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 weeks ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t even have a hippo. SMH my head.
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Um… acshelly! Hippo in Greek means horse.
* Pushes glasses up nose bridge.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Hippopotamus means river horse, I don’t think whoever named these things has ever seen a horse.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
excuse me! we had both chariot races and slave chariot races. that’s TWO games
Vittelius@feddit.org 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
These are memes reality has no place here
nagaram@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
You mean they torch the horses then race them?
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
By this logic, the greatest modern console is the smartphone.
frostlytt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
I think you mean “same game, different skin,” right?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yeah, true
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I got no use for a console with no racing games. I’ll be over here playing my hippodrome.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Horses tho.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
All of those are just a variant on gladiator fighting.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
jay@pie.zerojay.com 2 weeks ago
Another game for the Colosseum: Overwatch.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hippodrome also looks like a fairly decent Jousting Pitch
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Must be a supporter of the Blues
bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Plus chariot racing wasn’t even hippodrome exclusive
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
One of them had hooligans with real influence on politics in the Byzantine empire.
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
stfu! Glorious hippodrome gaming chariot race
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