Yeah, no actual ps1 game has textures that look this sharp. Imagine characters in MGS1 or Syphon filter or Resi 2. Actually this looks like there is a bit of antialiasing as well. This is of course a single model, not a game so that must be why the console could easily handle it.
@@kulsevdasi I believe that this demo was mostly meant to show developers the amount of polygons that the PS1 could have on screen, and devs at the time likely understood that this level of fidelity was only possible because the demo was only rendering a single model and absolutely nothing else
@@apictureoffunction yeah thats the only way it would make sense. I mean you look at something that is crazy ambitious for ps1 tech, like MGS 1, and something like a whole game area has about the same amount of polygons as this animal.
@@kulsevdasi yeah this was definitely a "pushing the tech to it's limits" type demo for sure. It did actually inspire a lot of devs to work on the PS1 as well, Mark Cerny actually said this demo was one of the main reasons why Crash Bandicoot was developed for the PS1
Thats because they push all the psx power to just one model. If they were backgrounds, lighting, vegetation and a character then this t-rex would look like the one on tomb raider 1.
A lot of this is just good art, though. Ps1 can do a few K polys, and a trex made of 2-5k would look better than this, as that's literal sixth gen console quality. Its likely a few hundred polys.
Same here, I also thought the same thing when Gran Turismo 1 came out..."Wow, these are photo realistic graphics! We've reached the pinnacle of graphics on consoles!" lol.
I guess me too because I can remember being alone in the room with the ps1 of my brother and this came up I was so terrified I think I plugged the PS1 out and ran away or something like that😂
I was 6 when we got the first Playstation... This thing was so scary to me back then, I couldn't start it up unless my older sister was with me, it was the music and the blackness around the dino that made it for me. I still feel the chill in my spine as I did 15 years ago... Childhood awesomeness! Unfortunately I've lost the original demo disc :(
Had exactly the same with my twin brother.. couldn play it without him. I remember reading your comment 10 years ago.. how time flies.. we are getting old my friend
I remember being amazed at this on the screen with my new PS1, Christmas day evening, 1995. I used to get my games from a mail order magazine. I'd get the Playstation magazine for the demo discs on the front as well. Damn, they were good times.
I was sat wondering to myself if this looked as good I remembered. I had my doubts but I’m actually impressed. Older game designers seemed to be able to get a lot more out of smaller machines than the modern guys
@@CeleryMan666 That's true, but if you look at the Final Fantasy games or Zelda games at the time - they were able to cram a lot in for the size. I think restrictions encourage creativity sometimes. Worth checking out Gamehut on here
@@joshcollins9125 Sometimes aesthetic can help make those games look better and age better. I do agree about restriction, that's why game jams and the pico 8 console are so popular.
This got into my recommendations and I got flooded with nostalgia. I only had two games and some demo discs and on one of those was this T-Rex. I loved it. The music is so simple yet great.
Fredbear Animates how is it not a spoiler. The whole point of this game is to have a nostalgia trip. From 1994 till 2020. Ps icons between that time are shown in the game. When you see some icons ingame it gives you a nice suprise feeling and a nostalgia trip. For you telling us that the Tech Dino is also ingame that magical moment is now gone bc it can not suprise you know. So yeah in my opinion a Spoiler bc its one of the least characters you would suspect to be in the game.
To have heard the music as a 8 year old in 1997 and be legit freaked out......this was one of those embrace the darkness/embrace your shadow moments.......then in 2016 when I started watching Naruto Shippuden and came across orichimarus lair with Sasuke in it........suddenly I was completely transported back to this dark experience......at times the music still makes my hair rise with goosebumps
Even though you could just turn the camera and make it open the mouth, show teeth and turn head, i spent more hours with this than in many modern games
I remember myself and my mate being absolutely blown away by this demo some time back in the mid-1990s. His parents bought him a PS for Christmas, and one day they were gone out and he knew where they'd hidden all the Xmas presents, he took it and set it up and we had a quick play with it before putting it away again.
