History of 3D in Video Games 1974-1994

[@rayvega3163]

It's actually pretty cool to see how far the 3D graphics have come. Crazy to think that one of the first 3D video games is made in the 1970s. Great work.

[@ChristopherGray00]

it's not that it wasn't possible, it was possible since the very first processor, it just wasn't practical at the time because the calculations per frame were more than a second.

[@damazywlodarczyk]

I ROBOT is the most impressive game ever made for its time.

[@Frozo-nt2ky]

I don’t know about that

[@bigphishman8293]

@@Frozo-nt2ky he literally said “for its time”

[@Frozo-nt2ky]

@@bigphishman8293 no shit. He said the most impressive game made for its time, which I disagree with I think there’s more innovative games

[@Frozo-nt2ky]

@@dryppio kickboxer Minecraft battle bus 2002 no punjabi virus BTD5 hacks free upgrades

[@el1mitador]

@@Frozo-nt2ky dude it was made in 1983

[@Shyreenify]

Love the choice to have no commentary. No annoying voice talking non stop. Just the raw footage. Love it

[@ascendeddown1580]

fantastic list of great old games - really enjoyed this - memories all the way back to the 70's here - great video

[@parsarahmani202]

How old are u!!!

[@pugg5ter542]

Okay boomer

[@simovihinen875]

Very nicely done! I'll be linking this video on the Speed Demos Archive front page for the next update in a week or so... I'm genuinely taken back by how impressive some of the simplest 3D graphics make some of the games presented here look.

[@sriden]

Well, thanks!

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

This is exactly the video i've been searching for! The pre-playsttion era of 3d games gets ignored too often. I Robot must've been amazing at the time of its release, its the first 3d video game with a great level of polish and the gameplay holds up to this day. Its also insane that Dayotana was one of the earliest 3d racing games and it still holds up. There's also Doctor Hauzer on 3d0.

[@leastcreative4656]

I was expecting starfox to be way closer to the beginning than it was. This was fascinating

[@throwedgaming6419]

Thankful for this video, exactly what I was looking for. This reveals alot of revolutionary games that do not get talked about at all

[@alfredschlicht2662]

I, Robot is very impressive I'd personally count that as the first truly 3d game with polygons and shaders. Very impressive.

[@sriden]

Wireframe 3D is still legit 3D, every polygonal 3D game is based on a wireframe structure anyway.

[@alfredschlicht2662]

@@sriden Of course it's legit. I mean how I view it personally.

[@iceyberq]

@@alfredschlicht2662 wireframe is real but yea I understand what you mean

[@AHPcameron]

Some Fun Facts: Spasim is indeed the very first 3D vector graphic game unlike a lot of peoples belief to be Battlezone Spasim is also the first 3D game to have online multiplayer capabilities, with a whooping 32 players being able to fly and fight all at once. Spasim is also the very first first person shooter with no games prior taking on the role of a first person perspective prior, followed by Maze War. I Robot was also the first game to feature fully 3D polygons. And Hunter was the very first fully 3D Open World game.

[@SychoSam]

I Robot looks better than every NES game from 1985 to 1990. Also, Starwars looked great with those lightnings

[@MansteinPlan1940]

@@SychoSam geez maybe because arcade hardware is far better than NES hardware, don't you think ?

[@1stSand]

1983 sw game looked very solid, i think it is better than most of android games even now.

[@rentingasteroids]

You mean 1983

[@nikto7297]

Cheap mobile games are shit

[@Star17Platinum17]

@@nikto7297 free games are ultra shit

[@heredos]

As an android gaming lover and retro gamer, I can't agree with you. Most of the android games you see on the play store are crap. But if you scratch the surface a bit, you will quickly discover that there are tons of great games (alite, samsara room, mecha nikka, cat quest, mekorama, slime labs)and even some awesome abandonwares waiting to be discovered (tesla plushies, apparatus, principia, solarola, delver and I am still finding more of them.) The thing is that mobile is becoming a platform independent of the pc and console, with it's own rules etc. That doesn't mean that everything is bad.

