Unrelated but this album fucking sucks. Instead of getting YMO style reinterpretations of classic game music it's just the original arcade music with some sound effects sprinkled in. This is Namco! and Namco Classic Collection clear.

>>12210013
Yes but it is the first ever video game music album.

>>12210001
Let me simplify it for you
>4th gen
>5th gen
>6th gen
That's the retro golden era

1-2G=scoring era

very simplistic games mostly single screen with a focus on scoring

3-4=classic era

Scrolling and save/password system became the norm
Finishing the game become the main objective, scoring is now secondary
Establishment of many genres and classic franchises

5-6G experimental era

From 2D to 3D,optical format, arcade style games slowly getting replaced by more immersive games,more emphasis on story and cinematography
Very experimental in terms of game design and gameplay,need to rethink how games works in 3D

7G-now casual era

Games too expensive so developper caters to casuals
Death of innovation
Entire genres streamlined
Internet connectivity, DLC,focus on online,death of crt and physical media...

>>12210001
80-00s was the arcade era
console era was mid00s to mid 10s
mid10s to now is pc era

>>12210070
>console era was mid00s to mid 10s
wut, you think 4rh gen wasn't the console era?

>>12210091
arcades > console. gen 6&7 were the only gens were consoles were king

before gen6 consoles only had shitty pc ports and sloppy walking sim movie games. they were always chasing the arcade and always they were years behind

after gen 7 everything got released multiplat with pc

>>12210098
>before gen6 consoles only had shitty pc ports and sloppy walking sim movie games
WTF. Is this really what 6th genners believe?
Raw graphics weren't everything back in retro. Plenty of the most popular video games of the 90s weren't in arcades

>>12210070
Golden Age of arcades is 70s-80s, zoom zoom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games
This doesn't mean arcades stopped existing after that, simply that this was the time they were the dominating force in video games.

>>12210001
Arcades were doing pretty good until Soulcalibur and Tekken Tag killed them by having console ports that were superior
Console gaming was doing good from the release of the NES all the way to the Great Financial Crisis when nobody could afford to take risks and everyone scrambled to stay afloat by any means necessary
PC gaming had its best years from right around the late DOS era to the release of Windows Vista. GFWL, SecuROM, StarForce and other craptastic copy-protection solutions basically killed PC gaming for a few years until Steam took over at which point PC and console gaming homogenized with each other.

>>12210120
Arcade was the cutting edge. Game design started to transition to saveslop RPGs to cater to consolekiddies but the biggest masterpieces of the 90s were all arcade games like Dodonpachi, Garegga, Puyo Puyo, Mr. Driller, the fighting games etc

Multiplayer slop killed the arcades
>>12210126
that's an arbitrary meme name

>>12210001
~era 4~ OP was born

Pre-2001 is the prehistoric era. No one really cares about it. Gaming didn't really "start" until the Gamecube came out. Everything before was just this primordial soup that's so undeveloped you can't even really see it's influences.

>>12210001
This reads like is was cobbled together by zoomer from youtube videos and clickbait articles with zero nuance and totally american.

>>12210027
You're wrong, it's 2nd to 4th. Peak arcades and the consoles that imitated them, adventure games were number crunchy before they turned into movie games, creativity was at an all time high with devs inventing genre cliches that would persist and be reiterated on forever. 5th-7th gen is pretty much all recycled design from the golden era with a focus on graphical fidelity and development scale

>>12211406
I see that nobody disagrees, so I'll let you know I do. just kidding you're right

>>12214015
Bitch you don't know me like that, fuck outta here