Lostdragon Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 18 hours ago, Leonard Smith said: Haha! That skull image cracks me up. ? Imagine starting at that thing the entire time as you play through the game lol! I noticed lots of European games featured those elaborately crafted score / status areas. Probably a way to hide the fact that they were trying to cut down the screen size. It is rather distracting ? Yep, large status panels, especially on ST games were quite common, sometimes it did not cause too many issues, but i always found it resulted in a very cramped playing area on Pac-Mania. Something the STE fan remake addresses very nicely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 2:17 AM, Leonard Smith said: Imagine starting at that thing the entire time as you play through the game lol! I noticed lots of European games featured those elaborately crafted score / status areas. Probably a way to hide the fact that they were trying to cut down the screen size. It's kinda the idea... The thing is, many computers video chips were able to display 2 areas on screen with different resolutions. Usually, the high resolution area would use more RAM and be limited in colors, the low resolution would have more colors but being real low res. So yeah you'd use the low resolution and "hide" the fact is is low resolution with a large status area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smith Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Got it. As a kid and looking through naive eyes, it just seemed like a waste of space and resources. We wanted our games to be fullscreen, lol! Most of the time it was just the company's name (ie: Elite or Psygnosis) or the game's title crafted in some huge elaborate metallic-looking font. (see images) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 On 1/13/2022 at 4:37 PM, Leonard Smith said: Got it. As a kid and looking through naive eyes, it just seemed like a waste of space and resources. We wanted our games to be fullscreen, lol! Most of the time it was just the company's name (ie: Elite or Psygnosis) or the game's title crafted in some huge elaborate metallic-looking font. (see images) These were even worse ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChildOfCv Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 On 11/11/2021 at 12:51 PM, zzip said: What other examples can you find? The quintessential example has to be Hero Wars. Seriously, how does this game even stay in business, let alone shovel money from a bottomless pit to create elaborate animations of its bait-and-switch ads? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 On 12/30/2021 at 12:47 AM, Tempest said: That is a really good question. Just passed another one onto Frank Gasking of GTW Turbo Sub.. Early promotional screens show it as a third person viewpoint title, later promotional material and game itself had it as a first person affair. I believe coder Ed Schneider sadly passed away some years ago but can anyone shed any light on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricmastro Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 (edited) Freeway Flyboys screenshot, which has no Care Bears, even though it's said that it has them. Edited April 30, 2022 by electricmastro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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