Sprite Supreme: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Two 

It's probably worth noting that Yoshi's Island actually is very impressive technically. It makes extensive use of the Super FX chip which powers Star Fox, but instead of using it for 3D polygonal effects, uses it's impressive 2D transform capabilities for the games huge enemies that spin and scale and warp in very impressive ways.

Ladies and gentlemen, the most talented RU-vidr in the Gaming category.

You've really come into your own with these videos. Every since you stopped focusing on the weapon guides your videos have gotten better and more interesting.

Always excellently produced. You could make an interesting and informative video on anything, especially the small wonders we take for granted.

I absolutely love video game history and this series is one of the best I've seen so far, keep it up!

Crazy memories all over this thread...funny how many games I've played throughout my life and even more impressive is how many I've forgotten ever playing...until you see it. Seeing Pit Fighter & Narc & the old Simpsons got me all teary-eyed...little square tears, of course...

So much love to the show !

7:47 you know, even today I'm still in complete awe at how Myst was originally made in HyperCard of all things.

I'm loving the consistent quality in all of your videos. Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to part three.

I LIKE HOW INSTEAD OF GIVING AWAY INCOMPLETE GAMES, THESE ARTISTS AND DEVELOPERS MADE THE EFFORT TO OPTIMIZE THEIR VIDEOGAMES AND MAKE IT LOOKS AWESOME. ESPECIALLY DONKEY KONG. IT LOOKS AWESOME.

This mini series is awesome, can't wait for pt 3. I hope you'll do another set on something else and that it garners at least as much attention (and income) for your as the weapon guides have!

its nice to have a bit of a recap of what games we were playing in this era for some of us it doesnt seem that far away but the quality of graphics certainly makes history seem to pass slower I've not seen much about this but I like Stu's style and believability.. can't wait for the next part :D

Love this series.

Thanks for always putting in so much time to make quality videos. I feel like it's not truly appreciated. You're the best!

And now to wait another day. Great videos!!!

I love this channel

your channel is soo good, please keep up awesome work

This was very professionally done, good job.

I like ahoy's style, it's an interesting source of information presented in a good way. It's all nicely edited and also it's clear that the person who animates this has a talent for graphic design.

Your voice, your narration, and style is amazing.

Great series

Five part series? Outstanding.

Awesome work man! Your videos are amazing!

That's a beautiful ride man, thank you for this work! Took my memory back to see Aladdin in there, great to have Earthworm Jim right after it! Dunno why but my mind automatically jumped back to Flash Back and I thought maybe you'd mention it too, when I saw Rotoscoping I knew it would be in there, awesome job! Can't wait to watch the other chapters. Thank you! :)

Simply superb.

This latest series is really well done. I'm reminiscing and learning at the same time, lol!

Just supreme stuff this is considering it's just for RU-vid, so much talent here well done Sir :)

Superb, learned so much- just what I was looking for xxx

Great video! Loved it!

This is excellent.

Wow, 2014? This is some really good quality content. Never had so much of knowledge packed in one video.

Great video!

“Titles like Clay Fighter were clearly molded in its image” (7:18) LOL, nicely done. 😂👌🏼

Really loving the outro music.

Stu, have you considered covering "multi-player" games within the "A Brief History of" format? Thinking from Pong -> Arcade 4-players [Gauntlet, Simpsons, etc...] -> MMO, etc... Also, distinctions between 1v1, co-op, team competitive, etc? Impact of changes from arcade to consoles to online play Just some thoughts. I think it could make for an interesting study in gaming history.

Good video. Keep it up man

Great video

thank you very much for subtitling these videos!

Terrific!

You could make a video about almost anything iid still watch it since the way you make your videos make it so interesting. Great Videos hope you'll do more on weapon origins those are great and things like this are also great gives some of the lazy a way to learn about video game history

I think this is probably the best part of the series. The only thing I might nit-pick is that, instead of jumping to the Mode 7 of the SNES, it should have mentioned Sega's arcade classic After Burner (1987), which is what introduced the background tilemap/texture scaling techniques later used by Nintendo's Mode 7. Later arcade games like Sega's Last Survivor (1988) and Taito's Gun Buster (1992) even used ray-casting techniques similar to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

Mortal combat was indeed very popular at the time and my older brothers would love to play it nearly non stop

again, amazing!

EARTHWORM JIM OH MY GOD THAT'S THE NAME OF THE GAME I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND IT FOR YEARS

Im here because of Totalbiscuit's plug. This shit rocks

Can you feel your childhood XD But seriously. I have always loved sprite games as a kid. And this is why today I do sprite animations.

Crazy how advanced Need For Speed looked for its time.

