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Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future
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This trope is basically Zeerust applied to the digital era. The page image represents what a computer display in Star Trek looks like. Now look anywhere at your screen, and compare to what your computer can do. In a Science Fiction program, the graphics quality of whatever computer is used is that of what computers were available at the time. Therefore, there are no screens in 1960s shows and there are no GUIs in the 1970s and 1980s. In earlier eras, the writers probably didn't think computer graphics could improve. However, as the nature of computer advancements became more apparent, such limitations have become more about budget and imagination. Can be arguably justified in a scenario when functionality is preferable to looks. After all, the last thing you want to see on the screen of your spaceship's onboard computer in the middle of a crucial operation is a graphics driver error. This is Truth in Television in a surprising number of cases, where complex graphics are not only unnecessary, but are actually a hindrance, or even dangerous. Although in the future, our graphic cards will probably be way better and more reliable too. Often Invoked to avoid being a Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel. Cassette Futurism is when this is done deliberately to create a Retro Universe feel. See also Extreme Graphical Representation, Holographic Terminal, Magic Floppy Disk, The Aesthetics of Technology, and Cyber Green. Related to Science Marches On and Technology Marches On. |
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The Terminator's POV shots have 6502 assembly language code in the first two movies, and Macintosh ones (including "QuickTime Player"!) in the third. Also, said Robo Cam is not on full-color, but tinted in either red or blue (though it's implied they run just like Night-Vision Goggles). | |
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Look Around You, keeping with its Retraux theme, makes use of BBC Micros, using one in the first series opening titles to run a laughably simple BASIC program. The second series features a BBC Micro with glitchy voice software welcoming viewers to the future of "Look Around Yog", while a toaster with a BBC Micro attached is a "futuristic toasting system". | |
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Used in Startopia. Most likely intentional given how the game is a love letter to 'classic' sci-fi. | |
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Ansem's Computer in Kingdom Hearts II is supposed to be highly advanced and storing all of his and his students research data. Yet, it uses 8-bit graphics and a user-interface which looks like the most primitive form of Windows the world has ever seen. Not even a mouse is used. It's somehow justified by the fact that this computer is the gate to "Space Paranoids", a world based on the '80s movie TRON, and the fact that it is at least twenty years old already by the time KH2 takes place, and there hasn't exactly been anyone around to upgrade the hardware or software. | |
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Played with in Bones where Angela has a holographic display, with amber graphics resembling some types of 80s CRT monitors. The resolution was way better, though. | |
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Inexplicably done in Real Steel, with a Generation 2 controller that Bailey dug up for Max to use with Atom. Seeing that 2007 was a date mentioned where Charlie was still boxing, the monochrome low-res screen on the G2 controller should be more advanced than that. | |
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Aboard the starship Entreprise-2061 of Pouvoirpoint, all screens display geometric or wireframe graphics, and crappy screensavers. | |
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On the other hand in The Phantom Menace, Nute Gunray had a huge TV like transmitter that had very good graphics like a traditional TV. | |
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Foundation - The Psychohistorians: The 21st century artist invokes the idea of early 1980s style computer graphics when representing the Encyclopedia Galactica entries, using pixelated green text and borders. | |
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Embraced by Alien: Isolation as part of its beautifully-realized Retro Universe for the sake of Zeerust Canon. The game itself has spectacular environmental graphics, particularly for 2014, but all the HUD elements, menus, and in-universe computer terminals are designed to look chunky and lo-fi. CA's art team really had their work cut out for them, considering this was the company's first first-person game: the team had access to original sound effects and high-quality assets from the original film, and even utilized early-80s video technology to provide another layer of authenticity, transferring some visual elements onto VHS tapes, introducing distortion with high-powered magnets, and scanning the result back into the game. Sevastopol station is littered with two-bit CRT computer monitors, punch-card slots, and massive mainframe computers making buzzing mechanical noises, much like those from the original Alien movie. | |
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Escape from New York is set in 1997, but is forced to use 1981 graphics. The effect helps create an Unintentional Period Piece. The glider computer's green wireframe graphics were too expensive to do back then, so the model of Manhattan made for different scenes in the movie was painted black, outlined with green reflective tape and filmed. Truly, the past is another country. |
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The spin-off Caprica used much more flashy looking displays and technology in general - for instance, the tablet device Zoe uses and then rolls up to put back in her pocket. | |