[@max1k891]

@@heredos He said "most".

[@that_black_lynx]

Still one of my favorite videos on KZbin. Pity that the annotations were lost. The music is great too, I wish we could find these tracks separately.

[@sriden]

Hey thanks a lot, even if the video is kinda getting old now. Yeah annotations were useful, and I don't feel like replying to any comments pointing out things that were previously said in the annotations. Most of the isolated tracks can be found by googling "Diaphanous Horizons album" (my 1st music album, which is getting old too) and looking for the "rpg-maker" page.

[@sebastiankulche]

I robot could be the first that is 100% true 3d. It seems that for a long time the arcade was much more powerful than the best computers.

[@defaultuser0856]

you know guys how hard is it for the first video game ??? its VERY VERY INSANE, if we compared with these days, as we have now very helpful softwares that make it easier to make. first video game there wasnt any engines, any software, only hardware decoding and programming. these days if u want to create a nice game just install unity engine and with some help of some friends u will make very nice game under a year. but the first game took many many years to build.

[@raskr8137]

Well, the first 3d video game shown in the video, spasim, was also made in under a year. It used wireframe graphics and a programming language, which made the 3D part pretty easy just using some vectors. Most other games here feature untextured polygons, which are just triangles drawn in a specific order. The main problem devs were fighting back then is hardware limitations. Sure, drawing a polygon is easy, but the system can handle only 5 of them :D

[@defaultuser0856]

@@raskr8137 I'm semi i stay automatic, money add then muiltply, i call it mathematics.

[@AHPcameron]

Dude can we seriously get a part 2, this video was epic!! I just want it up to 1999 please do it 🥺

[@digimikeh]

!!!! OMG!. those first 3D games were fantastic!... look those smooth animations!

[@titmouse-distribution]

XD

[@اسمالمستخدم-ز2ف]

Ewwww from the first sec to the end lololol

[@justfuntimedoingnothing8477]

Battlezone intro looks alike Star Wars intro

[@antonnym214]

this is a hyper-interesting subject matter, especially to those of us who were around in the 70s. Instead of the soundtrack, I would have liked some narration to explain a little about what we are seeing and who was involved in the research and development. all good wishes.

[@lego5745]

Love this video, it's really in depth! :)

[@voxel_bonedisk]

nice compilation. Thanks for putting this together

[@OOZiTen]

make a part 2 that goes from them up until now! awesome vid man thanks.

[@acklord7145]

Is anybody gonna talk about Elite? It was the firs true space exploration game. A whole galaxy in a floppy disk. It's amazing. And their still making elite game to this day.

[@Orimthekeyacolite]

Awesome job, man! This is by far the deepest collection of that type I've seen, you've really done your digging. And to think that I was once almost bying into the idSoftwares propaganda for them being pretty much the sole inventors of 3d gaming...

[@Yoshilisk]

under a killing moon looks so impressive! the combination of billboarding & detailed textures to create the illusion of a realistic environment... there's such an artistry to that. the objects in the office even have shadows with varying darkness levels, as if there are multiple light sources striking them at different angles to create multiple shadows!

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

i can't find this game (

[@throwedgaming6419]

Whoah I, Robot is pretty damn good for that time, I mean all of these games have their place but yeah amazing work on that.

[@aconsciousnaut5323]

It required the most advanced hardware of the time to play.

[@dontcallmechris8677]

Why must you add music and I just use the original game sound

[@inceptional]

That first tune is awesome.

[@batz_bucketz]

All I want to know is what that music is

[@elmoi1795]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2eUY2OHhNGmnLc

[@cammowat4285]

Why is no one talking about Virtua racing, it looks insane for 1992!

[@dogwaterhd4k304]

most of the early games just use methods to display 3D like graphics

[@isaac-739]

Infinity Peaks all 3D games ever made are illusions to make it look 3d

[@dogwaterhd4k304]

Alright

[@thulsa_doom]

Even now games are just an illusion of 3D. We still play them on one dimensional flat screens.

