4D Boxing, one of my favorite games ever. It is one of the first 3D games ever made, and also had the most content for as simple as it was. Sporting a full 256 VGA color palette and Sound Blaster sound, 4D Sports Boxing, as it's full name is, was on the cutting edge of computer game technology. Being made in the same year as such games as Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D, 4D Sports Boxing is superior to most games of the era. Unfortunately this game was pirated extensively and its success was a direct failure because of the various cracks that were released.
4D Boxing is one of my favorite games because of its simplistic presentation of game, and the amount of depth that goes into the game its self. The theme song for the game is perfect and the fact that there are a few midi tracks that exist within the game lead to a good pace being set and adequate moods being presented on the situation.
The controls are great because they use a control method unique to 4D Sports Boxing, in that the number pad was used in conjunction with the "Enter" key to throw different types of punches, but when the "Enter" key was not pressed, the number pad keys would move the boxer around the ring.
4D Sports Boxing was one of the first games that allowed multiple cameras. It had a first person view as well as third person views and dynamic camera angles which I demonstrate in this longplay.
I play the whole way through, up to the 10th ranking or so, but I get creamed by one of the better AI builds as I didn't take time to train my boxer in endurance. I don't lose until I get beat up, at which point I stop recording. As you can tell, I am extremely good at this game, and one would expect that I would be, because it IS one of my favorite games, after all.
This version of 4D Sports Boxing, which I recorded on this longplay, is version 1.0. I found out about a version 2.0, which was made by Electronic Arts, who back at this time, produced extremely well made games. It wasn't until the early 2000's that Electronic Arts began to become despised within the video / computer gaming business because of their hostile takeovers of companies and their threat for becoming the first videogame monopoly corporation in history. Electronic Arts has since turned around their image and corporate strategy and started producing computer / video games that I equate to the quality and level which was produced back when I was a child. For example, version 2.0 of 4D Sports Boxing, Electronic Arts was given a very well made game and was asked to make it a little better. They introduced some, what appeared to be photographic bitmaps and, if I remember correctly, a new audio track and a small graphical upgrade to the 3D models, making the game much more serious and giving it a clean, polished feel all around. Unfortunately 4D Sports in general disappeared in the early 90's The only other game I came across in the 4D Sports series of games was 4D Sports Tennis which was corrupted when I downloaded it.
This video was recorded in DOS Box. The framerate of the video was 70 FPS. After many test renders, I settled on expanding the video to 720 HD because it is the only resolution which preserves the nearest-neighbor stretching the best. Uploading the video on You Tube at native resolution, which is 320 x 200, VGA, lead to You Tube completely taking a dump on the video in forms of compression. The compression applied by You Tube on my videos decreased steadily between 360 and 480 at 16 x 9 aspect ratio, until full 720 HD, (1280 x 720) at which You Tube left the video, near lossless.
The video; the longplay is about an hour and a half. This is probably, to the best of my knowledge, the longest video on You Tube. Perhaps the longest HD video on You Tube. I tried various compression methods and found none of them to be effective; decreasing the framerate didn't do much to reduce the file size, increasing compression resulted in unacceptable video degradation and keeping the stream smaller than 720 HD lead to loss of focus. So I rendered out a 720 HD video stream using the compressor XVid at a compression ratio of 1. The video was one hour, thirty seven minutes in length and it weighs in at 4.6 GB.
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