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Nuclear_i9_Meltdown
Nuclear_i9_Meltdown
5 years ago

Why does the background image remind me so much of mid-90s DOS games?

Hitch
5 years ago

The weird horizontal stripes through it, possibly? Makes it kinda look like someone took a picture of an old, poor-quality video game? (Or, grossly over-enlarged an under-rezzed image, which is the more-likely scenario.)

Nuclear_i9_Meltdown
Nuclear_i9_Meltdown
5 years ago
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> Or, grossly over-enlarged an under-rezzed image, which is the more-likely scenario

This, definitely this. A lot of side-scroller and adventure DOS games used low-res images (which of course resulted in aliasing and artifacting) as backdrops/backgrounds in order to allocate and save system resources properly.

I also think that the weird inner glow from the cover’s image reminds me of the shitty Dell CRT monitor I used to own. I’m quite happy with my current curved 144hz LED display!

Hitch
5 years ago

So, where’s Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, then?