[@legreatpotato8888]

if thats the case then all games areent 3d cause they are projected in 2d screen so fuck off and leave them be

[@legreatpotato8888]

literally every single 3d video game isnt 3d

[@oniondev]

1979 History of 3D fast rendering 1982 Color 3d Rendering 1983 With sounds Now 2015 - 2018 / Better rendering.

[@SuperJavaMan7]

2020: cyber punk loool

[@damazywlodarczyk]

Awesome video! Killing Moon looks like a 3-4 years younger game, Daytona like a 4 years younger game, I Robot easily 6-7 years ahead of its time!

[@axs203]

Thanks for making this video....it's so interesting. Daytona was really memorable - and Starblade - it had that special lighthouse fresnel lens to it that stretched it all out....it was truly something when it first appeared - the future had arrived....not to mention those early VR goggles!

[@IndianaCat94]

Nice video, although there is one game I think you missed: Winning Run. Developed by Namco in 1988 for their System 21 arcade hardware (which was later used to develope Starblade) and released before Hard Drivin'.

[@sriden]

Indeed, it would have deserved to be there (especially if it was released before Hard Drivin'). Hard to be really exhaustive I guess.

[@perfectionbox]

my favorite 3D game is where you watch a spinning red-and-white checkered ball bounce around forever.

[@PauloSilva111]

sad that the sound of this video destroys everything - the original sound of each game, even when mute, is way better

[@اسمالمستخدم-ز2ف]

This music is not bad but yes I agree with you I wish If I heard to the original music to hear the evolution too

[@henriklarsen1504]

thank you for this wonderful video I loved it and the music too!

[@MaxPSVR]

1987: Driller. That looks very much like a game construction program I used called 3D construction kit. Wonder if it was used by the same

[@gordonbennett3516]

Very well spotted on your part. 3D Construction Kit is indeed built around the Freescape engine developed by Incentive Software for Driller.

[@MaxPSVR]

Gordon Bennett Gordon Bennett thanks. I played around with 3D constitution kit for a bit when I was a kid. I was very interested in making my own games and programming. The clip on here was one of the demo programs it had. I spent weeks deconstructing it to figure out its coding

[@nickypass861]

144p for best experience

[@boroxic9140]

Bruh

[@nomaly2]

Starblade feels very atmospherically with the soundtrack

[@LucidMlem]

5:21 The invention of raycasting.

[@dfgsadfgaerh4a]

An anonymous little boy What is raycasting lol

[@LucidMlem]

@@dfgsadfgaerh4a It's a type of psuedo-3d, often used in 90's games such as Doom.

[@iogamesplayer]

@@LucidMlem Doom used BSP, Wolfenstein 3d used raycasting.

[@iogamesplayer]

@@dfgsadfgaerh4a Raycasting is a technique that shoots rays out of the player and if they collide with a wall, a line is drawn using the distance of the ray. The farther away the ray collides, the smaller the line.

[@phoboswhiplash]

This is awesome but Hunter and Under a killing moon made my jaw drop, is Hunter the first 3d open world game? It might look stiff but the idea at the time seems to me to be breath taking, and Under a Killing Moon has incredible graphics, I wonder if people got surprised on how it looked in 94, the year that I was born.

[@Magnus_Loov]

Looking at the wikipage it says that the graphics was "up to 640X480" which is seen here. I bet this is also running on a much more modern PC than what was available then, hence the very smooth frame rate. On the hardware at the time it probably would have been running on 320X200 (common for Doom on 486:s), possibly also in a smaller window and certainly with a jerkier lower frame rate. But, still, the textures looks really good compared to Doom. And you could look in all directions in it (which you couldn't in Doom which was only "2.5d" since you you couldn't look in the "Z-plane" up and down). But, again, System Shock ticked all these feature boxes too, also released in 1994. But it didn't have the same detailed textures.

[@Xegethra]

What's funny about 3D graphics is that they have been around since some time in the 60's at least, even the filled polygon variety. Just not used in video games until later. Most of those title cards for TV/network companies that come up before and after a show? Early filled polygons, even before iRobot. There are many trippy videos of early 3D computer graphics from the late 60's onwards.

