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[GrayFoxPL]

Dang, nostalgia.

I'll never forget the T-Rex on PS1, I fired it up often back in the 90's to show off the gfx, haha.

PS2 ruled with the early Tekken demo or riko from RRT4, also the Duckies. Shame there's no good quality footage anywhere.

Unless you count the footage on VHS I had 20 years ago.

 

[Three]

I came here for the ducks.

 

[lachesis]

Well as a DC fan... when I saw FF8 dancing scene in real time on Japanese news outlet..., all I could think in my mind was "fxxxed".

Mind you that whoever had Square's support was pretty much destined to win the JP market...

 

[Sub_Level]

FFVIII tech demo looks so good. Remake never ever.

 

[HE1NZ]

Amazing how bad Heavy Rain demo looks now. But it used to be impressive I think.

 

[gypsygib]

I'm still most impressed by the Dark Sorcerer demo.

 

[itsjustJEFF]

Yo WTF was that "Movie" demo at about 8 mins in... that was weird as shit

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Yo WTF was that "Movie" demo at about 8 mins in... that was weird as shit

Among other things it's showcasing Playstation fmv capabilities. At that time it probably was the best in terms of least compression among it's rival consoles.

 

[CamHostage]

Among other things it's showcasing Playstation fmv capabilities. At that time it probably was the best in terms of least compression among it's rival consoles.

It is crazy today to think that playing a digital video file was a big deal back in the day, but it's easy to forget that A) these were still CDs and B) compression schemes were still not really consumer-grade yet. This is what gamers were mostly used to with full-motion video on a disc back then: usually windowed, usually half-30 (or much worse), and always chunky as hell.



And even the consumer version of a "professional" video on CD at the time (the ill-fated CD-Video, or VCD) was pretty crappy and not worth leaving VHS for. MPEG 1 running 352×240 at 30FPS (half the resolution of a VHS tape, and technically I believe half the "framerate" since I'm guessing it was stored progressive instead of interlaced for a 60Hz signal.) If you had a laserdisc, you were in heaven as a movie fan, but if all you had was a gen-1 VCD player, woe be you...

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

Nostalgia overload. I'm going to watch the whole video later.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[GrayFoxPL]

It is crazy today to think that playing a digital video file was a big deal back in the day, but it's easy to forget that A) these were still CDs and B) compression schemes were still not really consumer-grade yet. This is what gamers were mostly used to with full-motion video on a disc back then: usually windowed, usually half-30 (or much worse), and always chunky as hell.



And even the consumer version of a "professional" video on CD at the time (the ill-fated CD-Video, or VCD) was pretty crappy and not worth leaving VHS for. MPEG 1 running 352×240 at 30FPS (half the resolution of a VHS tape, and technically I believe half the "framerate" since I'm guessing it was stored progressive instead of interlaced for a 60Hz signal.) If you had a laserdisc, you were in heaven as a movie fan, but if all you had was a gen-1 VCD player, woe be you...

True. I remember playing Judge Dredd demo and PS1 and thinking in game movies was some hi tech shit, haha.

My favorite live action cut scene ever:

 

[Rob_27]

I was amazed with the T Rex on PS1
I think I had it on disc as well that was packed in with the console.