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Lately, I've been studying the early days of 3D polygons on home consoles for a new course.
We often think 3D on the #PS1 or #Saturn, but there was a bracket of time where special chips were added to both #SNES & #Genesis to help them render fast polygons.
Here's a review...🧵
We often think 3D on the #PS1 or #Saturn, but there was a bracket of time where special chips were added to both #SNES & #Genesis to help them render fast polygons.
Here's a review...🧵
It's probably not news to anyone here that retro consoles added special power to games by adding special chips *inside* the game cartridges!
Therefore, newer and fancier games were more expensive because manufacturing the cartridge with extra chips cost more for the developers.
Therefore, newer and fancier games were more expensive because manufacturing the cartridge with extra chips cost more for the developers.
If you took our course on #NES programming, you know that this was also true for 3rd gen. consoles.
For example, the NES console is always the same (CPU speed, RAM size, etc.), but NES games got better with time by adding these special chips *per* cartridge!
For example, the NES console is always the same (CPU speed, RAM size, etc.), but NES games got better with time by adding these special chips *per* cartridge!
