Awesome graphical tricks in classic games - Your questions answered! | White_Pointer Gaming

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I've received a lot of questions in comments of past videos asking about how certain Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and Super Nintendo games achieved their end results with different graphical tricks, so it's time to directly answer some of these! If you've asked a question, be on the lookout to see if it appears here, and even if you didn't, maybe you've wondered the same things. So let's dive in and figure out how these classic games worked!

0:00 Intro
0:57 Battlemania Daiginjou (MD/Gen)
2:35 Castlevania Bloodlines (MD/Gen)
4:11 The Lawnmower Man (MD/Gen & SNES)
6:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)
10:06 Super Soccer (SNES)
12:05 Taz-Mania (SNES)
14:23 Space Megaforce (SNES)
16:24 R-Type III: The Third Lightning (SNES)
17:50 Super Metroid (SNES)
21:08 Batman Returns (SNES)
22:57 Conclusion

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