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Sunshine, Sapphire Shores, and Shader Tricks: Why Old Games Were Obsessed With Water

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Sunshine, Sapphire Shores, and Shader Tricks: Why Old Games Were Obsessed With Water
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Fire up almost any major PlayStation 2 or GameCube title from 2001 to 2004, and there's a good chance you're going to end up near water at some point. Not as a gimmick, but as a fundamental part of how the world looks and feels. Coastal towns, tropical islands, endless shimmering ocean horizons. It was everywhere, across genres, across publishers, across wildly different kinds of games, and it was not a coincidence.

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