I CANT BELIEVE IT! CZcams just randomly recommended this but when I was a child I "played" this I didn't know what a demo was so I waited like 30 min. for something to happen. And this shit just got randomly recommended hahahaha that's the best recommendation ever!
Appariantly. This was the original tech demo Ken Kutaragi used to showcased the power of the PlayStation, thus making this T-Rex the first EVER PlayStation character.
oh my GOD, this damn fucking dinosaur gave me genuine nightmares when i was 4yo. no joke, i had dreams where i was chased by it around the house while crying and screaming, all the while the ambient music played. it''s almost surreal to see it here 20 years later, i still have some of the ps1 demo discs
Damn. In the late 90s sometime, here in Turkey, I remember seing this at a video games store. It was at a southern, coastal resort town, but still terrified me. Part of that vibe is the forrboding music I think.
Most of the people don't know that this demo changed the whole gaming industry. Its the first thing that Sony showed to the game developers before releasing the first PlayStation console and developers watch it and left speachless for a while.
Its always strange seeing thing like this that may look dated now but were impressive at the time, be it this or the Money for Nothing video; it really puts how far technology has come into perspective
Legend has it he's walking toward a little robot on a platform.
just playing it right now. Showed my little son what he is replaying in astrobot.......
Yes astro playroom
Me when he comes and opens his mouth to shoot disks at me: **throws a grenade in his mouth**
That rexy is the embodiment of commitment. Hunting a little robot for 29 years.
And then vibri notices there is robots and a rocket
Everyone is going to flood this with Astro's Playroom comments now
yes! i edited my comment because i don't wanna spoil,you know it!
i didn't know about this until astro lol
YEP!
That's why I am here :)
wHo'S hEre afTer tHe pIsS5 lAuncH?
I spent an unnecessary amount of time on this as a kid. I loved it.
Same 😂 always waiting to see if something was going to happen, at that age not really understanding what a tech demo was. And the music was so eeerie
Same here!
I remember using a microphone at my brothers stereo and made the dino talk. Hilarious!
Honestly, what child with no previous experience of 3D wouldn't?
It's fascinating. I mean... It can open its mouth! 😮
Same! Brings me right back 😁
A hole lot of years later, he came back for a return in Astro’s Playroom.
So what's the deal, what context does he appear in in Astro's Playroom? I keep seeing comments about it and I'm dying to know
He’s the boss at the end.
@@apictureoffunction spoilers!
He's the final boss level
You never heard anything about spoilers I assume.
That was where he was heading from the beginning...
My 6 years old brain:
"how do i unlock the full game? "
When I was 6 I even searched google to how to make demo game to full version 😂😂😂😂 lol myself
I was the same back then. It was just too cool, I wanted to play this "game" so badly.
Like how I wanted to find out how to play the maze game on my PC
@@Kiran-kz2ku yeah right, when were you 6? Google wasn't even popular til around 03
you play dino crisis
Come to think about it, this was damn impressive for that era...
Yeah, no actual ps1 game has textures that look this sharp. Imagine characters in MGS1 or Syphon filter or Resi 2. Actually this looks like there is a bit of antialiasing as well. This is of course a single model, not a game so that must be why the console could easily handle it.
@@kulsevdasi I believe that this demo was mostly meant to show developers the amount of polygons that the PS1 could have on screen, and devs at the time likely understood that this level of fidelity was only possible because the demo was only rendering a single model and absolutely nothing else
@@apictureoffunction yeah thats the only way it would make sense. I mean you look at something that is crazy ambitious for ps1 tech, like MGS 1, and something like a whole game area has about the same amount of polygons as this animal.
@@kulsevdasi yeah this was definitely a "pushing the tech to it's limits" type demo for sure. It did actually inspire a lot of devs to work on the PS1 as well, Mark Cerny actually said this demo was one of the main reasons why Crash Bandicoot was developed for the PS1
Thats because they push all the psx power to just one model. If they were backgrounds, lighting, vegetation and a character then this t-rex would look like the one on tomb raider 1.
