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What am I seeing here?
Original PlayStation memory card icons are only 16 pixels square! That’s very tiny for modern screens so I’ve created 2 versions of each: one at 32 pixels that’s close to the original scale and a much larger one at 256 pixels. Swipe through and look for captions, Fun Facts, and animated videos down below
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FUN FACT
Just a truly bizarre product all around. For starters, it was the sole video game produced by the noteworthy visual effects house, Rhythm & Hues. Around the same time that they were winning an Academy Award for their work on Babe — and dazzling audiences with special effects in The Nutty Professor, Batman & Robin, and The Faculty — they seemingly just decided to try making a video game and turned out Eggs of Steel: Charlie’s Eggcellent Adventure.
Possibly as you might expect from a studio who had never made a game before, everything feels odd here; from physically navigating the Options menu to the awkwardly low, fixed isometric perspective. And that’s to say nothing of the game’s absurdly British style of humor. It’s quite a mess but there’s something delightful nowadays about it. I need to spend more time with it
