Ugly polygon "babes" of yesteryear

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3D games, as a rule, don’t age well. The games of the last couple console generations might have been awesome for their time, but take a look at them now and it’s hard to see them as anything other than jaggy abortions in which cardboard rectangles masquerade as limbs. And as if that weren’t embarrassing enough, most of those games contain female characters who, in their day, were genuinely considered sexy. So much so that an entire generation of gamers wasted hours scouring the internet for mythical “nude codes.”

Now, though… it’s not so much that we no longer want to see these characters naked as that we wouldn’t want to be in the same city where they were naked. As badly as their games have aged, these former sex symbols have it worse, going from objects of desire to terrifying box-monsters with creepy heads and pyramid breasts. In the name of embarrassing everyone who lusted after them and mortifying everyone who didn’t, we’ve rounded up a selection of these sad creatures and put them on display.

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  • added July 09, 2009

7 comments // Ugly polygon "babes" of yesteryear

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    A WEE bit on the long side for what is essentially a one-note joke, dontcha think?

    Yes, we get it - PSone-era 3d graphics were bad and you're ashamed you spent your childhood years masturbating to them.

    But did we really need three pages of what would have worked fine as a top ten (or, more mercifully a top five) list of the worst of the lot?

    ShadowPraxis
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    It's like comparing a Model T, to a Telsa Roadster, but all things have to start somewhere.

    pjacobs51
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    Hey! how about Tyris Flare from Golden Axe...she was a babe!

    trailingedge
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    At least Nintendo kept Impa looking the same as the game art...

    but I think she's still fugly o.o

    TheBrownKid
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    Dont forget Princess Zelda on the N64 ;]
    those were the days lol
    we take graphics for granted these days.

    RoCkeR666
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    What about the hooker from the first leisure suit larry game?!? Must have been about 9 pixels of flesh in total.

    Oh and in a top ten surely Lara Croft must have been near the top. Most geeks will remember the nude patch for the PC

    JClem
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