If it can be 8bitted – make it so. Well this homemade beauty was built as apart of an art experiment called an instrument a day, where artist Ranjit Bhatnager builds a new homemade instrument…um…each day. Today seems to be our lucky day as he decided to take on making an 8bit violin that actually [...]
Posts Tagged ‘8bit’
The Great Gatsby for NES
February 22nd, 2011
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Not much to say. You either read it and know it or have no idea what this is. Either way it’s a pretty fun side scrolling 8bit version of the epic story that will ruin your day. Check out this flash based browser game over at Great Gatsby Game. Although you might be better off [...]
8bit Your Twitter Avatar
January 24th, 2011
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Yeah – you can do this too. Not really much more to say except give credit to where credit is due. But trailing this seems like waaaay too much work so for a step by step how to and a heart warming story of who did what head over to techcrunch.
8bit ‘Aliens’ Video Game Uncovered
January 24th, 2011
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Ripley, believe it or not, you had a video game back in the day. One of the greatest action films of all time, yes this is fact, had an 8bit counterpart originally planned for the Famicom Disk System – an add-on never released for the American NES. Now for the punchline – this 24 year [...]
Tron:Legacy 8bitified
January 3rd, 2011
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I have yet to see Tron: Legacy but from what I hear I’m not missing much. I mean I know my expectations will be met; dumb plot, cool visuals, and Olivia Wilde in leather – but it won’t change my life. With that said here is a sweet 8bit re-imagining by Pierre Manry and I [...]
NoiseES, an iPhone App We Can Definitely Get Behind
January 3rd, 2011
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Just in case you can’t get enough NES chiptunes – now you can take them on the go with the NoiseES (aka NES see what they did there?) iPhone and iPod Touch app. This sweet little app was developed by Shaun Inman a designer/developer from the Chattanooga, TN area. And we approve. So did iTunes [...]
This NES Guitar Mod Sounds Like Sh**, Go Figure
December 15th, 2010
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File this under useless but cool. GetLoFi.com hacked together a perfectly working guitar with an NES to create this working guitar that sounds like its playing through a speaker that was knifed to death. To each his own. This one of a kind, no really there is only one right now, is being sold in [...]
UK PSA Uses 8bit Video to Teach Gamers About Safe Sex
December 9th, 2010
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I guess this is one way to connect with the kids. It definitely gets the point across in an easy and semi-funny way. But who are they kidding – gamers are too busy, you know, gaming to get laid. This educational video is brought to us by The Leicestershire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership – I actually [...]
Who Knew – Yoshi Tastes Like Chicken
November 18th, 2010
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I always imagined Yoshi tasting like chicken. Now if I ever decide to eat one, thanks to this handy meat diagram, I’ll know what I’m getting. Artist Jude Buffum (who may be our new favorite artist) aka Juder, El Juderino, or His Judeness, has kindly put together various meat diagrams for some of video games most [...]
For The Love of 8bit; A ‘Best-of’ Compilation We Didn’t Do
April 16th, 2010
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There are a few things in this world we like. One being other people doing the work for us and then them telling us about it. Makes life easier for us, and frankly, that’s really what it’s all about. Our friend Zach (I call him friend but we’ve never met, but he did send us [...]
