It's like Tron in reverse - characters from beloved games of yore are stepping off the grid and invading our reality. My lifelong dream of having a drink with Q*Bert may finally come true! 8-bitscapes, a collaboratio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/30/classic-video-game-characters-in-the-real-world/Artists Benedetto Bufalino and Benedict Deseille installed these lights as part of the Festival of Trees and Lights in Geneva, Switzerland. Seeing these would surely "brighten up" the evening commute! Link -via The Dail...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/05/pac-man-lights/Elisabetta Comini of the University of Brescia in Italy created this Pac-Man image. It's a copper oxide cluster measuring 3.5 microns across. This piece was unveiled at an art competition at the 2010 convention of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/07/nanoscale-pac-man/(YouTube link) This clever stop-motion ad for Moleskine notebooks promotes their anniversary line of Pac-Man notebooks. Link -via The Daily What...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/05/pac-man-notebook/Deviant Art member Kalapusa, who gave us the Super Mario Bros. Piranha Plant Sculpture, has created a "realistic" yet very alien version of Pac-Man. See more pictures at Geekologie. Link -via Holy Kaw!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/29/real-life-pac-man-discovered/(Video Link) We've previously seen Guillaume Reymond's stop motion human Tetris. Now he presents a similar video showing Pac-Man. It was created using 111 human pixels over a 4 hour period. via Nerdcore | Offic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/09/stop-motion-pac-man/Despite having watched more than my fair share of television in the 1980s, I somehow missed out on these over-the-top commercials (except the Mario Bros. one). Milo assembled 8 of the craziest video game spots from the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/21/video-game-commercials-of-the-80s/Hah! This one is clever: someone in Japan has created a Pac-Man wallpaper for your iPhone that turns your app icons into a maze for the dot-munchin' Pac-Man! Link | Original Website [Japanese] - via Laughing Squid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/pac-man-wallpaper-turns-iphone-apps-into-maze/Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, recently revealed a notebook of his original concept art behind the game. It dates back to 1979, and includes sketches on graph paper for the mazes and characters. You can view...
https://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2010/06/23/the-original-pac-man-sketches/(Video Link) Actually, these Russian ads are designed to sell some sort of snack food. But they pit Mario and Pac-Man against each other using very simplified animation and mouth-produced sound effects. Hilarious....
https://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2010/06/10/brilliant-minimalist-video-game-commercials/