davyK wrote:I remember being blown away by a David Braben game called Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes. Was a 3D third person shooter. Ah.here it is.. 1987!!
Escape wrote:Does anything beat the first three DOOMs?
poprock wrote:Hell yeah. Renamed as Virus when it was ported to the ST and Amiga. It had a genuinely unique control method, which took a while to get the hang of … but when you did it was incredibly fluid.I remember being blown away by a David Braben game called Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes. Was a 3D third person shooter. Ah.here it is.. 1987!!
hylian_elf wrote:Ah, actually I agree SF2 was on time - I forget "ahead of its time" is usually for something good that didn't succeed but later the same thing did. Or something. SF1? No. It was mega shit at the time apparently, and was meg shit even later.
mistercrayon wrote:In a sense Star fox was ahead of its time. It literally couldn’t work on the console hardware it was on and needed new technology to make it work.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Ahead of its time: Tomb Raider (1996)
Ride on time: Black Box (1989)
After its time: Tomb Raider (2000)
Yossarian wrote:Things that are huge successes at release are not ahead of their time. C’mon people.
davyK wrote:mistercrayon wrote:In a sense Star fox was ahead of its time. It literally couldn’t work on the console hardware it was on and needed new technology to make it work.
What I find annoying about the SNES design is its need for extra chips even at the very start. The DSP was used for extra maths heft in Pilotwings and SMK I believe. Why not have it in the console?
DrewMerson wrote:Success upon release because it is more advanced than anything around it: ahead of its time.
Failure upon release because it has qualities which were not appreciated then, but would be now: before its time.
Success upon release because it perfectly captured the current trends: right on time.
Failure upon release because everyone has moved on from what it’s doing: behind/after its time.
Success upon release because you’ve used an attractive model instead of the actual singer: Ride on time.
davyK wrote:Black Box was Ride on Time.
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