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In Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Luna City's Master Computer, "Mike" has no monitors, but he does have mic pickups and can access Video Phones. Eventually he is able to generate a CGI avatar for video calls that is indistinguishable from real life, after some adjustment, but it takes up the majority of his processing power, and he's a sentient AI. | |
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Downright enforced by Rogue One and Solo, which are set shortly before the original movie, and deliberately keep the displays with very simple graphics. | |
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Played with in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories with the advertisement for the Fruit LC personal computer, with features like 18 kilobytes of memory and a two-tone, 8-inch display. In 1984, when the game is set, this would still have been a rather respectable system. | |
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When the film Space Mutiny (which used classic Galactica scenes) was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and the 'bots took notice of this easily. | |
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Sex Mission, made in 1984: It is set in 2044, but computers still use wireframe 3-D green-lined graphics... and, at one point, what is clearly ZX Spectrum graphics. | |
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Ghost in the Shell (1995): Although there are very advanced-looking 3D monitors, the GPS system that Section 9 uses to track criminals is like a bare-bones Google Maps. | |
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In the first series of Red Dwarf, Holly's appearance was very pixelated. | |
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RahXephon, set in 2027, has computers with interfaces from Silicon Graphics' Irix,◊ whose UI has remained largely unchanged since 1991. | |
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The computers in Grim Fandango appear to be teletypes hooked up to enormous amber-monochrome screens. It fits with the Art Deco theming everywhere. It's also never explicitly stated just when the game is set; if anything, it seems to be around the Forties or Fifties, which would make them advanced for their time. | |
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Justified in the Fallout series. The transistor wasn't invented until 2067 (roughly a hundred years after the real-world silicon transistor), leading to the common computers just before the Great War of 2077 being very simplistic, equivalent to late 1970s' personal computers. Displays are massive monochromatic green/amber cathode ray tubes; even the Institute in Fallout 4 still uses CRTs despite having had two centuries to improve. Holograms were developed and the technology was in its infancy at the end of the world. The Sierra Madre Casino in Fallout: New Vegas has fairly realistic albeit monochromatic Hard Light holographic security drones and entertainers. | |
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Displays for gem tech in Steven Universe tend to be simple shapes in few colors or monochrome (in whatever color the screen is). All of them seem capable of displaying photos and video, which have clear resolution but heavy tinting in the screen's color. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis was made in the late 1980s and mostly used command line terminals. | |
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In the Mass Effect series, we have whizzy holographic monitors with monochrome visuals (usually amber, sometimes blue). Even non-holograms tend to be grainy, full of static, or blurry. The sequels justify this in-game by explaining that all of the important holographic conversations occur instantly across pan-galactic distances via quantum entanglement technology, which is still very much in its infancy. Quite literally, it looks crummy because only a tiny handful exist in the galaxy, and most of the ones used by the Alliance had to be reverse engineered from what they could steal from Cerberus and the Normandy SR-2. Getting it to run in 1080p before the Reapers arrived probably wasn't their highest priority. Given every other computer display in the series is just as bad, they did a pretty good job. The regular work space holographic displays look like they were specifically made to cause seizures or otherwise injure their operators. They're pointlessly layered (making text illegible), out of focus, and flicker constantly. The Codex justifies it by pointing out that people working on displays use haptic implants in their fingers and special glasses or implanted lenses to properly see what they're working on. Without those, the display looks messy. |
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In Star Trek: The Motion Picture their scientific advisor took a look at what the effects people had come up with for their viewing screen tactical displays, and told them "I can do better than that on my TRS-80," so what we see in the movie is what he did on his TRS-80. Some of the displays in The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock are definitely low-grade computer graphics. Then Michael Okuda came along on The Voyage Home and vastly improved the look. It's particularly jarring, though, when one of the bridge displays in The Wrath Of Khan, set in 2285, is primitive compared to the display of a circa-1986 computer in The Voyage Home! Then they did Star Trek V on a short timeframe and reduced budget, and the bridge displays became shockingly awful again. Averted with the simulation of the Genesis Device, first seen in The Wrath of Khan. Done as a showpiece by what would later become Pixar, it was considered a high point for the field of computer graphics of the time, and remains believable as a simulation thirty years later. The Star Trek production team was so enamored with it that they incorporated the footage into the next two sequels. |
