I put a lot of quarters into arcade machines at the beach. Berzerk was definitely a quarter gobbler for me. I loved and feared the speech synthesis. It was like Planet Rock had gone evil. What these old 8-bit graphics lacked in detail was made up for in our imaginations — like a good book. Hmm, War of the Worlds comes to mind. Those black and white letters can scare you right under the covers.
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If you’ve ever played Activision’s Decathlon on a cartridge, you’ll recognize this guy right away. In the future, I’ll turn the image 90 degrees clockwise so the burn becomes speed lines. Woosh!
Like yesterday’s ring, if you stack him in reverse order, he runs the other way.
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Noah Scalin, from Skull-a-Day and Make Something 365, gave me an 8bit skull pattern after trading with him at the Art-O-Mat 15th Annual Swap Meet on Saturday. Something fun happened when I was assembling the stack of ring shanks to make the skull image. I went the wrong way and the image came out upside down and backwards. In other words, if you stack your rows of bits in the reverse order, you get a mirror image. Pretty cool.
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No respectable 8bit graphics group would be complete without invaders!
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I still see this icon every now and then when I make Photoshop work hard. Love the classic icons! This is another in a series of 8bit 10×10 grid designs that assemble like a puzzle. Stacks of shanks with individual pixels cut into the layers are interference fit through a bezel to form the icon.
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