3D Polygon Games On 8/16-Bit Consoles

[nakamura]

Certainly. Either way, most of the 3D SNES games are well designed and worth mentioning.

[Rogue Trooper]

Vortex espically as it was done by none other than...Michael Powell, who did the stunning Powerdrome on ST/Amiga (i really must check out his later Xbox version of it), the I-War series on PC along with Subwar 2050 on PC.

[Rogue Trooper]

Been trying to think of 8-Bit console games feturing polygon 3D, closest i came to:

Ocean's Battle Command on C64 Cartridge (so it can be played on the C64GS CONSOLE), used mix of vector and solid Polygon 3D.

Cannot find a video of it though. :-(.

[Rogue Trooper]

GBA wise:

Star X ( Very Starfox-esq):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sGa_4UFxo

I know it's not on a 16 Bit system, but thought folks might want to see it anyway? Very few Polygon 3D games on GBA i know of.

And this (unreleased) GBA game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SUpznd56Xk

[Rogue Trooper]

Fake 3D (pre-rendered) but looks impressive for a GBC game:

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

GBC 3D Polygon tech demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsepokvxH0M

[Rogue Trooper]

Have to include these 2:

1) X on Gameboy, 1st 3D game on a portable inJapan, co-developed by Argonaut software, went under codename of 'Eclipse', then Lunar Chase until Nintendo got heavily involved and re-named it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyTGdCyg3w


2)Interview with Jez San, origins of the FX chip, Starfox (which started out on NES!):

http://www.armchairempire.com/Interview ... erview.htm

[nakamura]

Some very impressive games in here. The GBC racer is hugely impressive, pre rendered or not. Star X looks pretty good too, might have to check it out.

Here is a good GBA 3D game. It has a great feel to the driving too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzJDitq6t0k

[Rogue Trooper]

Another demo.Only but very impressive GBA stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGcVQIq2J8

[TL]

There is MIDI Maze from the Atari ST, that was converted to the Game Boy as Faceball 2000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAhnNiOu54

There is a Game Gear version too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Gm6XYjLHo

And there was a version made under the original name for the XE Games System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sTZedLcWk

[zapiy]

Some bloody awesome looking games there guys, Vortex was amazing..

[nakamura]

Cybermorph and Starfox were compared all too often back in the day which was wrong. Cybermorph and Vortex were much more alike in terms of gameplay and visuals.

[Rogue Trooper]

Cybermorph and Starfox were compared all too often back in the day which was wrong. Cybermorph and Vortex were much more alike in terms of gameplay and visuals.

Very true.Starfox was on-rails, Cybermorph, free to fly where you wanted.

It got far worse than that and earlier too, with Mega Drive mags proclaiming MCD Slipheed to be a 'Starfox beater', again, totally different games, the MCD game's polygons being pre-rendered and just pulled off the CD, with sprites laid on top and the worst example i saw?

'Cobra Command' MCD again, on front cover of Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, being classed as a 'Starfox beater', by that 'logic' so was Dragon's Lair.

Think it was done as Starfox was THE game the media were talking about, very well known, where as likes of Vortex, sadly far lessser known title, so everything was being compared to the 'household name' of Starfox as it were.

[TL]

More 3D on an 8-bit console - Battlezone on the Atari 5200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPyc514XUZo

And the Lynx version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93DOlL-oFg

[Rogue Trooper]

Are we now opening this up to more than just POLYGON 3D on consoles? ie we can include wireframe 3D on Console?.

Only ask as previousily steered clear of mentioning anything unless it used polygons.

[TL]

Are we now opening this up to more than just POLYGON 3D on consoles? ie we can include wireframe 3D on Console?.

Only ask as previousily steered clear of mentioning anything unless it used polygons.

They are polygons, just not shaded ones.