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Modern tactical displays honestly do look a lot like computer screens in the New Hope — the lines are much thinner and overall picture is generally much sharper, but it's still the same spartan and simplistic vector graphics with purely functional look. If the video feed is featured, it's usually monochrome footage of thermal camera or image intensifiernote read — night vision, or, if a map is displayed, it's a bare vector version, overlaid with targeting reticles, unit icons, attack vectors, fields of fire, projected trajectories etc., all stark and functional, with simple alphanumeric readouts for required data. The last thing a commanding officer needs is unnecessary bells and whistles that could introduce ambiguity or tax the performance of their not very powerful heavy-duty hardware. | |
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The text we see when RoboCop is first activated in RoboCop (1987) shows that he is running under MS-DOS 3.3. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) (BBC miniseries)'s producers looked at what the BBC's own effects department offered for the guide. It wasn't pretty. So they averted this by using very painstakingly detailed cel animation and clever rear projection tricks to show "advanced" computer displays (such as the tiny non-flat flatscreen of the guide, the gigantic widescreen display on the Heart of Gold, etc). | |
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In Knight Rider, all of KITT's "complex" displays are source listings of BASIC programs. Given that the software is non-commercial, intended for use by a single trained user, and designed by a very small team to interface with custom hardware at a time with a shortage of third-party cross-platform GUI libraries, a text display was quite realistic for the period, of course - but that doesn't mean it was chosen as a result of the staff doing their homework. | |
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Parodied in Star Trek: Lower Decks: when the cast are taking part in Boimler's holo-novel, graphics of the same level seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are shown. Rutherford is blown away by the amazing graphics. | |
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Varies heavily in BattleTech, set in the far off future of 3025 and beyond. Battlemech heads up displays and cockpit displays are often depicted as being fairly simple affairs, albeit more for readability in combat rather than a lack of processing power. Third-dimensional holographic displays exist with great graphical capacity, but are uncommon due to excessive costs versus standard flatscreens, and interstellar transmissions are always sent in the smaller flatscreen format to save bandwidth. The depiction of display graphics has varied heavily in the franchise, having run since 1984, with older works using trending towards simplistic displays while newer ones use flatscreens, tablets, and holograms. | |
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Some of the displays in The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock are definitely low-grade computer graphics. Then Michael Okuda came along on The Voyage Home and vastly improved the look. It's particularly jarring, though, when one of the bridge displays in The Wrath Of Khan, set in 2285, is primitive compared to the display of a circa-1986 computer in The Voyage Home! | |
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This happens frequently on Futurama, what with it being a parody of classic science fiction. Notably, in "War is the H-Word", a bad-graphics hologram of a planet shows up and Fry is actually impressed. | |
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PlanetSide uses this for its virtual reality training areas for soldiers to experiment with new equipment before unlocking it. In the first game, objects in the VR had thick outlines and the terrain was super low-resolution and overlaid with wireframe. In the second game, objects look just like real life up close but beyond a few hundred meters the world fades away to black-and-white wireframe. | |
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Max Headroom. Everything is in wire frames. Then again, it was the Trope Namer for 20 Minutes into the Future.... | |
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In Gattaca, they can make DNA tests in seconds, but they have neither touchscreens nor high resolution. | |
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Many of the displays in The Force Awakens look more updated....except for the targeting computer of the Falcon which has the exact same Atari-looking graphics it had in 1977. | |
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The Outer Worlds, being a spiritual successor to Fallout, very much do the same, despite humanity being in a space age. Unlike Fallout, no real attempt is made to explain why technology is backwards compared to the real world. It's just how the setting is. | |
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Back to the Future Part II featured Marty getting scared by a hologram sprouting from a theater marquee for Jaws: 19. The hologram is shown with low-detail CGI and bug eyes,◊ which makes Marty's "The shark still looks fake." line that much funnier. | |
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Averted (a bit) in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which used modified cel animation to depict computer readouts that would otherwise be difficult or impossible in 1968, such as David Bowman watching television on a paper-thin tablet aboard the Discovery, but played painfully straight in the sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, with graphics and controls typical of 1984. On the other hand, the Soviet Alexei Leonov isn't nearly as advanced as the American Discovery despite the Leonov being several years younger. | |
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In the Rogue Squadron games, the targeting computer has the same color scheme as the films but puts a color overlay on top of the game's own graphics instead of using grids and dots. | |
