To be fair, this is using an HD Texture mod and a higher render resolution, which increases the “scare” factor. The game didn’t quite look like this originally. It lacked a lot of detail and was slightly blurrier.

Kinda like how people in the past talked about how realistic graphics looked, but then comparing them to today’s graphics advancements makes that seem rather silly. Or how “realistic” DOOMs violence was, compared to the violence in DOOM 2016.

Also thiss is a screenshot from Ocarina of Time, not Majora’s Mask.

Original Xbox, GameCube, PS2, Dreamcast - “old.”

PS3, Xbox 360, Wii - “modern.”

PS4, Xbox One - “previous gen”

PS5, Xbox Series - “current gen”

Nintendo Switch - “2015 smartphone”

Anything before the GameCube, PS2, and Original Xbox.

So PS1, Sega Saturn, and Nintendo64 and older are “retro.”

The Atari 2600 and Colecovision are “vintage.”

Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey are “antique.”

Wasn’t gaming basically synonymous with gambling at that time though?

I think gaming as a recreation without gambling didnt really come about until the 1940s - 1950s, right? Commonly, of course.

EDIT: Also of important note, in 1638 the Puritans in the US state of Massachusetts (colonial at the time) enacted a law that made gambling illegal. It outlawed ownership of everything gaming related from dice to cards, and citizens were not allowed to even play in their own home.