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How was it not  ACTUALLY VR apart from not having VR goggles, which seemed more like sci-fi at the time? 
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Buttcoin purse posted:How was it not Oh, the goggles existed, just maybe not on a home system. Back in the 90s there was a VR place in the same mall as the Battletech Center. You stood inside a circular railing to keep you from falling over and wore a really uncomfortable goggle headset, and had a gun-handle-shaped thing in your hand. The game was pretty much running around on a few low-res checker-textured flat planes floating in a black void, shooting at the other players. (You used another button on the gun handle to move.) I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed.
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Jul 10, 2017 15:26
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Powered Descent posted:I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed. Also it was like $5 for a few minutes. Why waste that when Metal Slug or X-Men v Street Fighter was available. He'll, Virtua On was a more 'VR ' experience.
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Jul 10, 2017 16:05
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Powered Descent posted:Oh, the goggles existed, just maybe not on a home system. Back in the 90s there was a VR place in the same mall as the Battletech Center. You stood inside a circular railing to keep you from falling over and wore a really uncomfortable goggle headset, and had a gun-handle-shaped thing in your hand. The game was pretty much running around on a few low-res checker-textured flat planes floating in a black void, shooting at the other players. (You used another button on the gun handle to move.) I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed. Uncannily like every VR thing I've tried in the past year, frankly
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Jul 10, 2017 16:08
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Powered Descent posted:Oh, the goggles existed, just maybe not on a home system. Back in the 90s there was a VR place in the same mall as the Battletech Center. You stood inside a circular railing to keep you from falling over and wore a really uncomfortable goggle headset, and had a gun-handle-shaped thing in your hand. The game was pretty much running around on a few low-res checker-textured flat planes floating in a black void, shooting at the other players. (You used another button on the gun handle to move.) I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed. I played some poo poo like that back in the day. The game seemed texture-mapped though but I can barely remember how it looked like. The googles were indeed uncomfortable like hell.
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Jul 10, 2017 16:15
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This is much newer, but glitchy, twitchy, purposefully hosed up stuff is totally my jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH03IcqBwzo
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Jul 10, 2017 16:56
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Vanagoon posted:This is much newer, but glitchy, twitchy, purposefully hosed up stuff is totally my jam "IS THIS DEMOSCENE???" *checks, is* "I still got it."
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Jul 10, 2017 17:11
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Do not be hating on the Demoscene This here has the absolute best music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjIMd3kVf4
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Jul 10, 2017 17:24
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Vanagoon posted:Do not be hating on the Demoscene  http://demoscene.us/scener/quarex/
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Jul 10, 2017 17:29
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Yummy gimme some juicy demoscene y'all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZTWdzJMiJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5rfRTbswM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsLJKdHC_o
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Jul 10, 2017 17:36
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Negrostrike posted:I played some poo poo like that back in the day. The game seemed texture-mapped though but I can barely remember how it looked like. The googles were indeed uncomfortable like hell. In the UK we had a game show based on that stuff. It was called Cyber Zone and Craig Charles presented it, and it pretty much consisted of two players collecting items and going to the middle of the level.
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Jul 10, 2017 19:53
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Dr. Quarex posted:Me, 10 seconds into watching this Same, but I've got no bad-rear end scene cred beyond still owning a C64 and 2 Amigas. If by "own" I'm allowed in include "in my shed in who-knows-what condition".
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Jul 11, 2017 00:22
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Negrostrike posted:Yummy gimme some juicy demoscene y'all See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpo5GHcmsE Or any of The Black Lotus' AGA demos
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Jul 11, 2017 00:45
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Oh are we doing this again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA Edit: this is from 1993 Mak0rz has a new favorite as of 01:11 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 01:09
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Second Reality is basically the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" of demoscene. Not my favorite, but I understand why it's so popular. One of the first demos I ever saw is pretty similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mWbnVPwX4U
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Jul 11, 2017 03:49
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That and Candytron blew me away when I first saw them.
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Jul 11, 2017 08:54
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A friend of mine made this for a recent local party. The executable came in a hair over 3900 bytes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkk0bW-opUA
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Jul 11, 2017 09:10
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Powered Descent posted:Oh, the goggles existed, just maybe not on a home system. Back in the 90s there was a VR place in the same mall as the Battletech Center. You stood inside a circular railing to keep you from falling over and wore a really uncomfortable goggle headset, and had a gun-handle-shaped thing in your hand. The game was pretty much running around on a few low-res checker-textured flat planes floating in a black void, shooting at the other players. (You used another button on the gun handle to move.) I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed. Reminds me of some game I saw at Dave and Busters (ugh) where you were a cop and had to burst into rooms (it moved you like a rail shooter) and dodge bullets. You physically stood in this space where it could monitor your body movement somehow and you were supposed to physically dodge the bullets like Neo. I tried it but I think I'm too tall, it kept thinking a head was where my shoulders are, so I got wrecked every time. It looked japanese so maybe it was set up or built expecting smaller-frame people playing or something.
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Jul 11, 2017 15:41
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I am always impressed with 8088 MPH for the IBM AT because it demos capabilities on a machine made in 81 with features waaaay beyond spec through the dirtest hacks. My Dad had one and it couldn't run Ghostbusters because there was no mouse support. https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-all-your-emulators/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y
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Jul 11, 2017 16:29
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Humphreys posted:That and Candytron blew me away when I first saw them. Speaking of tech relics, I can't believe it's been almost a decade. 
