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by 77913845 June 5, 2018
Get the retrowave mug.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.
We are going out with the boys to play old school arcade games at the Retrocades.
by RetroCades August 30, 2013
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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.
by Caleb_Nyuu June 12, 2013
Get the Retrogamer mug.A person who wears vintage clothing, especially from the swing dance era (late 1920s to 1940s), as everyday apparel, as opposed to wearing it only for special occasions. See also retrovestry.
From 'retro', a Latin-derived prefix meaning backwards, which today often refers specifically to the imitation of fashions from the recent past, and 'vest' (Middle English: from Old French vestiment, from Latin vestimentum, from vestire 'clothe', or from the Italian vestis, meaning 'garment'), plus 'er' a suffix descriptive of a person of a type described by the rest of the word.
From 'retro', a Latin-derived prefix meaning backwards, which today often refers specifically to the imitation of fashions from the recent past, and 'vest' (Middle English: from Old French vestiment, from Latin vestimentum, from vestire 'clothe', or from the Italian vestis, meaning 'garment'), plus 'er' a suffix descriptive of a person of a type described by the rest of the word.
by Lindybeige August 11, 2011
Get the retrovester mug.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.
by Somone Personson September 27, 2006
Get the retrogamer mug.The practice of wearing vintage clothing, particularly from the era of swing dance (late 1920s to 1940s), as day-to-day clothing, as opposed to for special occasions only. See also retrovester.
by Lindybeige August 11, 2011
Get the retrovestry mug.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)
(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."
"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."
by jkleinrichert October 1, 2008
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