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Final Fantasy. Flowing dramatic artwork. 18 pixels of character (hyperbole, idk the actual pixel number.)
The character sprites were 16x24 in combat, so a whole 384 pixels to work with!
A 386 could handle that easily and still have two pixels left.
Gonna make good use of those 33Mhz!
Sometimes I forget that CPU clock speeds were talked about in Mhz instead of Ghz.
To be fair, I’ve never seen anything come close to Amanos illustratative work.
I can't research it at the moment, but I want to say that was a common thing in the pre-NES days, and I think Nintendo required actual gameplay graphics to be shown on the box because of that.
Could be off on the specifics, but I do vaguely recall those kinds of non-representative box art having some controversy.
Honestly graphics aren't really that important compared to the gameplay. Games such as those in the UFO 50 collection are a really good example of that. Also if you actually want a quality god vs satan game with old school graphics then I highly recommend Grimstone.
UFO 50 is so damn good
I had Bad Street Brawler for the NES and it's so bad, it's funny. Even back in the day.... fighting midgets, dogs, and circus strongmen, trying to get to the dumpster at the end of the level, and with 2-player coop to boot
I somehow missed Bad Street Brawler and went for Bad Dudes because I played that one at the arcade. Wasn't nearly as good as the arcade version though.
Aka. Bop'n'Rumble for Commodore 64.
It wasn't all bad. The gameplay was alright.
It was Street Hassle as well I think.
Only ever saw a few screenshots in a ZX Spectrum magazine, but it certainly has a memorable art style.
The one game I remember getting based on the cover alone was Solstice.
That game was hard as fuck. I don't think I ever saw the end.
Bangin' music tho. I still sometimes get ear worms from it.
but all the fun is taking the game graphics and transforming it in your head to resemble the cover art
You miss half the fun then, the imagination in your head of transforming the graphics into whatever you want. And then gameplay is the most important
The art vs. the game
Oh well...
Looks like a swell game to me!