oldschool?
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Meh, oldschool, like most other gaming terminology, has a meaning up for debate. Some people, like this guy over at X-Play, seems to think oldschool is 2004. Some people think it's PS1/PSX. Some people think it's Pac-Man. I'm not gonna bother explaining my view, but let it be said that I really don't think that people will have a consensus on this... I suppose we agree to disagree.
Old games fall into obscurity much faster than old movies or music, because in the movies pretty much the only radical changes are the neat new SFX, and in music, well, not that much change there. People invented electric guitars and electronic keyboards a while ago, yet nobody calls them `oldschool` yet. But when it comes to games - sound, graphics and gameplay change rapidly over time and titles from just a few years back are already dated. I wouldn`t call 2004 games `oldschool` or even `old` (mostly because I was forced to play even older titles until recently, thanks to my crappy hardware), but some people might have already forgotten about them. The young folks these days have no respect for the classics 
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.I think it's fair to say that this flow chart works.
NOW SCHOOL
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JUST A WHILE AGO SCHOOL
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OLD SCHOOL
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EVEN OLDER ETC
So, the trend/console after last is old school. This is my thinking.
EDIT: person who posted right above me, I think it's fair to say that 80's/early 90's synthesisers are pretty old school.
NOW SCHOOL
/
\
v
JUST A WHILE AGO SCHOOL
/
\
v
OLD SCHOOL
/
\
v
EVEN OLDER ETC
So, the trend/console after last is old school. This is my thinking.
EDIT: person who posted right above me, I think it's fair to say that 80's/early 90's synthesisers are pretty old school.
Mr. Angry on the commodore 64 anyone? Skool Daze on the Spectrum? Also across both platforms, Blue Max, Elite, Ghostbusters. Now that's old skool stuff.
Seconded. I say we throw down on some Computer Space...Spacewar! actually required a PDP-1 computer and enrollment at an Ivey league school to play.VRaptorX said:
Or, if you want to go really old school, play the first "Nintendo" product; Hanafuda cards, made by Nintendo Koppai, baby!
2004? Old school? HA!!!
To me, the only thing "old school" in gaming is any game that came out in the '80s and '90s (counting Super Smash Bros., 1999) and anything in the '70s is, you guessed it, "Ye Olde School"
To me, the only thing "old school" in gaming is any game that came out in the '80s and '90s (counting Super Smash Bros., 1999) and anything in the '70s is, you guessed it, "Ye Olde School"
I can't compete with a bunch of you guys, but I will say that my first game system was a Sega Master System my mom bought me when I was 3. I still remember playing the first After Burner and Quartet as a kid.
Out Of This World I actually finished, HoH I did not. I think it depends on what you played it on as I hear OotW was harder on certain formats.VRaptorX said:
I forgot about Battletoads; I gave up on that halfway through.