ElectricMachman @ LunarLoony @lemmy.sdf.org

Thought to have been an ordinary falling star.

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It wouldn't really. Hand-drawn sprites are pretty standard even today - whether they're hand-pixelled (Stardew Valley) or frame-by-frame animation (Spiritfarer).

Most things in Doom, if we're counting photos!

The characters and environments in Fallout and JA2 are basically still frames (sprites) of 3D models at specific angles. They were rendered once on a powerful development machine, and converted to sprites for our lowly Pentiums and Voodoos.

If you think it's an unregulated mess now, take a look at the home computer scene in the mid-80s. Absolute wild west, dude.

Lots of the best games were prerendered! Donkey Kong Country, Fallout, Jagged Alliance 2, Duke 3D, the Pro Pinball games, just to name a few.

I do have a soft spot for prerendered graphics.

Yes, where they put the superior Amiga screenshots on the back of your ZX Spectrum game

the British equivalent of a national park

You mean... a national park?

Damn.

I would only allow books about, or involving, cheese.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion. All very terrible things, as you can see...

Maybe there could be some sort of compatibility flag in Firefox which detects non-standard pages designed for Chrome. We could call it... hmm... something like Quirks Mode?

It's Vista all over again.

And people are learning not to ask where the information came from or to check sources.

Worst of it is, this has been a problem for as long as I can remember, and it's getting so much worse than ever now

Oh yes, I keep forgetting about that. Must give it a try sometime.

Mario & Rabbids Kingdom Battle was a rare gem from Ubi. Other than that, their best "recent" game is probably Rayman Legends, and that's like a decade old now

That was a Windows 7 thing - it used to be hosted at https://browserchoice.eu but that's long gone now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu

Guess what? It's been in the charts consistently for over 8 years and is currently #61.

...I managed to do the same too, just trying to scroll up on a question, and despite having read both these comments.

Starting to think it's a 'them' problem