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by TacticalCoder 545 days ago
You cango pretty far with fake 3D.For example you can take the same type of technique but then additionally move vertical "bars" of eight pixel (going along the entire screen) and it feels like the car/bike is turning more.

Here's an example from the early 90s in a PC DOS game (Word Rally Fever, heavily inspired by Power Drift):

https://youtu.be/tn4lK2-pUxw

FWIW it was made by friends of mine, got published by Team 17, and I was a beta-tester of that one :)

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Very cool, thanks for sharing! I’m a huge fan of this Super-Scaler inspired style, and had never heard about this!