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echo: arcade_games
to: MICHAEL LILE
from: JEFF NELSON
date: 1996-12-11 19:38:00
subject: NINTENDO 64

-> ML>   It's still not 3-D, and it's not an arcade game either (hence t
-> ML>   echo). 3-D games are (again) a 1st perspective environment, whe
-> ML>   CHARACTER can look and move in all directions, as well as see i
-> ML>   direction while moving in another. Yes, Doom-style games are th
-> ML>   Mario64 is still not. Mario64 is in the genre of Soul's Edge,
-> where
->  ML>   the movement and sight is in 3-D, but not the rest (don't say
-> ML>   not, for I'm a pretty good expert on the game, and know how it
->
-> RV> I never seen or played souls edge, but mario 64 is a hell of
-> alot more RV> 3d that doom is. Doom is 2d with a psuedo 3d veiw,
-> mario 64 i actually RV> a 3d game
->
-> Ahem, Doom is a VR game, therefore true 3D. So was Wolfenstein, ROTT,
-> Heretic, Descent, etc.
Actually...no. Quake, that is a true 3d game. And I think your spreading the 
meaning of a virtual reality too thin.
Jn
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