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curl-6 on 09 October 2020
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HoloDust said:
curl-6 said:

Virtua Racing

Might not look like much today, but this came out in 1992, when gaming was still firmly in the era of 2D sprites. 

Virtua Racing looked amazing - it was early 90s counterpart to Star Wars arcade from '83...at least, that's how I felt about it seeing it for the first time in arcades.

'92 was quite important year - Ultima Underworld not only introduced texture mapped 3D worlds, but went on to be major influence for creation of Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein 3D started FPS era, Dune II defined standards for RTS games and Alone in the Dark, grandfather of 3D survival horrors, was released.

I was too young to appreciate it at the time, as I was 3 years old in 1992 and grew up in a small town without any arcades anyway, but I think it's easy to see how mind-blowing Virtua Racing would've looked if you were used to playing 2D NES/SNES/Megadrive games at home.

On a similar note, while obviously running on less powerful hardware than arcade machines, Starfox on the SNES brought polygonal 3D to consoles in the middle of the two dimensional 4th gen:

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