Looking for two video game art sites
December 11, 2005 6:33 PM Subscribe
There are two things on the internet that I would like to find again, both art pages related to old video games.
1. A website that had "Nintendo tabs", modelled on guitar tabs, showing a sequence of buttons that win a particular game. There were accompanying videos showing only the controller (video game audio in the background) as somebody pressed the buttons, playing the game.
2. An artist who took assembly code from old arcade games (arranged in 16-byte code blocks, I think) and drew a path over the code showing where the GOTOs and loops went.
1. A website that had "Nintendo tabs", modelled on guitar tabs, showing a sequence of buttons that win a particular game. There were accompanying videos showing only the controller (video game audio in the background) as somebody pressed the buttons, playing the game.
2. An artist who took assembly code from old arcade games (arranged in 16-byte code blocks, I think) and drew a path over the code showing where the GOTOs and loops went.
Response by poster: It wasn't Cory Arcangel (unless I'm missing something on that site), but I'm glad you linked to him. His 'simplified' roms are pretty awesome.
The code trace thing resulted in images, kind of reminiscent of Lorenz attractors, but more complex.
posted by Lirp at 7:01 PM on December 11, 2005
The code trace thing resulted in images, kind of reminiscent of Lorenz attractors, but more complex.
posted by Lirp at 7:01 PM on December 11, 2005
Best answer: I'm think #2 is distellamap from Ben Fry.
(And, I only know of this site, because I happen to see it on my favorite video games blog the other day.
posted by yeoz at 7:05 PM on December 11, 2005
(And, I only know of this site, because I happen to see it on my favorite video games blog the other day.
posted by yeoz at 7:05 PM on December 11, 2005
Response by poster: distellamap is exactly right. (And it looks like joystiq found it via we-make-money-not-art, which I bet is where I first saw it.)
Now how about those Nintendo tabs?
posted by Lirp at 7:18 PM on December 11, 2005
Now how about those Nintendo tabs?
posted by Lirp at 7:18 PM on December 11, 2005
Response by poster: Excellent. A top-notch effort all around. Thanks!
posted by Lirp at 10:32 PM on December 11, 2005
posted by Lirp at 10:32 PM on December 11, 2005
Response by poster: It looks like the tabs were produced by the same art collective (or whatever) that Cory Arcangel is in. Neat!
posted by Lirp at 10:38 PM on December 11, 2005
posted by Lirp at 10:38 PM on December 11, 2005
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posted by hooray at 6:39 PM on December 11, 2005