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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • It was pseudo-3D, I remember reading an article about how they made the sprites, but can’t find that… wikipedia has

    Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics

    and they used SGI workstations to create the models and animations before compressing/converting them to 2D sprites

    Rare invested their NES profit in Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Challenge workstations with Alias rendering software to render 3D models. It was a significant risk, as each workstation cost £80,000.

    (sharing bc I thought that’s a crazy amount of money for 1992)



  • Great job! Quit 5+ years ago, though I’ve slipped and had a couple in that time. Not buying 'em was the biggest thing. Still want one whenever I see actors smoking in a movie or show… so the craving never quite goes all the way away.

    I never realized how much it makes you smell until I stopped and could immediately smell it on anyone, no matter how hard they tried to hide it.