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Hey, Mario 64 isn't "real 3d". It is just a projection of 3d coordinates to 2d triangles on a 2d screen.

> It is just a projection of 3d coordinates to 2d triangles on a 2d screen.

IMO It depends on how you view it. You can render the game stereoscopically and see a different view in each eye... then I would call that "real 3d".

> You can render the game stereoscopically and see a different view in each eye... then I would call that "real 3d".

That’s exactly what the Virtual Boy does.

I just went down a quick rabbit hole and discovered the vector-based gamed machine Vectrex which in 1983, well before the 1995 Virtual Boy, had a "3-D Imager" head-mounted stereoscopic display. I wonder if that gets the claim for the first "real 3d" video game.

Nah, that would still be just 2 projections.

If you could perceive real 3D, you would be able to "see" completely everything in a scene, including the back of objects, or objects behind other opaque objects.

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