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    From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 20 09:25:11 2023
    There are many websites and youtube channels on retrogaming but I have always assumed that the subject is too specialised to appear on mainstream
    television. But recently I came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCenter_CX .This has been going on since
    2003 and there have even been DVD releases ! Wow. So I was wondering whether you know of similar examples from any country. I don't. I remember coming across a wikipedia article a while ago about a similar television programme
    in France but it didn't do well. I haven't kept a link.

    Don't get too hung up on how old the games have to be to be considered
    "retro" but the wikipedia article gives you an idea.

    It seems that for the Japanese programme all the games were on Japanese
    systems (3DO is kind of an exception. By the way , I was surprised by the limited appearance of MSX computers). Not surprising perhaps but it leaves a lot of unexplored territory for Western computers.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sun Aug 20 18:10:25 2023
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    There are many websites and youtube channels on retrogaming but I have
    always assumed that the subject is too specialised to appear on mainstream television. But recently I came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCenter_CX .This has been going on since 2003 and there have even been DVD releases ! Wow. So I was wondering whether you know of similar examples from any country. I don't. I
    remember coming across a wikipedia article a while ago about a similar television programme in France but it didn't do well. I haven't kept a
    link.

    Don't get too hung up on how old the games have to be to be considered "retro" but the wikipedia article gives you an idea.

    Does it count if the programme itself is retro? ie if the programme was recorded in 198x featuring the latest releases, which are now considered
    retro? Or are to specifically looking for people playing games from an era prior to the one they were in?

    Theo

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  • From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Theo on Mon Aug 21 06:35:37 2023
    On 20 Aug 2023 18:10:25 +0100 (BST)
    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    There are many websites and youtube channels on retrogaming but I have always assumed that the subject is too specialised to appear on mainstream television. But recently I came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCenter_CX .This has been going on since 2003 and there have even been DVD releases ! Wow. So I was wondering whether you know of similar examples from any country. I don't. I remember coming across a wikipedia article a while ago about a similar television programme in France but it didn't do well. I haven't kept a link.

    Don't get too hung up on how old the games have to be to be considered "retro" but the wikipedia article gives you an idea.

    Does it count if the programme itself is retro? ie if the programme was recorded in 198x featuring the latest releases, which are now considered retro?

    I wasn't thinking about those but there's no harm mentioning those too.

    Or are to specifically looking for people playing games from an era
    prior to the one they were in?

    A retro game is one which runs on a retro computer but it doesn't have to
    have been written decades ago. People still write new games for the Amstrad
    CPC , ZX Spectrum , Atari 2600 , etc. I don't think that the Japanese television programme mentions those but they meet my idea of retro.

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