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The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it’s hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

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wilt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Graphically it was superior to anything else I had played (SNES and Genesis were the two available at the time) but it definately lacked polish, even to 8 year old me. The real kicker is that everything about it just looked… Different from what was being pushed by Nintendo and Sega with their consoles.

I also had access to PCs which would play Wolfenstien3D, so I would say the game play was also somewhat superior, but the CDi lacked depth with the games.

I also just remembered that there was anither game which was incredibly well made… And it was all 90s western cartoon styled about a knight trying to save a princess from a dragon.

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- tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I also just remembered that there was another game which was incredibly well made… And it was all 90s western cartoon styled about a knight trying to save a princess from a dragon.
  
  I think you’re talking about Dragon’s Lair– I wouldn’t necessarily call it well made. It was designed as an arcade game to munch through your quarters, so the gameplay felt pretty unfair with very short timing on everything.
  
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  - wilt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s the one.
    
    I mean, it was better made than the other games I had access to.
    
    And yes, its Ninja Gaiden levels of difficult.
    
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