(I decided to be lazy and grab this screenshot with a mouse by the way and holy crap it was awkward. It's not exactly Virtua Racing in the visual department and that Star Destroyer in the background seems to have been rendered in three shades of blue, but the models are reasonably detailed and the draw distance is pretty massive. Some of them probably bought a joystick too while they were there, as that was the done thing at the time. Meanwhile Star Wars fans with expensive PCs were running out to buy brand new cutting-edge space dogfighting simulator X-Wing. This was basically the Crysis 3 of '92, graphically speaking. It had no texture mapping or even basic Gouraud shading, but it could move those blank polygon blocks around the screen blazingly fast. They even kept it true to the low polygon game model, so those big pointy wings are held on by the tiniest little joint.įor a good few decades, arcade machines were the undisputed pioneers of graphics technology and back in February 1993 you wouldn't find much out there more impressive than Virtua Racing running on a Sega Model 1 board. I gotta admit, this is still my favourite Arwing design from the Star Fox series and it's so weird that they apparently built a movie quality model of the thing just to show it off in the manual. They've even used the Star Wars standard naming system for it: calling it an Arwing because it looks like the letter A from above. He's probably a fan of Star Wars too, looking at this X-Wing inspired space fighter.
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