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2024-05-04 13:30
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2855
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.
2024-05-04 14:14
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11149
Acid Burger <3
2024-05-04 14:25
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 595
Kurt and Doris
Doc Bacardi Meets Doc Sportdryck
2024-05-04 14:39
Shine

Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 333
Into Oblivion

My favorite US Demo since day 1! <3
2024-05-04 15:27
Wile Coyote
Account closed

Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 646
Strange Day (2012)
2024-05-04 18:20
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 595
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? ;-) )
2024-05-04 21:44
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
Just Farting
2024-05-04 22:28
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
Negative Vibrations
Lores Hires Rules

the coders, had some wonderfully designed stuff, these prods are full with love (for demos/c64/fxs)
2024-05-05 00:40
Skate

Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 491
One of my favorite demos back in the days. Pretty underrated.

Version 1
Visuality 3

Version 2
Visuality 3
2024-05-05 02:09
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
2024-05-05 07:42
Jetboy

Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 229
This one is my all time favorite Bound to Be Best #2
It has more than 10 votes, but deservers more and higher.
2024-05-05 11:47
trident

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 79
Bound to Be Best #1 is one of those underrated gems too!
2024-05-05 13:10
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 595
64 Seconds
2024-05-05 16:51
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11149
Quote: Bound to Be Best #1 is one of those underrated gems too!

or any other XAKK "megademo" :)
2024-05-05 19:20
Frostbyte

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 174
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. :)
2024-05-06 12:31
Frostbyte

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 174
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
2024-05-06 13:11
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2855
Quoting chatGPZ
Acid Burger <3
Not exactly underrated, but Skybox scratches the same itch i didn't know i had. =)
2024-05-06 13:27
Mibri

Registered: Feb 2018
Posts: 209
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
2024-05-06 13:31
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2855
As for onefilers (and tooting my own horn), the demo images in Transwarp V0.64 contain my faves. Some of them are probably underrated. =)
2024-05-06 17:16
ChristopherJam

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 1382
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)
2024-05-08 05:45
Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 456
Feedback Emission Manhood Manhood 2 - fairly known? let these never be forgotten anyway :)
2024-05-09 02:29
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
Quote: Feedback Emission Manhood Manhood 2 - fairly known? let these never be forgotten anyway :)

puterman hollowman forever!
2024-05-09 03:33
ws

Registered: Apr 2012
Posts: 230
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.
2024-05-09 06:59
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 595
Quote: puterman hollowman forever!

True dat.
Where are they now?
2024-05-10 20:01
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
super cool tune in the end, nice parts before it.

https://youtu.be/7-evtzhLDYM?t=260
2024-05-18 13:48
trident

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 79
i always loved Mérgező Anyag 3. - hardcore 90s design - are joining now!
2024-05-18 20:25
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
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 :)
2024-05-19 15:19
Jetboy

Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 229
Quote: i always loved Mérgező Anyag 3. - hardcore 90s design - are joining now!

could you please reupload it in zipped d64 format?
2024-05-20 14:19
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
2024-05-20 15:02
Shine

Registered: Jul 2012
Posts: 333
I remember this one for sure...
This was the first Camelot Demo for me:

Produkthandler Kom Her
2024-05-20 17:12
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!
2024-05-22 22:07
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 595
This one: Amazing Horse!
2024-05-26 22:14
trident

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 79
i really like 4Kunden
2024-05-27 11:26
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031
Quote: i really like 4Kunden

#meetoo

simple
clean
spectacular
cool music
2024-05-27 11:53
Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2855
Quoting trident
i 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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