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[Diablohead]

Cybernator (SNES)

Awesome game, that city is inside a huge space ship right? I forget.

 

[GreggTheGrimReaper]

16 Bit-landscapes through the eyes of Ayrton Senna

 

[dark_prinny]

EDIT: Also:

Not a City but...

 

[djtiesto]

Air Buster

OH YES. Love this game and I'm sure the first stage (and it's amazing music) is part of the reason why!!

 

[Kocolino67]

Axelay

 

[lordmrw]

Steel Empire on the Genesis had this steampunk metropolis thing going on in one of the stages backgrounds.

Good one, I took a ton of screenshots of that one:

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/gallery/steel-empire/steel-empire-the-ue-006.jpg

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/gallery/steel-empire/steel-empire-the-ue-082.jpg

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/gallery/steel-empire/steel-empire-the-ue-083.jpg

Axelay

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Axelay-U0021.png

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Axelay-U-a1073.png

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/gallery/axelay/axelay-u-a1058.png

Air Zonk

http://www.retrogameage.com/wp-content/gallery/air-zonk/air-zonk-u-h1-038.png

 

[F0rneus]

X-Kaliber 2097. Music was also soooo good

 

[VariantX]

Awesome game, that city is inside a huge space ship right? I forget.

I believe its a colony.

 

[Kocolino67]

is this one from Snatcher new?

and I found this great site while searching for screenshots: Tracing the Influence: Stolen Images in Games

Now things get interesting. Hideo Kojima is well known for being a total sucker for American action movies, and Snatcher was the first of his games were he got the chance to make his artists put the same love into the graphics as well (although most screenshots here are taken from the later PC-Engine version). The whole plot and setting of the game is deeply influence by Blade Runner, to the point where some locations in the production artworks almost translate 1:1 to the pixel graphics of Snatcher.

 

[AmyS]

OH YES. Love this game and I'm sure the first stage (and it's amazing music) is part of the reason why!!

Yep.

I love all versions of Air Buster aka Aero Blasters, the coin-op arcade, Genesis and TurboGrafx-16.

The first level is a multi-scrolling cityscape masterpiece of epic proportions from start to finish, and boy, what a finish!

Everyone should watch the source material, the coin-op's first level. If there is one 16-Bit cityscape that can top NeoGeo's Last Resort, that would be it.

Oh and for reference, the Genesis and TG-16 renditions.

 

[ichtyander]

is this one from Snatcher new?
I found this great site while searching for screenshots: Tracing the Influence: Stolen Images in Games

Yeah, Hardcore Gaming 101 is an incredible site, I've been digging around in it for the last couple of days.

Here's Robocop vs the Terminator:

 

[Iacobellis]

is this one from Snatcher new?

and I found this great site while searching for screenshots: Tracing the Influence: Stolen Images in Games

These comparisons are amazing.

 

[Yes Boss!]

Has ESWAT been posted yet?

I loved this game. And it has that very unique Sega look.

 

[AmyS]

Yeah E-SWAT was good. Like Shadow Dancer, the Genesis game was pretty much a different game than the coin-op.

Dunno if it's already been posted, but The Super Shinobi better known as Revenge of Shinobi had some really nice ones too.

stage 5


Actually the whole game was chock full of 'em:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6tDtDrkkk

 

[Kocolino67]

 

[jengo]

Awesome stuff, thanks everyone! I'll be swapping some of the cool portrait oriented images around as wallpapers for my phone. Just found out how to get gifs as live wallpapers too. Pixel heaven ;_;

 

[Canis lupus]

EDIT: Also:

Not a City but...

Name of games?

 

[plasmawave]

Possessioner for PC-98.

So this is a hentai game???
Man, hentai back in 90s were so hardcore lol.

 

[Half and half]

Fantastic thread. Lot's of good ol' memories and now some new ones.

I was just reminiscing about that Sonic level earlier this week.

 

[VariantX]

Name of games?

I know the rainy one is from kof 99' and the korean ish looking stage is from kof 2000, dont have a clue about the first one though.

The rainy one is especially impressive when you consider there are 3 versions of that stage between rounds showing different weather conditions.

 

[ichtyander]

Name of games?

The first one is Possessioner for PC-98.

 

[FreedomFighter]

What a glorious thread.

EDIT: Also:

What game? You guys need to put the title of the game in your posts!

 

[AmyS]

Yes this is one of the most enjoyable threads in some time and it's fun to be apart of it.

 

[atomic moth]

I'm partial to the first one, but all F-Zeros have wonderful skylines and cityscapes.

 

[Teknoman]

This one always seemed mysterious to me:

Spoiler

It's from the Wet-Dry World in Super Mario 64.

Wait...i've never seen this. Was this in the background?