Imagine all you’d ever seen in video games were 2d sprites. This must’ve been freaking crazy impressive.
I don't know. Seen star fox playing on someone's SNES in 1993. Still this looks impressive.
It was! It blew my tiny mind haha
This looks really impressive for Ps1 actually, but the only reason it can look so detailed is because it's the only thing on screen.
don't forget that emulator can improve quality of images. ;)
But it wasnt actually far from what the games were back in the day.
A lot of this is just good art, though. Ps1 can do a few K polys, and a trex made of 2-5k would look better than this, as that's literal sixth gen console quality. Its likely a few hundred polys.
In Dino Crisis they managed to make a T-Rex as good as this during gameplay
@@sebastianaliandkulche not actuqlly
I still remember saying "OHHH IT LOOKS SO REAL!" And "GRAPHICS AINT GETTING BETTER THAN THIS!" 😅
After playing astro playroom, PS1 look scarier than PS5 versions lol
Same here, I also thought the same thing when Gran Turismo 1 came out..."Wow, these are photo realistic graphics! We've reached the pinnacle of graphics on consoles!" lol.
Same ha ha 😂
It doesn’t look real at all 💀💀💀
*astro’s playroom has left the chat*
This was the beginning of something amazing. And playing Astrobot on PS5, the ending blew my mind, PlayStation history all wrapped up:)
I feel like a lot of kids couldn't appreciate how impressive this was on account of the nightmares it gave them.
Imagine being scared of a dinosaur 💀💀💀
@@ilyadratutin6385 Imagine being a child with 6 million years of evolutionary predisposition compelling you to be afraid of large carnivores.
I loved this as a kid. I never understood that it's just a demo. For me it was an awesome game.
is used to be terrified of this as a kid
Me too, just found it after 20 years of it haunting my dreams.
@@everythingapocalypse6045 which demo is this one?
@@sanzaro I can't remember, sorry. It was 20 + years ago.
I guess me too because I can remember being alone in the room with the ps1 of my brother and this came up I was so terrified I think I plugged the PS1 out and ran away or something like that😂
You know why I'm here.
Astro's playroom
Oh fuck...
Travy Patty?
Mvg?
So you don’t get fined
PS1 T-REX. Very groundbreaking. He deserves his own game
Sherbet_Bomb i think this t rex is from tomb rider or something
4 years later edit: why did i think its from tr lol
@@XTX767RT nooo
This same model was used in the game Dino Crisis. So he sort of got his own game.
T-Rex from Dino Crisis.
@@XTX767RT it's a different model
I always say the 90s were the golden age for gaming. I am proud to be a 90s kid.
lol i wish i was born 5 years earlier
Same! I was born in 1992, and couldn't be more proud!
Yes I came back for you Dinosaur.. You blew my mind then, and you still amaze me to this day.
Being 6 years old and Turning the t-rex around and laughing at it's bum with all your cousins.
Yep ! Guilty 🤣
A old comment that’s findable? Damn
I still got an orginal copy of this one. Love this one and the Manta Ray demo. Impressive stuff, even today.
I’m 22 now and this still haunts me
Lucky I found it
I was 6 when we got the first Playstation... This thing was so scary to me back then, I couldn't start it up unless my older sister was with me, it was the music and the blackness around the dino that made it for me. I still feel the chill in my spine as I did 15 years ago... Childhood awesomeness! Unfortunately I've lost the original demo disc :(
Omg Same!!!
Same here I remember this as kid too T.T
Had exactly the same with my twin brother.. couldn play it without him. I remember reading your comment 10 years ago.. how time flies.. we are getting old my friend
This is it
The start of it all
This dude became a Playstation app trophy
It looks like s/he's walking with a shopping cart.
back when times were simple..
And fun
Compared to 2020, times were simple when you wrote this comment.
You have no fucking idea...
