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Anonymous Fri Mar 10 19:29:25 2017 No.3851567 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: games that really look impressive for their console/time

>StarFox (1993, SNES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnmnpWKoUS0

>Darxide (1995, 32X)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxfsXDBCp3o

>Panzer Dragoon (1995, Saturn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59swCd3xQwY

>World Driver Championship (1999, N64)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBUhDrnVvdg

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Fri Mar 10 19:42:11 2017 No.3851587 File: 16 KB, 522x479, orthanctypical[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Orthanc (1975, PLATO)

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 20:00:23 2017 No.3851629 File: 287 KB, 960x1279, IMG_0009.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3851567 Gran Turismo 4 / Tourist Trophy

Anonymous Fri Mar 10 20:27:02 2017 No.3851686

>>3851567
God, the first time I saw Star Fox and heard the music, I was completely blown away

I remember actually uusing a tape recorder to record the Game start menu music. And if I'm not mistaken, unlocking some sort of South d test to get all the levels music. I just loved that trippy/floaty sound that a lot of the levels had.

But I remember my older cousin saying "Soon, all video games are going to look this good".

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 20:35:27 2017 No.3851704 >>3851587 comfy

Anonymous Fri Mar 10 21:56:42 2017 No.3851842
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>>3851567

Hard to believe, but Unreal AND Unreal Tournament were both pre 2000. Blew away anything else in that time period. Other than that, Wolfenstein and Doom both were top notch for their time. Loaded looked pretty good for a PS1 game, although the dark lighting really helped that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 22:21:34 2017 No.3851874 >>3851686 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eiTzRdN7Co >post your favorite level theme

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 22:26:53 2017 No.3851883 >>3851587 I fucking love amber-on-black graphics. I can't explain it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 22:31:02 2017 No.3851892 File: 48 KB, 250x325, Virtua_Fighter_3_flyer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihBCn5hfOJQ

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 22:48:48 2017 No.3851926 >>3851567 Daytona U.S.A was literally several generations ahead of any of those and it came out in 1993.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 23:43:05 2017 No.3852005 >>3851842 Unreal got a graphical update a year or two into its life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 10 23:57:41 2017 No.3852030 File: 1.73 MB, 468x366, Guardian.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Guardian. Star Fox clone for Amiga systems.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 00:01:43 2017 No.3852034 >>3851892 that flyer is sick

Anonymous Sat Mar 11 00:13:40 2017 No.3852048
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>>3852030

Should mention that Guardian was an AGA game, which required either a later system or the CD32. Still, the OCS/ECS Amigas had Zeewolf 1 and 2, which played like a more advanced version of Zarch/Virus.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 00:50:52 2017 No.3852110 >>3851567 SIONⅡ for X68000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZqzQYPs58

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 02:03:21 2017 No.3852213 >>3852005 The only graphical update was porting its own Glide features into Direct3D and OpenGL (that cought up to Glide in effect department), and slapping a UT-style interface on top.

Anonymous Sat Mar 11 02:33:57 2017 No.3852245 [DELETED]

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Despite being one of the earlier Spectrum games, Dark Star is its only 3D game to run at double digit framerates.

That's probably because there's not much going on, but still.

Anonymous Sat Mar 11 03:00:54 2017 No.3852268
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Dark Star is the only 3D game on the ZX Spectrum to run at double digit framerates. Probably because there's not much going on, but still. The Star Wars port struggles to run at above 3fps, for comparison.

Anonymous Sat Mar 11 03:20:34 2017 No.3852284
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>>3852268

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky is another impressive 3D (2.5D?) ZX Spectrum game. It even has a simple physics engine. The game bombed, probably because of the title, but it also could have just been ahead of its time. It plays like an indie dev was sent back 25 years into the past and told to recreate their student Unity 3D project on a Spectrum.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 07:55:57 2017 No.3852557 >>3852048 Oh now that looks sexy, did this ever get a CD32 port? (I've been considering grabbing a CD32 for a while now, the more cool games I can discover the better)

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 09:39:36 2017 No.3852656 File: 30 KB, 320x224, 1458909650164.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Obligatory Galaxy Force 2 post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoGaj2HnVUI

babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sat Mar 11 10:24:09 2017 No.3852696

>>3852557
http://unofficial-cd32-ports.blogspot.com/

Are you in England? Because CD32s are available all day every day there for $100 while they're very hard to come by here in the US. It seemed like someone in Florida discovered a crate full of them in spring of 2013 but I was so busy with my new baby I missed out on grabbing one so my search continues.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 11:39:09 2017 No.3852805 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEUcFsHD8I Toy Story for the SNES/Genesis. Visually it's on par with DKC, but it has other tricks like levels with 5 background layers and a 3D level.

Anonymous Sat Mar 11 11:43:57 2017 No.3852818

>>3852696
Yeah I'm English. I can pick one up for arround $50 depending on postage and included accessories- I've even stumbled across a few in the wild in the odd charity shop and in one retro gaming store.

I like the fact the system has no copy protection and it's a great way to experience Subwar 2050, Alien Breed trillogy, Beheath a Steel Sky, Flashback, Frontier Elite 2, Gloom and other games.
Plus a standardised controller for Amiga game is just cool.

But The lacking specs have always put me off, the CPU and GPU runs off the same ram and as such many 3D games have abismal frame rates.
I'm well aware of the upgrade kits you can buy which increase the Ram capacity, add a hard drive, floppy drive, keyboard and basucally turn the system into an Amiga 1200 and an double the frane rate of titles such as Gloom but those expansion kits cost way over $250 :/

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 11 11:52:43 2017 No.3852838 >>3852805 the SNES version is shit no sprite-scaling driving level and downgraded first person level

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sat Mar 11 16:34:08 2017 No.3853480 File: 397 KB, 1920x1080, 1489268048922.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3851883 I've been thinking of trying out pic related although I heard it's not really all that brutal

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sat Mar 11 16:37:23 2017 No.3853483 >>3852818 I've been stalking english ebay for a cheap one that will even be willing to ship overseas but it seems like the sellers don't even think it's worth it. If you ever feel like hooking me up please let me know!

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 00:12:24 2017 No.3854371 Silpheed for the Sega CD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crjgu2aE1QE

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 09:01:12 2017 No.3854824 >>3853483 Well if I find one in the wild and if I see you posting on /vr/ I'll derail a thread to let you know babbage gramps. ThenI can laugh to myself after I send the console to you with a scart cable :p Silly Americans and their composite rgb ;)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 12:22:22 2017 No.3857140 >>3852656 Amazing.

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Mon Mar 13 16:46:29 2017 No.3857602 >>3854824 I have a breakout for my pvm so the joke's on you!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 16:53:52 2017 No.3857615 >>3854371 Add Soul Star here.

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