Graphics that blew your tiny little mind. - The Bear and Badger

TheDJR

The opening of FFVII leading to Cloud jumping from the train.

TheDJR

That's probably been said already but I'm not reading five pages

davyK

Powerdrift with its twisty turny roller coasting tracks and its blistering pace was probably the pinnacle of sprite scaling. Was amazing in the arcade with its hydraulics.

dynamiteReady

Moot_Geeza wrote:

TDynamite Headdy. When this boss spun the screen around, oh my:

Bit of a tangent, but...

Djornson

I think i will remember the day i played Super Mario 64 in Argos for the rest of my life. I could not believe it was real. I was 11. Be interesting to know what age everybody was when mind most blown.

Brooks

Next mindblow graphical moment: A 3d title with no clipping geometry.

Vela

A few moments that have knocked my socks off that havent been mentioned much if at all.

Metal Gear Solid - first time up the elevator to the helipad
MGS2 - the demo on the ship, destructible fruit, raindrops, 60fps
MGS4 - the opening to chapter 2

Sin and Punishment 2 - the underwater level
Mario Galaxy 2 - the end of the Slimy Spring Galaxy
Skyward Sword - the flooded forest, and later the final battle

WipEout HD - zone mode

Moot_Geeza

Vela wrote:

A few moments that have knocked my socks off that havent been mentioned much if at all. Metal Gear Solid - first time up the elevator to the helipad MGS2 - the demo on the ship

Absolutely both of these. I tried to find a gif of the "a Hind D?" moment in MGS.

Vela

For me it was that bit with the title splash as the elevator went up. Something about the cold metal colour tone really set it out as a special atmosphere and not much else before it had ever done it quite so professionally (in my experience).

mangman

JMW wrote:

One game on the Spectrum I can't remember the name of, but you were walking around a pirate ship. The way they did the sea seemed photo-realistic to me at the time; I think it was only white pixels twinkling on and off.

Here you go

mangman

I remember this coming on a cover disc and I was pretty blown away. The music fits really well too.

LarryDavid

Super Probotector. Specifically the plane coming out of the screen right at you moment, I'd just got a SNES for my Birthday and because I only lived around the corner from school me and some mates quickly ran back to my house during dinnertime to marvel at this amazing new Nintendo miracle machine (it seemed that way at the time anyway, no one I knew at that stage had one, only people's moody older brothers who wouldn't let you play on theirs).

I clearly remember the moment when the plane comes out of the screen on the opening level, everyone just went "woooooaaahhhh!" - we were audibly amazed and awed by this new Mode 7 thingy. There were plenty more moments like that in the rest of the game of course, but that first time - when you didn't expect it, or even imagine that such feats of graphical wonder were even possible. It was a rush, man.

Rest of the day at school was just killing time, daydreaming of that beautiful little grey machine and almost exploding with anticipation at the idea of what more incredible graphical feats awaited us.