To me times are still simple :)
Nostalgiatard
Here after finishing Astro's Playroom
somehow this demo always freaks me out
This haunted my dreams for the past 20 years.
I remember being amazed at this on the screen with my new PS1, Christmas day evening, 1995. I used to get my games from a mail order magazine. I'd get the Playstation magazine for the demo discs on the front as well. Damn, they were good times.
Everyones talking about the graphics but none about how much this music fucking VIBES
Dino crisis style
Ladies and gentle men, the longest boss fight build-up in playstation history!
Literally. It took 30 years for this T-Rex and this tiny bot named Astro to battle😆
Now he's a final Boss.
Boss in which game?, in a game that only exist in your mind?
@@eduardolobos7380 Astros Playroom
He is a boss in ff8
@@eduardolobos7380 Astro's playroom buddy
@@eduardolobos7380dumbass weirdo
The Z-fighting is glorious
I like it how he's constantly in motion, so you won't notice the wiggling textures
He was finally laid to rest by his 5th reincarnation.
Man this takes me back. This music always stayed with me. Thanks for the upload.
jesus this is so indescribably 90s, every single thing about it
My childhood! It's here!
Man, demo discs had good music back in the day.
Who's here straight from PS5?
Yee
me
Me
Every one!
Me and i was Like this bitch is the Endboss? Fuck no.
I was sat wondering to myself if this looked as good I remembered. I had my doubts but I’m actually impressed. Older game designers seemed to be able to get a lot more out of smaller machines than the modern guys
I mean if your machine is used just to render one dino then it's a great tech demo but that's a far cry from having an actual game.
@@CeleryMan666 That's true, but if you look at the Final Fantasy games or Zelda games at the time - they were able to cram a lot in for the size. I think restrictions encourage creativity sometimes. Worth checking out Gamehut on here
@@joshcollins9125 Sometimes aesthetic can help make those games look better and age better.
I do agree about restriction, that's why game jams and the pico 8 console are so popular.
brings back so many memories.. the music is great too :D
I still remeber being amazed when i saw this demo for the first tine .... we have gone a long way since then 😂
some years later, he is fighting with a robot
I’ve got to say, I *love* the music in the background.
This got into my recommendations and I got flooded with nostalgia. I only had two games and some demo discs and on one of those was this T-Rex. I loved it. The music is so simple yet great.
Whenever I play Dino Crisis, I'm always reminded of this tech demo.
when i was kid, I was a little scared when i see him, but when i see her smile, i smilling too XD
so true
When I first saw this demo wayyyy back in the day, I could only dream that we had this level of graphics consistently throughout an entire game lol
"The graphics, thats you know, thats what its really all about"
Damn when I saw this in Astro I didn’t think there was anyways ps5 could run this that’s so awesome
That was AMAZING for that years...
And was not a Game but... I wish...
Jurassic park and Dino Crisis do a great job capturing the appearance of Tyrannosaurus. Great video.
When I was a kid when it opened its mouth I used to make silly conversations like it was talking 🤣🤣🤣
When this dinasoar has appeared at ASTRO'S PLAYROOM. just stunned!
The graphics were insane back then and they STILL ARE.
This was basically my first horror movie as a kid
That sounds epic
I had the demo as a kid. The graphics were astonishing for the time
I'm not gonna spoil anything here, but those who play Astro's Playground on are gonna be in for a surprise.
i loved that part
That was awesome
Now that i know this will be in Astro Playroom i see it post as a spoiler 😅
Totally not a spoiler
Fredbear Animates how is it not a spoiler. The whole point of this game is to have a nostalgia trip. From 1994 till 2020. Ps icons between that time are shown in the game. When you see some icons ingame it gives you a nice suprise feeling and a nostalgia trip. For you telling us that the Tech Dino is also ingame that magical moment is now gone bc it can not suprise you know. So yeah in my opinion a Spoiler bc its one of the least characters you would suspect to be in the game.
