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Posting screenshots of retro low-poly games in high resolutions using emulators, camera hacks and other tools for a better, sharper look at the artistry involved in making them.

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Blasto (PS1) (1998)

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An Evil Blasto Clone dressed in a dark version of the heroic outfit, with light blue hair and evil red eyes, being all nasty and evil and yelling. I wonder if he wants to be friends? Blasto contemplating a challenging course in front of him - a rotating hexagonal tunnel with a lot of missing panels, so the only way to get to the other side is to go along with the rotation and find the right path. I'm not sure Blasto is smart enough to pull this off. Another bodacious babe in skimpy clothing, but this time imprisoned by anthropomorphic red ants from Uranus, carrying her on a pole with her arms and legs tied to it. A very crude way of transportation, while they still have laser weapons and obviously advanced technology. Maybe these Uranians are into some kinky shit. Blasto finds himself underwater, surrounded by some sea grass, rocks and floating mines that look explosive in nature. It seems our hero's name might turn out to be an onomatopoeic depiction of his own demise!
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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That's Fighting Force 2, whoops!
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Fighting Force (PS1) (1999)

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A first person look at a sci-fi lab with huge cylindrical vats of radioactive green goo with amazing colorful vertex lighting that everybody in the late 90s/early 2000s was excited about (I love it!). There's a beefy looking fellow just walking past you, wearing like a brown stripy shirt that's probably just wrinkled but it looks like it's got tiger stripes and he's wearing a metallic helmet but like it has a very long visor or brim. Kinda looks like his forhead has a beak. Oh and also his katana is very erect. Hawk, now wearing snow camo (seasonal outfits yay!) is doing the most extreme, cool and batshit crazy snowboarding stunt, jumping off of a high ledge, onto an unsuspecting soldier and grinding his god damn face (get your head out of the gutter) with his snowboard! YEEEEEAAAAAHHH! Just a zombie visiting a gas station in the middle of nowhere at 3 AM. Also the sky has a disgustingly awesome gradient of green and brownish-red that you never ever see anywhere anymore. I gotta say this looks damn cool! It's a flat urban cityscape with an absolutely towering ziggurat of a corporate building in the middle, with a central tower that's almost as tall as the pyramidal part of it. A helicopter is resolutely flying towards it for a final showdown. The sky has a beautiful peach colored gradient and the whole scene is just so very Blade Runner.
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Legend (PS1) (1998)

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One of the game's bosses, a very tall and huge caveman fellow with a narrow yet tall head, a mighty ginger unibrow and a face only a mother could love. He's wearing a Tiger skin vest and loincloth, though a good portion of his chest and arms are also covered in velvety natural man-fur. He's wielding a club almost as big as him, with deadly spikes with just a tinge of blood on them. The words "CLOSE UP View" are written in the lower right corner, because we get a nice close up view of this gorgeous gentleman. A bonus level set in a rainy forest at night with a dirt road right in front of you and some trees and rocks past that, with the purple night sky in the distance beyond. The bonus level is set in first person view where you're holding a crossbow and the goal is to shoot as many bouncing wooden barrels to keep adding seconds to the timer and points to your score. It's a catapult already loaded and ready with what looks like a lava rock or something. I couldn't tell ya how or why I decided to take a screenshot of this catapult but that's about all there is on the screen. I guess it looks kinda neat! A very grumpy looking shopkeep wearing a red shirt and a brown apron, nevertheless greeting you with open arms. He's missing one eye and has visible scars over it, so no wonder he's a bit grumpy. This is the shop screen you see after every stage where you can buy certain upgrades, restock on life or get a weapon while a cover of the Irish ballad Star of the County Down plays in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (N64) (1997)

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Another one of the hunter enemies, this time a dude with a very serious face slapped onto his face, wearing a baseball cap, a green shirt and poopy brown pants. He's very close to you (physically, not emotionally) and he's swinging his large machete upwards, just a few inches from your face. Aww it's just a lovely deer eating some grass and lifting their head to look at you. They've got a cute triangle tail and little triangle ears, and a very squishy lovable pyramidal face. <3 Turok is holding a gun but don't worry, he wouldn't hurt the deer. Finally an actual dinosaur in this dinosaur game! It's a mean looking raptor doing a rawwwr and holding its little hands in a Dracula-like fashion. It has a little metal plate on its head with a very sharp spike sticking out of it. I'm sure it's purely a cosmetic detail, he looks very friendly. A couple of ancient warriors, natives of the Lost Land with their entire bodies painted to look like a full on skeleton, so they're set for their Halloween costumes. They're quite tall and are wielding these double bladed sticks, like they have blades on both ends and also it's two blades per end, so double double blades!
October 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Gekido: Urban Fighters (PS1) (2000)

