When someone says they play video games but not this new age Halo generation crap. I'm talking SNES and earlier. Before the days of Wii, PS2, or the internet, video gaming in a simpler form.
"I'm into retro gaming, my friends and I just finished Chrono Trigger for the fifth time last week."
by Agent86 March 17, 2009
I hereby declare that the cutoff for a game to be considered "retro" is 20 years. This will end all debate as to when "retro" truly begins.
It's 2022 now, and both Halo: Combat Evolved and Grand Theft Auto III came out in 2001, so... that means they qualify as "retro games"!
by CptStupendous December 19, 2022
Relating to or denoting a style of computer game programs of the late 20th/early 21st century that is characterized by pixelated artwork and text, recorded to disk storage or Read-Only Memory chips, and primarily intended to be displayed on standard-definition televisions or analog computer monitors.
by MatthewKnobbe February 23, 2023