I am in my 40’s, and have been here for over a year now. I grew up with the earliest types of gaming and was hooked from the very beginning. Some of those games set the stage for me in the types of games I play and seek out to this day, whether from an unconscious nostalgia aspect… or they somehow peek into my personality. Whatever it is, I may explore that aspect in a future post.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have owned one of the first generation home game consoles (ok, my Parents officially bought it). It was in 1976 and called the Wonder Wizard. It was a Pong game. Can’t count how many hours I played that with someone else or alone against the computer. BUT, it was Pong… eventually it became rather redundant. The second-generation home gaming consoles introduced 8-bit circuit boards. These were fast enough and advanced enough to bring color to the world of gaming, and it thus changed gaming, for everyone. Arcades were born in this era as well.
So I’ve played a bunch in the 8-bit generation of games, and many are the ones that are considered classics and icons in the history of gaming. They became a part of society and of history.
The point of this post? Simply the fact that I came across a very well produced video on YouTube today that mixes modern computer animation with the 8-bit world of graphics. Any gamer worth his salt will recognize all of the references in it. I sat here and smiled as I watched it, and wanted to share it with the other long-time gamers out there.
It is called “Pixels.” Enjoy!
This video was Directed by Patrick Jean and Produced by Benjamin Darras and Johnny Alves at onemoreprod.
