I lost the original CD years ago, but I've been watching some videos of the game and I felt like really nostalgic.
The game was absolutely awesome, had amazingly well designed and animated graphics, a fantastic soundtrack and old school gameplay which sometimes made me rip my hair off but overall it was a really satisfying experience.
If I recall correctly, it was one of the last 2D platformers to come out for the PC, and one my first PC games.
I played a demo of the Gold Version of it once. I've played Rayman 2 and 3 as well. Rayman is awesome!
Anyways, I always meant to play the 16 bit version (or however many bits it had) because I played the Game Boy Color version, which is EPIC. I liked that one so much I stared at the screen with him animating so I could copy the graphics. Then the hard drive died.
I remember playing it once on a PlayStation magazine demo disc. Unfortunately I had temporarily lost my appreciation for 2D games during the PlayStation era. I do remember it having great animation that made me wonder if Rayman (the sprite) was made up of separate sprites or was just very fluidly animated. Didn't they [inevitably] make Rayman 3D too?
Rayman 1, PS1. Game was so good I played through to 100% completion. The music stuck with me the most, I found my PS1 disc and was chuffed to see the songs were playable on a CD player. Ripped right to iTunes .
I traded in my skateboard for Rayman for the GBA but it's just nowhere near as good as the original. Rayman is 1/6 of the screensize and the music is poor. Think they removed a few levels too.
When I bought my Psone LCD screen I picked Rayman 1 and Gran Turismo 2 for about £6 each.
It goes to show really that if the industry wasn't so obsessed with 3d games, we could have had another generation of amazing 2d games.
But the game itself can be extremely annoying to play. It's pretty unforgiving. One trick i recall is that if you punch in mid-air it's instant unlike when standing.
Actually I have Rayman 2 for the psone too and that is brilliant. A bit cut down from other versions.
Originally Posted by OldManClayton Yea, I think the majority of Rayman games are 3D actually.
the majority is actually 2d. there was only 1 3d rayman game (rayman 3: hoodlum havoc) aside from the raving rabbid spinoff series. that is if you dont count all the crappy rayman party spin off games (braingames, rayman rush/arena/M, rayman golf, etc.)
but yeah the first 2 were ace. i didnt have a playstation back when it came out but my friend had it. loved em.
It was. Rayman 2: The Great Escape (as well as Rayman DS and whatever other platforms called it) was 3D. I remember, I have it right here on its' green N64 cartridge and on DS. That game is epic too.
Ah, the frustration caused by Rayman as a kid... but I couldn't stop playing, it was charming. I think I only ever got past the first few levels of the music zone.
Now I have one sound stuck in my head, the most annoying sound in that game. The sound of that weird guy cleaning his hammer-bullet gun. Squeek-squeek-squeek-squeek... boom phweeooo! "ngeheheheh" ..... Over and over again :|
I have Rayman 2 for the N64 too, but honestly it was a bit of a disapointment. It's a great game on it's own, but for example I had much more fun with Mario64 and I thought it was kinda stupid not being able to throw your fist, instead shooting some yellow balls. And the overall scenarios had little to do with Rayman 1.
And yes the GBA Rayman game doesn't do the original any justice, from what I played it's only a cut down version and like James said the main character is way too big for the screen.
I didn't actually own a PS at the time but one of my friends had an original model and luckily it had Rayman with it. I didn't actually play through the whole way but man, it was pretty addictive! I'm really starting to miss the <originality>old days of gaming.</originality>
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