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From: rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge)
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Subject: Re: When Is A Game Old?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:03:37 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>So where do we draw the line between "oh man, that game is old!",
>meaning it is visually or mechanically distinct from 'modern' games?
>Obviously this is a very subjective and there will always be
>exceptions to the rule, but how far back before you consider a game
>'old' and notably different from a modern title?

I'm not sure I draw that line anymore.  To me any game that is more
than a year old isn't new, but that doesn't make it old in my mind.
There's maybe a boundary of roughly 15 to 20 years ago where I'd have
trouble recommending a game to most people because the 3D graphics look
particularily bad by modern standards.  Even with 2D games, many people
will have a problem with them because they usually only support a 4:3
aspect ratio and a limitted set of resolutions.

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