What's the most technically impressive 1980s PC game? (Day 32) + PC 2020s final

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05/06/2024
06:15 PM
#1
Too thou sin twhen tees - Results (26 votes)
Microsoft Flight Simulator
61.54% (16 votes)
16
Cyberpunk: 2077
38.46% (10 votes)
10
This poll is now closed.
Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk: 2077
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Previous Results:
Day 2 (SNES): Yoshi's Island
Day 3 (Genesis): Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Day 4 (Gameboy): Pokemon Gold/Silver
Day 5 (Gameboy Color): Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Day 6 (Game Gear): Ristar
Day 7 (N64): Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X (TIE)
Day 8 (PS1): Metal Gear Solid, Vagrant Story (TIE)
Day 9 (Saturn): Panzer Dragoon Saga
Day 10 (GBA): Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Day 11 (GCN): Resident Evil 4
Day 12 (PS2): Gran Turismo 4
Day 13 (Xbox): The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Day 14 (Dreamcast): Phantasy Star Online
Day 15 (DS): Metroid Prime: Hunters
Day 16 (PSP): Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
Day 17 (PS3): Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Day 18 (Xbox 360): Crysis 3
Day 19 (Wii): Xenoblade: Chronicles
Day 20 (3DS): Kid Icarus: Uprising
Day 21 (Vita): Killzone: Mercenary
Day 22 (PS4): The Last of Us 2
Day 23 (Xbox One): Red Dead Redemption 2
Day 24 (Wii U): Xenoblade Chronicles X
Day 25 (PS5): Astro's Playroom
Day 26 (Xbox Series X/S): Microsoft Flight Simulator
Day 27 (Switch): The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Day 28 (PC - 1990s): Half-Life
Day 29 (PC - 2000s): Crysis
Day 30 (PC - 2010s): Control

My Vote: Uh... SimCity ?

There will be one more topic after this one for proper voting. Can you guess the final console we'll vote on? ... Maybe.
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Snake5555555555
05/06/2024
06:18 PM
#2
Elite
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05/06/2024
07:47 PM
#3
I thought this one might be a mistake.
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ZenOfThunder
05/06/2024
07:48 PM
#4
SimCity

idk lol
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jcgamer107
05/06/2024
10:10 PM
#5
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0. Not even joking.

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There will be one more topic after this one for proper voting. Can you guess the final console we'll vote on? ... Maybe.
I'm guessing NES was "Day 1" ? But not sure why the winner isn't listed. So maybe.......Atari!
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Uglyface2
05/06/2024
10:29 PM
#6
Elite.
redrocket
05/06/2024
10:34 PM
#7
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0
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05/07/2024
12:29 AM
#8
Bamp
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UF8
05/07/2024
01:12 AM
#9
since flight simulator 4 is probably the correct answer and getting on the poll anyway i decided to have a quick look at other options here and i feel like voting for Rollercoaster Rumbler just for the novelty of there being a rail shooter literally on rails lol (and it honestly does look pretty impressive)
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azuarc
05/07/2024
01:55 AM
#10
Okay, I'm gonna go in a completely different direction with this one. My dad always used to laud the creation of this game, and I dunno what's even the proper name to call it beyond just "Chess," but we had a DOS-based Chess game that was under 10 kilobytes . The graphics were respectable enough insofar as the pieces looked like chess pieces. The game was perfectly functional, ran smoothly, and used arrow keys to move around the board to select pieces rather than just typing grid squares.

The kicker, though, was that it had an AI with 7 difficulty levels that my dad (who was decidedly not a chess player) was never able to beat even on the simplest settings. Neither did I, though that isn't saying much given how old I was at the time.

Honestly, the game's a bit of an enigma, because even with the best machine language-written optimized code of the time, I still can't imagine how they made a game that small that did as much as it did. So that's my answer: Chess.exe (DOS) .
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wallmasterz
05/07/2024
04:06 AM
#11
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nes again
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ChichiriMuyo
05/07/2024
05:06 AM
#12
Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0
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azuarc
05/07/2024
09:37 AM
#13
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Trick question. It'll just be tabletop board games.
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Johnbobb
05/07/2024
11:15 AM
#14
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Most Technically Impressive sub-game within a game
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Underleveled
05/07/2024
11:54 AM
#15
SimCity
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UF8
05/07/2024
12:03 PM
#16
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Can you guess the final console we'll vote on? ... Maybe.
secretly this question is the real final poll and whatever gets the most votes is declared the most technically impressive console despite having no day dedicated to it
Kenri
05/07/2024
12:06 PM
#17
Final console is gonna be Ngage, or maybe Virtual Boy
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azuarc
05/07/2024
12:08 PM
#18
I mean, if we're being serious, I don't see arcade listed anywhere on the past history.
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Underleveled
05/07/2024
12:10 PM
#19
I was gonna ironically suggest we do N-Gage after this.
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