Talk:Retrogaming
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"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)
- 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)
- ...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)
- "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)
Someone's put "This game is part of the retrogaming phenomenon" on loads of articles about old games, even though those games have no particular connection to retrogaming; they are just old games. I've tried to remove this where I've found it. I think the person just wanted to link them all here, but that should be done with a template or category, not irrelevant text in the article. 86.168.28.241 (talk) 23:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
