Posts tagged 8bit
I finally finished Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Master System. Took me 22 years but totally worth it! My two year old Son helped a little.
I got out my Commodore 64 this week and amazingly it still all works, even the printer started churning out pages like it had never been stored away for most of the last 25 years!
I bought the system around 2001 from a guy who at that time still used it as his main PC and was finally upgrading.
It’s still in pretty good condition and some boxes even have price tags on - the disk drive was $495 New Zealand dollars when purchased (probably mid 80’s). That’s around US$420 in 1985, or US$915 adjusted for inflation in 2013 - just for the disk drive! Really shows how much prices have come down while performance has gone up!
Sonic Coffee is a power-up I’d happily run for.
Finally, scratch-off lottery tickets got interesting.
Mmmm, Yoshi Cake.
Giant game of Pong to be played next week, enter now!
If you’re in or around Philadelphia, you might want to check this out. You can enter a free lottery to play Pong on the side of a building but be quick - entries close tomorrow!
To kickoff the third annual Philly Tech Week Presented by AT&T, Drexel University Gaming Professor Dr. Frank Lee will host a Pong game tournament on the north face of the 437-foot tall Cira Centre, making it one of the largest video game screens in the world.
Video: 8 Bit games, recreated with Post-It notes.
From the maker:
This stop motion tribute to my 2 favorite old school arcade games is based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around my office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months. Changing background scenery was masked out and replaced with 1 consistent frame throughout the animation, producing an eerie stillness amid the moving images on the walls.
Image: Contra Sweater.
Apparently it’s Photoshopped, so don’t get your hopes up about picking this one up on Etsy.
8 Bit Skittle Art
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