In my view, systems without an HDMI output or which default to a 4:3 aspect ratio are retro. But I don’t expect everyone else to share this opinion, and that’s totally fine. 🙂

To me, GameCube and PS2 are retro. Wii is getting there, and god, I feel old. Had to convince myself to put down “GameCube” instead of “N64”.

I would almost say anything that doesn’t require an internet connection to work with 100% content could be considered retro at this point.

I would consider anything pre-PS3/Xbox360 as retro. Anything after is old but I’d still consider them modern games. Aside from graphics and scale not much has changed since the PS3 era.

~15 years is the arbitrary cutoff that feels right to me, despite how old it is continuing to make me feel

I have a simple definition, hardware is retro if it’s no longer being produced, software is retro if it’s no longer beind sold

EDIT: posting this here because I can’t seem to respond to a kbin user below, the message never goes through:

A digital re-release is different from the original release, in my opinion. For example, Full Throttle is on steam but I had the original one, which came in a box. You can even download the CD-ROM ISO somewhere, but you can’t find that box with the CD-ROM anymore (unless you buy it secondhand from someone).

Personally I classify everything older than 30 years (in video gaming) to be retro-gaming i my mind! So even the first Pokémon games are retro to me :)