Bad Day in Bagdad! Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow & The Flame
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 6.3 (May/June 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

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yeehaw - recorded a new episode of the CD-ROM Safari Podcast.

today's topic: Cover discs and CD-ROM Today magazine, dos/win/mac game demos, and just how much your $5 a week allowance would buy you in 1994, with shoutouts to @GrundislavGames, @ThreeOhFour

episode shownotes and mp3, complete with links to ISOs of CD-ROM Today's Cover Disc #1
https://cd-rom.ca/podcast/season2/episode2

podcast rss:
https://cd-rom.ca/podcast.xml

apple podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cd-rom-safari-podcast/id1393890581

#podcast #dosGaming #retrocomputing #retrogaming #win31 #macintosh #multimedia

edit: solved by @txgx42 - it's the CD Deluxe Pack 4.

fellow cdrom aficionados: does anyone recognize this Software Toolworks cd slipcase?
it appears to be the backside of a disc, but i can't figure out which disc this might be

#dosGaming #multimedia #cdrom

Join Electronics Boutique As We Celebrate The MicroProse 10th Anniversary. ...And Don't Forget Your Present.
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 6.3 (May/June 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 6.3 (May/June 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

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every time i play fred pohl's Gateway (Legend Entertainment, 1992) i'm always struck by how much the art style varies throughout the game.

each planet has its own particular art style, which probably means that every planet had a different artist assigned to completing that planet's assets

but what really stood out to me this time, and is very *uncommon* in games, is that two entirely different art processes were used.

the water planet (top two screenshots): the luscious greens and aquamarines are pixel-perfect. zoom in, and you'll see the extremely careful handcrafted dithering to mix colours and create texture. the lighting makes objects lift off the page. this was drawn entirely digitally (probably in dpaint)

the desert planet (bottom two screenshots): ignore the change of palette towards warm browns and yellows, and instead focus on the dithering patterns. these were almost definitely painted traditionally with watercolour or acrylic, and then scanned in to the computer. notice how the mechanical, randomized pixel patterns both soften and muddy the picture. the contrast is weak, and the objects feel flat and lifeless.

in the early 90s, 256-colour adventure game backgrounds generally were painted, scanned in, and then received pixel-by-pixel touchups to improve the dithering and contrast. gateway's desert planet never received that last polish pass, and it shows.

#pixelart #art #retrogaming #dosGaming #adventureGames

Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 6.3 (May/June 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

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Legends of Future Past
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 6.3 (May/June 1993)
Scan Source: RetroMags

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