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SvennoJ on 09 November 2015
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Augen said:
JNK said:


played ocarina of time ~20 years ago. 20 fps. was fine. enjoyed it. never even cared about framerate. 

I lways think of this when this comes up.  We had "slow down" back in the day, but until about 2007 I never remember frame rate and obsessions about 30 or 60 FPS being a thing.

I'd be curious to know what the best games of the 80s and 90s ran at. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_2qGaIOvjs
The gameplay starts at 2:07 The start of the revolution :) Frame rate was so bad you had the option to shrink the image (add borders) to keep it playable.

The 486 was out though which ran it a lot better. This was Descent on a 486

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMaBsl6RPdI
No clue what the frame rate was, the poor image quality and screen tearing effectively hid the frame rate dips. Plus the hud cleverly takes up half of the screen. That game was awesome anyway.

Games were new and fresh, nobody cared about the frame rate.