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What's the definition of a classic video game?
by azlev 3y ago
What's the definition of a classic video game?
- coldpie 3y ago> It’s hard to define exactly what a “classic game” is, but for the sake of this study, we looked at all games released before 2010, which is roughly the year when digital game distribution started to take off. https://gamehistory.org/study-explainer/ https://gamehistory.org/study-explainer/
- codetrotter 3y agoFrom the excecutive summary of the original study: They analysed a dataset of ~4,000 video games released in the US before 2010. https://zenodo.org/record/7996492 https://zenodo.org/record/7996492
- skibz 3y agoI'd say it's a video game of outstanding merit relative to other video games of its time.