Xbox 360 should now be the start of Modern Gaming - PlayStation 2, GCN, XBOX = Classic Gaming

[Gamevet]

But regarding the music topic, I think "classic rock" essentially refers to rock from a generally specific time period. I know radio stations will lump songs for whenever reason and call it classic rock, but you can really disect rock into many catagories. Like music from the 80s and 90s is much more accurately classified as something else.

They just pick a few bands from that era and allow them to be played, but throw the rest aside. You'll hear Def Leppard, J Geils Band and DLR Van Halen, but no Haggar, MSG, Krokus or Tesla. I have to go to the more modern rock stations to hear the likes of Judas Priest and Motley Crue.

[Slate]

Don't we have a thread about this at least once in the past already? It's a problem of age versus style. You can ask the same question for music. Do you slowly keep piling more bands into "classic rock" just because their old albums reach 20, or 30 years of age? Or do you never expand the genre of classic rock because it's a style not simply age.

When I first joined here "Modern Gaming" was PS2/Xbox/Gamecube/Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS and that was 2005. I'd like to think that generation is no longer "Modern" (as in "Current") since it's literally two generations of consoles in the past and are there any Walmarts around selling PS2 games this long past its prime? Plus, demand's low and the market's saturated on games from two game generations ago so the prices are dirt cheap in yard sales. Hey, I've even seen Xbox 360s, one generation newer, for $10 that I passed on. I don't know if they worked or not but still, example.

- Austin

[retroman]

Classic gaming to me is the Sega Dreamcast and back. That will always be it for me. Anything after that does not count for me.

[Nature Boy]

Classic gaming to me is the Sega Dreamcast and back. That will always be it for me. Anything after that does not count for me.

And for me the Dreamcast is laughable as a classic system, as anything disc based is modern IMO.

But let's face it, they're all just dumb labels anyway. Who cares what anybody calls them?

[FoxNtd]

And for me the Dreamcast is laughable as a classic system, as anything disc based is modern IMO.

But let's face it, they're all just dumb labels anyway. Who cares what anybody calls them?

PC Engine and Mega Drive have CD expansions and I still consider them classic despite the storage medium used for the game software.

[Nature Boy]

PC Engine and Mega Drive have CD expansions and I still consider them classic despite the storage medium used for the game software.

That's nice.

The point being it's all labels. Who cares?

[BlastProcessing402]

Personally I think the best cutoff is the year 2000.