The 7th Mode
Secret of Mana (1993)
From HILOBROW:
In the console war between the Super Nintendo and the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US), Mode 7 was a scanline-by-scanline charge by the SNES during early graphical skirmishes. This hardware-native feature allowed for pseudo-3D, creating a new sense of speed and perspective in launch games such as F-Zero, where racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky in the year 2560; or Pilotwings, where pilots earned their wings hang gliding, rocket belting and whatnot in the sky over lush islands in the year 1990.
F-Zero (1990)
