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This adorable 8-bit style animation comes to us fresh from some walls in Lecco, Italy, where pixel penguins stroll the day away, dodging the occasional Space Invader and *ahem* helping the flowers grow.
I really like how they freeze the animation at the end and pan across to show you the rest of the amazing graffiti art that adorns this city wall. Now that’s what I call fresh!
–via WoosterCollective
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We wish you an 8 bit Christmas. We wish you an 8 bit Christmas and a Happy NES Year.
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Take a stroll down memory lane to the time you were young and video games were the reason you dashed home from school. How many of these 20 games did you play on your NES, SNES, or Genesis? See them all in their original animated glory at Unreality magazine. Link
These 16 bit character re-designs have so much personality, and were clearly inspired by the character designs in Super Mario Bros. 3, which only adds to their charm.
They were created by Jesus Castaneda, and you can see his take on lots more pop culture icons, such as Doctor Who, Boba Fett Harry Potter and the Ghostbusters, at the link below. These guys should star in a Mario crossover game, and I like that he didn’t skimp on the belly bulge!
Link –via ComicsAlliance
Comments Off This is what Elder Scrolls: Skyrim would have looked like if it had been released in the 1980s, complete with cheesy 8-bit soundtrack and glorious pixelated graphics.
This fun parody trailer pays homage to such classic video games as: Legend Of Zelda, Duck Hunt, SkiFree, and Final Fantasy. Maybe the team at Bethesda should take a break from making hi-resolution games and explore their pixelated roots.
–via Geekosystem
An art project at the Something Awful forums had gamers and artists transforming 21st century video games into 8-bit screenshots, as they would look played on an old Atari system. The Legend of Zelda looks a lot different! Check out a gallery of other games in the old style at Unreality magazine. Link
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You know your city’s subway station is clean and vandal free when awesome works of art, like these 8 bit artworks made out of tile, cover the walls without fear of being defaced.
This subway station in Stockholm, Sweden is full of cool pixel art featuring Pac Man, Space Invaders, and other designs that show the Swedes appreciation of pixel art. There are lot more pics of this neat station art at the link below, don’t you wish your local subway station was this bright and cheery?
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Animated for the Italian channel FOX Retro, the animated video features popular 80s TV show characters in classic video game environments. The game was beat with Wonder Woman being saved by Fonzie from Happy Days. Then I inserted another coin to replay. -via Laughing Squid
These paintings by Laura Bifano depict animals as a bunch of squares, but this ain’t your grandma’s Cubism. This is 8-bit Cubist artworks for the video game generation, with cubic animals that look like they’ve leaped off the tv screen and into their “natural” habitats, and are having trouble fitting in with the classical art world.
There are plenty more cool paintings at the artist’s site below, take a gander and you’ll see a whole wide world of cubic critters trying to act natural.
Link -via ComicsAlliance
Cubies are German 8-bit characters: a cow, a chicken, a sheep, and a robot “toy.” In this silly but catchy video, they sing about going to Oktoberfest. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Comments Off Zardoz, that bizzare 1974 John Boorman film starring Sean Connery, might make a good video game. Animator Nick Criscuolo created this introduction for this tragically non-existent game. -via Boing Boing | Criscuolo’s Website
YouTube member slamacow shows us what 8-bit video game characters do when you’re not busy making them commit violence upon each other. Now that you know, you might see them in your dreams. -via The Daily What Geek
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While many of us may have had Nintendo themed lunch pales we took to school as young gamers, most of us probably didn’t actually go this far with our Nintendo love. One 8 bit fan took his broken old Nintendo and converted it into a lunch box, complete with a controller for a handle.
Using hundreds of tiny wooden blocks artist Shawn Smith is creating “8-bit” sculptures. At a time when retro 8-bit anything is extremely popular these sculptures take this motif and apply it to every day objects and animals. See the full gallery at the link.
We’ve featured Andy Rash’s iotacons before, but now he’s outdone himself. These are the characters from the TV series Breaking Bad, all rendered in 8-bit iotacons. If you’re a fan, you recognize who is who, but if you don’t, the character names are at the Iotacon site. Link -via Buzzfeed
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Can you name the old school video game sound effect with the game it belongs to? This quiz is strangely addictive and kind of hard (depending on your knowledge of 1980’s era video games.) How many did you get right?
