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In our mind, this is what all the cool 8-bit games looked like when thinking back. All the details our brain add to the rough graphics, all the extra frames to the simple animations, how the resolution advanced several generations.
What they looked like.... Looking at some game play videos of C64, NES and Amiga games can feel a bit sad at times.
And I got to say, the covers for games today hold a bit higher level of quality...
Oh, we had first person shooters back in the late 80:s. But they were rail shooters so all you moved was the scope.
Sid Meier's Solo Flight for the Commodore 64. About as good looking as a sim could be back then. Not quite the immersion of the latest MS Flight Simulator.
For more nostalgics, here are some joysticks and controllers that will bring back memories: https://imgur.com/gallery/Yjowkqh
Rreizero
My mind is clear, my blade empty.
AMRIV
AndrewCanadian
I am this old. Also all the Sierra games. Loved 'em.
H2ONerd
Holy shit, yes, Solo Flight! That and Chuck Yeagers game, I can't remember the title.
TjayBrandon
#1 Oh dear God. Yes, this looks neat, but the tatami mats, the paper walls, the paper sliding doors...
Lobo82
I played a lot of these games at Peter Piper Pizza back in the 80's and very early 90's.
dart223
Eternal champions from sega genesis is a great example
OriginalAndWitty
I remember that flight sim. Hard as shit at about 1 fps making fine-tune adjustments.
ClawsOfTheWolf
My dad loved planes and tried to play it with my TAC-2. He got bored quickly.
BusterH
Paul Rudd remembers
ballsoutflyer
Factoid: That's Tony Jay narrating.
MrKomisiripala
Space Quest with Roger Wilco. Btw, Oregon Trail is now on the App Store.
ClawsOfTheWolf
SQ3: "Pick up ladder" You pick up the ladder and put it in your pocket. ... Ouch!
ClawsOfTheWolf
Two friends were stuck in SQ2's cave with the laser beams. Tried variation of "Use piece of glass on laser beams" for an hour or two.
ClawsOfTheWolf
Then they just typed "Use piece of glass" and got "you use piece of glass on laser beams". For once the text was supposed to be simple. :)
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
Double dragon?! I loved home-lee and ug-Lee
NotADodgeBallCannon
But did you ever get 50000 on Double Dragon?
TheHeckYaMeme
You mean Bimmy and Jimmy?
arkoudos
Shinobi
theheatman
ClawsOfTheWolf
THIS is how you ignite a flaming sword:
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
IK+ on the Amiga had the best codes. "t", he dropped his trousers. "wank", a message came up saying "sweaty hands slip off joystick" and if
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
You typed "fuck" it said "now, now. Any more language like that and I'll reset the game" Type it again and it did
ClawsOfTheWolf
Did you know they made a TV show for kids based on IK+? I think it was made by German television.
azazyel
Remember Rush N' Attack!
ClawsOfTheWolf
Now that you mention its name, yeah, I remember. :) Think it was Green Beret on the C64 and other formats.
flefla
These games were great and considering the technology was generally developed to keep up with the game, the quality was superb
ClawsOfTheWolf
Yeah, some of them were just amazing. I had probably 100 hours in Pirates! and loved watching demos and see what some coders could do.
Muttley86
isetprettygirlsonfire
They were awesome to me, compared to my first, the tandyvision. Arcade games were where it was at then
jessika95ve
Actually those games looked better because the pixel art was made for "trick" the CRT display tech. The effects are lost in modern displays.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
↑ This. 8 & 16 bit Games looked a lot smoother on a CRT. I hate these modern fake retro style games.
jessika95ve
Here an example that blows my mind:
NoLongerBreadNotQuiteToast
Double Dragon on the C64 with my brother, some of my earliest gaming memories.
Tmissfrizzle
Double dragon is the jam
somesomebody
They absolutely did not. They looked just as pixel-y back then as they do now. The only difference being that CRT blur and bleed left- 1.
somesomebody
more to the imagination back then. The big "wow" factor about game graphics back then was how graphics looked better than what came before.
