early wide screen games ? whats the earliest game you know?

[acem77]

nights and panzer dragoon zwei on saturn are the oldest i know of.
this site has a list of games for systems with 16:9 ratios and 480p or higher
http://www.hdtvarcade.com

it would be cool to get a list of some games that where ahead of their time :)

[Anthony1]

Are you sure that Nights has a widescreen mode?

How do you activate it?

I have Nights, and I have widescreen TV's, and it looks just like any other Saturn game on my widescreen tv.


The earliest widescreen game that I know of, is Goldeneye 007 for the N64

[evilmess]

I thought the wide screen option in PDZ was an option for the movie play back.

[GobopopRevisited]

GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64. Game looks almost twice as nice, even if you do it on a Regular TV (Change screen size to Cinematic, then Resolution to 16:9 if you have a regular TV... THEN turn off the On Screen Ammo and CrossHairs X_x )

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Galaxian3 for the PS1.

[Cauterize]

this will annoy you but the earliest Wide Screen i can think of is the Widescreen Game & Watches LOL

i think soem early PS1 games feature a widescreen option.. ill have a look when i get home

[Ed Oscuro]

Arcade multi-screen games are darn fine too! Especially Taito's Ninja Warriors, Darius games, and Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III!

[acem77]

in Nights hit the z button to go into the diary. then look for the option.
i was just looking for consoles and games that hook up to your home tv.
i know a handfull of arcade games that had a wide screen setup.
but they needed special setups.


Christmas Nights is wide screen also

[crazyjackcsa]

I know for certain Nights is, if you set in on widescreen and don't have one the image gets all squishy.

[Gamereviewgod]

I'm almost positive there's a late-release SNES game that has the option. I'd swear I was just playing it a few days ago, but damned if I can remember. I'll have to retrace my steps.

[anagrama]

in Nights hit the z button to go into the diary. then look for the option.


Holy crap! :eek 2: How did I never know about that?
Well, that's my evening's entertainment sorted now :D Cheers!

[acem77]

the oldest know console game that hooks up to a tv with a widescreen mode. made in 1995.

vr fighter 32x screen shot from my hd tv running through an xrgb2 plus.


http://home.adelphia.net/~acem77/32xvfwidescreen.jpg

[rbudrick]

this will annoy you but the earliest Wide Screen i can think of is the Widescreen Game & Watches LOL

i think soem early PS1 games feature a widescreen option.. ill have a look when i get home

Dammit...you beat me to it. Do'oh!

But when you think about it those Radio Shack LED games were not only the first handheld "videogames," but were also widescreen.

-Rob

[goatdan]

Would the X-men beat-em-up for the the arcade count?

[davidbrit2]

The arcade version of Virtua Racing (ca. 1992) has an option in the operator menu to enable support for widescreen (presumably 16:9) monitors. It's a higher resolution game, so I think it uses a 24 kHz monitor to support the vertical resolution (384 lines, non-interlaced). That's the earliest game I can think of that can use a single widescreen monitor, rather than just multiple normal aspect ratio monitors. I'd get some screenshots, but MAME doesn't exactly handle Model 1 games very well. Heh.