It is a cool evening dusk in 2001. You find this game in one of the demo disks. A great night is awaiting.
The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great.
Submitted 15 hours ago by eru777@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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9point6@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Demos were cool and that (ThatNukemGuy and Sean Swanson do brilliant recap vids), but…
…what I really looked forward to were the Net Yaroze games that were published on the discs. Most of them were decent; some of them were utter shit; but some of them were absolute bangers.
That, and putting the discs in the CD player gave you a blind taste of some 90s techno choons - the drop in the Lifeforce Tenka track is top quality.
eru777@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
My favorite was adventure game. I still love Italian Concerto because of this game lol.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Amazing. Somehow they managed to make it look almost as good as a full price title at the time!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great.
This, september the 10th will be a great night. Tomorrow morning however…
huquad@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I’ve been meaning to get brunch at that penthouse restaurant. Tomorrows the day!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sept 10th 2001 was the day Advance Wars for GBA went on sale in America. Japan was going to get it later that week. They wouldn’t get it until 2004.
cibicibi@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
I found a game called Dark Cloud in one of these demo disks. Still today is one of my favorite games. Unfortunately is not very known due to bad marketing.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
This is one that’s not on my radar. I guess I’ll need to check it out sometime.
When I went off to college, I basically sold as much of my stuff as I could because even in the ancient times it was expensive as hell for a kid from a poor family. So, that was the end of my gaming days for the better part of a decade, and I honestly didn’t really keep up. My last gaming system was the original Playstation until around 2007 when I decided to spend money I didn’t have to buy a Wii.
Toes@ani.social 13 hours ago
Sometimes the full game was on those demo discs and you could use gameshark to bypass the flag to kick you off.
weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I should get back to that, I only played a little of it but I remember enjoying it.
roofTophopper@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sleepy quick scroll. Thought it was Face Ball for the SNES. That game sucked and I was confused. Now I’m better.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Oh man!! Yep found this one in a goodwill tote wayyyyy back. Good game.
Sadly ps1 disc’s didnt age well. Rebuilding my collection in roms. Duckstation ftw!
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
The full version of this game supported the extremely uncommon namco jogcon
paultimate14@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Demo disc? I had (and still have) the whole game. My older sister beat it, but I never got around to it.
The last few years as I’ve gotten into emulation and retro gaming, I find this is a game I go back to more often than most. I have an RGB10MAX- a cheap Chinese handheld that has a 16:9 screen but is too weak to play modern HD systems.
Luckily there were somewhere around 44 PS1 games with widescreen modes. Unfortunately it looks like 27 of those are racing games (and some of those are only slightly different variants of basically the. Same game). 7 more are sports games, including soen annual entries. 4 are just a single Visual Novel series. 2 more are just 2D (Worms and Galaxian), and Bloody Roar is technically 3D but like… It’s a fighting game so it’s not very 3D.
So if you’re looking for a very videogame-ey videogame, that can run in a PS1 emulator, but still upscale nicely to a 16:9 screen, without using fan-made patches… You only have 4 options:
Tenka and GitS are both shooters, which aren’t really my thing (especially on the PS1 before analog sticks were ubiquitous). Mrs. Pac-Man is arguably more of a 2.5D game. So Pac-Man World somehow ended up as my go-to for testing out Widescreen on devices. I still go back to it occasionally on my Steam Deck and maybe one of these days I’ll finally finish it off.
eru777@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s very cool. I’m a purist though, only play on a CRT. The way it was intended.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Fair enough. Personally I’m old enough to remember when my parents upgraded the living room TV from a CRT to a flat screen (I think it was a plasma?) and the upgrade so so drastic I’ve never had any urge to go back.
I think part of it is that the only CRT’s left in existence are the ultra-high-end models that retro enthusiasts covet. Models that I never would have seen back in the late 90’s unless I had an ultra wealthy friend or visited a local TV station. The old console-style CRT with only a single coaxial input, with the faded phosphorus and the weird spots where someone got a magnet too close to the screen… I’m fine leaving that in the past lol.