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sync-on-luma is obsessed with Akira-style diagonal freight lifts and has made a video about their appearance in computer games. No sponsors or anything, just an unnecessarily deep dive into his favourite examples.

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[–] mrslt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Somewhat related, but I've always been fond of funiculars.

Having read the Akira comic books in my teenage years, I never knew that this is the origin of all those diagonal elevators in games. I just assumed them to be a thing in the real world and never questioned that up to now.

Crazy that so many games adopted it. The comments on YouTube mentionmany more games than featured in the video.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Latest one I came across is from Signalis:

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Metal Slug(MS7) had a similar platform too.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Time Crisis 1, has multiple of these elevators on the same track.

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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I get twitchy by looking at that image, gotta dodge those head crabs.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s the only one that comes to mind for me and they missed it???

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

I can't believe he ranked mgs1 below hl1...