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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2969 |
Underappreciated gems/Toot your own horn!
As suggested over on Back after 35 years, which "mega" demos will blow my socks off!! by Frostbyte -
"Lots of fantastic productions that, for whatever reason, went totally under the radar and have just one or two votes, thus not making it into any lists."
Post a link to any production that you think deserves more praise here.
Also feel free to shamelessly promote your own work. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11359 |
Acid Burger <3 |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
Kurt and Doris
Doc Bacardi Meets Doc Sportdryck |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 349 |
Into Oblivion
My favorite US Demo since day 1! <3 |
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Wile Coyote
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 646 |
Strange Day (2012) |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
Strange Day. I loved it since day 1. It's like one of those productions where everything really works well together. The combo music-gfx-code, everything shouts 'Strange Day'. (if that makes any sense). Anyway, still hoping for a sequel (X'24? ;-) ) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Just Farting |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Negative Vibrations
Lores Hires Rules
the coders, had some wonderfully designed stuff, these prods are full with love (for demos/c64/fxs) |
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Skate
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 494 |
One of my favorite demos back in the days. Pretty underrated.
Version 1
Visuality 3
Version 2
Visuality 3 |
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Wile Coyote
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 646 |
Crest Avantgarde (1992)
Maybe this demo should not be listed here. I like it anyway ;P |
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Jetboy
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 299 |
This one is my all time favorite Bound to Be Best #2
It has more than 10 votes, but deservers more and higher. |
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trident
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 91 |
Bound to Be Best #1 is one of those underrated gems too! |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
64 Seconds |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11359 |
Quote: Bound to Be Best #1 is one of those underrated gems too!
or any other XAKK "megademo" :) |
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Frostbyte
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 182 |
Supercool, most demos here I haven't even heard about! Thanks all for sharing the hidden gems. I'll use these to treat the post-X blues I'll inevitably have a week from now. :) |
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Frostbyte
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 182 |
A small contribution to this list: I've watched Triad's Lucy at least a few dozen times. Sublime soundtrack by Mitch & Dane and Twoflower, very simply yet effectively paired with the visuals. A fine example where sum is greater than the parts. One of those little (and perhaps little-known) feelgood prods one needs a dose of every now and then.
Youtube link for the lazy ones amongst us: https://youtu.be/KpX7NPMhdqI?si=WBQVg7ksrRBrKYW3 |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2969 |
Quoting chatGPZAcid Burger <3 Not exactly underrated, but Skybox scratches the same itch i didn't know i had. =) |
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Mibri
Registered: Feb 2018
Posts: 214 |
Some kind of dirty self-promo I suppose, but I think Doc Science deserves some props for the onefilers that he programs - cramming in lots of cool stuff while keeping a brisk pace!
Onef1ler
Onef1ler 2 |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2969 |
As for onefilers (and tooting my own horn), the demo images in Transwarp V0.64 contain my faves. Some of them are probably underrated. =) |
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ChristopherJam
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1408 |
Don't let the simplistic logo put you off, load up Wir sind die Nacht and turn it up LOUD. 8.5 seconds of 8KHz samples crammed into a 16KB intro, sequenced into a killer track based on one of Covenant's finest.
(8580 preferred) |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 462 |
Feedback Emission Manhood Manhood 2 - fairly known? let these never be forgotten anyway :) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Quote: Feedback Emission Manhood Manhood 2 - fairly known? let these never be forgotten anyway :)
puterman hollowman forever! |
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ws
Registered: Apr 2012
Posts: 251 |
off-course, slightly off-topic but i used to watch this (Hunters Moon main screen) for hours. the music and the g/fx are SO cool. thats also how i had gotten into the "petscii-particle" stuff in flashbang. also read somewhere about how he came to create his rosetta algorythm. never understood it, though.
It is actually really sad, that the main game screen experience is seriously truncated in the remastered version, because it is interrupted by the gameplay demo and then the song just restarts. Weird decision. Or is that just in the easyflash rls?
Anyways, not sure if this is underrated, but i actually never saw something like that in a demo, or maybe i didn't watch enough of them. |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
Quote: puterman hollowman forever!
True dat.
Where are they now? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
super cool tune in the end, nice parts before it.
https://youtu.be/7-evtzhLDYM?t=260 |
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trident
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 91 |
i always loved Mérgező Anyag 3. - hardcore 90s design - are joining now! |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Quote: i always loved Mérgező Anyag 3. - hardcore 90s design - are joining now!
in the late 90s that was for me in the collection of best demos :) |
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Jetboy
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 299 |
Quote: i always loved Mérgező Anyag 3. - hardcore 90s design - are joining now!
could you please reupload it in zipped d64 format? |
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Aomeba
Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 22 |
Asides from the Siesta demos we did in this decade, this Triad demo from 1993 I have always loved:
Mind Control |
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Shine
Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 349 |
I remember this one for sure...
This was the first Camelot Demo for me:
Produkthandler Kom Her |
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Aomeba
Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 22 |
Quote: I remember this one for sure...
This was the first Camelot Demo for me:
Produkthandler Kom Her
I *love* that demo. Some of the slickest fx of their kind ever! |
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
This one: Amazing Horse! |
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trident
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 91 |
i really like 4Kunden |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
Quote: i really like 4Kunden
#meetoo
simple
clean
spectacular
cool music |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2969 |
Quoting tridenti really like 4Kunden Quoting Oswald#meetoo
simple
clean
spectacular
cool music =D And there i was, thinking that 4Kunden was the simplest and least spectacular of the 6.
But here are two more raw diamonds: Orangi. and My Kondom =) |
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trident
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 91 |
the fpd + sprite stretcher in Party Pig qualifies it into this list imho |
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trident
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 91 |
i always liked Technolo-G - particularly the music - but it does have one of those slightly annoying "play a game to advance the demo"-thingies that makes it a little tricky to watch. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1647 |
Quote: i always liked Technolo-G - particularly the music - but it does have one of those slightly annoying "play a game to advance the demo"-thingies that makes it a little tricky to watch.
According to a post by gpz, the preview version does not have the game-like selector: Technolo-G (Preview) |
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Ziaxx
Registered: Oct 2020
Posts: 18 |
My favorite underrated gem has got to be H.T.R.A.T.F.Q.A.L.W.A and also one of the best demo names ever. Loved it back in 1989, love it still. |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 462 |
Quote: My favorite underrated gem has got to be H.T.R.A.T.F.Q.A.L.W.A and also one of the best demo names ever. Loved it back in 1989, love it still.
https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_Recognise_Different_..
it's wisely borrowed :) |