Thats some...Kirby 64 Shiver Star = far future ice age earth / Pikmin Planet = far after humans have left earth stuff.


Neon Nightriders always topped it for me (SNES version) and now I want Air Busters.

 

[Moz La Punk]

D/Generation was a great Amiga/DOS game set in a tall, fututistic building. You could sometimes see the city when you went to the roof.

THANK YOU! I played this game to death in the old days but completely forgot its name. Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man.

Now I only have to remember one other game from the old PC days... I just cant find it. Its a 2D action-platformer, you shoot in a very colorful world, with these columns of levels and jewels you collect... arg. My mind is filled with fog.

 

[OnFire331]

The PC-98 intro of Policenauts has a beautiful cityscape and the music sets the mood perfectly.

 

[Olly88]

This one always seemed mysterious to me:

Spoiler

It's from the Wet-Dry World in Super Mario 64.

Shit yeah, I remember wishing that I could go outside of the level and get to those buildings.

Wait...i've never seen this. Was this in the background?

Yep

 

[Big Rascal]

The PC-98 intro of Policenauts has a beautiful cityscape and the music sets the mood perfectly.

As much as I like the 32-bit Policenauts intro, I still prefer the look and sound of this one.

Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES)

 

[dark_prinny]

What a glorious thread.



What game? You guys need to put the title of the game in your posts!

Name of games?

KOF '00 and KOF '99

 

[galvatron]

Aggressors of Dark Kombat:

Double Dragon:

Fight Fever:

Mutation Nation:

King of Fighters '94:

King of Fighters '96:

King of Fighters '97:

Art of Fighting 2:

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2:

Kizuna Encounter:

I actually found some others that I was going to put up and then some linked in this likely overlooked post (I say likely because some of them are so good, that we would have probably mentioned them otherwise):

So, now we are recycling threads from the Select Button forum, uh?

 

[AmyS]

I can't believe Thunder Blade hasn't been mentioned yet...

While not much to look at in terms of style/artwork, the sense of movement was impressive as hell. Plus you could control how fast you went.

 

[galvatron]

I can't believe Thunder Blade hasn't been mentioned yet...

While not much to look at in terms of style/artwork, the sense of movement was impressive as hell. Plus you could control how fast you went.

Can you please post more so that you can make threads? I'm really interested in what you'd post up. All of your posts in this thread were great and completely unknown to me.

 

[Big Rascal]

Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun (SNES)

 

[spuit*11]

Policenauts - Konami 1994 - PC-98

 

[AmyS]

16 Bit-landscapes through the eyes of Ayrton Senna

Yeah, Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II on Genesis had nice city landscapes, as did the original coin-op.

 

[ichtyander]

I actually found some others that I was going to put up and then some linked in this likely overlooked post (I say likely because some of them are good, that we would have probably mentioned them otherwise):

Wow, awesome examples. You're right, at least in my case, I completely overlooked Santerestil's post. Thanks you both for pointing out to the selectbutton topic.

Man, this thread. In my veins.

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

Neat thread.

Something about the abstraction of retro cityscapes looks pretty and right for a city, closer to the chaos and energy of one than trying to recreate it exactly, where it's always too much city to have any feeling.

 

[AmyS]

Can you please post more so that you can make threads? I'm really interested in what you'd post up. All of your posts in this thread were great and completely unknown to me.

Trying, so hopefully soon.

 

[Bassmastergeneral]

Vector on the horizon sorta fits this.

*Awesome thread btw

 

[AmyS]

Almost forgot Armed Police Unit Gallop

Assorted Valis games

 

[basic_text]

Amazing thread!

Does anyone know of a place that I can find wallpapers of some of these awesome backdrops? I really fancy some ace pixel art for my work pc.

 

[GalacticSushiman]

Amazing thread, thanks all.

This actually gave me an idea: if you wanted to display a big frame/screen on your wall with animated gif - such as the animated SNK backgrounds - what would you do? Could you use one of those picture frame display?

Just curious if anyone has an idea.

And another modest contribution not to derail too much

(Cadillac and Dinosaurs)

 

[AmyS]

And another modest contribution not to derail too much

(Cadillac and Dinosaurs)

Those are excellent.

Only played C&D maybe two or three times.

 

[cacildo]

love urban settings in games

(hate ice/lava levels)

 

[Psycho Echidna]

With a wonderful scrolling and music ...

 

[VariantX]

Astro boy has a pretty nice skyline for a GBA game.



Same spot from the first stage.

http://youtu.be/eyDtI-0-iRQ?t=3m09s

 

[Salsa]

this aint real, mind you

but we need an old city blues game

 

[AmyS]

(Forgotten Worlds)

 

[BearChair]

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