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Is there a generation of gaming you're just not nostalgic for? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would say Atari but that's just low-hanging fruit because it's a generation I never really got to play as it was before my time. But I am starting to fall out of nostalgia for the NES which is held dearly in a lot of hearts of retro gamers and gamers that have enjoyed what that system had to offer for a few decades.

I know it had offered a lot of classics and gave so many games their start, most of which are still with us today like Final Fantasy for example.

The best guess I can give about why I don't care as much about that generation is because it is very oversaturated when you start entering the world of retro gaming. For retro gaming I prefer SNES and Genesis, because I technically did start playing those when I was born and they were first released. So I have more favorability towards those than the NES and generations before and during it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I would say Atari but that’s just low-hanging fruit because it’s a generation I never really got to play as it was before my time.

Is there a word for imagined nostalgia? You could play them today, but I think you’d discover that not many Atari 2600 games were actually good.

[–] Volkditty 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anemoia is the word for nostalgic longing for something you didn't actually experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks! This apparently is its origin, in 2012: https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/anemoia

Pronounced “an-uh-moi-uh.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Is there a word for imagined nostalgia?

Whatever the word is, UFO 50 captures it perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Isn't that that just what retro means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Imagined nostalgia is for sure a thing, I felt some kind of nostalgia playing Pokémon blue even though it was made before I was even born, same for the wild west internet days I never really got to experience