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Happy Birthday?

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May 22, 1998. US release date for Unreal!

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Surprised not to see news about it here.

I was playing it back then on Pentium 166 (non mmx) with Matrox mystique 2mb in software.
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You're 2 months too early bro. ;D
We're still in March, not May (although it's clear where your confusion came from).
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Loool, sorry. My fail...
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I'm happy to see that mag cover regardless. 20 years, where has the time gone....
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"Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot" :)
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It's a real shame Unreal never came to the Nintendo 64. I guess it was due to memory or storage issues, given that carts only reached 64MB in size, and were very expensive.
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The N64 controller was extremely poorly designed for FPS. GoldenEye, though lauded nowadays, was a pain to handle. The technical limitations would have required a diminished Unreal to work properly, with very few polygons and tiny textures. I see no reason why Unreal on N64 would have been a positive thing. UT was a very sad thing on console, Unreal would have been too.
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I cannot even imagine Unreal in N64 due to the hardware limitations of it.

A lot of the novelty of Unreal was exactly what as an engine it could do (lighting, "high-poly" stuff relative to that time, etc), all of which are pretty much impossible to perform in a N64 afaik, and which without the game would quickly loose most of its charm, since the most powerful trait of Unreal is the atmosphere and the design and detail of all of it, which was only achievable by such.

It would be like running a N64 game in an old Gameboy.
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Next year is UT 20th.
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Next year is UT 20th.
Yeah, but there's still more than a year left as of now (November 2019 if I recall).
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tsk!
UT noobs...

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Nah, it only gives guys like me more time to finish their UT-related endeavors just in time for the birthday. ;) :D ;D
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Upon this rock I will build my church O:-)

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Awesome! thanks for sharing =)
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Couple months late but Heck yeah! Happy birthday unreal!!!!

It's been a long fun ride all these years. :)
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21 :)
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Happy birthday.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it just reached citizen age in the rest of the world, lol!

Early memories of the game? Playing it in a Celeron with only 32MB RAM. Oh, the early days, lol!
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Pentium 200 MMX here.
32 MB EDO DRAM
SB AWE 64
S3 Virge 2 MB (32 bit colors software rendering! :p )
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Beautiful! I had a 3-1000 pentium and I have fun with Unreal and Half-Life
It reminds me of the old days ...
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