Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong

a year ago by 🍹Early to RISA 🧉 to c/greentext

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Aeri 145 points a year ago

Anyone tell that fool that CRTs were literally the only kind of TV that existed at the time

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MudMan 55 points a year ago

Admittedly, this game doesn't look particularly good on a CRT, either.

The hype about the visuals being "3D" was so weird and misinformed, and you could absolutely tell at the time.

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Sparrow_1029 34 points a year ago

It was pseudo-3D, I remember reading an article about how they made the sprites, but can't find that... wikipedia has

Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics

and they used SGI workstations to create the models and animations before compressing/converting them to 2D sprites

Rare invested their NES profit in Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Challenge workstations with Alias rendering software to render 3D models. It was a significant risk, as each workstation cost £80,000.

(sharing bc I thought that's a crazy amount of money for 1992)

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mkwt 13 points a year ago

Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

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JeremyHuntQW12 2 points a year ago
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