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The same Japanese town with our other hero Michelle who is sporting a purple beret, blonde hair in a pony tail, sporty black shirt and green military pants, looking kinda similar to Cammy from Street Fighter II in style and stance. A cute pup pup running around the same aforementioned street, seems like it might be a German Shepherd, doing a hop and a jump and just being cute. Another one of the boss fights, this one's called Gorilla. It's a gorilla. But he's wearing huge chains as suspenders for his brow/green shorts and he's looking kinda mean. There's a blonde ninja in a red outfit standing on one leg and getting ready to pounce. Or maybe Gorilla the gorilla stepped on the ninja's toe and they're hopping around in pain. A bit of a run down subway where Tetsuo, our kung-fu hero is getting ready to kick one of the black-and-red dressed troopers with another female fighter trying to turn around and get back to Tetsuo. He just dashed past her and is gonna kick some ass, he's that fast.
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Jet Moto (PS1) (1996)

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A little more of that tropical resort race track with a nice deep blue water, waves flowing through and a few sand patches scattered about and a wide rocky formation on the right, due to the low polygons it almost looks like if the Pentagon was covered in rocky and grass textures. A front look at the Mountain Dew racer rushing through a muddy swamp track. It's our first glimpse at what the racers look from the front with their motocross like helmets (that kinda looks like Master Chief's helmet due to the green decals and low polygons) and the extremely pixely face texture that's just :-| Another front closeup of the racer, this time their other side and set on the snowy mountain slopes that are kind of broken and abstract because the game probably occludes some polygons once you drive past them but camera hack don't know that so we can see the sides of the track being all transparent and showing the cloudy skies behind them and I only just noticed that as I was writing this alt text. A drone shot of one of the later tracks, a futuristic metal road with lots of side lights and railings with the night metropolis visible over them in the distance. The track itself looks like it's been built from hundreds of separate iron blocks that are kind of flimsily bent and half-rusted.
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Apocalypse (PS1) (1998)

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Kincaid in a very awkward "I pooped my pants" posture with his back turned to an enemy trooper who's covered in armor with a distinct POTUS-orange tint of skin color, green goggles (or eyes?) and a breathing mask. The trooper looks like he swung his arm at ol' Kincaid, hitting him in the back, which is probably the reason for his sciatica-ridden posture. A sexy? closeup of Plague, a robotic half (well mostly) skeleton lady with a big bun of a hair and half her face all decayed as is most of her body wielding a curvy blade. I'm gonna be honest, her chest looks very weird and hilarious, because her skin goes down just enough below her neck to kinda form a cleavage but then it ends into her actual ribs, but they're kinda modeled to support the idea of there being boobs maybe under the ribs because maybe the ribs are like a metal bra or something, it's hard to tell. She's also wearing spiky stilettos. Now an interesting fact about this character - she's voiced by Poe (Anne Decatur Danielewski), the singer / songwriter / producer that was more active in the mid to late 90s and who made a comeback in Remedy's Alan Wake II with the haunting "This Road". If the surname sounds familiar from somewhere else it's because her brother is Mark Z. Danielewski, the author of House of Leaves who also directed the music video for Control, Poe's song featured in the game soundtrack, alongside System of a Down whose live concert footage you can watch and listen to on a jumbotron in the city streets ingame. Did I mention this game was developed by Neversoft who would make Tony Hawk's Pro Skater just a year later? A crumbling city drowning in lava with a road/platform/bridge thing in the middle and an absolutely towering giant horseman (War) with giant abs and giant pants and a giant shoulder cannon that has like 3 other cannons on top of it, raising his fist in the air and carrying a giant katana blade. At first glance you don't really notice Kincaid in this screenshot but if you look closely on the left near War's right leg you'll see a little stickman Bruce Willis looking very tiny. This screenshot just shows the current political climate in the United States. It's actually the crumbled interior of the oval office with the POTUS rug and seal on the floor with ruins all around and the horizon is just filled with the fires of hell and a thick wall of smoke rising from it. In the center stands the transformed POTUS, turned into his true form, The Beast himself, a giant red demon with a thousand abs, goat legs, downward bent horns and jaws full of sharp teeth. The Beast is raising his hands up in the air in a gingerly and joyful manner, doing a "weeheeee" and Kincaid is joining in on the fun with a happy jump himself. It really is a lovely, fun scene full of joy. By the way, the Beast (and War before him) are voiced by Tom Wyner who's done many many voiceovers for famous anime characters including the Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell and M. Bison in the Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Ape Escape (PS1) (1999)

