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Retrocades 

Modern day arcades with mostly retro arcade games of the 80's and 90's. Also a place where adults can relive their chilhood and/or share that experience with their children. Some retrocades also serve alcohol and carry plenty of craft beer on tap.
I want to take the kids to the Retrocades so that we can get in some retro arcade gaming.

We are going out with the boys to play old school arcade games at the Retrocades.
Retrocades by RetroCades August 30, 2013
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Retrogamer 

A retrogamer is a gamer preferring playing and collecting retro games - older video games and arcade games. They may also be called classic gamers or old-school gamers, which are terms that are more prevalent in the United States. The games are played either on the original hardware, on modern hardware via console emulation, or on modern hardware via ports or compilations.
If a gamer likes old video games, he's a retrogamer.
Retrogamer by Caleb_Nyuu June 12, 2013

Retrophile 

One who greatly loves artifacts and aesthetics from the past. Typically associated with hipsters, whose attire often hearken back to past decades, retrophilia often goes hand and hand with a general distaste for modern culture. Common items and traits found on a retrophile are pocket watches, fedoras or top hats, ties, old-fashioned sports jackets, a love for instructional videos from the early 1950s, a preference for music than involves a mixture of psychedelia, folk, baroque, and classical, and pretentiousness.
Man, modern consumerism fuels all sorts of distasteful manifestations in our society. Check out my vintage aviators, antique fedora, and tie-dye shirt. I wish I lived in a mixture of the 1960s and Edwardian England. I'm such a retrophile.
Retrophile by Agnostics Unite! December 29, 2009

retrogamer 

A gamer that plays nothing or (almost nothing) but older video-games, before Playstation or Nintendo 64.
Most retrogamers don't play more modern video-games because most of them now have an obbession with good looking graphics.
retrogamer by Somone Personson September 27, 2006
Saving a file, document or other electronic format back to an previous version of that program. This feature is usually accessed via the "Save as" prompt in most applications.

(Origins- retro and save: "Retro-pertaining to a style of an earlier time", "Save-to electronically copy a file from RAM onto disk or other storage medium)
"I do not have Photoshop CS3, so I can not open your .PSD. Can you retrosave it to Photoshop 7?"

"The file '_____.docx' can not be opened as you do not have the latest version of MS Office. Please have the sender Retrosave it to an earlier version of MS Word."
Retrosave by jkleinrichert October 1, 2008

retrowave 

Synthwave with a dark dystopian cyberpunk noir aesthetic;

A sub-genre of synthwave.
"I really love new retrowave artists like Kalax, let's go snort some cocaine while we fuck around with VR now."
retrowave by 77913845 June 5, 2018

retroflect 

The act of mentally reflecting on the past and the cultural influences of that particular time. One can retroflect on any decade or time that was important or special to them.

The memories and mental images that we have entwined with the cultral influence of that given time.

Retroflection involves the way modern cultural trends reflect those of past times and decades.
While driving down the road, Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion came on the radio and I retroflected back to Prom Night.

Cartoon retroflection causes me to sing the Banana Splits' song "tra la la," while it may cause my older son to sing "Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you," and my middle son to sing, "GO GO Power Rangers," and my youngest to sing "Sponge Bob Square Pants.....Sponge Bob...Square Pants!"
retroflect by Kellie Ouzts April 19, 2008