This is a pretty stupid comment actually, retro clearly means characters who haven't been unearthed and that's how he views it too if you read the interview comments he makes. How come younger games have such a piss poor understanding of this? I mean didn't one other person in here not even know who Mega Man was? This is a damn joke. It's like people only play like one franchise and only come to this website if they use the internet.
http://www.officialnintendomagazine...-characters-back-to-smash-bros-wii-u-and-3ds/
Little Mac does not qualify.
If you really
are 25 like you claim (which your poor ability to type tells me otherwise), I'm only 5 effin' years younger than you. You have no right to act as if you are a superior, older gamer.
Aside from that, your definition of "retro"? Complete bull****.
This is what the word retro means:
"imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past."
It doesn't mean anything about characters being "unearthed", whether they have or not.
Also worth to note, is that the term "retro" in application of Smash Bros. characters is a
fan created definition. One that Sakurai has
never used nor applied the
meaning in which it is fallaciously used.
Even in the interview you posted, Sakurai didn't specify what
kinds of old characters he was planning to bring into Smash, just "old characters" in general.
Hell, you want further proof you don't know what you're talking about?
Back in Melee, when the concept of bringing in an older character
started, one of the characters we KNOW Sakurai briefly thought about was the Excitebiker.
Even though
this existed:
Excitebike wasn't "not unearthed", and had a game
not that long before Melee. Even Excitebiker's trophy is based off of the model from the game!
So really, you are the damn joke here that doesn't know jack about what they're talking about. Sakurai's definition of a "classic" character =/= fan definition of a "retro".
EDIT: And with Sakurai giving
heavy emphasis on the original Punch-Out for the Arcade, despite Little Mac not even being
present in it, it's pretty clear that Little Mac is the token "old" character
regardless of having a modernization in 2009.