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A megamix of minimalist game remakes

by JC Fletcher on Nov 3rd 2009 3:00AM

For the opening of last weekend's GameCity Squared event, design group Alaskan Military School took a bunch of popular games and boiled them down to the bare essence, creating shockingly recognizable 15-pixel animations representing Parappa the Rapper, Street Fighter II, Noby Noby Boy, and more.

This is the most abstract we've ever seen many of these games, but even without the audio, it would be easy to identify the sub-Meggy Jr. interpretations of our favorites. Although we were briefly confused by what we thought was supposed to be Gitaroo-Man -- until we realized it was Gitaroo-Man's "Legendary Theme" being played in Guitar Hero.

Now we can only hope that someone runs with the idea and delivers some playable versions of these games. HD is played out -- we're ready for Sub-Standard Definition.

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Tags: 15-pixel-megamix, alaskan-military-school, art, gamecity-squared, noby-noby-boy, parappa, retro, street-fighter-ii

Reader Comments (35)

Interesting. Best part was Sonic.

rock band one was funny

I believe that was the song from Gitaroo Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHLGg-GS5Fc#t=2m28s

Coming to a microwave oven clock display near you, Crysis.

To be honest I'm surprised EA hasn't already ported the Sims to microwaves. After all, everyone knows a woman's place is in the kitchen.

@stupid

That was offensive on about 3 levels as far as I could tell. And I loved everyone.

Possibilites are endless, and really really simplified! I love it. Hope they do more.

Can anyone actually tell what's going on in any of those? Only one that made any kind of sense was the Guitar Hero one >_>

Last one is Final Fantasy 8 (Squall and Rinoa's dance).

Sonic the Hedgehog is the other one I recognised. There's a lot of blue in it.

Now I wish my parents would have sent me to military school... HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?!

I liked the FLower one

I'm glad someone else got it. lol

Doom turning into a pixely mess as the Pinky attacked was brilliant.

I want a Gitaroo Man sequel =[

Just came across your blog. Continue to explore ego.Mnogo written about the game

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed.

Now just sit right there, and let me tell you about how I became the fresh prince of Belair.

Ooooooooooooooh

West Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days

Take out map. Look at map. Put map away. Take out torch. Light torch. Move forward. Take out sword. Swing sword. Swing sword. Take out herb. Eat herb. Move forward...

Very entertaining - it really makes you realize how important sound design is to a game, as well as palette choice. Doom was instantly recognizable by the pink demons and sound of the door opening; I wonder if the majority of first-person-shooters today would fare as well? I would think not.

I would have liked to see a Diablo one, not sure how they'd convey that though.

I doubt it. Maybe the sound of a plasma grenade in Halo, but most shooters don't rely on sound the way Doom did. It's a shame.

It's because many shooter today are based on real life weapons and such. So there's nothing to make them standout as individually recognizable. But I'd wager that many scifi-ish shooters would be recognizable.

Darth brings up Halo, but there's a lot more than just the way the plasma grenades sound. Think about all the voices and sounds the Covenant and Brutes make. Or the way the vehicles sound... especially the Banshee.

Hell, in the original Halo even many of the guns sounded rather distinctive. Find me anything else that sounds like the MA5B assault rifle.

Why didn't they do Zelda!? Clearly they were not thinking straight when they made this. Also, I highly doubt we could tell what each section of the video refs to without the audio, it would just look like a bunch of squares lighting up. (Which is what it looks like anyways)

Next time they should probably use at least 30 pixels. Maybe then you can actually make some of that stuff out.

And how dare they defile Gitaroo-Man by associating it in any way with Guitar Hero. Gitaroo-Man is a real rhythm game, not some poser music game.

/unrelated

Anyone else experience a shipping delay on SW:TFU Ultimate Sith Edition from Amazon?
It's odd, because I paid for release-date shipping on that one and it's being delayed, but I only paid 2-day on Dragon Age and it's coming today...

So we have Street Fighter II, Parappa the Rapper, Punch Out!!, World of Warcraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, Outrun, Flower, NobyNoby Boy, Gitaroo Man/Rock Band/Guitar Hero, Gauntlet, Doom, and then something I can't quite figure out.

I can see pixels from my house...

WTF? They remade the docking scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey!

That's not a game, but it IS awesome.

Oh no wait, it's from Elite. They remade the sequence in the game.

Appears that someone's already on the crack.

Incredible. I would've love to have seen Rez.

That video was retarded. None of those were "recognizable"

Wow, that was pretty brilliant.

I wonder if any of those games are playable

I recognized punch-out, street fighter, and sonic......everything else was just a blur

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