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[Spring-Loaded]

Parallax is the difference in visual displacement between two or more objects. This is achieved in most 2D games by having objects in the fore/background move in a way that convinces the viewer they are actually in the fore/background as the player moves through the level. a mountain in the distance scrolls past slower than the actual playable area while trees closer to the "camera" pass by more quickly.

When this isn't done well, prepare to vom

While some of the parallax in Earnest Evans for Sega Mega-CD/Genesis was neat, it often was nauseating, especially this part, even though it's just a chain in the foreground.

 

[Ragnarok]

ugh that's terrible. so am i to believe the damn chain is following that guy move for move the entire level? who the hell OK'd that?

 

[Tain]

lol, Earnest Evans.

 

[VariantX]

PC Engine Ninja Gaiden. I honestly wish they just didn't have it in this port of the game. It's actually irritating to watch after a little while.

http://youtu.be/rj_nZdlr9bU

 

[Red Rudolph]

Bubsy has some pretty bad parallax. Just ask Jontron.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

At first I thought, the heck is this? A Platform Masters clone? Then I looked at the source

Uli's da best.

 

[DrFunk]

Earnest Evans is a baaaaaaad game

 

[Shadow Hog]

Pulseman, Stage 2 (India). Once you leave the cyber world and re-emerge in the real one, you'll notice the background is scrolling the wrong direction.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

 

[ViewtifulJC]

PC Engine Ninja Gaiden. I honestly wish they just didn't have it in this port of the game. It's actually irritating to watch after a little while.

http://youtu.be/rj_nZdlr9bU

The backgrounds move faster than the foreground :lol

 

[Amalthea]

Pulseman, Stage 2 (India). Once you leave the cyber world and re-emerge in the real one, you'll notice the background is scrolling the wrong direction.

Maybe it's supposed to be inside some kind of indoor dome.

 

[vio]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Came to post this. What a hell were they smoking? Layer totally in back should be slowest not fastest.

 

[nded]

ugh that's terrible. so am i to believe the damn chain is following that guy move for move the entire level? who the hell OK'd that?

I think he's supposed to be walking up a spiral staircase. But in that case the chain should be rotating from our perspective, so it's weird either way,

 

[Ragnarok]

PC Engine Ninja Gaiden. I honestly wish they just didn't have it in this port of the game. It's actually irritating to watch after a little while.

http://youtu.be/rj_nZdlr9bU

my god how can you screw up such a good thing sooo badly. Jerky background movement? wtf!

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Oh man, you weren't kidding.

 

[Deleted member 126221]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

I just watched for a couple of seconds and I already feel dizzy.

 

[Red Chocobo]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

It kind of looks like he's walking around in a giant circle.

 

[VariantX]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Im so confused. Is he going forward or backward?

 

[magnetic]

At first I thought, the heck is this? A Platform Masters clone? Then I looked at the source

Uli's da best.

One of Ulillillias earlier GIFs, every frame generated by hand in GIMP. He's got a thing for incredibly tedious, overly complicated and detail-heavy processes.

His new stuff looks actually pretty sweet, if you like his particular style:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkP530BOvMU

 

[cacildo]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

I rent this game when i was a kid and still hate myself for it.

Worst: the game was terrible difficult.A few years ago i checked the ending on youtube. Its pathetic.

I wonder how many copies this game sold (and a lot of other terrible games of the snes/mega drive era)

 

[Geedorah]

I just watched for a couple of seconds and I already feel dizzy.

Holy crap, at like 30min in, the forest scene - that messed me up. Bet a buncha kids had trouble with that game in the 90's.

 

[reson8or]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Oh man, thats really really bad.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Holy crap, at like 30min in, the forest scene - that messed me up.

 

[magnetic]

These examples are more migraine-inducing than the Virtual Boy.

 

[Raticus79]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Gah, it really sinks in with the flying section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs&feature=player_detailpage&t=1072

Background says I'm moving backwards at warp speed, foreground's just moseying along. Lost dimension? More like the lost lunch

 

[Salsa]

I came here to post Earnest Evans no joke. That shit was so gimmicky.

 

[CO_Andy]

I can see Ninja Gaiden PCE was already mentioned.

 

[Wehrwolf]

The town scene in Turbografx-CD Ys 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BLE8gj3_1Kc&t=612

I used to think it actually had the far background scrolling the wrong direction, but looking at it closer, I think its just 'shaking' back and forth between two spaces.

Edit: Actually, looks like it has the exact same problem as PC-Engine Ninja Gaiden

 

[kittens]

It kind of looks like he's walking around in a giant circle.

Yeah, that's the impression it gave me at first, too. Crazy disorienting.

 

[RoryDropkick]

PC Engine Ninja Gaiden. I honestly wish they just didn't have it in this port of the game. It's actually irritating to watch after a little while.

http://youtu.be/rj_nZdlr9bU

Yeah this. It's god awful

 

[udivision]

Pulseman, Stage 2 (India). Once you leave the cyber world and re-emerge in the real one, you'll notice the background is scrolling the wrong direction.

