date: 2026-05-06
subject: Raytracer inside Bionic Commando

Raytracer inside Bionic Commando - 2026-05-06 - TOGoS's Journal

We were living, or camping, at least, in a big camper. Not the biggest camper—there were others around that were larger and had more rooms and amenities—but ours was nice enough.

It seemed we were camped outside some building. I don't remember what the building was.

I was playing Bionic Commando on the NES and toward the end of the game triggered a glitch or an easter egg that replaced the game with a realtime raytracing demo showing a city. It was very low-resolution and palette-limited. But it was very impressive to see such a thing running on the NES at all.