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Articles about 90s: November 20, 2008

Blast From the Past: Id, Apogee in awesome 1992 video

by Neil Barbour on Mar 24, 2008 at 07:30 AM

gamertell John Romero 1992George Broussard and John Romero. Titans of another lifetime. This clip from a local newscast tries to get to the bottom of what all the kids were talking about in 1992, illustrating how neither could find that charming line between hubris and coy self-promotion.

But there’s more to this clip than just hindsight. There really is that jittery feeling of something big about to happen. The narrator’s gushing over “texture mapping” is barely half the story…

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