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I know the atmosphere isn't the same.. but the PS1's graphics were less qualitative back then, which made games look grimy and dark, which fitted perfectly with Abe's Oddysee.
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There were plenty of bright and colourful games on the PS1, take Tomba / Tombi for example, that game would almost make your eyes bleed at much as Super Mario 64. The graphics only count towards a certain amount of the grime of the game. It's quite annoying seeing people give the lack of graphical quality so much credit for the original atmosphere, they did have a plan to make it look dark, y'know. They didn't imagine a colourful Rupture farms with green oozing out of the sides, or glow in the dark Mushrooms in FFZ and then when they loaded it into the PS1 were like "holy shit the drop in quality makes this awesome! What a stroke of luck!" You can view the original screenshots in their optimum resolution with Paul's level editor and you can see the harsh dank environments that make N'n'T look considerably less dark.