It's true that my take is somewhat hindsight, but I'm also very biased toward good sprite graphics. Even at in the day of the N64 I couldn't understand why people liked the 9 FPS tornado of triangles better than sprites. Titles like Star Fox and Wave Race blew me away at the time, though, no doubt.

>the first-gen 3D consoles were an *amazing* jump. you went
>from StarFox, where you could count the number of polygons, to
>something like Wipeout (first-generation PS1)? stunningly
>different.
>
>when new games came out, the majority of the reviews were
>solely about the graphics! everyone was slack-jawed for years,
>and then just when you thought you hit a standard, something
>like Tekken 3 would come out and blow you away again.
>
>PS1/Saturn/N64 have definitely aged the worst because of frame
>rate (30 FPS used to be acceptable, and even into the 20s was
>standard) and high resolution advances. but that era was a
>graphical marvel for the time.


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