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skeuomorphism was all the rage for a while and I loved it
I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
Let them have fun!
The drawers in Lotus Smartsuite
Back when all screens were more-or-less the same size and nothing ever had to scale. Your UI was the size it was, and if your screen was too big, too bad! You can either stretch it and deal with the pixelly mess, or squint your eyes to see the teeeny tiny program.
“For VGA 640x480 256 colors”
Most of these ran fullscreen and changed the resolution to 640x480 or 800x600, which most monitors supported. I had a widescreen LCD that would always stretch to fill, quite annoying…
I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.
This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP’s is neither minimal or maximal, it’s just overstylized UI.
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This takes me back.
Eve players: noooo… It’s not just a spreadsheet
Veteran WoW players: hmm… I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display
Eve online mentioned o7
I miss it sometimes. Then I remember, last time I played it, I didn’t have my original log ins and whatnot so had to start from the beginning and it took weeks to get to a level where I could do basic noob stuff without dying right away. I then spent like 18 months of just training skills, I’d log in, fill the queue, log out, log back in a week or so later and fill the queue again. After nearly two years of doing that I just gave up :D
But I still miss it. But I also miss my abusive ex.
I can’t tell you how many fleet fights I literally disabled graphics and only had the overview and chat. Especially multiboxing, I might have one with graphics. Not necessary for most.
I don’t think I’ve met a single eve player who doesn’t proudly refer to it as a “spreadsheets in space” game XD
And they still wiped.
One should always wipe. I tell my 6yo this all the time.
To be fair, they only had a thirty-two point three three uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival.
“RIGHT SIDE, MANY WHELPS!! HANDLE IT!!!”
At least I have chicken
-50 D.K.P.
Do you see my mana? What am I supposed to do for you?
🍑💳
This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars
The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.
The standards we used to put up with…
The standards we used to put up with…
Back when games were measured by how enjoyable they were rather than a little number in the corner.
It’s not enjoyable to play at low fps though? I don’t get it
It was a different time, the novelty of the experience made up for the lower frame rate. A stable 30fps used to be considered good, and 15fps was fine for a game like WoW which didn’t really need to rely on buttery smooth gameplay.
The internet was also just a lot slower back then, too, so in one sense the framerate only needed to be as good as your ping, essentially.
Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃
WARNING: SEMEN LOW
Healing back in the day was definitely like this.
I’m curious to know what it is like these days but not enough to give blizzard more money anymore.
Oh WarCraft stopped being a passion project a long time ago - Blizzard’s enshittification is pretty rampant.
If you get the itch to play WoW, 100% do so on a private server set to one of the earlier expansions.
Is that grid or decursive? Looks like they have duplicate frames?
Lol I had all of those and then some but I also had enough resolution/UI scale that it was all tucked to the sides (other than the nice looking hp/mana bars that framed the middle of the screen).
Did the people who stood in fire do so because they couldn’t even see what they were or weren’t standing in? Should guilds have done fund raising to buy better GPUs and monitors to best help progression? Thinking back to when I had a hand in guild leadership, it didn’t even occur to me to base any recruitment or raiding roster on PC specs, but it seems so obvious now in hindsight. Too bad I can’t go back.
I really wish I still had time for WoW… Sigh.
I’ve had LCARS as my phone interface for years and people are horrified when they see all the buttons.
Man the eyewitness learning games were fantastic - I loved the dinosaur one where you’d find bones in the museum and reassemble them and then have them wander round the otherwise empty liminal space of the museum.
It was fun while it lasted!
Is this supposed to be on a farm? What’s going on outside that window?
IIRC, you could choose between a number of different themes.
But, yeah, rural America representation in technology was weirdly a thing in the 1990s.
what do you call someone with no arms or legs in a pool? . Bob
What do you call someone with no arms or legs on the floor in front of your door?
Matt.
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs on the barbeque grill?
Frank.
My wife has only begrudgingly allowed me to maintain a welcome mat that says “Hi! I’m Mat!”
I remember customizing this! What a throwback!
Is that Truespace?
Bryce 3d
Cheers. Brought back memories, even if they were wrong ones 😉
Yeah good riddance on that one
It’s telling that they had to brightly highlight the tab that’s actually active, because users definitely got lost otherwise.
This shit still exists on windows and I fucking hate it
Gorgeous
This reminded me of the absolutely god-damn-awful DVD menu of the first Harry Potter film
I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense… I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.
And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those
And a little lizard runs across the bottom every once in a while! I had a Czech version, very painstakingly localized (but nothing beat The Way Things Work).
I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.
I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.
