Why were there so many Moai in retro games?
The world was cool and exciting at one point and you were allowed to feature famous landmarks. It's how things from other cultures were communicated.
Moai is an 80s staple just like how female characters have manjaws and manface in the 2020s
no te moai jajajaj
>>12075675>were there so many Moai in retro games?
>>12075675I think part of it is simply because they're interesting and neat.I know that for Konami, people there thought one of the devs had a face which looked kinda like a Moai, and it became his nickname, and so they kind of ended up putting Moais here and there in their games as tribute to him, which eventually just became a theme and tradition.
they're probably easy to render
>Why were there so many Moai in retro games?
didn't japan have some kinda moai craze in the 80s/90s?
the virgin moai vs the chad olmec
>>12075675Because in the 60s, 70s and 80s you had to go to a museum to amuse yourself, and this resulted in a culture that was more aware of interesting things in the world you could put in your game.
>>12075846Moais and other foreign antiques would not have been viewed exclusively in museums, you would find things like that depicted and written about in magazines (and for that matter research literature if you were working in the relevant fields or just had the interests to go look for it), as well as being seen on television.
>>12075830you made them look like those s-boys with gapping mouths
>>12075848Museums also featured photographs and art of things.
>>12075689Yes. Even if it was 100% because of Konami - the answer is yes.
>>12075887Cool. So since you've obviously added up how many of each thing was in retro games in order to determine what there were so many of, what's the total for Moai? Compared to say cats? Or maybe more comparable other types of stone statues like gargoyles? Enquiring minds want to know.
>>12075675Not sure, maybe there was a big documentary that came out around the late 70s or early 80s.
>>12075843Spelunky!
Taito did it too
>>12075843Moais are awesome. They exude stoic manliness. Olmec looks like a big baby.
>>12075675they were only discovered in 1983 so they blew everyones minds.
>>12076485>discovered in 1983That is not true, but it's the closest thing to the real answer ITT. The archeological digs that unearthed them and discovered how big they really were mostly began in the 60s and 70s, and the ongoing discoveries were a highly current topic in magazines like National Geographic in the 80s and 90s. There was also a trend in Japan in the 70s and 80s involving mock-moai statues with the punning name "Moyai" ("helping each other") >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyai_statue
is there any codec dialogue when you find these things in metal gear games?
it's a cool thing that you can put in your jungle level
>>12075675it is strange to think that probably no one intended these statues (or roman ones, etc) to be seen without paint, yet that is our entire perspective on them.
>>12076562All these statues probably looked really ugly painted
>>12075675The long lost civilization trope was big in the 90s.
>>12075675You know there's a website that attempts to list every game that every included a moai head? It has screenshots but they are webp so I can't post any here.
>>12076910google>webp to jpg
>>12076562The same will happen to retro games intended to be experienced on a CRT>>12076579And guys like this will say "All these games probably looked really ugly on CRTs"
>>12075683That song lives rent free in my head
They're cool and mysterious.>>12075681D'oh!>>12075840Maybe, kinda like how everything had a Native American pattern/look in the 90's.
>>12076910The literal state
>>12076910>didn't know how to turn webp files to png/jpg
>>12076910I have a browser extension which lets me save .webps as .jpgs or .pngs
Moai are cool
>>12075924Moai: 28397Cats: 9360Gargoyles: 13112
>>12075675Its a distinct style that looks good in primitive graphics a lot of design decisions were made based on what the screen could parse in those days.Its why digimon designs are so extra they had to go ham to work any real design variety on a tamagotchi screen
>>12075675all game coders listened to Pink Floyd
This is one of the earliest examples of moai in games, a 3d shooter from 1983 released by Jaleco.
>>12078272Jalekino does it again
>>12076579Roman tastes were really garish by modern standards. Look at any description of a rich Roman feast or gladiator games over a famous holiday and you get the sense they were into some pretty sick shit. Imagine eating dormice unironically.
>>12075675There was a trend of it in Japanese New Age shit relating to a myth that the Japanese people came from Lemuria (basically Jap Atlantis)
>>12075846>Because in the 60s, 70s and 80s you had to go to a museum to amuse yourself, and this resulted in a culture that was more aware of interesting things in the world you could put in your game.ding ding ding correctest 4chan response of 2025 goes to
>>12075846Do 10's babies really believe that bullshit? Countless young lads amused themselves in their own bedroom with a national geographic.
