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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:40:43 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   Does anyone do T-shirts themed around 8/16 bit retro games, but the weird British ones? I want a Fat Worm Blows A Sparky, Ant Attack or Spindizzy T-Shirt dammit

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:42:46 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     Looking for this stuff just leads me to a ton of Nintendo IP and like, have you any idea how late/expensive the NES was here, about 3 people bought one, we were all playing Pyjamarama and Hovver Bovver

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     Drake Blue (drakeblue@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 08:24:38 JST Drake Blue

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     @sinbad I don’t think I’ve ever played on an actual NES. A friend eventually had a SNES which seemed pretty alright (mostly because of Street Fighter 2). Otherwise there were a few megadrives, master systems and gameboys, but mostly home computers: Speccies, BBCs, C64s, Amigas or Ataris. They were more interesting because you could mess about with them way more too. To this day, I don’t really “get” what’s quite so appealing about a chubby Italian plumber… 🤷🏻♂️

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 19:17:35 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @drakeblue I got a SNES when it came out but it doesn’t feel properly retro to me, since I wasn't a kid anymore by then. Love the look of your game, reminds me of Oids on the ST

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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 19:22:29 JST Tom Forsyth

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     @sinbad Speccy lad myself. I think my "retro" line runs somewhere between the Amiga/ST and the SNES/MegaDrive. I do think every 8-bit thing counts - we were really wrestling with the capabilities back then. It was an achievement to make anything even recognisable. Actually getting to "art" was basically impossible. But it also means those games are... hard on the eyes.

     The ST/Amiga was the first time things actually looked somewhat like the box cover.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 19:34:22 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @TomF yeah I’m thinking retro more in the sense of “from my childhood” which is of course entirely subjective. A lot of stuff that's filed as “retro” feels not massively different from modern 2D games to me, compared to the weird shit we played 😄

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     Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 19:34:23 JST Tom Forsyth

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     @sinbad You can still clearly see the limits, and that's the "retro" part - grappling with those.

     SNES/MegaDrive had less CPU power, but more hardware, and for some of those games I think they got to "good enough" graphics to lose some of that "retro" feel. But I am absolutely open to debate on this.

     Of course, as soon as you want to go 3D it all looks terrible again. 3D stays "retro" all the way up to the N64/Saturn/PS1 - all of which look eye-scorchingly bad in their own ways.

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     Kojack 🦎 (kojack@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 23:45:04 JST Kojack 🦎

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     @sinbad I don't think I've known anyone with an NES. In Aus it seemed to mainly be Atari and Intellivision for consoles and later TRS-80 and C64 for home computers. At least the people I knew.

     Anyway, here's Ant Attack and Spindizzy Worlds shirts. :)
     On Redbubble.

     Wow, I just found tshirts for Shadow Of The Beast and Bloodwych! Also all of the Bitmap Brothers games (Gods, Chaos Engine, Speedball, etc)

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:00:05 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @kojack Thanks! The only problem with these is they're almost certainly unlicensed. But I can probably live with that.

     I knew one person with a NES but they got it in like 1992 as a curiosity and we all thought it was mad when you could have had a SNES, Megadrive or even imported PC Engine by then. Mario was good but you could play SMW by then. It got here far too late and cost silly money for what it was

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     Drake Blue (drakeblue@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:51:30 JST Drake Blue

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     @sinbad Thanks - Oids and Thrust are the two games I've tried to slam together.
     I was lucky enough to get access to an ST early on, but then had to make do with it for a very long time after. I was still a kid when that SNES turned up at the friend's house, so I'd probably include it as "retro" for me. The PS1/N64 etc. consoles don't feel that way to me though. I'd prob draw my personal line right before textured 3D being the norm (compared to wireframe or filled polys like versions of Elite).