2016 Year in Review

lilbud

Well, 2016 is coming to a close, (or already has, depending on where you live.)

This has been one hell of a year, for both the world, and for RetroPie. So I decided to look back.

Events in the World

In 2016 we lost many celebrities, and if tried to list them all, It would be 2018 by the time I'm done. In this year we lost...

David Bowie - Musician
Glenn Frey - Guitarist for The Eagles
Alan Rickman - Severus Snape in the Harry Potter Movie
Prince - Musician
Muhammad Ali - Fighter
Gene Wilder - Played Wily Wonka as well as many other characters
Arnold Palmer - Golfer
Carrie Fisher - Actress, played Princess/General Leia
Debbie Reynolds - Actress - Mother of Carrie Fisher. Played many roles

RetroPie

Finally got gridview for ES
Video Preview instead of images
Saw the release of many themes
Attract Mode
Too many systems added to count here

Gaming
This was a big year for video games. We saw games that are brand new IPs. Finally saw the release of games that we thought would never come out, (Final Fantasy 15, The Last Guardian, etc) The Nintendo Switch was unveiled, which many are excited for.

Retro gaming was pretty big this year. Thanks to Nintendo, we have many new members of the forum due to the NES Mini fiasco. Lost Kirby games were found.

For gaming in 2017, some franchises will make a return, (Crash, Parappa the Rappa)

In Closing

2016 will probably be seen as the year we never speak of again. But many good things happened, many bad things happened. But this was a good year overall.

Happy New Year Retropie

Lilbud

herb_fargus

@lilbud don't forget the lost Rayman SNES prototype. Doubt the devs will ever release the dump of that though. Probably will repackage under virtual console or port for the switch or something

lilbud

@herb_fargus said in 2016 Year in Review:

Rayman SNES

Probably sell it on Steam, once/if they finish it