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==Questions in Retro Gaming==
===What is Retro===
The first perennial question for retro gaming is, "What counts as retro?". Diehard older retro gamers may insist that only pre-[[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|crash]] games and systems count, while more liberal definitions have a moving point of retro as any system at least 10 years old.<ref>If a generation lasts particularly long, this can result in scenarios where a last-gen console still seeing new commercial releases is considered retro such as the [[PlayStation 2]] in 2011, The [[Wii]] in 2016, or the [[Xbox One]] in 2023.</ref> Most people seem to pin their preferred retro gaming system to "[[Nostalgia Filter|whatever I was playing when I was 12]]". For some, [[Retraux]] Gaming also counts.
===Hardware Vs. Emulators===
The second perennial question for retro gamers is "real hardware versus emulators", generally a question of authentic look and feel opposed to the convenience of having 10,000 games for a dozen systems available at your fingertips. Earlier systems relied on effects caused by the fuzziness inherent in their output to allow the illusion of more colours on screen and smoother transitions between colours than was strictly possible for the hardware, meaning that an emulator may not show a retro video game as the makers intended. Some very old systems are literally impossible to emulate, as they used based on analog systems.
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