What do you consider Old School?

I know I overlaped the eras by a year because even a new system that comes out (i.e. PS3), they still make games for the previous gen system (ps2). Old school for me is the NES / SMS era 'cause I was born in '84.What do you consider Old School?
Haha, I didn't realize, but I meant to put the Sega Dreamcast with the XBOX, Gamecube, and PS2 era. woops, i'm too tiredWhat do you consider Old School?
N64 and ps1 are probabloy the newest old school systems at this pont.
I consider any of my previous schools 'Old School'.Also, NES and SNES days. Gaming in the Clinton years was the tops.
Anything cartridge based is old school.Anything 2 generations old or older.
For me,Atari 2600 and anything behind it. Everything else came out as new as I was growing up.
All exept this gen and PS2 wish still sells :P R.I.P Suzanne Pleshette
I agree with jetlagz anything on cartridge.
Basically Dreamcast and below.
[QUOTE=''Hells_Hammer'']I consider any of my previous schools 'Old School'.Also, NES and SNES days. Gaming in the Clinton years was the tops. [/QUOTE] Clinton.... Man, Try gaming in the Carter and Regan administrations!
[QUOTE=''JetLagz28''] Anything cartridge based is old school.[/QUOTE] that's a good way of looking at it.I wouldn't regard the PS1 as old school because it was still having games made for it not that long ago. Anything of the NES, Sega Megadrive era is old school. If the game didn't run you pulled the cartridge out, blew on it and put it back in :)
--This would be my breakdown of schools of gaming-- Relics [Pre-1977]: Fairchild Channel-F, PONG, Odyssey 1 Old School [1977-1984] {Pre-Crash}: Atari, Coleco, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Vectrex, Arcadia 2001College [1985-1989]: NES, Sega Master System High School: SNES, Sega GenesisGrade School: Saturn, Playstation, N64, Atari Jaguar Elementary School: PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, Gamecube Kindergarten: PS3, XBox 360, Wii
Anything up to the 16-bit era.The 32-bit era marked the start of modern gaming.
[QUOTE=''JetLagz28'']Anything cartridge based is old school.Anything 2 generations old or older. [/QUOTE]Doesn't the DS use cartridges? I agree with the two gens rule though. 2 gens is usually at least 10 years. I started when I was 5 years old, so thats like two gens of gamer kids who never owned the PS1-era stuff unless they were poor.
I don't have any criteria to determine what I consider to be ''Old School''...I just use my heart.
[QUOTE=''Fragazine'']I don't have any criteria to determine what I consider to be ''Old School''...I just use my heart. [/QUOTE]Was that supposed to be corny or were you trying to sound like you were dropping sage-like wisdom on us?
Anything PS1, N64 and prior.
NES For sure.
NES/SNES/Sega.
holy crap xmasta I think I played Duke nukem with you 2 nights ago? I was FPS Jim, I kept hiding towards the end ROFL.''I'' consider Atari-nes ''old school'' but sega,snes,n64 deserve the title to.