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What scene productions made your jaw drop when you saw them? Not necessarily your favourites, but the demos that had that "wow!" factor.

The ones that stand out for me are...

Revelations
State of the Art
9 Fingers
Wild
Nexus 7
Captured Dreams
Heaven 7
The Product
The Popular Demo


Planet Risk almost made the list, but the hardware requirements are too high to have that "wow" effect on me.

Let's see... Most of the ones you mentioned... but also:

Enigma
Desert Dream
World of Commodore
Arte
Tint
Crystal Dream II
Second Reality (both PC and C64 versions)
VIP 2
Godog

Probably some more, can't think of them atm.

Synthematik. Haven't since such sync+drive+execution in demos since a while :)

Crystal Dream II
Planet Risk
d796
The Product
Beyond
Variform

variform
knark
demotronic
silkcut
zoom3
cycle

et cetera

winnerdemo

some 2kb cracktro (pc)
magic carpet 64
2nd reality (c64)
gamma 1
the product ( size wise )
sonnet
poem to a horse ( design,music wise )
project genesis
tube

i think that's all :/

unreal

Paper: Best wow!-factor ever. Omniscent, Mesha, heaven7 and fr-08 being near.
Last time I saw something really jawdropping was probably Planet Risk.

loserdemo.
the populist intro.
and protozoo.

demos with hypnoglow are instant jawdroppers!

hahah hitch

cyboman 2

maturefurk - lapsuus [the amiga one]
potion - planet potion
valhalla - fluid motion [back then really kickass]

and yeah, Statix' Paper r0xx0r :D

Hard question. I have since a long long time to jawdrop. It happened once ago due to design/fast paced presentation with some Amiga demos (Especially with Technological Death). Then, when I first watched the bitmap zoom/distortion effect in the C64 demo Parts by Oxyron (The most impressive effect in an 8bit ever!), later with a part featuring 15 DYCPs in Royal Arte (I am still not sure how is it possible, but I am still not aware of most C64 tricks). Then, huge demo works amaze me, one of the biggest works I have seen must be Numen in Atari800XL. Then, some AtariSt demos are preety big works (code, graphically and musically) like the Sector-One ones. I am not sure about PC, perhaps for their code, Legend by Impact Studios and then Crystal Dreams 2 for how innovative code it had for it's time. I am not sure about modern stuff..

Paper... über jawdropping

Paper, indeed. How could I forget paper?

kewlers - we cell.
mfx - predator

Oh yes, I forgot Origin and Real by Complex and Planet Potion.

Hmm.. at least:
Silkcut
We cell
Variform
Planet Potion
Zoom3
Popular demo

Protozoa
Planet risk
Arise
Staying pictures (ok, not really a 'demo')
Asm'2004 invitation
Coma on the dance floor
+one of our demos, but that's a highly skewed opinion :)

Damn! How could I forget Relic by Nerve Axis? The armageddon scene had me gasping!

Ikanim by Loonies
Pulse by Nerve Axis (when I first watched it on my 030)
Desert Dream by Kefrens
Arte by Sanity
Heartcore by IRIS (even as i saw it being coded, I was impressed)
Silkcut by The Black Lotus
Planet Potion by Potion
Dolphins Dream by Push
Bier by Ephidrena

variform!

hardwired.
desert dream.
nexus 7.
closer.
stars.
stash.
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