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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > does anyone remember old nintendo games
 
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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

VikingSkull posted:

gamecube isn't old you literal baby
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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

 contra was good

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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

 nintendo tapes

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a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

error1 posted:

Well duh when you write all your machine code by hand and design sprites on graph paper of course you want to reuse as much crap as possible. That's why kids back then said they could "feel" a capcom game, a konami game etc.

The hardware was limited as gently caress too, one of the main reason why everything looks similar is that all the graphics are grouped as 8x8 pixel tiles and everyone had to use the same limited colour palette.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_technical_specifications#Video

You try being original when all you have are these!





they got pretty creative with drawing larger composite images with re-used 8x8 blocks for different things, sometimes mirrored

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