[@rohitchaoji]

I think the reason for that must be that the hardware was not powerful enough to render them in real time until much later. Even looking at movies with 3d cgi, they look much better and smoother than games from the same era. It wasn't until recently that computers got hardware powerful enough to render things like hair and fur in video games but animated films have had that sort of visual fidelity for almost half a decade prior to that.

[@falondonahue8457]

3D games are still being made. Edit: Oh the video is about how 3D games are experimental before the N64, Sega Saturn and PlayStation consoles. Sorry.😅

[@GameOver-dy8ph]

I'm in love with the sondtrack of the video. Did you make it?

[@user-gk1mp1zk7n]

Yep, he did

[@antonnym214]

Speaking as an autistic, I have to say this is a great video. Love the video. I wish you would tell us which system each game is running on. Arcade, Atari 2600, etc. The audio, however has this kind of peppy music added on top of the game sounds. It was so distracting, I had to mute and just live without the game sounds. To you, maybe it sounds like background music, but to me, it covers up the natural game sounds pretty badly. In future videos, maybe we could have a little human voice narration of what we are seeing, and save the music for intro and outro. Thanks!

[@evvls111]

Anton Nym you didn’t have to add “speaking as an autistic”

[@antonnym214]

@@evvls111 How else do I let the person know that the music is a problem for me as an autistic? It's my situation which is inherent to the problem I'm trying to describe. I'm quite certain if I left off "as an autistic", you might be wondering why i'm complaining about the peppy music to someone who probably never considered how it would affect an autistic person. Was that a dig? were you actually bothered I used the phrase "as an autistic"? Edit: Okay, I think I figured it out. You didn't read my whole comment to find where I mentioned the music was a problem for an autistic like myself. Got it. That just makes you a troll, looking to complain about a non-issue. All good wishes.

[@antonnym214]

@@jang-aranyasiamratanakit8682 : Thank you. I appreciate your response. I gave you a thumbs-up. All good wishes.

[@antonnym214]

@@Nemicompo : Thank you! and Fried Cake is a great name! makes me want to try that next time i go to the state fair. I think they at least have fried twinkies, and that would be similar.

[@nostrnastr9439]

You don't have to play role of victim Is your family teach that shame of them don't do it

[@nicholasgarrett9696]

Watch out bitches I gotta render some rectangles, this could take a while x).

[@unojo6698]

Where can I hear more of your music?? I find it really cool!!

[@Spikes_89]

I love looking at the history of games/consoles

[@mikeottonahrgang8456]

All here described, 3D games are a form of individual experience! What real 3D is, is a matter of interpretation. Is time another dimension? Or something we experience as a progess or movement? String Theory claims there exist more than eleven dimensions, otherwise math is explainable, fact is, it is a matter how to experience everthing that sourounds us. Imagine sitting in a room that moves, without taking notice, leaving this room, is like walking to a portel you slide through (like in sliders?) Reality altered, everything changed, some things appear to be the same, but if location changed, I mean, sitting on a globe moving in space and time with a spaceship (call it earth), how sure are you about the circumstance, that the things you use are the same, or that you did not change? I liked Wizardry from the Edge (my first Event Horizon, to be honest, played it on a Commodore 64), what, if you change the side of you, enter the game, I mean you actually do it, when you dream about it, being part of your play. Did you like what you altered or does it not allow you to sleep? Anybody of read "Otherland" from Tad Williams? Captured by the experience or game in a way, that become in a way addicted where you leave your reality and enter the one, you get captured by? Has anybody of you seen, the movie "Ready Player one?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYTTYpeDZ7udapo So, if you die, and did not notice, that you did? What are you? How possible is it to think about it, in this direction, for yourself? kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4itn6irfa6rn6M What is life? A dream or are you part of something, that is an impression of a reality, that does only exist in your mind, as something you created. Same could go, if you move mentally in your mind and write down, what you see? How are you connected to that what you experience in your life (I mean, if you kill people in an Ego Shooter like Doom, Quake or Unreal?) does it affect your reality? Call it Karma! Samsara or Maya? Just a guess? I think not, but I am not sure, experienced Schizophrenia and noticed changes or a connection or an attraction, call it a link or a bind, to something, that is coexisting, but out of visual sight. How do you define, if it's real, or just an imagination of yourself? Follow this link, tell me, what you think about it? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXnbqZ9nj51jidE kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIi6o6agmKuabqc

