/vr/ - Retro Games

What makes the NES port more impressive than the BBC Micro original or other ports?

Star Cruiser's port to the Mega Drive is also impressive, seeing as it predates Virtua Racing (which had the SVP chip to make it expensive) by 4 years and does polygon visuals adequately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yND5V85iPHc

>>2357067
Seriously. Elite did well enough to begin with to deserve great ports.

Why not start by mentioning what game it is instead of assuming everyone knows what you're talking about.

I hate assholes like you.

>>2357086

It literally says the name of the game on the bottom middle of the screen.

Also, reverse image search.

You not knowing what the game is even called or recognising the imagery sorta proves my point as well.

>>2357070

Star Cruiser was rather ugly though, it was also on the Mega Drive which is a far cry away from the NES.

Gameplay wise, it was also nowhere near as fun as Elite.

>>2357067

The fact that it used wireframes and pseudo-bitmapping on a console that beforehand had been solely the home of 8-bit sprites.

The control system was also impressive considering it used a controller with only 4 buttons and a D-pad.

>>2357281
To be fair, Elite is pretty hard to see on there; you'll most likely only see it if you're looking for it.
Also, one may not think that's the game's name. It could be there to mean other things.

>>2357060
I honestly had no idea this game existed before I picked up Elite: Dangerous. The scale and depth they were able to achieve in a game released in 1984 is simply amazing.
I guess it didn't get much traction outside of Britain, though.

Because PAL is shit.

>>2357326
>The scale and depth they were able to achieve in a game released in 1984 is simply amazing.

And it was so amazing that they didn't bother improving on it in E:D.

>Googling it produces very few results specifically about the NES version, despite it being probably the most technologically impressive.

TBH I'm more impressed by the technical achievements of the BBC Micro version being crammed in its entirety into 22KB and running on a much slower processor.

>people haven't played the GOAT console port

Note the thing in the middle. You will need that thing.

>>2357086
>one of the most influential and groundbreaking games of all time

>you need to mention the game because I don't know shit about games

literally like complaining about putting a mario SS and not saying it's mario..

>>2357574
This was for sale at my local game store. Is it worth the $7 theyre asking for?

>>2357598
Not at all.

The number of people who know about this game must be in the tens of thousands at most.

>>2357289
Played any of the PC versions? Sucks to hear you didn't enjoy it as much as Elite; the X68k version looks great IMO.

>>2357598

what in the world

Test

>>2357598
Get real, peckerwood.

>>2357598
Fuck off, no one knows everything, and op already said it was somewhat obscure.

Now go be a fagot somewhere else.

>>2357598
>elite
>one of the most influential and groundbreaking games of all time