30 Retro Games with Donkey Kong Country-like Pre Rendered Sprites

Rare's first game after becoming a subsidiary of Nintendo, Donkey Kong Country is among the first games to fully utilize pre-rendered 3D graphics for its visuals. A graphic technique that surprised everyone and was insistently imitated by other companies (with unequal results)




Pre-rendered graphics is the process of which the graphics you see in the game are not running in real time but instead, were rendered before-hand on different equipment. It usually consists of multiple elements (eg. furniture, trees, vehicles, etc.) rendered into one image and it is then placed in games.

This technology was created sometime in the early 90's to accommodate the limitation of computer hardware at the time because having to use real-time 3D environments would exceed the graphical memory, causing the game to load longer and sometimes crash.

• A game curation with featuring the fattest characters in 2D fighting games
• Fighters data with their height and weight
• Information related to each game such as release date, developer company, game genre and system it was released on.
• Official game box arts with a 3D presentation.

Intro and Outro Music

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0:00 Intro
00:18 Viewpoint
00:42 Killer Instinct
01:08 Rise of the Robots
01:33 Uniracers
01:58 Vectorman
02:23 Doom Troopers
02:48 Baku Baku Animal
03:13 Rendering Ranger: R2
03:38 Blackthorne
04:03 Pulstar
04:28 Toy Story
04:53 Skeleton Warriors
05:18 Johnny Bazookatone
05:43 X-Perts
06:08 Sonic 3D Blast
06:33 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
06:58 Mario Kart 64
07:23 Sol Divide
07:48 Mischief Makers
08:13 Yoshi's Story
08:38 Klonoa: Door To Phantomile
09:03 Rampage World Tour
09:28 Redneck Rampage
09:53 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
10:19 Shock Troopers 2
10:43 Blazing Star
11:08 Gex: Enter the Gecko
11:33 Prehistoric Isle 2
11:59 Progear
12:23 Outro

⚠️ All gameplay recording, game curation and opinions included in this video, as well as editing is completely done by me

Bits & Beats creates videos about the history of video games. In this channel you'll find comparisons, retrospectives, technical analysis, but, mostly, game curations with the idea of having an important task of preserving video games, and make them relevant to society at large.

Curation isn't just about digging up neat games, but it's also about preservation, interpretation, and using one's knowledge to make it relevant to people. With my videos I want older gamers to look back and remember the influence of video games on their lives, and new gamers to understand the larger context of the series they're playing for the first time today.

I put significant time and creative effort into each one of my videos, including research, digging into archives, playing video games and recording hours of footage, selecting specific clips, writing reviews for each title, and making a very careful video editing in the way to transmit both educational and entertaining values to my audience. Every video takes a lot of hours to produce, because I strive to give my audience a consistent, high-quality content.

Fidelity and preservation of the video games is essential in Bits & Beats, so the recordings are made with the highest bitrate quality. It is done this way to preserve original game look and sound through modern footage, with no superfluous additions. I recommend you watch the video at 4K and 60 frames per second to get the best possible viewing experience.

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