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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Do you remember the best day of your life? Here's a little story about mine at SEGAWORLD in 1996!

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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you remember the best day of your life? Here's a little story about mine at SEGAWORLD in 1996!

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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The thing i love about York is all the old buildings it's like travelling back in time 😍

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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've just released my GTA 1 prototype remake, written in C# it recreates the original tech and makes it simpler to follow. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/mikedailly/p...

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DreStation @drestation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Boom! Cheers for the recommendation dude! 😘

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 26/08/2026

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This one for you, Queen 🫡

A box of Dolly Parton's Beef Pot Roast TV dinner. I hope it tastes good.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/08/2026

☠️☠️☠️

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Cherub @polygoncherub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Weekend done, time to hang it up. Many rough edges, but I'm still having fun. Going to completely rewrite the weapon grab mechanic. It's surprising how enjoyable an NPC with a basic (random attack + walk direction) type brain can be. Oh. I added an 808 kick to the Kill Confirm. #CherubDev #UE5

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Yeah i mean for FPS Argonaut got the scheme right technically but Bungie really refined the feel. Y2K era Bungie were on another level maaaan! 🙌

GTA III (and VC) definitely don't have an orbital camera on the right stick, those i tested. Right stick puts you in first person mode 😵 Oni on the other hand - you're right, both movement and camera controls default to exactly what a modern gamer would expect. And that was a Jan 2001 release!

Alien Resurrection meanwhile launched at a time when all new PS1s were being sold with a DS1 controller and the game defaulted to the dual-stick scheme when a DS1 was detected. They did a GREAT video about this on The Video Game History Foundation YT channel - highly recommend checking it out! [2]

Yes i remember using it - very ahead of its time. But alas, it was so buried behind additional hardware and menus, few people ever actually experienced it and it was far from the default. [1]

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Ah fair - though actually i suppose SotC isn't really in contention for being the "first" anyway as it didn't release until 2005. Anyway we have a new front-runner: Max Payne console ports shipped in Dec 2001 and they're bang on!

BINGO! We have a new front-runner! I'm facepalming hard as Max Payne didn't occur to me because I've perceived it as a "PC game" but you're right, it released on console in Dec 2001 beating Splinter Cell by nearly a year! 👏 It does invert Y by default (forgivable) but has an option to flip it!

Oh holy moly that's a great shout. Imma go check this!

Splinter Cell manages to feel modern to the modern gamer as a byproduct of its axis calibration system in the tutorial, which makes it the earliest i was able to find in my testing... But there may be another!

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In practice these games are very frustrating to acclimatise to, and remapping using emulation immediately fixes the issues - which proves the point of how important non-inversion of the camera x-axis is, despite being seemingly trivial on paper

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Feels extremely dated and off in practice in the modern era. Jak & Daxter, Mario Sunshine, Shadow of the Colossus they all came extremely close to feeling modern but they all suffer from an inverted x-axis on the camera, and importantly: NO WAY OF CHANGING THAT IN GAME! 😱

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...there are plenty of games from around 2001~ which came close, but were following Mario 64s lead too closely and had the right stick directly control the position of the camera, so pushing the right stick to the right moved the camera object to the right, which makes sense logically but...

It's about the first game where you can fire it up using the default control scheme and it feels familiar to the modern player. Minimum requirements: - Left stick performs camera relative movement - right stick maneuvers an orbital camera with non-inverted x-axis ...

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🥱 We all know how Halo changed FPS controls on console... But why do we never talk about which game did the same thing for THIRD PERSON games? I have my theory about who got there first, but if you think there was another, let me know in the replies!

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Tuba Zef 🐟fishpersonshooter.com🐟 @tubazef.com · 13/08/2026

Yeah, whilst modern gamers take for granted that "the right stick is for camera" I'm pretty sure the only reason Sony put two sticks on their pads was because N64 had ONE analogue stick and TWO WAS BETTER

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Had that same question some time ago and found that 40 Winks for the PS1, had modern camera controls in 1999. But I can't remember if they were inverted or not... bsky.app/profile/tuba...

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Ooooh nice, I'm gonna go check it out! While i accept inverting the Y axis as a minority preference, inverted C-axis for the camera is truly deranged and I cannot accept any control scheme that defaults to this with no way of changing in the options!

Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Six months of Super Nintendo! And it's my birthday this week! This book is the culmination of 20 years' work as a games journalist - all the time I've spent interviewing Nintendo creatives and thinking deeply about games and the place they occupy in our lives. Pick up a copy linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Keza with the colourful UK and US editions of her book Super Nintendo, a cultural history of the world's most beloved game company

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Absolutely loved this book Keza! Brain was constantly fizzing with exciting new tidbits. GGs 💪

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We had some fantastic Rollerdrome fan art, but there was one piece in particular I figured Tarantino would appreciate... ...I figured wrong! 🫣

A post from Quentin Tarantino reading “stop sending me this,” accompanied by an illustration of a woman in a red jumpsuit and helmet holding a gun, with one bare foot exaggerated in the foreground

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