Digital Foundry Retro Discussion [2018 - 2020]

Oh well, there isn't a new Digital Foundry Retro article yet this year, but there will be some soon. However, just to get started, and continuing with a previous discussion on a DF Retro article featuring Sonic, the guys behind the Sonic 2 HD project have updated the game and listened to feedback, improving the art, physics and other elements of the game. Plus they added a new stage, Aquatic Ruin Zone HD!

http://sonic2hd.com/

 

Bob Wakelin a cover artist who created the cover of some mythic games, has passed away.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-22-legendary-cover-artist-bob-wakelin-passes-away

I didn't know who made the Operation Wolf cover, but in my first computer ever, back in early 1996 a friend of mine brought me a floppy disk with the wonderful Operation Wolf. So addictive! The diskette had a virus though, the virus Galicia (a local virus from where I was born), which did something to the hard drive's MBR and copied itself into diskettes at startup, but fortunately it wasn't very dangerous, although I forgot to remove the Operation Wolf diskette several times and that's how it infected computers, but it was so tough to remember to remove the floppy disk from the computer once you turned it off.

 

An interesting insight of the great Hideki Kamiya, talking about how difficult the development of Resident Evil 2 was. I had the original on PC, but later played the sequel on my best friend's PlayStation. It was very addictive, also an impressive game, technically wise.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...ki-kamiya-remembers-its-turbulent-development

 

wowwwwwwww, so glad to have you here John. It's our pleasure. That's why I love Beyond3D

 

SNES Mini passes 4 million sale. Quite surprising if you ask me.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-01-snes-mini-sales-pass-4m

I thought it would sell squat! Not because the SNES wasn't one of the best consoles ever, if not the best for many, even games technologically "worse" than their Megadrive counterparts, like Aladdin (8Mb SNES version vs 16Mb Megadrive version) turned out to be better on the SNES, despite having less frames of animation and the lack of shiny-shiny stuff the Megadrive version had, which was so hyped at the time and I wanted a Megadrive to play that game but had no money... Thought emulators would make it a bit anachronistic, but I was wrong.

 

First DF Retro article of the year 2018. John, thanks heaps! The article and the video focus on Powerslave (called Exhumed in Europe). Alas, I missed this game. How could I? Doom was one of my first games, and then Quake, and loved both of them to death, I created maps, completed Quake several times and played against the Reaper AI in local multiplayer... Played and bought the likes of Hexen, Heretic.., Hexen 2.. But this one, I missed.

Quite curious to know that Richard Leadbetter (the DF boss) made a great coverage of the game at the time (dunno if also the game was in the magazine's cover, if I understood the words in the article correctly).

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...med-the-brilliant-legacy-of-lobotomy-software



Did anyone here played this game at the time?