Ip opped up on the This Week In Retro podcast recently and got chatting about what retro is – when does it start or end. I have a pretty firm line in my head – Wii U and PS3 are retro and anything that comes after that isn’t. Now of course, that’s just my humble opinion and I’m sure most of you will disagree. That’s the beauty of this interest of ours, so many different ideas about what it even is we are celebrating.
The Wii U passed me by – never even touched one of those bad boys. I did have a Wii a lifetime ago but I honestly don’t remember much about it. There was a samurai sword type of game that made me motion sick but beyond that, nothing. A small but significant hole in my gaming knowledge.
When I get bored, I like to pop on Facebook Marketplace and have a look at all the old tat that is for sale. Cassettes taped off the radio, glass bottle cutters and I even saw this week The Apparatus that would have been screwed to school hall walls and occasionally brought out for PE.
Quick interjection – the people who list things on Facebook Marketplace as FREE and then when you scroll down it says something like ‘open to sensible offers’. No. Do not do that. You people are the worst, and you deserve the trolling you get from me if I am super bored about how the kids at the orphanage I volunteer at would love this item that is FREE and when can I collect it? I inevitably get blocked fairly quickly.
I was pottering about on there and I saw a Wii listed with The Beatles: Rock Band and a guitar for a tenner. Because of the aforementioned podcast appearance, I’d been thinking abo
