is apparently considered retro now (lemmy.world)

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I went to a Gamestop the other day, and they had a little section for pre-owned games for older systems (think Xbox360, PS2, DS, etc). I was perusing and grabbed some games, but I noticed something, the cases that have the XBOX360 games have a giant "RETRO GAMING" on it in the centre. So I am like wtf, I grew up with the XBOX360, what the hell do they mean "retro".

So I went and asked like friends and other people if the XBOX360 is retro now, and basically everyone was like "yeah". I was talking to my EX about it and she was like "the xbox came out in 2005/6. There is more time between us and the xbox360 than there was between the xbox and the SNES when the xbox came out. Was the SNES "retro" when the xbox360 came out?"

I am like not ready, not willing to accept the XBOX360 as retro. Because that is saying my thing that I grew up with is "retro" or "old" now and im not ready to accept that because im not ready to be old.

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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1930 is chosen and is generally recognized as the cutoff for vintage cars

By who? I'm a big car guy and have never heard someone say a car has to be near 100 years old to be vintage. Most laws here in the states say 30. This is the only real source I could find that agrees with you but then it goes on to disagree with itself so idk.

Personally, I'd say "vintage" is 1950s and into the 1960s. I would say the C1 Corvette is "vintage", but the C2 is "classic".

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

https://veterancarclubofwesternaustralia.wildapricot.org/

https://wikicars.org/en/Vintage_car

http://www.vmc.org.au/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_car

A cursory google search also turned up a few other clubs with that definition in the site preview blurb (some even from outside Australia) but the sites have expired or invalid https certs, so I'd rather not link to them.

Though it does seem the majority use a broader definition.