Wing commander 2. Full voice acted dialog running on a sound blaster at 16 bits and midi soundtrack, pre-rendered 3d graphics, in box loot, printed manuals, and a full on dramatic storyline. In terms of impact, nothing even came/ comes close. Truly the golden age. Now it’s a game of diminishing returns. And $99 plus gacha and microtx, really? Really?
Growing up in the 80-90s was awesome. The industry was literally evolving before our eyes, from green screen 1 bit graphics to 4 colors, 16, 256, 16m, from 320x200 to 640x480 to 1024, to HD and 4k. To read about ingenious workarounds the developers had to do to work around hardware limitations, to the demo scene that kept prompting ‘what next?’. We were better because we had to be.
If llms are statistics based, wouldn’t there be many many more losing games than perfectly winning ones? It’s like Dr strange saying ‘this is the only way’.
Monkey island 2. Any of the original lucasarts point and click graphical adventures.
I still have my Panasonic - TH50PX80U or one of the regional variants. Only does 720p/ 1080i.