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Retro Gaming

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For the purposes of this community, "retro" means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and games for those platforms released through roughly 2007. This means that the Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and PlayStation 2 are the cutoff consoles.

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I just got Strago in Final Fantasy VI (SNES version), who is a playable character who is ~70 years old. Got me thinking that you don't see many older protagonists in games, maybe especially retro games.

I remember the elderly wizard from The Immortal (NES), but I can't think of many more. I guess retro games were largely targeted at children so most characters were very young.

Do any older protagonists come to your mind in retro games? Or similarly, any retro games whose subject matter deals with aging?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

not quite retro but all I can think of is Sazh in FF13