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What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments? (self.retrogaming)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by HexagonSun to c/[email protected]

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I remember a few from various stages of my life (born 1984).

Seeing the demo footage of Sonic 2 in Woolworths and thinking the leaves falling down in Aquatic Ruin zone was so cool and advanced.

The original Sega arcade of Virtua Racing with the moving cars completely blew me away.

I remember my uncle loading up Cannon Fodder on his Amiga, and a REAL song with REAL music came out, along with REAL photos. I was amazed haha.

A few years on I remember a PlayStation demo disc having promo footage of the first Gran Turismo and it looked so real to me, I watched it over and over. The first Driver on PS1 looked absolutely amazing to me also.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The first thing that jumped to my mind was Half Life 2. The facial expressions on the characters, and the physics of objects in the game world.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 4 months ago

The famous E3 demo is so twee now. Heightmaps! Pachinko! Stained glass!