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With all the this buzz about 3d image games lately, I think it might be interesting to see how many different ones people had as their first experience. For me it was back when I was a runt circa 1983 when I played the arcade game SubRoc-3D. I didn't think the game itself was anything special but the effect was awesome.
So what did you play first (talking just about 3d like with a Virtual Boy or 3d glasses game, not 3d as in polygon graphics)?
Probably Rad Racer. I don't remember it being very impressive, just headachey.
Missile Defense 3D on the Master System with those rad Sega Scope glasses. I bought the awful Space Harrier 3D for it too. Zaxxon 3D wasn't so hot either but it was kinda smooth for a SMS game.
Mine would have been NES and SMS as well I think, although the actual head piece for SubRoc-3D looks familiar.
I assume you played the domestic one with the red/blue glasses. In Japan it supported the Famicom 3D System. It's a shame that never came out here.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
I thought Space Harrier 3D was quite cool (mostly because it was pretty much the trippiest home game ever at the time) although the lack of hardware scaling has made 8-bit rail shooters like that age. Missile Defense 3D is the one that really holds up nicely in gameplay.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
Space Harrier 3D had a really, really bad framerate. I liked the game, but even at the time I was like "Damn that's a low framerate."
I think my first was Zaxxon 3D. I had most of the SMS 3D games, sans Outrun 3D.
I had the SMS glasses. They were awesome, minus the fact they were huge on my head and not comfortable. 3D has come a long way, but I feel those really were ahead of their time
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Sega's Holosseum!
Never played a non-rental copy of Rad Racer back in the old days, and lol Master System. Sega did not exist for me outside of arcades until Sonic, as it happens.
Battlezone in the arcades.
Weren't all the SMS 3-d games around 15fps? I think I just read an article that mentioned the games were 30, split in two images of 15 fps a piece.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
No, some were 60, split to 30, I think. I think Space Harrier was like 7, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dyne
Space Harrier 3D is the choppiest game ever made. It was a total slideshow. Zaxxon 3D was pretty smooth and looked neat with the glasses.
That 3D World Runner (Space Harrier clone) on NES. The effects were craptacular (as expected). Then I got the SMS 3D glasses and those were amazing (at the time), too bad most of the games were ass.
I would love to see a Fantasy Zone IIDX style remake of Space Harrier 3D using the original Space Harrier-quality visuals. Do it, Sega!
That's not the type of 3d I was thinking of for this thread but I love that game. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Hey. Was Taito's "Battle Shark" 3D? I remember the periscope, I'm just uncertain if there was a lens or something funky going on with it.
I can't even remember. The effect doesn't work very well for me, so I guess it just never made much of an impression.
Incidentally, I played a Virtual Boy for the first time about a month ago. I sorta got the 3D effect, but I couldn't be bothered to keep my head stuck in that thing for more than a minute, and the red LEDs were a bit overpowering.
I wonder how hard it would be to replace the LEDs with newer LEDs, preferably not red.
Do you have an eyepatch? :D
I don't think it would be worth much time to hack a Virtual Boy, but I figure someone's done it.
I have only played that one emulated but I have never read anything about the real thing being 3d.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Red Alarm :(
The first one I remember is 3D World Runner.
3d World Runner
Fuck. Thunder stolen by Chux.
I'm thinking then, that there was some sort of curved lens that gave the scaling a little bit more 'oomph'. The game was incredible in the arcades, emulation doesn't really do anything for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
PS: I think the Taito Z system was just about my favorite non-Capcom arcade hardware. Space Gun!
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Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Probably much easier just to put a cyan film on the mirrors to take the edge off the lights, it'd dim them and desaturate them a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
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Originally Posted by Chux
I no longer recall the name, but I think it was an old Sega arcade game that was basically a mix of space invaders and missile command. I think it was 3D anyway. I remember the aliens coming at me from the back of the sit down cabinet to the front of the screen. It might have had a vector look to it?
IF my memory has distorted that experience, and it wasn't 3D, then it was definitely Missile Defense 3D. I've worn glasses since I was 8 years old. Fuck 3D
Found it!
Space Tactics
Guess it wasn't vector after all, but hey, it's been over 25 years.