Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001, 24 years ago.
Go back to 2001 and hack off 24 years, and you’re at 1977. In 1977 — late in 1977 — the Atari 2600 was released, so the equivalent would be an early Atari 2600 game. If you were playing Halo: Combat Evolved when it was new and someone proposed playing an early Atari 2600 game, it’d be hard to call it anything but retrogaming with a pretty hard emphasis on the “retro”.
EDIT: It also does kind of highlight, I think, how the rate of change of video games has kind of slowed a lot.
It looks like only nine Atari 2600 games were out in 1977. I think the only game on there I have played is Combat. I remember having fun with it, but if you compare Combat and Halo: CE versus Halo: CE to a current video game, the rate of change has fallen way off.
I had a young colleague tell me that he loves retro games “like halo 2 and stuff”.
Not even Halo CE man, couldn’t even give me that. Straight for the fucking jugular.
I mean, he’s right, though. It’s been a while.
Halo: Combat Evolved came out in 2001, 24 years ago.
Go back to 2001 and hack off 24 years, and you’re at 1977. In 1977 — late in 1977 — the Atari 2600 was released, so the equivalent would be an early Atari 2600 game. If you were playing Halo: Combat Evolved when it was new and someone proposed playing an early Atari 2600 game, it’d be hard to call it anything but retrogaming with a pretty hard emphasis on the “retro”.
EDIT: It also does kind of highlight, I think, how the rate of change of video games has kind of slowed a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games
It looks like only nine Atari 2600 games were out in 1977. I think the only game on there I have played is Combat. I remember having fun with it, but if you compare Combat and Halo: CE versus Halo: CE to a current video game, the rate of change has fallen way off.
My local game store had about fifty copies of Combat when I was a teen. They sold for 1USD each. They never sold.
Combat inflation is real.