06/02/2019

Those Shaky Sega Saturn Polygons, But Even Shakier (From The Attract Mode Archive: #038)

by Matthew Edward Hawkins

The following post originally appeared on attractmo.de, on January 25, 2013.
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I love glitched graphics, just as much as the next guy. Though I will admit, I’ve also become somewhat bored with how they’re mostly churned out by the Famicom or NES.

Thankfully, we’re starting to see an increasing number of artists tap into more powerful/relatively newer hardware. Like Big Pauper and his utilization of my favorite console of all time, the Sega Saturn.

I discovered the video above via Ary (of Anamanaguchi fame) and his Tumblr, and it’s my favorite example, since I was such a huge Virtua Fighter 1 nerd back in the day (still am).

Its polygons were fairly unstable to being with, so it’s as if Big Pauper has removed the one thing that kept everything barely together!

Here’s a few others; all day one Saturn owners might recall the demo disc that came included, alongside VF1. It represents a turning point for Sega’s WELCOME TO THE NEXT LEVEL ad campaign, because that’s when it jumped the shark…

Next is another gameplay clip, featuring one of the system’s all time greats, NiGHTS. I will admit, it’s not nearly as insane as one might hope, given the source material. But you just can’t predict these kinds of things, sometimes…

And finally we have Cyber Speedway, which I also kind dug, if only because of the sexy Syd Mead designs. Too bad it’s not Gran Chaser, the Japanese version, which has a far superior soundtrack…

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