[@AHPcameron]

Wow man you gotta get off the drugs, you sound like you swallowed a dictionary lol

[@mikeottonahrgang8456]

@@AHPcameron Drugs? Indoctrination? Ask myself, why I should get a vaccine against Corona, if insects sting me, and I get an immunity against the virus this way.

[@soloparaplaystation6624]

Defintly, you are un drugs haha

[@mikeottonahrgang8456]

@@soloparaplaystation6624 No, it is called schizophrenia and drugs, even that my doc told me I should take, are to expensive for my taste, and do not do it really for me.

[@katze962]

Very nice video, thanks for your research! Also cool tunes...

[@hmmmm.........]

I have actually played battlezone on original hardware, and it is surprisingly amazing! It's at the national video game museum in Frisco, Texas.

[@hmmmm.........]

Starblades fps is ridiculous!

[@jessiereddrealestate2471]

I was 1 years old in 1974?! I miss my childhood

[@اسمالمستخدم-ز2ف]

My mom was 2 years old

[@zk-vd6uy]

@@jessiereddrealestate2471 my mom was 3 years old she told me

[@Janreytendo]

This is gold documentary. Must protecc this video

[@lndozois]

Cool list. It's a shame video just can NOT do justice to the games which used a vector display. To be clear, these games (like Star Wars and Battlezone) did not draw the lines using pixels but as LASER SHARP lines. Nothing like it!

[@rosoenjoyer8144]

0:00 3D Graphics before it was possible :HACKERMAN:

[@robertogiannotta4477]

Very nice! By the way, I'd have included also "Interphase" (1989) in the list.

[@aidennwitz]

Nice music, man! (and compilation too).

[@ruk4606]

What's the name of the song that starts at 13:18?

[@JuniorBlitz]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@Alianger]

I, Robot was crazy for the time

[@sukhoy]

wow, hard to believe "Under a killing moon" belongs to 1994, those were very nice looking graphics for the time

[@adelineinactivity]

Quote from _Under a killing moon_: "And I lost my bourbon too!"

[@realtrisk]

Whoops. You accidentally showed footage from Bubsy 3D instead of 1986's The Sentinel. XD (I kid. Seriously, tell me it doesn't look like Bubsy 3D?)

[@WaffleAbuser]

+realtrisk I thought exactly the same thing. The game was laggin behind by a decade...

[@axethannanth]

1991-1994 were some big changes.

[@OldBloxycube]

yes spy from tf2

[@gabrielus123gabby]

The era of SNES - PS1 & CD ROMs on PC's

[@Archimedes75009]

Thanks for not forgetting Zarch. Seeing StarFighter3000 would have been a good choice too, to me.

[@blickblocks]

Your song that starts at 16:16... Where can I buy it! I want to listen to it on repeat...

[@sriden]

Here : soundcloud.com/sriden/srid-les-mains-brulees There should be a button to download it. Hurry because I think the option is blocked beyond 100 downloads and it's 97 right now. :)

[@blickblocks]

You make some great music!

[@vandyckaldo]

Where is everything after 1995? i want to See Super Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Jumping Flash, Sonic World (Sonic Jam) and Golden eye 007, the 128 bit generations like Sly Cooper, Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, the first CoD games. etc.

[@user-gk1mp1zk7n]

@@vandyckaldo because this about 3d evolution and not about your personal favorites

[@XmegaPresident]

VGA graphics revolutionized the gaming world.

[@Sonic12Lexi]

3D games are a lot older than I thought. It has been around for more than 50 years now.