You're going in a circle.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Pulseman, Stage 2 (India). Once you leave the cyber world and re-emerge in the real one, you'll notice the background is scrolling the wrong direction.

looks like they're going for a Biodome effect to be honest...and it works.

 

[someguyinahat]

It kind of looks like he's walking around in a giant circle.

Me too. I was having flashbacks to Kirby 64.

 

[Brosa]

Incidentally, the game Parallax on C64 had a pretty nice parallax effect, especially for the time (1986)

http://youtu.be/dESbxrb2oHw

 

[Ranger X]

Ok, for people traumatised by Jim Power, now feast your eyes on GREAT parallaxes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4eQygXpRY&feature=player_detailpage&t=89

Adventures of Batman and Robins. EVERY SINGLE ROW OF PIXEL is a god damn parallax. *drools*

 

[Roto13]

Ok, for people traumatised by Jim Power, now feast your eyes on GREAT parallaxes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4eQygXpRY&feature=player_detailpage&t=89

Adventures of Batman and Robins. EVERY SINGLE ROW OF PIXEL is a god damn parallax. *drools*

One of the best looking and sounding games on Genesis, seriously.

 

[Raticus79]

Side note, I had missed this blurb when looking at the guy's page the first time:

http://www.platformmasters.com/stats.shtml

You've probably seen other video games' limits: 99 lives, 9,999,999 points, 9999 HP, 999 mph max display speed, and other such things. Platform Masters is a game of extremes which seriously adds to the replay value. The screenshot above might be a case from about 2500 hours in on total game play. Just look how long that score is! Yet, the score can still get over 40,000 times higher yet! Care to spend all 104,726 lives? ... And that speed is crazy! That guy is already going about as fast as the Concorde and still picking up speed! Yet, if you think this is crazy, you can still go higher and for decades down the road, literally millions of game play hours! Talk about taking things to an extreme! Oh, and don't forget infinite time as well - note the infinity symbol.

It's the Disgaea of platformers!

 

[AngelsDontBurn]

Jim Power on SNES will give you motion sickness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs

Must. Not. Hurl.

 

[sn00zer]

Side note, I had missed this blurb when looking at the guy's page the first time:

http://www.platformmasters.com/stats.shtml

It's the Disgaea of platformers!

You have peered into the rabbit hole by just looking at the guys website....with more research prepare to tumble further and further into the world of one of the more strange people on the internet

 

[Newline]

New Super Mario Bros. 2 on a 3DS XL with 3D on

 

[El Odio]

Gah, it really sinks in with the flying section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tN_TPTIrYs&feature=player_detailpage&t=1072

Background says I'm moving backwards at warp speed, foreground's just moseying along. Lost dimension? More like the lost lunch

I stopped watching when the spike balls came in. Just way too much shit going on for its own good.

 

[Mudron]

New Super Mario Bros. 2 on a 3DS XL with 3D on

How is the parallax scrolling in NSMB2 messed up? It shouldn't matter if it's in 3D or not if it's busted.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Side note, I had missed this blurb when looking at the guy's page the first time:

http://www.platformmasters.com/stats.shtml

It's the Disgaea of platformers!

ulillilia is great

 

[Dicer]

PC Engine Ninja Gaiden. I honestly wish they just didn't have it in this port of the game. It's actually irritating to watch after a little while.

http://youtu.be/rj_nZdlr9bU

PC Engine had some of the worst, and some of the best scrolling of that whole era, lol

 

[jmdajr]

Y's book I and 2. Just a few sections but man, sure wasn't no Snes.

 

[RagnarokX]

Pulseman, Stage 2 (India). Once you leave the cyber world and re-emerge in the real one, you'll notice the background is scrolling the wrong direction.

As said, it looks like you're inside a dome, in which case the background is scrolling the right way.

If Mode 7 type games count then Mario Kart Super Circuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCmEkC3CKw

 

[Firehead]

Side note, I had missed this blurb when looking at the guy's page the first time:

http://www.platformmasters.com/stats.shtml

It's the Disgaea of platformers!

Looks like something ulililia would make. Awesome.

Edit:

Oh shit! It is ulililia! Couldn't find it on the site, but the youtube video is on his account. Amazing.

 

[IndieJones]

I would say that most disappointing LACK of parallax would go to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. As the PSX wasn't exactly a 2D powerhouse, most of the game featured gorgeous sprites against super flat backgrounds.

The game was and is godly, but that was always very jarring.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Side note, I had missed this blurb when looking at the guy's page the first time:

It's the Disgaea of platformers!

Dude's genuinely fascinating. I've been watching his youtube channel for a couple of years now and still blows my mind.

 

[Raticus79]

ulillilia is great

I'm actually subscribed to his youtube channel from that marbles thing he had going on. Just not gonna get that sort of thing anywhere else