If you were a gamer during the 80′s, then you know just how amazing 8 bits can look, which is why you shouldn’t be at all surprised by these great 8 bit artworks -impressed yes, but surprised, no. WebUrbanist has plenty more for your viewing pleasure.
Designer Kunihiko Morinaga is taking the resolution down a notch or two, all the way down to the pixel level. In his collection called Low (low resolution, that is), you’ll find dresses, jackets, sportswear, hosiery, shoes, and accessories all rendered in what appears to be 8-bit patterns. Where would you wear these pixelated pumps? See lots more pictures at Gamma Squad. Link
Adam Atomic and Danny Baranowsky present Rebecca Black’s “Friday” as a classic 8-bit video game with chiptune music. It’s not yet interactive, which is a pity, because the lyrics provide a conceivable plot for an adventure game.
via Geekologie | Adam Atomic | Danny Baranowsky
Previously on Neatorama:
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” as Radical Text
Star Wars Parody of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
Comments Off Christmas may be over but this Season’s Greetings video clip of your favorite 8-bit NES video game characters recreated in LEGO by Andrew Jive is so well made that it deserves a bit of your time. Take a quick peek at the 2 minute YouTube clip: Link – Thanks Andrew (who resolved to start these kinds of projects earlier next time!)
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What could be better than watching and re-watching Daniel Day Lewis’ mustache-fest-of-a-movie There Will Be Blood? Why, playing it in this re-imagined 8-bit game.
Here’s a clever fan-made clip by Tomfoolery Pictures about what it would be like to play Super There Will Be Blood on the SNES: Link
I’m so jealous! Wil Wheaton got himself a family crest made in the style of 8-bit video game, by artist Chris "Moustachio" Hope of J!nx:
The actual Wheaton family crest, while historically accurate, isn’t all that awesome, and while it probably reflected something relevant to my ancestors, it feels … well, dated by about 800 years.
So I asked myself one day, “if I could make a coat of arms for my little portion of the internet – my kingdom, I guess you could all it – what would it look like?”
The motto came to me instantly: “Don’t Be A Dick!” The rest followed quickly, representing the load-bearing pillars of my existence: science, gaming, Sci-Fi, and writing. We wrapped up the whole thing in a classic 8-bit package, and the WWdN Coat of Arms was born.
Kiel Johnson made this costume that looks like a man rendered in 8-bit pixelated art. It’s called “8-Bit Gary.” His site doesn’t state directly how he built it, but at the link, you can view many in-progress of the project.
Link via GearFuse | Photo: Hyperbole Studios | Previously: 8-Bit Costume, Shawn Smith’s Pixelated Sculptures
Comments Off You don’t have to be a Twilight fan to enjoy this 8-bit interactive YouTube game. Just make a decision on which way the adventure should go, and enjoy the silliness along the way! Produced by The Station, animated by Doc Octoroc.
Luis Diaz Santis and Magaly Guerrero Ramierz sent out invitations to their wedding depicting themselves as 8-bit characters in a two-player combat video game. Chris Jacob of Gizmodo suggests that this is a subtle social commentary on modern marriage. Either way, it’s cool, and you can view a picture of the groom proposing in binary at the link.
For Halloween, blogger Sarah McPherson painted her face and shirt to resemble a low-resolution image. She writes “The shirt took forever to paint, and my face only took slightly forever.”
Image: TastyPaints.com [Flickr]
Steven Lefcourt of TastyPaints was inspired by the controversy over the violence in video games to create this set of 8-Bit Fatalities:
Before Mortal Kombat, violence in video games was largely unheard of or ignored because of its extreme pixelized simplicity. But when Liu Kang and Sub Zero came along to finish off arcade goers the world changed and parents were in an uproar (not mine though).
I couldn’t understand what the big deal was though, because as a videogame player all my life I had already considered my actions life and death. Just because you didn’t see pac-man violently tearing into the ghosts with his jaws, or mario smashing in the brains of a goomba, thats what I knew was happening. I knew my goal was to kill these enemies, so Mortal Kombat wasn’t a big change for me. To me, it was still just a game, where fake deaths happened as part of game progression. To uninformed adults, however, Mortal Kombat was a photo realistic depiction of kids becoming complicit in virtual murders. And so, I decided to show everyone just what I imagined was happening when these little blocky, pixelized abstractions did when they came into contact with eachother, but in a much more visceral, and gory way than could ever be shown with limited graphical systems.
I’m totally digging the Dig Dug fatality! Link – via kottke