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Jul 11, 2017 22:20
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Regular Nintendo posted:Reminds me of some game I saw at Dave and Busters (ugh) where you were a cop and had to burst into rooms (it moved you like a rail shooter) and dodge bullets. You physically stood in this space where it could monitor your body movement somehow and you were supposed to physically dodge the bullets like Neo. That game must be at least a decade or older now, and there was a variant that was I want to say boxing. It absolutely doesnt work if youre too tall or too short since the sensor set up it uses gets broken by that.
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Jul 11, 2017 22:42
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EVIL Gibson posted:I am always impressed with 8088 MPH for the IBM AT because it demos capabilities on a machine made in 81 with features waaaay beyond spec through the dirtest hacks. My Dad had one and it couldn't run Ghostbusters because there was no mouse support. Not even for the AT- the AT had a 286. That demo will run on an original PC with CGA graphics. It's one of my faves too. The 8 bit guy has a good video on CGA graphics and the surprising performance you can do https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc
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Jul 11, 2017 23:47
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Mechanism Eight posted:Also a fine choice! My first experience of fr-025 was on a massive projection display via a pair of nvidia 3D glasses. Worked perfectly and was also quite mindblowing, at the time. Watching 3D movies in the theatre is just fine for me. I spent 5 minutes with these, and my eyes hurt and I had a headache for three days after.
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Jul 12, 2017 08:55
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evobatman posted:Watching 3D movies in the theatre is just fine for me. I spent 5 minutes with these, and my eyes hurt and I had a headache for three days after. The only actives I've seen that are really good are the ones for the Chinese Theatre's laser IMAX. Those are godly.
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Jul 12, 2017 09:01
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Super Hot is a really fun VR game, and I am enjoying the hell out of Polybius and Star Trek Bridge Crew for PSVR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sifAv-WzH4 Gonz has a new favorite as of 09:03 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Mechanism Eight posted:See also: Hell yeah Farbrausch forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfmxi-boyo
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Jul 12, 2017 11:22
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This is my poo poo right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVqTLvGN5k Also, anyone remember that completely inexplicable demoscene PS3 "game" that Sony published? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AS8StSFxxc
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Jul 12, 2017 11:43
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Here's a demo I saw at my first Assembly, it was very impressive on a big screen in a dark hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZopz-dvq08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MexnBunH_g For those that don't know Farbrausch, Candytron was a 64k demo: Some of the bits from the party version really should have been kept though  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rxZCKMsb0c (kb's upload isn't as good at only 240p sadly) Humphreys has a new favorite as of 12:33 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Powered Descent posted:Oh, the goggles existed, just maybe not on a home system. Back in the 90s there was a VR place in the same mall as the Battletech Center. You stood inside a circular railing to keep you from falling over and wore a really uncomfortable goggle headset, and had a gun-handle-shaped thing in your hand. The game was pretty much running around on a few low-res checker-textured flat planes floating in a black void, shooting at the other players. (You used another button on the gun handle to move.) I was pretty pumped to try it out, but it didn't work very well and I was left kind of underwhelmed. You played Dactyl Nightmare! The system ran on Amigas, and there are only a handful of working systems around http://kotaku.com/the-man-whos-keeping-1990s-virtual-reality-machines-ali-1778990894 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60wgPuuDpE
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axolotl farmer posted:You played Dactyl Nightmare! Oh wow. Yup, that's exactly the one. The helmets are even chunkier than I remembered.
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Vanagoon posted:Do not be hating on the Demoscene Excuse you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHH1zu_ZAec
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axolotl farmer posted:You played Dactyl Nightmare! I played this at Disney World (or something very, very similar) way back in the day. It was pretty underwhelming, but 20-odd years later it was nice to be able to remember that when I got to try out PSVR. Oh how far we've come.
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Gotta love those long-rear end Amiga megademos from the days of old. I hope you loving love scrollers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmpqBn4dfA Also, 8-bit computer demos are stylish as hell nowadays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIM4p0uL6Pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQA1aJUJYLU
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Jul 14, 2017 00:25
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You say that as if the Hardwired demo never existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTnR3FpUEA
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Gromit posted:You say that as if the Hardwired demo never existed.  http://i.imgur.com/agjJjhe.gifv Trabant has a new favorite as of 03:25 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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Jul 14, 2017 03:21
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Mak0rz posted:Oh are we doing this again? I was very glad to find out Purple Motion released a collection of his music, including a re-vamped version of the main song from this demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1iLlmyT1xY The new version of Starshine is in there too, and it's pretty great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gMpob4N3I
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I had no idea this was something that existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUWIHasHPQ
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A thing that I had forgotten and just now managed to find the name of was "Launch Magazine". It was a CDROM Magazine that was delivered monthly. I had several of these way back.  There were a lot of game demos and such on the CDROMs too. I managed to find an .iso of the 3rd installment and it has a demo for the MS-DOS version of FX Fighter on it LAUNCH Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAUNCH_Media The Forgotten History of the CD-ROM Magazine http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-history-of-the-cdrom-magazine Took a lot of googling random poo poo to figure out what this thing was called. That particular disc had a video of the PS1 game N2O Nitrous Oxide that I thought was fricking awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDQXjFnTDes
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