Subj : Re: Retro gaming
To   : Arelor
From : Mr Ned
Date : Sat Sep 18 2021 07:59 am

-=> Arelor wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Ar> Nintendo's games excelled at being built around original concepts or
 Ar> interesting designs, more than on superior technical capabilities. Even
 Ar> if you compare the blatant Playstation copies of Nintendo 64 titles
 Ar> (say, Mario Kart vs Crash Team Racing, or F-Zero vs Wip3out) the
 Ar> blatant copies don't fall behind at all.*

 Ar> * I just learned there is a Wipeout port to the Nintendo 64.
 Ar> Interesting find.

I feel like Wipeout went a little beyond just being a blatant copy - 
Psygnosis put enough into it that it was its own distinctive series. The 
music was pioneering - 2097 in particular used a load of music that was 
extremely popular in the UK around the time, not really a thing video games
did or were able to do until that generation. 

I'm massively disappointed that the new game is a, er, mobile phone card game 
rather than a racer, though.

MN

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