A lot of this is just good art, though. Ps1 can do a few K polys, and a trex made of 2-5k would look better than this, as that's literal sixth gen console quality. Its likely a few hundred polys.
Yeah, no actual ps1 game has textures that look this sharp. Imagine characters in MGS1 or Syphon filter or Resi 2. Actually this looks like there is a bit of antialiasing as well. This is of course a single model, not a game so that must be why the console could easily handle it.
@@kulsevdasi I believe that this demo was mostly meant to show developers the amount of polygons that the PS1 could have on screen, and devs at the time likely understood that this level of fidelity was only possible because the demo was only rendering a single model and absolutely nothing else
@@apictureoffunction yeah thats the only way it would make sense. I mean you look at something that is crazy ambitious for ps1 tech, like MGS 1, and something like a whole game area has about the same amount of polygons as this animal.
@@kulsevdasi yeah this was definitely a "pushing the tech to it's limits" type demo for sure. It did actually inspire a lot of devs to work on the PS1 as well, Mark Cerny actually said this demo was one of the main reasons why Crash Bandicoot was developed for the PS1
Thats because they push all the psx power to just one model. If they were backgrounds, lighting, vegetation and a character then this t-rex would look like the one on tomb raider 1.
I guess me too because I can remember being alone in the room with the ps1 of my brother and this came up I was so terrified I think I plugged the PS1 out and ran away or something like that😂
I was 6 when we got the first Playstation... This thing was so scary to me back then, I couldn't start it up unless my older sister was with me, it was the music and the blackness around the dino that made it for me. I still feel the chill in my spine as I did 15 years ago... Childhood awesomeness! Unfortunately I've lost the original demo disc :(
Had exactly the same with my twin brother.. couldn play it without him. I remember reading your comment 10 years ago.. how time flies.. we are getting old my friend
I remember being amazed at this on the screen with my new PS1, Christmas day evening, 1995. I used to get my games from a mail order magazine. I'd get the Playstation magazine for the demo discs on the front as well. Damn, they were good times.
Fredbear Animates how is it not a spoiler. The whole point of this game is to have a nostalgia trip. From 1994 till 2020. Ps icons between that time are shown in the game. When you see some icons ingame it gives you a nice suprise feeling and a nostalgia trip. For you telling us that the Tech Dino is also ingame that magical moment is now gone bc it can not suprise you know. So yeah in my opinion a Spoiler bc its one of the least characters you would suspect to be in the game.
This got into my recommendations and I got flooded with nostalgia. I only had two games and some demo discs and on one of those was this T-Rex. I loved it. The music is so simple yet great.
Ngl i kinda feel bad for him he spent 26 years to come fighting a small robot just to end up losing the fight and having both of his eyes highly damaged at the end of the fight
Most of the people don't know that this demo changed the whole gaming industry. Its the first thing that Sony showed to the game developers before releasing the first PlayStation console and developers watch it and left speachless for a while.
oh my GOD, this damn fucking dinosaur gave me genuine nightmares when i was 4yo. no joke, i had dreams where i was chased by it around the house while crying and screaming, all the while the ambient music played. it''s almost surreal to see it here 20 years later, i still have some of the ps1 demo discs
Reminds me of the new year 91 zebra thing on Amiga. The one that has the cool music with the people aiming the guns and the thunder, and retcha sketch included on the disk.
yeah when i watch a lets play of astro playroom it was like wth is this boss i know its kinda confusing but it makes sense that it is taken from tech demo and make a dino as a boss
when I was a kid after I played this I was wishing for a dinosaur game cuz I love Dinosaurs and they brought Jurassic Park the lost world and Dino Crisis
The PS1 and PS2 days were so much better than todays new generation consoles. I miss the feeling of going to a store and picking up a sick looking game, I don't get that feeling anymore unless it's a remake or a new Crash Bandicoot game... Back then I usually find cool games with Game Informer magazine or the internet, this was all in the mid 2000s and early 2010s. I want developers to use PS1 or PS2 style graphics for modern games to make the memories alive, graphics don't make the game great! Gameplay, storyline, and replay value does!
Oh yes, I remember this! Not because of the PS5 thing everyone here's talking about. I also had such a demo disc, it also contained a underwater tech demo (where you can control a stingray IDK) and a Tomb Raider demo where the camera zooms into her butt for some reason while diving lol
