17-02-2020, 09:08 AM
Probably nostalgia speaking, but my favourite period for gaming was the mid-to-late 90's.
Full texture mapping was becoming do-able. The Dooms and Quakes of the world found themselves cloned over and over again.
With the introduction of the CD-ROM, we started seeing gloriously unnecessary cut-scenes and grainy FMV. Big-name Hollywood stars would woodenly act their way through scripts that made little sense, in an environment that confused them greatly. Finally, I could click on Christopher Walken and make him do things.
With CD technology came great sound. No need for text-to-speech synthesis, yay!
3D cards slid into view with varying levels of support. Programmers could now throw out as many colours as they like, assuming that the user's Voodoo card would cope. Lesser mortals would sigh, and pick the software rendered mode, wondering how many fps they were going to be treated to. 10? 15?
Lucas Arts and to a lesser extent Sierra were still making great point & click games, but their time was coming to an end.
Just unearthed a bunch of computer magazines from the period and it's funny how quickly I was recognising an ad for a game, and recalling the publisher's logo be it Gremlin, Psygnosis, etc.
Full texture mapping was becoming do-able. The Dooms and Quakes of the world found themselves cloned over and over again.
With the introduction of the CD-ROM, we started seeing gloriously unnecessary cut-scenes and grainy FMV. Big-name Hollywood stars would woodenly act their way through scripts that made little sense, in an environment that confused them greatly. Finally, I could click on Christopher Walken and make him do things.
With CD technology came great sound. No need for text-to-speech synthesis, yay!
3D cards slid into view with varying levels of support. Programmers could now throw out as many colours as they like, assuming that the user's Voodoo card would cope. Lesser mortals would sigh, and pick the software rendered mode, wondering how many fps they were going to be treated to. 10? 15?
Lucas Arts and to a lesser extent Sierra were still making great point & click games, but their time was coming to an end.
Just unearthed a bunch of computer magazines from the period and it's funny how quickly I was recognising an ad for a game, and recalling the publisher's logo be it Gremlin, Psygnosis, etc.
Wait, what, I got to have a signature?