Yep, here after the playroom lol
i remember playin this at 5 years old thinking wtf do i do lol hhaha this takes meback
Who’s here from astros playroom
To have heard the music as a 8 year old in 1997 and be legit freaked out......this was one of those embrace the darkness/embrace your shadow moments.......then in 2016 when I started watching Naruto Shippuden and came across orichimarus lair with Sasuke in it........suddenly I was completely transported back to this dark experience......at times the music still makes my hair rise with goosebumps
Now we have the Apple Vison Pro dinosaur demo. Cant wait to see where technology takes us in another 30 years
Even though you could just turn the camera and make it open the mouth, show teeth and turn head, i spent more hours with this than in many modern games
This dino finally found fortune and fame casting for Super Mario Oddysey 20 years later
I had this exact demo disk! I haven't heard this music in over 20 years! wow
I remember myself and my mate being absolutely blown away by this demo some time back in the mid-1990s. His parents bought him a PS for Christmas, and one day they were gone out and he knew where they'd hidden all the Xmas presents, he took it and set it up and we had a quick play with it before putting it away again.
Mindblowing stuff at the time!
Still looks incredible
Astro PlayRoom
I platinumed astro's playroom in a day, and this was probably the hardest part.
Bro same
I was 10 when I booted up the Dino tech demo and at the time it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen
i love the music in this clip
My mom presented me PlayStation on 1996 New Year Eve. I was awed.
i love this music !
Da fühlt man sich direkt in die 90er zurück versetzt 🥰 das erste mal playstation angemacht und die demo ausprobiert.. man war man geflasht 🥰
Welcome back, T-Rex Tech Demo
I CANT BELIEVE IT! CZcams just randomly recommended this but when I was a child I "played" this I didn't know what a demo was so I waited like 30 min. for something to happen. And this shit just got randomly recommended hahahaha that's the best recommendation ever!
I couldn't believe this was referenced in astro's playroom. Such a great idea. So much nostalgia. Loved Astro's Playroom.
I love everything about this
Super realistic. Graphics will never get better than this.
Appariantly. This was the original tech demo Ken Kutaragi used to showcased the power of the PlayStation, thus making this T-Rex the first EVER PlayStation character.
This was jaw dropping in its day.
That menu music makes me feel i'm on an after with some speed in my body. 90's feels
oh my GOD, this damn fucking dinosaur gave me genuine nightmares when i was 4yo. no joke, i had dreams where i was chased by it around the house while crying and screaming, all the while the ambient music played. it''s almost surreal to see it here 20 years later, i still have some of the ps1 demo discs
Damn. In the late 90s sometime, here in Turkey, I remember seing this at a video games store. It was at a southern, coastal resort town, but still terrified me. Part of that vibe is the forrboding music I think.
I think another reason is just the black, endless abyss. Something about it is creepy, especially with the horrific music and realistic trex
I’m sure I played the arcade version of this at a kids play area when I was around 4-5 ish (so 2004). Nostalgia!
God after 10 years I still love the soundtrack from the demo disc :)
is there somewhere a good rip from where i can download it?
SICK, MAN! WOW, SO INNOVATIVE! Can't wait for 1998!
At the time, this was incredible. Hard to believe looking at it now though. Jeez
Oh my God, childhood...
Most of the people don't know that this demo changed the whole gaming industry. Its the first thing that Sony showed to the game developers before releasing the first PlayStation console and developers watch it and left speachless for a while.
not gonna lie!! he dinosaur slowly approaching from the dark was a bit creepy
THIS FREAKED THE FUCK OUT OF ME AS A KID
This is incredibly impressive. 😍😍
I used to play this a lot on my demo disk for some reason damn memories!
Its always strange seeing thing like this that may look dated now but were impressive at the time, be it this or the Money for Nothing video; it really puts how far technology has come into perspective
I remember thinking how awesome this was gonna be.
I used to make it talk and do a silly voice, had me and my little sister in stitches! Good times
Man, even down to the song in Astro's. So good.