Defining Retrogaming

This is a topic that can sometimes irritate me – defining retro gaming. Personally, its a console/computer before 1995. Playing PS2 or Xbox isnt retro gaming.

Having been on Twitter for some time now (since November 2008 – my how time flies), and one of the hashtags that interest me is #retrogaming.  This particular hashtag is used by all sorts of people to describe their gaming activities: sometimes it refers to some serious oldschool gaming, like the microreviews by @oldgamereviewer on Atari 2600 games or by @0LDSCH00LJUNKIE to refer to one of his amazing “First Round” blog entries; sometimes the reference is much more dubious.

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