Rem1976
Operation wolf https://youtu.be/aMzyUrmmARs
ClawsOfTheWolf
Ah, memories. This one and Operation Tungerbolt were classics for us on Amiga and C64, but I bet they were far more fun at the arcades.
Imalwaysready
Operation WOLF baby!
NotADodgeBallCannon
Played Operation Wolf a ton with my Zapper. wore out the trigger
ClawsOfTheWolf
Or Operation Tunderbolt, with the longest airplane in gaming history.
joester101
When you know These games, you're old af. Damn, I'm old af too.
SilverNicktail
These are newer than what I started with. I am very old as fuck.
euphoricopportunity
I remember having to look up "af" in urban dictionary recently, maybe 2014ish? Remember when "as all hell", "as hell", and "as shit" 1/2
euphoricopportunity
were more common than "as fuck" or "af"? 2/2
MangoLassi
Soon it'll be "as heck"
tmtowtdi
2014 was seven years ago. If "seven years ago" == "recently", you may well be old af.
pm1001
The point is, great games don't need great graphics. Quake was awesome, immersive, moddable. Great game play is the thing
pm1001
There are awesome movies in b/w, mono sound, tiny screen, grainy. Great plots well acted count
ClawsOfTheWolf
I still play X-Com from 93 once in a while. Amazing game play. But not all games ages well, back then we had less to compare with.
ClawsOfTheWolf
Like Last Ninja. SO cool back then. But man, the controls were so horrible. But we did not know better and loved it anyway. :)
LSKG
animations and details were better for those games in the past because the screens had lower resolution and frame rate making them smoother
ClawsOfTheWolf
Kind of fun that on the Xbox360, Fight Night 3 & 4 looked more realistic on my CRT TV than my friend's HD TV as his image was too sharp.
LSKG
yeah I remember playing morrowind on the old tube TV right when my mom switched it I went "this looks like shit now"
heyletsbefriends
waving a flaming sword around in a paper house seems like a bad idea.
LunarEntropy
I’ve met that dude before, this is actually on the safe side compared to what he does.
isetprettygirlsonfire
Not the beat, but he is the best fire swordsman I know
ClawsOfTheWolf
Come on, what is the worst thing that could happen? :)
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ClawsOfTheWolf
The Twitter user Kiwamu - @kiwamissimo He have posted many vids like this.
isetprettygirlsonfire
He puts on a fantastic live show, amazing!
ClawsOfTheWolf
I agree
SmokyDoggg
So I played The Legend Of Zelda when I was 7
crazysob83
You should make a dump post with these
ClawsOfTheWolf
Looks just about right!
ryanforehand811
I had pitfall when it first came out
homoerection
I loved pitfall
SmokyDoggg
I rented it, being poor, and it didn't come with an instruction manual.
SmokyDoggg
SmokyDoggg
ArtanisApollo
I always saw lasagna
MangoLassi
I love lasagna
ThomasTheWankEnglne
looked like a jella mold to me
SmokyDoggg
MyOpinionsArePopular
Lynels! Only been found in the downfall timeline... just sayin'
SmokyDoggg
PenisOfDeath
The artwork for the lynels in the NES Zelda look like BotW's meth addicted cousin.
BlackTrashTiger
Susurus
Only good like-like is a dead one. Take that you shield-eating bastard
MangoLassi
Xianoth
BARBARIAN! I had that for the Amiga. Spin, chop, head goes flying! Screaming Conan the Barbarian and Highlander lines! good times..
Xianoth
.. also, the programmers did good for limited memory space and we didn't know better, At the time, it was cutting edge.
ClawsOfTheWolf
Almost as brutal as Moonstone...
Xianoth
didn't get a chance to play that one. Megaball AGA was my addiction at the time.
ClawsOfTheWolf
Xianoth
Was it only C=64? I am more impressed then.. Less memory and still an awesome game!
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Xianoth
To be fair, I had both computers at the time.. It is entirely possible I had both ports of the game.
ClawsOfTheWolf
I could have played this on my C64 or my Amiga. Easy to blur the two together after 30 years, and my memories of the graphics does not help