The 1993 PC video game Syndicate has one of the most iconic CGI intros ever.

Sure, it was probably using a 320x200 pixel VGA resolution. But still: seeing this as a kid felt like an seeing an artifact from the future. And I still don't know how they pulled it off. 1993 was a time of really rudimentary rendering and animation technology. Great 2D graphics? Sure! But this kind of smooth and moody lighting and rendering? Wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8hR-zhXltw

#RetroGaming #Syndicate #BullfrogProductions

Dungeon Keeper, quando James Bond insegnò a giocare dalla parte del cattivo

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/12/dungeon-keeper-origini-james-bond/

Peter Molyneux e la difficile esperienza in Electronic Arts: “Mi sentivo fuori posto”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/10/peter-molyneux-esperienza-electronic-arts/

[RETRO V.G. ADS] (JP) Theme Park (1995) (PS1-Saturn-SNES)

#advertising #ThemePark #PS1 #Saturn #SNES #videogame #retrogaming #adstv #ads #cm #games #gaming #BullfrogProductions #EA #KrisalisSoftware #JP #1995

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aiT3_jIir98

I picked up a copy of Populous on the Amiga recently. It's a gift for a friend who, in 1990, played it for about 12 hours straight. We played it together all afternoon and I went to bed at about 1am.

When I got up at about 9am, he hadn't moved!

Things you might not know about Populous:

* It was one of the first god-games and an early real-time strategy game.
* one of the first cross-platform, multiplayer games
* It was spun off from a map editor that could raise and lower land.
* British game, big in Japan
* one of the first games to be written in C instead of assembler
* from: Mobygames.com: It was only decided that Populous would be about gods when somebody from a magazine came over, looked at it and said "so it's a bit like being a god". Before that, there was no plot to explain what was going on, and after that comment, the whole plot had a direction."
* from: Hardcore Gaming 101: "by the end of 1989, Populous accounted for over a third of EA’s revenue"

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/populous/
#videogames #retrogames #Populous #BullfrogProductions #amiga #classicgames

Anyone know if there is an open source (re-)implementation of #ThemePark, like there is #openTTD for #TransportTycoon Delux and #openRCT2 for #RollerCoasterTycoon2?

On my brief search I could only find #openTPW, which is for Theme Park's successor, #ThemeParkWorld.

#gaming #games #WindowsGaming #BullfrogProductions