From then to now

[The Dark Elf]

I had nothing better to do so I thought I'd post images of the progress of video games and how much things have changed in just a few years. Sad to think I remember the early days, my god I feel ancient now lol.

Starting with Pong, ending with Unreal 3. Now who can name all the others shown?

 

[The Dark Elf]

 

[Lt. Drebin]

Nice compelation.

I won't even attempt to name them all, except for the obvious ones.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Nice compelation.

I won't even attempt to name them all, except for the obvious ones.

I couldn't help but laugh looking at each one of them and remembering that at each stage I would think "wow, it could never get better than this" lol.

 

[Alan Freeman]

lol nice why didnt i think of this

hmm never seen the bottom pic though

 

[Asknoone]

Haha, nice

 

[Cole]

Should of included a pic of TES4 but nice job.

I must say though....3D has coming very very very far within a very short amount of time..... Even when comared to 2D. I mean when you really go back in consoles...Don't they gain there way back into the 70's or late 60's?

 

[Harryz]

Half-Life to Far Cry? Bit of a 5-6 year gap there.

Nice overall.

 

[Burn]

Yeah, need to fill some gaps in half life 1 to Far cry. Apart from that, pretty damn cool.

 

[oldagerocker]

Half-life to farcry... RTCW, UT03 imo, those were the best looking games out then.

 

[johnnypoopoopant]

wow time shure as hell flys fast, i remeber when i use to play doom in my friends house late at night...it didn't seem too long ago

 

[bliink]

Wow. thats cool

 

[el Chi]

I couldn't help but laugh looking at each one of them and remembering that at each stage I would think "wow, it could never get better than this" lol.

Same What HL mod is that?

 

[kirovman]

For the naming part, there's a bit of a clue on the Worms one.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Same What HL mod is that?

I don't know, I just went through finding pics from various stages. I know it doesn't cover everything, or the various types of games. It's really just going through and showing how far things have come. How back in the early days, even doom was beyond what people thought could be possible. Would be so cool to go back in time and show the creator of the very first video game something like Unreal and see what they think. Probably cause an instant heart attack hehe.

 

[bliink]

Same What HL mod is that?

I forgot the name, but you play a visiting lawyer.

 

[Hazar]

q3:a to farcry is a bit of a jump

perhaps jedi outcast?

 

[Ames]

It's HL:Visitors...

Original Screen:

http://www.planethalflife.com/visitors/images/screenshots/vis140000.jpg

 

[el Chi]

I forgot the name, but you play a visiting lawyer.

Just when you thought a speccy scientist in a bright orange jumpsuit as a killing machine couldn't get any more improbable

 

[Kebean PFC]

The sad thing is i am only 15 and i remember playing those. Pong, Space Invaders, and theres acouple more i know but wow, time flies...

 

[Stigmata]

I'll have a go at this. I probably haven't played about 75% of the games, but that's beside the point. Here's my guesses:

Pong
Space Invaders
Sooty And Sweep? .... Okay, I have no idea
Metroid
Hmm... Maybe a game made by Larry Holland? Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe?
Worms
No idea, I can't even guess
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom 2
Quake (this one was a toughie )
Quake 2
Half-Life: Blueshift
Unreal Tournament
Quake 3
Far Cry
Doom 3
Half-Life 2
Unreal 3 Techdemo
Another U3 Techdemo

What do I win?