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Compare the drab all-text computer graphics from Alien with the rudimentary graphics from Aliens. Seven years is a long time in computer science. Also, check out the digital photo that briefly appears in the director's cut of Aliens. It looks to be about .001 megapixel resolution. In fact, Alien did have wireframe 3D animation on some of the CRT monitors in the shuttle craft's bridge. The code for these was written in FORTRAN by British programmers on a Prime 400 microcomputer with 192 kB RAM. Now contrast the graphics of Alien and Aliens with the state-of-the-art-looking holograms, projections, and imagery present in Prometheus, theoretically set long before Alien. Possibly justified, since the Nostromo from Alien was a low-end old space tug and the Sulaco from Aliens was a rugged military transport, while the Prometheus was the shiny state-of-the-art Cool Starship This was later retconned as a defence against industrial hacking. Using antiquated technology reduced the number of attack vectors a rival corporation could employ. Alien: Isolation deliberately uses chunky, lo-fi graphical elements to mimic the outdated graphics from the first film (just see the image in our Zeerust Canon page) to evoke that sweet 80's nostalgia and heighten the feeling of trying to survive against a Nigh-Invulnerable enemy with technology that is outdated and unreliable even in-universe. |
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Even worse, in Timeslip, a futuristic (evil) computer can output directly as brainwaves or on a video screen. The video screen shows the image of a teletype printing out the computer's output. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: As seen in The Great Darkness Saga, the Legion's computers, built by the greatest genius in the 30th century galaxy, have displays with very simple 2-D graphics, and plain green screensavers. | |
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In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles we learn that at least part of SkyNet is written in Visual Basic and that Terminator CPUs plug into small subsection of PCI bus. No wonder they want to kill humanity. | |
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Monitors of any sort are rarely seen in Warhammer 40,000 (it being a miniatures wargame, after all) but the graphical quality of what little we do see tends to vary. Often justified since most races, especially humans, are living in a Used Future. The most recent example (at time of writing) is the Cold Open in the tie-in video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The Imperial command's monitor has a fully functional GUI and supports a click-and-zoom map of the galaxy, but can only display yellow, red, and black. Crazy juxtapositions of high and low technology are a big part of 40k's design aesthetic, especially for the Imperium of Man. Sometimes advanced computer monitors are even lit up with tallow candles, lacking any kind of internal illumination of their own. Completely averted with the Tau, whose tech is far more advanced than humans, to the point where it creeps them out to see holograms that don't require Percussive Maintenance every five minutes. |
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In the Shadowrun SNES game (which takes place in the 2050s), office computers don't have any graphics at all! Whenever you use your cyberdeck to jack into the Matrix, you get a screen full of command lines in classic green-on-black monochrome scheme while the connection is established. | |
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Doctor Who: In the 1982 episode Castrovalva, it turns out that the fantastically advanced TARDIS computer has a display that is outperformed by a ZX Spectrum. Justified in that later it turns out that the whole interface was a phony produced by the Master so that Tegan and Nyssa would think they were piloting the TARDIS. The other anachronisms in the TARDIS interface were later retroactively justified when the Doctor changes the TARDIS's "desktop theme" into a more organic, steampunk, retrotech look. Apparently, the Doctor is enough of a Bunny-Ears Lawyer to actually prefer that look over proper graphics. Unlike their Hitchhiker's Guide counterparts, the Doctor Who creative team were quite happy to use BBC Micros to generate their on-set graphics for most of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors' runs. Sometimes they could get away with it if the stories were set in the present or near-future, but stories set further in the future ended up fitting this trope to a tee. In "Warriors' Gate", the privateer's computer displays the TARDIS as a wireframe graphic. According to the DVD commentary, this wasn't even computer-generated — it was done by filming an actual wireframe model. |
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Mighty Orbots: In "The Wish World" Rob's playing a video game that fills up the whole room with its display but still looks like a bog-standard mid-80's spaceship shooting game, even though this cartoon is set in the 23rd Century. | |
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes, apparently set in the late 3590s, also has bulky computers showing simplistic vector graphics. Not to mention floppy disks. | |
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Moonbase 3: The computers were certainly more advanced looking than those used in 1973 - considering that they didn't take up a room - but there are no graphic interfaces. | |
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In an obvious stylistic choice, Kill la Kill is set at most 20 Minutes into the Future or possibly in a higher-tech alternate present, yet all the screens shown are low-res, grayscale LCD displays, even when they're attached to supercomputers or smartphones. | |