Really wellmade :)

When I first read the title I originally thought, "Wouldn't the title 'Sprite Supremacy' make more sense and sound better?" But then I read said title out loud, and well, let's just say you dodged a bullet there Stu.

fun fact: sprites are still used in modern games, and I don't mean just the pixel art ones, every 2D game and even some 3D ones use sprites, just that they are at high resolutions so they don't look as sprites but they still are

Fascinating... this was the era of gaming I was brought up in. Unfortunately, I never was apart of the arcade generation. I was a 90's kid! ;)

you could do documentaries with that voice

I am so excited about part 3, Captain Price! :)

I used to play metal slug on my ps1 and roadrash on my old pc :D thx for bringing back memories stew

Good job

omg another world! i completely forgot about that game, i use to play it when i was very little

Why do I think of Captain Price when I hear you talk. I love it

Ah ha! I've been anticipating this. It's always wonderful to see how much effort you put into your videos.

Thanks so much.

Well, FMV and prerendered 2D sprite gameplay were handled wonderfully in Command & Conquer :)

I'm a sucker for any "History of games" type videos ^_^

Its a good day when ahoy doesnt forget about Mortal Kombat

The history of videogames is really entertaining.

hey, RU-vid algorithm, PART 1 MAYBE?!!

Yes! PARALLAX, I've been looking for the name of that game for years! Played it when I was 10.

I looooooved the Aladdin game growing up.

Alright! The man with the silver voice returns!

C64 game Parallax does NOT have parallax scrolling either in hardware or software. The 8x8 pixel tiles are redefined from pre calculated options in memory. It's the same effect as the title screen in Boulder Dash and a very simple trick with memory pointers. For the ultimate version of C64 simulated parallax "scrolling" check out Enforcer 2 demos on RU-vid. The Amiga on the other hand did have a parallax mode built in but it limited you to just 8 colours for each playfield (as opposed to 64 in 320x512 pixel resolution the chipset was designed for). Martin Edmundson used many non related parts of the Amiga 1000 (and hence A500 and A2000) chipset to fake the parallax scrolling seen on level 1 of Shadow of the Beast like a very complex sprite multiplexor for the trees. (Amiga sprites are crap so not much use for most games but this game was designed around the Amiga chipset which is why the Megadrive and SNES versions look like Donald Trumps face in comparison to the Awesome Amiga version...ditto for sound on SNES/Megadrive *puke*.

I would argue that Super Mario World 2 was about showy effects to a certain degree, and was very technically impressive. Largely in the boss battles it was a way too show off some of the scaling/rotation effects of the Super FX chip

Say, "Pika pika pikachu!" Wait, I thought this was honest trailers with that smooth, smooth voice.

have done thing on the NEC TurboGrafx 16 System history and there games. I would like to know why it fail. I have my own ideas on why but your input would helpful.

@6:22 thats the addison stop in chicago. . . and i saw the california stop too

In retrospect, it's funny how he went to King of Fighters when he said "some games work best in 2D." And while I'm all for showing Garou: Mark of the Wolves, I wish he had shown Skullgirls. Absolutely goddamn fantastic visuals.

good content

This music is amazing Stu, I would seriously listen to these tracks on their own outside of the video. Any chance of a download?

SPRDEF is the one command every C=128 Kid from the late 80s remembers i bet. BASIC 7.0 was just made for homebrewn games. But i later just exploited moving offscreen sprites to trigger interrupts with the sprite collision detection. Cheapest and dumbest way to bring interrupts to BASIC... but i was cheap and dumb. A match made in heaven :-D

ROBOTRON 2084 Great video stu

shadow of the beast is one of my most memorable games.

Hell yeah, Myst! I loved that game! :D

I loved Myst, and still do.

Hello Mr Brown and thanks for this awesome series... Can i download them to my pc or phone?

i will join you in part three! :)

When you started up parallax scrolling, I knew Shadow of the Beast would show up for sure.

I love sprites based graphics. Cuphead is a modern tribute to such digital art

wait a minute is 0:40 the reason for the design smash bro's green wire frame for little mac? from the original punch out interesting

Ahoy Great video! An interesting correction and aside - Another World didn't actually use sprites (on PC, and I think on SNES as well). The whole game is drawn in real-time using a custom-built 2D polygon renderer. There's a great and very in-depth analysis here: fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/

NEW GUIDES!!!

Wonderful series, Stu! Will you be uploading this as one video after all the individual parts are out?

Thanks for reminding me of the headache game of Myst lol. I did like the game, but it was quite difficult and confusing on where to go. My excuse is that I was 8 when I played it.

Top tier Ken play in the SF2 example ;)

Good video, I wished you would have touched on more modern Sprite art like in skull girls and ducktales remastered

Donky Kong country I'm so glad got to play that as a child

Stu, how could you not bring up Symphony of the Night in this regard? On how it remained 2D in the 3D revolution? (Or will that be next part?)

Again, that music at the end! Hngh.

Can u make a video on how open world games work

I would love to see weapon guides for CoD AW!!!

Wanna hear a joke? ... "Blast Processing"

Music credit?

Dat flowchart Ken!

damn seeing clay-fighter brought back memories.