Micro Retro A-Go-Go
Newish gamesblog Re:Retro reveals that "the world's smallest website," Guimp, has put up more of its adorable tiny clones of vintage arcade games, now including Pong, Pac Man, Asteroids, and Space Invaders.
Each game is boiled down to an 18-pixel square screen, replete with minimal-pixel graphics and clunky sound effects. It's a concentrated dose of nostalgia as well as a design experiment gone horribly well.
If a game reduced to such a tiny size is still fun (and these are), you know the original design was sound. Try shrinking any modern console game to this size and see how much fun it is to play.
Comments
cool and very interesting... :P
Posted by: sureash | February 8, 2006 2:35 PM
Aaaargh, my eyes are bleeding!!!!
But fun :)
Posted by: mrb | February 8, 2006 2:45 PM
Put them on an iPod Nano.
Posted by: Mr. K. | February 8, 2006 2:51 PM
Yes, fun indeed.
however I cheated a bit, used Mac OS X's zoom feature...
Posted by: Bat Guano | February 8, 2006 2:54 PM
Haha! This is crazy!
333 Diggs as of writing this, and it made the front page!
It's funny really, I think this was on Digg just a week or so ago...
Thanks for linking me :o) I've put a link on Re:Retro to this site... Take it easy!
Jonic.
Posted by: Jonic | February 8, 2006 3:17 PM
Command-option-+ is the way to go, but it's hard to get that cursor out of the way...
Posted by: Jooles | February 8, 2006 3:24 PM
just because you can do it doesnt mean you should. cleverness is dead.
Posted by: corb | February 8, 2006 4:39 PM
Hello! that site is like 4-5 years old
Posted by: gerard majax | February 9, 2006 6:16 AM
Games are cool - but my cursor kept covering the website ... Only good for a couple of minutes play before it looses its appeal.
Posted by: John | February 10, 2006 1:11 AM
I coudnt see the game hardley but it waz fun. I would give it a 2 out of 5 but it was cool.
:)
Posted by: Rhys Thomas | February 10, 2006 8:36 AM
Dude thats cool ha my eyes are hurting now but still thats cool!!!!!
Posted by: Kel | February 10, 2006 1:58 PM
wow so weird yet so very addicting :)
Posted by: Clare | February 10, 2006 6:42 PM
Pong wonderful pong.... but samller.... its so good
Posted by: Infearno666 | February 10, 2006 10:35 PM
crappest thing i have ever seen, you should all be shot
Posted by: secret | February 11, 2006 6:20 AM
smack head says you lot are morons ha ha
Posted by: smackythesmackhead | February 11, 2006 6:54 AM
woah, that is freakn hard, but fun!
;P
Posted by: Likin Toad | February 11, 2006 7:07 AM
wow , this is fab and i can actually see what i am doing which is quite unusual considering my eyesite , lol. this is v cool an every one should try it out.
Posted by: yazi | February 11, 2006 7:55 AM
diz is so hard!!...but kinda kull!..jkehjejh
Posted by: adelutiis | February 11, 2006 12:56 PM
I'LL WRITE BIG SO YOU CAN SEE! THAT WAS FRIGGIN' AWESOME DUDES. THEY SHOULD SELL THAT ON EBAY FOR LIKE 20 BUCKS!
Posted by: cocopuff | February 12, 2006 10:54 AM
WOW! these games are sooo tiny but theyre SO fun! nice work!
Posted by: april | February 12, 2006 12:09 PM
my eyes hurt
Posted by: seth | February 12, 2006 6:09 PM
Wat is the point of this??? I can't even see as it is!
Posted by: helena | February 13, 2006 9:59 AM
This is stupied. What's the point of making it so small? Thumbs Down.
Posted by: Champ | February 13, 2006 3:39 PM
Fantastic, love the graphics - who needs next gen.
Posted by: Pachinkos | February 14, 2006 1:22 PM
There's a certain irony in playing one of these micro games on a wide screen monitor at 1680 x 1050 resolution. What's next, dot matrix porn, (circa 1979), on Photoshop sites?
Posted by: Breakfast Rider | February 17, 2006 2:18 PM
holy impossible. Try playing this on like 1600 x 1200 screen resolution!!
Posted by: Sucka862 | February 23, 2006 3:55 PM
Damn! As if my eyes didn't hurt before...
Posted by: Jdogg795 | March 15, 2006 8:27 PM