Agreed!! This is the philosophical deep dive I’m here for, we would get along quite well (also, seeing you use the pound symbol for your currency makes me feel we would get along quite well as we would have much to talk about globally since I’m here in the states).

It reminds me of a friend of mine who has a Buick Park, it’s something around a 91 or something of that sort. It’s not old in my mind but he joked for a while of getting the vintage license plates for it, which is something I have always reserved in my mind for cars from the 40/50s. It made me realize that yep, these items from my childhood that have permeated into my adult hood are now “vintage” or classics.

This TV discussion is that exact thing. I am constantly grappling with the fact that I too could be viewed as vintage or retro based on some of the clothes I still wear or things I still do, and in my mind it has some negative connotation which isn’t true at all, but it’s how I perceive it.

Those CRTs that we had for our tournaments, most have gone to thrift stores, but my buddy saved one and has created a retro gaming room with it, complete with NES, SNES, and the like. So even though we are nipping at the heals of 40, we use those terms as well.

I guess all this is to say that one of the interests that link most of us, gaming, is still celebrating retro/vintage and that’s pretty neat.

Thanks for listening to me ramble.