The Timeless Beauty of Pre Rendered Graphics

A video essay on pre-rendered graphics, the technique that dominated games from the 1990s into the early 2000s before real-time 3D rendering replaced it. It looks at why the visuals of that era still hold up.

HN people share it as a good look at how pre-rendered graphics dominated the 90s and early 2000s, usually when a thread touches on isometric or pixel-art game worlds.