But looking back at old magazines, gaming TV shows, and message boards of the era, the sentiment was extremely common. A lot of the gaming community was so gassed up about the leap to 3D that they viewed 2D games as obsolete as black-and-white movies. When official publications reviewed 2D games that they had to push positively, they seemed ashamed or in denial about the game being 2D, and tried to talk up its other graphical features (Okay I’m talking about Nintendo Power specifically in this case).
This sentiment didn’t really begin to die until the late-00s retro boom and the simultaneous dawn of console indie games. A whole decade of people losing their shit if they saw sprites, lol
wonder how much of that was because the big companies were marketing their big-team-required 3d games and hyping the sentiment to try and crush the smaller-team games
since 3d programming at the time required a lot more deep programming knowledge without frameworks to handle it for you, and for consoles a whole lot of those were in-house until the 2000s