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The makers of the original Battlestar Galactica made an effort to avoid (well, delay) this trope by using the top-of-the-line graphics systems then available for the bridge display of incoming enemy fighters. They looked rather impressive for about five years. Oddly enough, the re-imagined series made a point of this with the computers on Galactica, which have been described as being far below the specs of today's systems. The reason is that during the initial Cylon uprising, the robots were extremely good at hacking, so the Battlestars used no wireless communications and only standalone computers (no networking). Since the Cylons vanished, all the Battlestars have been upgraded; Galactica is the only old-style Battlestar left, as its commander stubbornly insists that the Cylons aren't gone forever. (Obvious spoiler alert: he's right). It is presumably due to trying to avoid this trope that you don't really see the computer displays on the Pegasus (which is a more up to date battlestar) or any of the civilian ships, all of which would be running the "current day" (or at least more modern) colonial computers as opposed to the obsolete systems on the Galactica. The spin-off Caprica used much more flashy looking displays and technology in general - for instance, the tablet device Zoe uses and then rolls up to put back in her pocket. When the film Space Mutiny (which used classic Galactica scenes) was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and the 'bots took notice of this easily. |
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Oddly enough, the re-imagined series made a point of this with the computers on Galactica, which have been described as being far below the specs of today's systems. The reason is that during the initial Cylon uprising, the robots were extremely good at hacking, so the Battlestars used no wireless communications and only standalone computers (no networking). Since the Cylons vanished, all the Battlestars have been upgraded; Galactica is the only old-style Battlestar left, as its commander stubbornly insists that the Cylons aren't gone forever. (Obvious spoiler alert: he's right). It is presumably due to trying to avoid this trope that you don't really see the computer displays on the Pegasus (which is a more up to date battlestar) or any of the civilian ships, all of which would be running the "current day" (or at least more modern) colonial computers as opposed to the obsolete systems on the Galactica. The spin-off Caprica used much more flashy looking displays and technology in general - for instance, the tablet device Zoe uses and then rolls up to put back in her pocket. |
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Then they did Star Trek V on a short timeframe and reduced budget, and the bridge displays became shockingly awful again. | |
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The X-Wing video game actually used the Episode IV visuals for its targeting computers. Apparently deciding that they could do better, in TIE Fighter Lucasarts gave the TIEs a targeting computer that showed the target from the perspective of the pilot's ship, including orientation, though the viewpoint of the "camera" was always from the same distance. It might have been a decision to give the TIEs more advanced equipment, except that all future iterations gave player-controlled craft an identical targeting computer. | |
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In Mega Man X, the intro has Dr. Cain working on a circa-2114 machine with 8 petabytes of "real mem" (probably RAM) and 32 PB of "avail mem" (probably space in the swap partition of the hard drive) whose power-on self-test sequence still looks like this. (By contrast, a Mac Pro can be configured with 64 gigabytes of RAM (1/131,072th) of the fictional computer) and 8 terabytes drive space (1/4096th the fictional) and, well... | |
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In Superhot, the OS for the player's computer and most of the apps on it are made of ASCII art, but there are hints of Cyberpunk levels of technology available to the System, most prominently their Brain Uploading. | |
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At least they did better than Mobile Suit Gundam, which doesn't even have GUIs who knows how many centuries in the future. Word of God has hinted that the "Universal Century" (the main timeline of Gundam) begins in the mid-2100s, putting the original series into the early 23rd century. Given that the first TV series was produced in 1979, five years before the Apple Macintosh debuted with a built-in GUI,note First experimental GUIs did already exist at the time, but they were created in the rarified world of bespectacled, bearded and lab-coated computer scientists working with Mainframes and Minicomputers, and had yet to enter the public consciousness. it's not a surprise that they didn't show advanced GUIs beyond hand-drawn line images. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager retconned this by having a time traveler introduce computer technology to the 20th century. The result was an alternate timeline similar to our own. | |
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Now contrast the graphics of Alien and Aliens with the state-of-the-art-looking holograms, projections, and imagery present in Prometheus, theoretically set long before Alien. Possibly justified, since the Nostromo from Alien was a low-end old space tug and the Sulaco from Aliens was a rugged military transport, while the Prometheus was the shiny state-of-the-art Cool Starship | |
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In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines all the computers run on DOS in a game taking place in 2004. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine suffered from the same problem mentioned in the trope description of frame rate refresh being visible on screen. For that reason, only specialised TV monitors whose refresh rate could be adjusted to match that of the cameras were used, which meant that there you rarely saw an animated display in the background, only the ones necessary for the plot. | |
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