Retro gaming

[Remij]

So What was happening on the P.C in 1996

We had
Quake
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Diablo
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Command and Conquer Red Alert
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MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries
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Descent 2
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Ef2000 Special Edition (voodoo support) flight sims were huge back in the day and are the reason I'm a P.C gamer
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Master of Orion 2
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Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga
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As far as I can tell there were 621 Windows games Released in 1996

Basically I think Quake was the only thing that was really comparable to Mario 64. On the right hardware it was probably better, but I doubt many had access to hardware at the time that was running Quake as fast and looking as good as Mario 64.

Quake undoubtedly evolved the FPS genre by becoming fully 3D and pushing the technology.. however I think Mario 64 was more revolutionary in how it adapted platformers to 3D with 3rd person cameras and truely analog character control.

 

[Davros]

Tomb Raider had the same features. afaik

 

[Karamazov]

the next step

 

[Davros]

The nexter step

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Cyan]

The proof that it works well would be if you could see the track from the sky in a top-down view, or a rotation at the end of the screen.

The ending of F-Zero in Master mode, one of my video game achievements using an emulator, shows you the ship seen from the sky, and there is a game similtar to Mario Kart which thanks to Mode 7 it has a secret trick with which you can play the entire game seeing the ship and the track from the sky the entire time.

The video below shows what Mode 7 does in F-Zero, the Master difficulty ending is not an alternative ending, it's the SNES running the game in real time, but seen from above. 55 seconds of video showing what Mode 7 is capable of.

 

[Cyan]

Wipeout 2097: The Making of an Iconic PlayStation Soundtrack - Noclip Documentary

 

[pharma]

Never realized scrollers could be so appealing and addictive.

00:00 Dragon's Crown Pro
03:13 Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
05:41 Midnight Fight Express
08:39 Fight 'n' Rage
11:54 The TakeOver

 

[Nesh]

a video showing the spectacular sound of Doom, SNES version. It sounds better than in a Gravis Ultrasound or a Sound Blaster AWE 32, imho.

Sony's sound chip was pretty awesome

 

[eloic]

Not superretro, but I'm playing Dragon Age II and I'm enjoying it a lot, even though I miss camps from Origins. The environments are quite repetitive, though. I think the devs were pushed to make a sequel in a short time because of the first game's success. I wonder how Inquisition will turn out for me.

What are your opinions on the saga or any of the games?

 

[Davros]

I remember DA2 had a lot of cut and paste

 

[Cyan]

Sony's sound chip was pretty awesome

well, I had the Sound Blaster AWE 32 which had wavetable MIDI via soundfonts and 1MB of internal rom to add sounds and the default soundfont of the AWE 32 sounded ok but nothing to write home about. Talking about the SNES version of Doom....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1821642624735793232

 

[Davros]

What does that mean "Added circle-strafe" ? Don't tell me there's a circle strafe button I know consoles liked to hold players hands but that's ridiculous

 

[davis.anthony]

Ocarina of Time is still blowing my mind.

It's the little details that I never noticed or paid that much attention too when I played it back when it released.

The sun actually setting and rising, and the intense sun glare you get if you look straight at it.

I can't imagine there were many games that did that back in 1998.

 

[Jack Attack]

 

[Davros]

The sun actually setting and rising,

RealSports Volleyball for the Atari 2600 in 1982 had this - I was well impressed

 

[Jack Attack]

I used to like fighting games long before I became fascinated with the survival horror genre.