joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved. Hollywood never got the memo.
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Jiral@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doesn’t even have a hippo. SMH my head.
frog@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Um… acshelly! Hippo in Greek means horse.
* Pushes glasses up nose bridge.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Hippopotamus means river horse, I don’t think whoever named these things has ever seen a horse.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
excuse me! we had both chariot races and slave chariot races. that’s TWO games
Vittelius@feddit.org 2 months ago
The circus maximus (the big hippodrome in Rome) also hosted gladiatorial fights and athletics competitions. The meme is misleading in the way it selects the venues.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These are memes reality has no place here
nagaram@piefed.social 2 months ago
Did you hear they were working on horse races? I know quite antiquated, but they were adding horse TORCH races this time! How novel!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean they torch the horses then race them?
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By this logic, the greatest modern console is the smartphone.
frostlytt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i mean, slap a controller on a smartphone and it is actually pretty solid, so maybe youve got a point…
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Horse race tracks rent out to different groups for conventions and such when not racing horses - I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened in ancient Rome too.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do feel like the amount of people required to staff the colloseum is like two orders of magnitude higher than a racetrack
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Okay but a lot of those Colosseum games are just the same cookiecutter format with different branding.
“Gladiator combat” “Barbarian Battle” “Martyrs” it’s the same shit with different characters.
“Man vs. Beast” “Hunting Simulator” YAWN
At least the later gen hippodromes added a variety of jousting tournaments…
Sergio@piefed.social 2 months ago
I think you mean “same game, different skin,” right?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah, true
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I got no use for a console with no racing games. I’ll be over here playing my hippodrome.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Horses tho.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
All of those are just a variant on gladiator fighting.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This post was written by average red team enjoyer. Reds haven’t won anything since antiquity because they’re so inferior to Blue/Green. Even smooth brain green team supporters know this.
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The last time I went to the colosseum they dragged a rapist out of retirement for a big bout and he only lasted 69 seconds after talking so much shit.
madvincent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I paid 15,000 [asses] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)?wprov=sfla1) for a ticket to that fight
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
jay@pie.zerojay.com 2 months ago
Another game for the Colosseum: Overwatch.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hippodrome also looks like a fairly decent Jousting Pitch
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Must be a supporter of the Blues
bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Plus chariot racing wasn’t even hippodrome exclusive
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 months ago
One of them had hooligans with real influence on politics in the Byzantine empire.
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 months ago
stfu! Glorious hippodrome gaming chariot race
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