I mean this with utter kindness and respect, but: This is a *Physical **_RELEASE_* brother. As someone who worked in a hospital and wrestled in college back in the day .. a _"physical"_ is something else entirely. lol. I don't blame people like yourself for this issue though. But I tell ya. The last four (almost five) years of people in the retro gaming community referring to physical releases as _"physicals"_ has been utterly maddening. In 38 years of playing videogames, 30 years of collecting, and almost 25 years of collecting what we knew then as "retro" games (and the last sixteen years of being exposed to digital releases)... this has been a real head trip. I mean It's the same game whether you buy it off steam or Amazon... just one is a physical release and one a digital release. When a game is released and people say they are buying it off Amazon or GameStop - I don't expect them to clarify it's the physical release. It's just the game. If your buying Mario Party... you don't need a modifier, unless you've got an agenda and are making a statement about the superiority of one of the delivery methods. So it's weird that there is this strange recent game medium culture warring in this community, and certain companies who want to control and change the way we speak about games to drive a wedge in the very language we use to further alienate other products from theirs. Which is where LRG comes in, and why I don't blame gamers or fans like yourself who use that new verbage. No. I blame Limited Run Games for this specifically. They are the source that started marketing them this way around the time they changed management and got a buy out from a bigger company. It was not long after that, when they really started this branding campaign trying to coin their own phrasing for marketing. It was back in around 2020, when Digital Game sales massively overtook physical releases and they felt threatened. LRG started using this verbage as a way to different their own released, and strengthen the view in elitists minds that digital releases were inferior and not actually the same game. A added layer of separation, if you will. Because saying _"Digital and Physical Releases"_ or _"Digital or Physical version"_ makes it sound like its the same product with very little difference (which is reality), instead of promoting that their products is unique and superior so as to be worth sometimes MULTIPLE TIMES the price of the digital releases (which given these are often older games, means they are usually on he ay discounts on steam). It was/is a fear tactic they use to create FOMO, which hopefully makes you scared to buy the cheaper digital game because it's inferior - so you feel the need need to hurry up and preorder their much more expensive version before you miss the opportunity. And obviously, by your title and in-video verbage... LRG was massively successful in just a handful of short years completely changing the way some people in this small community talk about retro games (literally) and the physical version of game releases. Yet, never the less. It's fundamentally a dumb word to use given it already exists, and has for a hundred years now... and means something completely different to 99.99% of the planet. It's now like the gaming world doesn't ALREADY have established lingo around this stuff that's been around decades now. So this isn't to nit-pick at you specifically or anything (really, it's not picking on you AT ALL). It's just a huge pet-peeve and something that I've been calling out since LRG first started doing it... and then out of the blue I heard John Linneman, Gamesack and MLIG (people sponsored by LGR) SUDDENLY start saying it too... after all the years of hearing them refer to physical game releases properly. It drives me nuts, because practically everyday of my work life (I work with athletes now) I give people _"physicals...."_ and they are not the LGR Shantea release or Shadow of the Ninja. And if you go out in irl and say you are interested in a _"River City Girls Physical"_ most people are going to think your a pervert. Lol. 🤷♂️
I understand standard. I get it. Thanks for sharing. I grew up with the Sega genesis, super nintendo nes, dreamcast and more. I don't mean anything by it. I'm into physical games I prefer my games that way and by promoting the games by calling them physical. I've downloaded here and there but it's not the same to me. I really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing. I get the last part with river city girls 😆. But if you say games. I think it will be ok 😃 😆.
Got the email about it this morning! Can't wait to get the physical copy!
Awesome. Same here 😃
I mean this with utter kindness and respect, but: This is a *Physical **_RELEASE_* brother. As someone who worked in a hospital and wrestled in college back in the day .. a _"physical"_ is something else entirely. lol.
I don't blame people like yourself for this issue though. But I tell ya. The last four (almost five) years of people in the retro gaming community referring to physical releases as _"physicals"_ has been utterly maddening.
In 38 years of playing videogames, 30 years of collecting, and almost 25 years of collecting what we knew then as "retro" games (and the last sixteen years of being exposed to digital releases)... this has been a real head trip.
I mean It's the same game whether you buy it off steam or Amazon... just one is a physical release and one a digital release. When a game is released and people say they are buying it off Amazon or GameStop - I don't expect them to clarify it's the physical release. It's just the game. If your buying Mario Party... you don't need a modifier, unless you've got an agenda and are making a statement about the superiority of one of the delivery methods.
So it's weird that there is this strange recent game medium culture warring in this community, and certain companies who want to control and change the way we speak about games to drive a wedge in the very language we use to further alienate other products from theirs.
Which is where LRG comes in, and why I don't blame gamers or fans like yourself who use that new verbage. No. I blame Limited Run Games for this specifically. They are the source that started marketing them this way around the time they changed management and got a buy out from a bigger company.
It was not long after that, when they really started this branding campaign trying to coin their own phrasing for marketing. It was back in around 2020, when Digital Game sales massively overtook physical releases and they felt threatened.
LRG started using this verbage as a way to different their own released, and strengthen the view in elitists minds that digital releases were inferior and not actually the same game. A added layer of separation, if you will.
Because saying _"Digital and Physical Releases"_ or _"Digital or Physical version"_ makes it sound like its the same product with very little difference (which is reality), instead of promoting that their products is unique and superior so as to be worth sometimes MULTIPLE TIMES the price of the digital releases (which given these are often older games, means they are usually on he ay discounts on steam).
It was/is a fear tactic they use to create FOMO, which hopefully makes you scared to buy the cheaper digital game because it's inferior - so you feel the need need to hurry up and preorder their much more expensive version before you miss the opportunity.
And obviously, by your title and in-video verbage... LRG was massively successful in just a handful of short years completely changing the way some people in this small community talk about retro games (literally) and the physical version of game releases.
Yet, never the less. It's fundamentally a dumb word to use given it already exists, and has for a hundred years now... and means something completely different to 99.99% of the planet. It's now like the gaming world doesn't ALREADY have established lingo around this stuff that's been around decades now.
So this isn't to nit-pick at you specifically or anything (really, it's not picking on you AT ALL). It's just a huge pet-peeve and something that I've been calling out since LRG first started doing it... and then out of the blue I heard John Linneman, Gamesack and MLIG (people sponsored by LGR) SUDDENLY start saying it too... after all the years of hearing them refer to physical game releases properly.
It drives me nuts, because practically everyday of my work life (I work with athletes now) I give people _"physicals...."_ and they are not the LGR Shantea release or Shadow of the Ninja. And if you go out in irl and say you are interested in a _"River City Girls Physical"_ most people are going to think your a pervert. Lol. 🤷♂️
I understand standard. I get it. Thanks for sharing. I grew up with the Sega genesis, super nintendo nes, dreamcast and more. I don't mean anything by it. I'm into physical games I prefer my games that way and by promoting the games by calling them physical. I've downloaded here and there but it's not the same to me. I really appreciate it. Thanks for sharing. I get the last part with river city girls 😆. But if you say games. I think it will be ok 😃 😆.