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Honestly, I have the special edition and after about ten minutes of playing I switched to the original graphics and music and didn't really look back. They real

Honestly, I have the special edition and after about ten minutes of playing I switched to the original graphics and music and didn't really look back. They really have aged quite well, even though of course they look much blockier on a 24" TFT compared to the original 15"ish CRT experience...

vanderZwan 5y ago
Which is kinda strange because the "pixel" art of those days was never intended to be rendered as blocky pixels, but designed to make use of the CRT's softness.
- fps_doug 5y ago
  I mean, it was still clearly low-res. CRTs and smaller screen sized helped, but you could still see the pixels.
  - mromanuk 5y ago
    Indeed, you could see the pixels, but that was all it was. Advanced games used antialiasing to lessen the blocky effect. You only could dream of a future where graphics are "paper like" without pixels. At that moment, it didn't fill like low-res, at all. 320x200 256 colors was the bleeding edge of computer graphics. Later on, some games started appearing with 640x480.
    - qw 5y ago
      That's also why I can't stand some of the modern pixel-games. They are too blocky and doesn't work well on modern screens. Using blocky graphics is not "retro" at all. It's more an artistic impression of how they think old games looked like.
- tom_ 5y ago
  The pixels were very obvious at 320x200 on most late 80s CRTs with RGB input! (Standard for PC, very common on Amiga and ST.)
- mrob 5y ago
  Arguably true for the EGA versions (when played on real EGA hardware), but the VGA versions used a 320x200 resolution, which was line-doubled to 320x400, and displayed on monitors sharp enough to be usable at 640x480. The pixels were obviously blocky.
ricardo81 5y ago
Reminded me of the whole 14"/15" options for cant-even-remember which system. Vaguely recall a 17" choice too.
rob74 5y ago
I felt the "updated" graphics were quite good too, although it showed in some places that the budget wasn't as big as for the original game...
k3vinw 5y ago
I bought the special editions of 1 and 2 over the weekend with the sole intent of extracting the original game files and playing them via scummvm. Didn’t even try to play the special editions. And getting them working in scummvm was as much fun as getting to play the original games themselves!
technovader 5y ago
worth mentioning the music is. ot great in the remastered editions they give you 2 options and neither of them are the incredible adlib version of the original
RajT88 5y ago
Same. I find the minimal graphics and animation leave more to your imagination. Similarly, I prefer my non-talkie adventure games. YMMV.

vanderZwan 5y ago

Which is kinda strange because the "pixel" art of those days was never intended to be rendered as blocky pixels, but designed to make use of the CRT's softness.

fps_doug 5y ago
I mean, it was still clearly low-res. CRTs and smaller screen sized helped, but you could still see the pixels.
- mromanuk 5y ago
  Indeed, you could see the pixels, but that was all it was. Advanced games used antialiasing to lessen the blocky effect. You only could dream of a future where graphics are "paper like" without pixels. At that moment, it didn't fill like low-res, at all. 320x200 256 colors was the bleeding edge of computer graphics. Later on, some games started appearing with 640x480.
  - qw 5y ago
    That's also why I can't stand some of the modern pixel-games. They are too blocky and doesn't work well on modern screens. Using blocky graphics is not "retro" at all. It's more an artistic impression of how they think old games looked like.
tom_ 5y ago
The pixels were very obvious at 320x200 on most late 80s CRTs with RGB input! (Standard for PC, very common on Amiga and ST.)
mrob 5y ago
Arguably true for the EGA versions (when played on real EGA hardware), but the VGA versions used a 320x200 resolution, which was line-doubled to 320x400, and displayed on monitors sharp enough to be usable at 640x480. The pixels were obviously blocky.

ricardo81 5y ago

Reminded me of the whole 14"/15" options for cant-even-remember which system. Vaguely recall a 17" choice too.

rob74 5y ago

I felt the "updated" graphics were quite good too, although it showed in some places that the budget wasn't as big as for the original game...

k3vinw 5y ago

I bought the special editions of 1 and 2 over the weekend with the sole intent of extracting the original game files and playing them via scummvm. Didn’t even try to play the special editions. And getting them working in scummvm was as much fun as getting to play the original games themselves!

technovader 5y ago

worth mentioning the music is. ot great in the remastered editions they give you 2 options and neither of them are the incredible adlib version of the original

RajT88 5y ago

Same. I find the minimal graphics and animation leave more to your imagination. Similarly, I prefer my non-talkie adventure games. YMMV.