A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
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The Dutch electro-artist Legowelt announced a C64-game competition a while ago, and made the soundtrack for the winning game. The game (Loch Ness, pictured above) was never finished, but the soundtrack is available here. Made with the C64’s SID-chip. Always good to see PETSCII out in the wild like that!

The Dutch electro-artist Legowelt announced a C64-game competition a while ago, and made the soundtrack for the winning game. The game (Loch Ness, pictured above) was never finished, but the soundtrack is available here. Made with the C64’s SID-chip.

Always good to see PETSCII out in the wild like that!

#c64      #petscii      #game     

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An ANSI game simply called Shoot’em, which uses sounds that sounds like old Amiga music, which is actually from another game, which has a 90’s website, which is good, which is nice.

#animation      #ansi      #game      #2000s     

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LumASCII (ZX Spectrum) by Bob Smith (2012). It took 9 months to code it, since there weren’t many tools for the Speccy to work with “colour ASCII” (ANSI? hehe). Longplay version here.
Thanks to Akira and Ilkke  for the heads up.

#ascii      #spectrum      #game      #2010s     

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By Matt Hammill for the online text adventure game Guilded Youth. Thanks to Matt for sharing the GIF-files!

#game      #ANSI      #animation      #2010s     

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92% of all doctors use educational DOS software on a daily basis.

92% of all doctors use educational DOS software on a daily basis.

#game      #ansi      #animation     

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Screenshots from Xevious for Sharp NZ-700. Thanks to C-Men for the tip!

#game      #textmode     

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Space Harrier, text mode version. For the Japanese computer Sharp MZ-700. Check the full video.

#ansi      #game      #textmode      #1980s     

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Preview of a game by Cactusquid.

#ascii      #game      #animation      #2010s     

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cracked BBS in Portal-Update – Halflife EP3, via. Original file here.

#BBS      #ascii      #game     

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Stroker, a wanking game from 1983 in PETSCII text mode. Just like with Sex Games, it requires a sensual joystick touch, and not full on stick-shaking like the sports games did. (via @despens)

Stroker, a wanking game from 1983 in PETSCII text mode. Just like with Sex Games, it requires a sensual joystick touch, and not full on stick-shaking like the sports games did.

(via @despens)

#c64      #game      #petscii      #χχχ      #1980s     

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Owata 人生 オワタ- a shiftjis game //// Play it here

#animation      #shiftjis      #game     

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Text Fighter, an Apple II-game by Bret Victor 1995. Features some very nice animations. 

#apple ii      #game      #1990s     

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Screens from Granny’s Garden (BBC Micro, 1983). It appears to be completely in teletext, which the BBC Micro supported.

#bbc      #game      #teletext      #1980s     
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A teletext game for the BBC Micro called Flowers of Crystal (1984). Great intro!

#animation      #bbc      #game      #teletext      #1980s     

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Insanity by the Electronic Wizard, 1990. “A game to A-MAZE, astound and drive you completely INSANE!!!!” + “New Age 1998”

#animation      #ascii      #game      #1990s