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@lain @grillchen @kaia @cell I'm gonna assume some people are going to be double counted if they went back to their home country, then came back later. One of the reasons many business owners like to employ illegal immigrants is because they can treat them like shit and threaten to report them to ICE when they complain. Sometimes they will actually do just that. It probably won't make that much of a difference though.
@kaia How would you define it on age alone? Is there an arbitrary cutoff in time and if a game is older, it is retro? Is a console retro but another console in the same generation isn't yet because it came out slightly later and hasn't crossed that boundary yet? Do we even go by console generation or individual game?

It all becomes very blurry when you get into the specifics if you use time as the only defining factor. The question we should be asking is, what really changed in comparison to modern gaming? I say we base it on characteristics which actually made a perceivable difference. Slightly shinier graphics don't count but the shift from 2D to 3D definitely counts. The latest shift between retro and modern I'd say is the introduction and popularization of online gaming and the Wii came out after that, ergo it's not retro.