[@Oryaw]

The 2nd song you used/made in the video (around the space colony footage) You ought to release it sometime, since it was pretty catchy.

[@doom5895]

Dude can you give a link for the music?

[@stefcannon2580]

Loved and still love Carrier Command!! I had it in a pack of DOS games called Virtual Reality or something. It also included Stunt Car Racing, Midwinter, a soccer game and, I think, Starglider 2

[@sakuraa2008]

Stunt car racing was my favorite dude those sound effects were so good ☺😌

[@cellardoor9882]

2:05 this looks really good!

[@gammer500]

also the music :D

[@neonpop80]

Basically the graphics havent improved

[@RazorEdge2006]

This video is missing the most advanced 3D graphics of 1988-1994: Winning Run (1988) Winning Run: Suzuka Grand Prix (1989) Galaxian 3 (1990) Solvalou (1991) Sim Drive (1992) Daytona USA (1993) Virtua Fighter 2 (1994)

[@sriden]

***** Daytona USA is already here (I guess showing all the racing games that came out after 1990 would have meant a 2 hours video).

[@ianedmonds9191]

Some of these look like vectrex games. The first vector graphics game i remember at the arcade was Battlezone. Loving the old skool MOD soundtrack too. :-) Luv and Peace.

[@theholyspiritus4326]

0:05 why tf does this music remind me of punch out?

[@juliasantiago9473]

son: mom i want to have The gta 5 mom: but you already have gta 5 at home Gta 5 at home: 15:37

[@wcg3975]

you forgot big chungus 3d edition

[@wcg3975]

@@TheNTDote ik shitty joke

[@wcg3975]

@@TheNTDote HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@maroua1229]

Haha nice one

[@Moonfreeze]

Wow! Never heard of "I, Robot". Must have blown minds. I remember virus. Beautiful game.

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

nice for the 1970s 👍👍👍 Edit: Why does everyone hate me. I never insulted anything.

[@chrislandmonjardin5420]

Idc you stuffin' mouth

[@ZakaryShindle1-933]

Its 1974 duh

[@juan-topic6664]

cringe

[@gamertag7676]

No one cares and also cringy

[@weldersbench2602]

Yea the 70's games looking fine

[@onlyfriendz]

The Sentinel 1987 (10:58) is first Minecraft? Yeah, for sure

[@pietk]

bag of swag? 17:46

[@Kahunaseb]

Forza: *exists* Speed freak: hold my beer son 2:15 *oopsie*

[@batz_bucketz]

2:21 *epic music starts*

[@SalveMonesvol]

Watching in 2X speed made it much better. It seems that none of the games shown reached 30 fps in their time.

[@Winnetou17]

Doom ran at 35 fps. But pretty much everything else was below that, yeah.

[@greathornedowl1783]

Falcon is amazing graphics for 1987 wow.

[@birds3646]

how did THESE games get developed?

[@birds3646]

the older ones

[@bcs9000]

I, Robot was the first 3d platform game ever

[@johnathanderaps442]

I Robot was the first true 3-D game.The first couple use a trick to give it a 3-D look .

[@sriden]

Polygons were just the natural continuation after wireframes, it was calculating how to cover the surfaces in order to hide what lays in the background. But I don't see why it would be considered and called 3D only from that point on and not before, the basis remains the same.

[@soylentgreenb]

I realize you're not doing every early 3D game ever; but I'd still like to give a shout out for Stunt car racer ('89) for the stomach churning racing on a roller coaster style track.

[@aestheticaltwat]

I, Robot is the first true 3D game. Everything else before was vectors.

[@Supermilky0]

Aesthetical Twat how about wayout ?

[@اسمالمستخدم-ز2ف]

Yeah everything else before is super ugly creepy horrible game

[@gabrielus123gabby]

@@اسمالمستخدم-ز2ف uhn no

[@lennystudios3.14]

I, Robot is sick, the doodle mode is also really interesting.

[@drvidya7350]

This is a Historical Document!

[@Doctadeth]

Where was Dark Forces? That game was one of the first to involve true jumping puzzles in FPS.

[@Soulsphere001]

It was release in 1995 and this video only goes to 1994.

[@misterkuda704]

that last game on the video looks better than cyberpunk 2077

[@bikutasucksattitanfall7546]

Under a killing moon?

[@protocetid]

holy shit I had no idea there were 3D games in the 70s!

[@yoyo-jc5qg]

CAD 3d computer design systems started in the late 1950's by a computer scientist at MIT, after cost went down those graphics found their way to video games

[@Techno-Universal]

Seems like at one point Sega gained the rights to Virtua Racing and it’s engine so that they could then further develop and improve it into their own arcade game which was Daytona USA! Or another possibility is that Sega just published and manufactured Daytona USA while it was developed by the same studio that produced Virtua Racing! :)

[@v15ualk3ys]

Virtua Racing was developed by Sega AM2 though, which was a development team within Sega. That technically makes it Sega's own game to begin with, especially since it was designed for the Sega Model 1 arcade board, Sega's first arcade board capable of full 3D.

[@Techno-Universal]

V15UAL K3YS Yup though what’s interesting is how Daytona USA was several times more successful then Virtua Racing as I’ve never seen Virtua Racing in an Australian arcade before while Daytona USA is in most arcades here! :)

[@v15ualk3ys]

It is most likely due to the fact that there was already previous experience garnered during the development of titles such as Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, which allowed them to expand on that with later titles. There also is the fact that Daytona USA also was made for the Sega Model 2, which is more powerful hardware than the Model 1 and supported textured mapped polygons and a higher polygon count while remaining at a consistent 60 FPS. Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter for example I consider to be more "experimental" just because they were fresh first-time entries into 3D game design and much of that realm was unexplored territory at the time. Games like Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter 2 took that previously acquired knowledge to the next level and that is what made those games such huge successes. Just my opinion.

[@Techno-Universal]

V15UAL K3YS While even a few years later they released Daytona USA 2 which was also very successful as a lot of arcades here have it but it still wasn’t quite as successful as the first game! It’s also likely that the games used the same engine but the engine was updated for each machine hardware version plus it’s also possible that Daytona USA machines in PAL countries were limited to 50 FPS if they used PAL display boards in countries such as Australia unless all the machines used NTSC based display boards that did support 60 FPS! It’s just in most cases the refresh rate of CRT displays was tied to the input AC frequency so if that was the case then Daytona USA machines in Australia and other countries with 50 HZ AC in their power grids would actually be limited to 50 FPS unless they used inbuilt frequency converters that could increase the AC input frequency to the CRT displays to 60 HZ! :)

[@felidaeviv4680]

The first one make me remember my old pc wheres every games is lsg

[@riverron99]

"The good ol' 70s and 80s when graphics was much better than 2020" I was expecting to see this comment somewhere 😂

[@f.b.i.9457]

These little kids in the comments 💀💀

[@nicholasgarrett9696]

this list ends right on my date of birth. im so happy i was born right at the time that 3D game creation was readily available and more common than not or if not then starting to be. good time to be born lol.

[@vamp._.1]

ok boomer

[@nicholasgarrett9696]

@@vamp._.1 Boomers are born between 1946 and 1964, Im definitely not that old xD. i was born 1994 so im at the very end of Gen Y, and almost at the beginning of Gen Z. Liked your comment for the meme anyways i guess xD.

[@valentinom.4292]

I was born when 3d graphics became the norm, yet i didn't play a 3D game until i was like 8 years old

[@Idk-uw3rd]

@@vamp._.1 stfu

[@adelineinactivity]

17:13 Bag o' swag

[@gabrielus123gabby]

🤣 forreal what is this

[@P5BDeluxeWiFi]

Theres a Japan only (I think) "solid 3D" game released before Driller that looks very "Freescape" like, I cant remember the name or system, Japan only though. Any ideas? Also Capture The Flag (Atari/C64) and Starstrike II (ZX spectrum) belongs on the video.