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First attempt at realistic graphics on a 2d video game?
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I think Myst came out a year after MK, but I think that was definitely a big one for a lot of people.
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Yeah for gameplay, I just wanna see a gameplay that totally nailed that realistic look
yeah that seems about right, and that was in 1990!
Let's see if there's even older games that do this
The Journey arcade game is the first time a game used digitized photos for sprites AFAIK.
Came out in 1983.
Came out in 1983.
This is an interesting article about it. Pit Fighter is the first one I remember.
www.giantbomb.com
Digitized Sprites (Concept) - Giant Bomb
Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game.
www.giantbomb.com
The Journey arcade game is the first time a game used digitized photos for sprites AFAIK.
Came out in 1983.
That realism though 😶
;)
I actually discovered this game at the arcades recently. Pretty wild.
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haha it was pulled from arcades, damn
This one looks pretty good:
China Warriors from 1987
That is essentially what photogrammetry is. Half Life Alyx uses it, and achieves photorealism in many spots. Its insane.
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Safe to say right now that's the biggest contender for GOTY right now?
There've been some indie attempts at this in the past few years. Off hand there was a fighting game called Death Cargo which has an interesting story behind it. I literally can't find gameplay video of it online anymore because they've successfully manage to scrub them from the internet to make way for their brawler reboot of it called Gorebreaker:
There was also a Street's of Rage style game called Streets of Fury EX.
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Sprites never went away, for the most part this is still how we get realistic looking fires and explosion.
Epyx sports sims Summer/Winter Games and Impossible Mission all went for bitmapped backgrounds and exceptional (for the time) animation.
Here is death cargo gameplay that survived. (dont know how to embed that link, but its a streaming video)
Saturday Morning Scrublords - Death Cargo (720p).mp4
drive.google.com
Mad Dog Mcree and Sega's Time Traveller both predate Mortal Kombat, but they could both considered cheating as they're both just streaming video off a disc.
There was Lethal Enforcers which took a similar approach as Mortal Kombat, but it came out one week later.
There was Lethal Enforcers which took a similar approach as Mortal Kombat, but it came out one week later.
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I loved Streets of Fury EX! Palette swaps galore. The game is a great time.
Gorebreaker is an interesting looking project. The perspective, movement, and aesthetic remind me a bit of Splatterhouse.
The Journey arcade game is the first time a game used digitized photos for sprites AFAIK.
Came out in 1983.
When I was a kid in the 90's a skate rink had one of these. Such a bizarre thing to look at. It was basically a series of minigames.