Badly drawn graphics in mid to late 80s arcade games
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Badly drawn graphics in mid to late 80s arcade games
Does anybody find it amusing how a lot of arcade games from the mid to late 80s had badly drawn graphics compared to the arcade games released a couple years later?
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That is exactly what I was thinking. When it came time for the SNES and Sega Genesis, developers got used to dealing with higher color palettes so you didn't see the weird colors and bad contrast you saw on mid to late 80s arcade games.Whenever capabilities increase, such as 1 to 3 to 15 colors or 8 to 16 to 32 pixels on a side, it sometimes takes a few years for art styles to adapt to the new capability. Compare Balloon Fight to Kirby's Adventure, for instance.
Re: Badly drawn graphics in mid to late 80s arcade games
Some examples (screenshots) would have been nice.psycopathicteen wrote:Does anybody find it amusing how a lot of arcade games from the mid to late 80s had badly drawn graphics compared to the arcade games released a couple years later?
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Re: Badly drawn graphics in mid to late 80s arcade games
http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=936thefox wrote:Some examples (screenshots) would have been nice.psycopathicteen wrote:Does anybody find it amusing how a lot of arcade games from the mid to late 80s had badly drawn graphics compared to the arcade games released a couple years later?
Arrgh, not the Ninja Gaiden arcade game! That game is a disgrace to the franchise. It's even worse than the PC-Engine version.
Data East used to make some pretty ugly games in general (but they could still be fun to play). Except for Magical Drop III - which has pretty decent graphics - most of their games look like they hired children to draw their graphics. That's not to say that I can draw any better.. just that their graphics artists weren't any good.
Data East used to make some pretty ugly games in general (but they could still be fun to play). Except for Magical Drop III - which has pretty decent graphics - most of their games look like they hired children to draw their graphics. That's not to say that I can draw any better.. just that their graphics artists weren't any good.
Magical Drop III was a pretty decent game for its time, and had some pretty good artists in my opinion. Then again, it wasn't that early of a game so I guess it doesn't apply to this threadmic_ wrote:Arrgh, not the Ninja Gaiden arcade game! That game is a disgrace to the franchise. It's even worse than the PC-Engine version.
Data East used to make some pretty ugly games in general (but they could still be fun to play). Except for Magical Drop III - which has pretty decent graphics - most of their games look like they hired children to draw their graphics. That's not to say that I can draw any better.. just that their graphics artists weren't any good.
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