Tag: 8-BIT

This "garage sale find" (yeah, right...) game, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic, is a blast. You take control of Nick Carraway as he hurls his hat at waiters, drunks and gangsters in a quest to track down Gatsby. The game is short, sweet and simple, and filled with NES-style cut scenes that tell the story in a way that should be familiar to anyone who has played an 8-bit RPG. We ...

As exciting and nostalgic as chiptune music can be, it's also a difficult genre to translate into live performance. Usually created with trackers and software sequencers, chiptunes are not easily played on traditional instruments. A new organ dubbed 'The Chipophone', though, helps 8-bit artists compose and perform in a more visceral manner, and may provide a new palate of sounds for musicians of ...

It's Memorial Day Weekend, so how about a little stop-motion video game battle? We don't want you to have to think too hard while you're drinking yourself into the emergency room (in honor of the men and women who have died in service to our country, of course). So, we submit to you two amateur videos that have recently hit the Interwebs for a little compare/contrast debate. Check out the vids ...

As cult classics go, 'The Big Lebowski' is perhaps king of them all. The tale of a bowling and beer-loving underachiever, it's the sort of story to which we all can relate -- or at least enjoy watching. It's no surprise then, that the Dude has become a sub-cultural icon, as most recently shown by a series of art panels done in the pixelated style of 8-bit video game systems. Classic game ...