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Dr. Horrible In An 8-Bit Theater Near You
Have you ever wondered what Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog might look like on the NES? Well, at least one person has, and he made it himself. Doctor Octoroc, a digital artist and musician, has...
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Toshiba Will Make an 8-Bit Man Out of You [Video]
This neat short film, titled “8-Bit Gary” and directed by Mortar Inc.’s Docter Twins, is ostensibly about the DVD upconversion capabilities of Toshiba laptops, but we know the truth: Really, it just...
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The Video Games of Today Reimagined in 8 and 16 Bits
Today’s games are great, but they just don’t carry the same immeasurable nostalgic value as, say, Chrono Trigger, Link’s Awakening, or even Number Crunchers. Now Stockholm-based pixel artist Junkboy...
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Geekolinks: 8/7
HP ousts chief for hiding payments to friend (NY Times) Amazing marriage proposal in memes finds success (TDW) PB&J’s deconstructed (Neatorama) 8-bit comic superheroes reimagined for the NES...
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Super-Catchy Mixtape Made from 8-Bit Game Soundtracks
London-based Eclectic Method, dubbed “remix kings” by DJ Magazine, have released a music video containing a mashup of iconic 8-Bit video game music tracks and sound effects, set to an upbeat, clubbin’...
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8-Bit Woodworking
The Internet loves its homages to retro gaming; however, only a select few of said homages ascend to a higher level where craftsmanship and art evoke just as much of a response as nostalgia and...
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Real-Life 8-Bit Action Figures for Black Rock Shooter and Dead Master
Attention anime geeks: This is what Black Rock Shooter and Dead Master characters would look like in 3D 8-bit! Phat! Company will be offering these PVC figures May 11, 2011. If only they were more...
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Pixelated Trash Can
We tend to enjoy real life pixelated objects. Now, we have something to throw real life pixelated objects that we no longer like into. Created by Instructables user BrittLiv, this pixelated trash can...
View ArticleDark Side of the Moon Remade as Chiptune Album
Musician and programmer Brad Smith has recreated the entirety of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in chiptune music. According to Smith, every note of this 8-bit tour de force could be produced by a...
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8-Bit Demakes of Classic TV Theme Music
SoundCloud user RetroPeachy has been demaking some classic television show themes with a distinct 8-bit sound. They’re actually a lot better than the description may suggest, and include such TV...
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8-Bit Game Character Model Sets Are So Neat You’ll Wish They Were Real
Fake model sheets seem to be turning into something of an artform. Not too long ago we saw conspiracy model sets and now Ty Lettau is tackling the concept as well by creating model sheets of certain...
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8-Bit Pale Ale Is Perfect For Retro Drinkers
There are some geeky beers out there, but most of them associate with a single series or franchise. 8-Bit Pale Ale, on the other hand, has its sights set a little higher and aims to be the beer of an...
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Check Out These Beautiful 8-Bit Color-Cycled Images in HTML 5
In the past couple of decades, video game graphics have come a long way, a very long way. But who says realistic is always the best? There was something strangely majestic about old-school adventure...
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This 8-Bit Umbrella Sings In The Rain
Nobody likes going out on a rainy day, and having an umbrella only makes it slightly more tolerable. Alice Zappe made an attempt to change that with a unique and unusual invention: The 8-bit umbrella....
View ArticleThe Evolution of 8-Bit Art [Video]
8-bit graphics as a necessity are long gone. That said, 8-bit as an aesthetic is as vibrant as ever. The blocky pixel art so many of us grew up with is still near and dear to the hearts of many, even...
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Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine Gets An 8-Bit Makeover
Nine Inch Nails has always been part of video game history ever since the soundtrack of Quake (somewhat confusingly attributed to both Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails). But imagine if that classic,...
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Power Up: East London’s Brick Lane Gets an 8-Bit Makeover to Promote Wreck-It...
Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph may have come and gone for us yanks in the United States — hey, we at least have an expedited digital release to look forward to this February — but our friends over in the...
View ArticleAwesome Algorithm Teaches Tetris To Draw Video Game Characters [Video]
From programmer Michael Birken comes a new way of drawing video game characters that is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but all the more incredible for it. Birken has designed an...
View ArticleAnchorman Gets the 8-Bit Treatment From CineFix
People love the regular, non-8-bit version of Anchorman, so I’m willing to bet they’ll love Cinefix’s 8-bit Anchorman as well. The video shows us what an old-school Anchorman video game would have...
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Punk Goes 8-Bit: Because Chiptunes Make Everything Better
Last Friday, Tampa based punk and ska label Pinhead Records released a compilation of classic rock punk songs for free on their Bandcamp page. Now, punk compilations aren’t all that unusual or...
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