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The Professor in his lab with Natalie, standing in front of his megacomputer and some keyboards, shouting at a Twitch streamer for not playing the game properly and being angry that they've been banned for backseating. A pterodactyl mama flying around her nest atop a mountain, looking horrified because all the eggs look to be cracked open and to add insult to injury, there's a damn monkey hiding under one of them. A volcanic region with red skies and even redder lava pool and a big green t-rex running around it with an ape riding its tail. The evil apetagonist Specter, an albino monkey that accidentally put on a helmet that boosted his intelligence and has let the other monkeys loose. He's sitting on a fancy throne with his legs crossed and hand on chin like he owns the place. It's basically the plot of The Lawnmower Man.
September 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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AD&D: Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (PS1) (1996)

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Ardus the Skeletal Warrior. He's a bad skellyman bent on revenge. He's got a cute circlet with a red ruby on his head, spiky armor and chunky gauntlets and wields a morning star (not seen on the screenshot). He's got a bit of a friendly face, or maybe it's just that all skeletons have that damn charming smile on them. OK so the way I take these screenshots sometimes employs a camera hack to get a better look at the models or make a nice composition at a cool angle, but some games go all weird with the camera, geometry and perspective, and this is one of those cases that I left in because it looks hilarious. Kaurik the Warlord vs Stellerex the Wizard (bwob bwob bwob dubstep starts playing). Kaurik is just an insane, murderous inbred noble (I ain't even making this shit up) with a black rag on his head with some cut out holes for the eyes. He's fully nipple naked with a spiky belt and some loincloth and sort of pants and wields a nasty flail. He's looking a bit upwards and very surprised because... Stellerex the Wizard is towering over Kaurik as a giant (due to forced fucky perspective) with his hand gingerly hovering at him as if he's Kaurik's dad and he's gonna grab his hand and take him home because he's been naughty and can't play with the other kids anymore. Even though we kinda only see Stellerex's (bwob bwob bwob) back, he's very much got that Merlin design from the 1981 epic Excalibur with the metal skullcap. He's also wearing a blue shirt with a hoodie with a black armored shirt over it. This poor sod is Nym Pymplee the Goblin (that's his name, don't wear it out!). He's a goblin. He wears a red hat. He wears a nice brown shirt and pants with suspenders. He uses two jagged blades as weapons. His face also looks like if Marty Feldman, who played Igor in the Young Frankenstein, burped, is tripping balls and also popped his pants, all at the same time. Xenobia the Warrior getting ready to kick some ass. She's sporting a classic female armor with showing too much skin and not being nearly as effective, with a corset-like armor and red underpants(?). At least she's got a mighty sword and shield that look more than effective enough to slice and dice her enemies.
September 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Shadowgate 64 (N64) (1999)

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A look through a little window with prison bars between your cell and the next. You can see a man with short blonde hair and a purple cloak sitting on the floor, leaning against some crates, looking really tired and just ugh. An underground cave with a small body of water in the middle and a dark passageway beyond it. There's a skeleton just lying there on the floor with his head turned sideways, looking very tired and just ugh. Everyone's just tired in Shadowgate 64. A slightly annoyed looking ghost of a man in a green shirt and brown pants with some neat medieval boots and a knife on his hilt, floating about the aforementioned water in the aforementioned cave next to the aforementioned tired skeleton. This must be the skeleton that was once a man that decided to lie down for a bit and then forgot to eat. Grimy looking living quarters that were once probably pretty cozy. Wooden beams cover the walls and ceiling, with a stone floor and a green carpet with a table (with some nasty looking tablecloth that was once white and two chairs. The opposite wall is covered in shelving with books, a couple of small boxes and an angelic statue. There's also a wooden rocking horse next to the shelf, nothing creepy about that.
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Einhänder (PS1) (1998)

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Flying close to a massive cyberpunk building with spotlights shining from far below and a swarm of half a dozen cop hovercrafts rushing towards the Einhänder. A closeup of a big dropship-like vehicle with a big green light in front of it and an even bigger gatling gun on its top. These might be cops again. Man, future cops are bastards as well. Flying through a dimly lit tunnel with soft red lights, making the whole scene very moody while the Einhänder is chasing a few small hovercrafts. It seems like the lights themselves were painted with a bit of a gradient or blur on the texture itself, giving them a soft look and significantly adding to the illusion that you're flying very fast through this tunnel. Very neat! The Einhänder (I just love typing out "Einhänder") vertically descending a giant cylindrical tube covered in sci-fi panels, markings and little bleep-bloop lights and a big clunky mess of a robot seemingly descending from the top from a blue laser line, sort of like a spider. The robot itself looks nothing like a spider though. It's more like if someone stacked the front of a bullet train with a flamethrower, a detachable camera flash and a giant lighter with a little robo head on a swivel with a blue projection light shining on the Einhänder.
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM