RetroMater 4000

[cmdr_silverbolt]

RetroMater 4000

For anyone who doesn't visit the GOG site, check this: http://www.gog.com/retromator4000

What a cool idea. I wonder how it manages to change the UI of a game.

 

[FoggyFishburne]

Oh wow, that's actually really badass! Cool idea, thanks for sharing

 

[adridu59]

Nice joke for sure!

 

[Zanderat]

4/01..............

 

[Guest 2091327]

Indeed. But it looked pretty cool.

 

[volsung]

The retro-mated Witcher screen actually looks very good, it could have been in a real game in the early 90's. It reminds me of the close-ups in many LucasArts games, with delicately chosen colors in a finely drawn pixel art composition.

The Dreamfall retro-mate doesn't look too good or authentic, but sure looks funny like everything else.

Anyway, that was fun! Makes me want to play some 90's games.

 

[Glaroug.531]

90's games

Ah, yes! Lovely memories. I was 7 in '99 ok? The witcher does look nice. Like an impressionistic work.

Holy crap! Imagine the Nekker caves in text!

 

[volsung]

Ah, yes! Lovely memories. I was 7 in '99 ok? The witcher does look nice. Like an impressionistic work.

Holy crap! Imagine the Nekker caves in text!
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To each their own. I had something like this in mind:

Early 90's PC games look better than you think.

Edit: more examples!

In 99' we already had games like Mortal Kombat 4 and Half-Life

 

[Glaroug.531]

O defiantly. Thanks to GOG, I'm discovering a wealth of awesome games I wouldn't have known existed.

EDIT: And MAN does Monkey Island look beautiful.

 

[dragonbird]

Oh, they have

"Add an EMS & XMS memory management minigame. Also has optional IRQ conflicts module and autoexec.bat options."

I so miss IRQ conflicts! I'm getting nostalogic just thinking about it.

 

[AserPik]

Oh thats Nastalgia

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

Some more 90s gameplay. It wasn't all cartoons and pixels (sorry, but that's what those pics look like to me )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaMdLN1kHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9FK240A3sc

There are more examples for consoles too.

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[cmdr_silverbolt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK6fl5ziLww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6TVvnkdmic (for nostalgia, )

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[Glaroug.531]

I put many happy hours into Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit this classic from '98

 

[volsung]

Well those are from the second half of the 90's, so obviously they use a different generation of hardware and a different technology stack.

The Secret of Monkey Island, Prince of Persia II: The Shadow & The Flame, and Day of the Tentacle are all from the very early 90's, 1993 the latest. No polygons there. And the point of those screenshots was to illustrate the context in which that "retromated" Witcher 2 made sense, since it could actually BE one of those games.

I never hard IRQ conflicts in MS-DOS by the way. My first sound card was a Sound Blaster Pro so maybe they were solved by then

 

[M4xw0lf.978]

The thread title (RetroMater) makes me think of this:

Groovy, baby!