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Photon · 24 February 2010, 04:00

I'd say for OCS in order of awesomeness (just off the top of my head)
Mega Typhoon (actually requires ECS, to fit some HUGE buffers, supposedly.)
Snow Bros
Turrican series
Star Ray
X/Z-out
Shadow of the Beast series

The 3D poly department was a bit dire, perhaps because it was easier to write cross-platform versions, but some prime examples are
Virus
Frontier
Whirlwind Snooker
Resolution 101

Now, most of these games above were selected for code speed, but f.ex. SoTB looked cool more from the parallax, number of colors, big objects, etc. There are other things that make games "not look ancient" or be impressive/arcady these days, regardless of how much pressure was put on the CPU

The Pinball series, for example, still good looking and a finely tuned game experience. Amnios has some cracking graphics as well as the Bitmap Bros games and some excellent games from Graftgold, some of these will play less well or look slightly less impressive today due to the framerate. Lotus series still look quite okay to my eye also

There's also the sound to think about. Pinball series had very well produced sound effects, and many many games had better music than any other platform for years.

I'm trying to think of some games with really immersive sound effects and maybe context sensitive 'event' music, but maybe you can help add some more games on this note.

24 February 2010, 04:00	#41
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,604	I'd say for OCS in order of awesomeness (just off the top of my head) Mega Typhoon (actually requires ECS, to fit some HUGE buffers, supposedly.) Snow Bros Turrican series Star Ray X/Z-out Shadow of the Beast series The 3D poly department was a bit dire, perhaps because it was easier to write cross-platform versions, but some prime examples are Virus Frontier Whirlwind Snooker Resolution 101 Now, most of these games above were selected for code speed, but f.ex. SoTB looked cool more from the parallax, number of colors, big objects, etc. There are other things that make games "not look ancient" or be impressive/arcady these days, regardless of how much pressure was put on the CPU The Pinball series, for example, still good looking and a finely tuned game experience. Amnios has some cracking graphics as well as the Bitmap Bros games and some excellent games from Graftgold, some of these will play less well or look slightly less impressive today due to the framerate. Lotus series still look quite okay to my eye also There's also the sound to think about. Pinball series had very well produced sound effects, and many many games had better music than any other platform for years. I'm trying to think of some games with really immersive sound effects and maybe context sensitive 'event' music, but maybe you can help add some more games on this note. Last edited by Photon; 24 February 2010 at 04:05.