Made buying PC games simple. Automatic updates, free cloud saves, friends, etc.
Gave indie devs a market, so they could reach millions. Steam basically invented digital game downloading.
Pushed Linux gaming forward by funding driver and engine work, backed Vulkan, and built Proton.
Valve changed how PC games get sold and run, and made Linux gaming awesome. It was Gabe's vision that drove all of this. Sure he's massively rich, and the fanboyism can be kind of annoying, but just because a company got rich doesn't mean you can't like them.
I was speaking about what you would call a console, not what you would call the experence of enjoying old games. An original VCS is in no way "retro", but a modern VCS clone is perfectly fine being called retro, but not vintage.
If you want to call gaming on a vintage console, "retro gaming", then cool. That actually makes sense. You're recreating an experience from the past. I was talking more about the devices themselves, which is why my other examples were also about products like cars and clothes.
OP said they weren't sure if they should call a modern VCS clone "retro", and I was reassuring them that their usage was actually the correct usage! And that most people use it wrong. The use of "vintage" and "retro" when talking about products is very clear and binary.
All that being said, I still prefer to say playing a VCS is "vintage gaming", but I won't say you're wrong for calling it "retro gaming".
We do have some idea based upon the price of all the components in the bill of materials, and the expected markup. If the markup is the same as the Steam Deck, which was 34%, then the Steam Machine will be about $570. That makes it very competitive with the current gen consoles.
I've seen literal fucking science YouTube channels imply they are sea creatures. SciShow to be specific. The narrator was talking about sea creature and said something like, "And your corals, sponges, luffas and such". I was like, wtf? Even SciShow doesn't know they are plants?
I know, not really "retro" per say, but maybe in spirit it is.
Ironically, that's exactly what retro means. Gamers use the word "retro" incorrectly.
"Retro" means:
Involving, relating to, or reminiscent of an earlier time; retrospective.
Of, or relating to the past, past times, or the way things were.
So a modern VCS is precisely retro. When people say retro gaming, what they really mean is vintage gaming.
I don't know why every other group gets it right, but gamers don't. Vintage clothes, vintage sneakers, vintage cars, vintage watches, and on and on. Meanwhile, retro clothing, cars, and watches are a thing, too! Think of the modern VW Beetle, or the PT Cruiser, or modern bell-bottoms jeans. Those things are retro. But if you have the real article from the past, you have something vintage. Yet gamers—and only gamers—call vintage things "retro". It's so weird!
Oh, that's weird. I just suggested the same thing up above with a bunch of extra explanation. I've done this exact thing twice. In that comment I talk about changing some registry settings, but like I said in the comment, I didn't think that actually helped. So I dunno. This was with Windows 10 both times, and both USB devices boot on a laptop.
You don't need to do anything special. Take an NVMe or SSD and put it internally in some PC—ideally the same computer you want to use it on, for driver reasons—then install Windows on it. (Windows won't let you install to a USB device, so you have to put the drive internally in the PC.) Then take it back out, put it in an external enclosure, plug it into USB and it boots right up. (Well, as long as you know how to choose a boot device at startup or make USB a higher priority than your internal drive.)
I just did that on my laptop by taking out the Windows NVMe, putting in a new one for Linux, and then sticking the Windows NVMe in an enclosure.
Obviously, this can't work on a thumb drive, but it's not terribly inconvenient to carry around an enclosure and a cable.
(An LLM told me I should change some registry settings to make loading the USB drivers occur earlier during boot, but that doesn't make much sense. How could it boot enough to load the Registry in order to know to load the USB drivers earlier? It's already booting. But if you try this and have any troubles, I can probably figure out what Registry settings I changed. I've also done this with an M.2 SSD from one PC and booted it from a USB enclosure on a different PC, and I definitely made no registry changes then.)
They are actually less boney than other boney fish and mostly have cartilaginous skeletal tissue. They aren't eaten much because they have thick, rubbery, mucusy skin (up to 2-3/4" thick), and then a thick, gelatinous layer that's 90% water. But sea lions do eat them. So do sharks and orcas.
This is definitely an issue, and it's already been reported on GitHub.