Old school graphics.. did you ever do this?

mrbios said:
Ah remember the days of going to my mates house, 5 port 10mb switch, 2 Pentium 1s with no more than about 64mb of ram playing doom over an IPX connection :D

Good times
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I remember Doom on PS1 link up and the matchstick trick. Fun times!
 
I get the point but in them days gameplay > graphics. It's still the case now. I still haven't played many better games than Dungeon Master or a football game as good as Kick Off 2 or Sensible World of Soccer, yes now they may have a billion polygons but the gameplay is rubbish. Now everything is geared around FPS and graphics which detracts from the gameplay. I give you Crysis for example. It's a very average game beautifully packaged but that's it. Where are the platformers, the shoot em ups, etc. When is something new going to come out?




M.
 
Well looking back now of course the graphics seem rubbish, but back then we didn't know any better and im sure some one will say the same thing 20 years down the line about todays games!
 
Lots of memories really going back to the ZX81/Speccy days, but one thing that sticks out is the first time I walked into a shop and saw Pilot Wings running on a Snes.

Similarly, was amazed the first time I saw Wipeout and Ridge Racer on a PS1.

PC wise, the first time I saw Strike Commander made me realise that maybe it was time to get rid of my Amiga. I did so that same year, two weeks before I got hold of a certain Doom.
 
In the early '80s (yes I'm that old) I worked for a company called Sigmex that made graphic computers for people like S.H.A.P.E, which was the Allied Command in Europe, in the days when we thought the Russians were going to invade.

I recall we had a graphic of a spider, which looked in hindsight a bit like one of the spiders on Quake 2 if anyone remembers them, and if you played that in software mode. :)

At the time we all gathered around and stared at it for ages. This is the future! :D
 
adamknox said:
we upgraded to a master system. (im coming to the point now) When i/we first saw The graphic on Sonic.. my whole family and indeed my self, just could NOT belive how amazing the graphics were! WOW! 16Bit..
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Master System was 8bit :)
 
I remember being amazed the first time I fired up Prince of Persia on my Amiga.
It was after upgrading the Amiga 500, I belive it cost about £100 for the half meg upgrade. I just couldnt belive the animations in the game.
 
DreXeL said:
Master System was 8bit :)
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Ahhh...the good old Master System, as my mates referred to as the Raster System.
It was Donkey Kong Country and Mortal Kombat 1 which caught my eyes with graphics on the SNES. Then I starting to drift towards the Amiga games like Walker and Body Blows. Until i got my first PC when 3DFX brought out the Voodoo series with SLI and saw how awesome Quake and Half-Life 1 looked....those were the days.......
 
I remember thinking Sonic on the MegaDrive looked amazing because of the shading on his head, looked very 3D :D

Also, on Christmas morning, plugging my Playstation in for the first time and playing the demo disk with the likes of Tekken 2 and the walking T-Rex demo, that was pretty incredible, I didn't get a megadrive so for me it was MasterSystem > Playstation :eek: that's the biggest step up in graphics I'm likely to ever experience I think, although I hope not!

It's pretty amazing to imagine what games are going to be like in 20 years.
 
I was more blown away by the scope of some games I played, rather than the graphics. Mario 64 and Zelda ocarina of time on the N64 where absolutely enormous games and gave you quite a lot of free will, which upto that point didnt exist in computer games
 
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