8-Bit Breaking Bad

The inclusion of Victor under the ATM machine is a nice touch. Click through for the full character legend. We started watching Breaking Bad this summer and caught up just in time to realize we'd missed the first three episodes of the new season. Arrggghhhh! (Breaking Bad iotacons by Andy Rash)



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CSI: 8-Bit

8-Bit Pulp Fiction

Street Fighter Kiss

8-Bit Last Supper

Divine Intervention by Aled Lewis for the iam8bit art show. Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted a Last Supper, and it used to be my blogging bread and butter.



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Suddenly Last Supper

King's Quest's Silver Hammer

Where No Pixel Has Gone Before

A Fistful of Points

"You shoot to kill, you better hit the heart." - The Gamer With No Name. (Eduardo San Gil for a Threadless submission)

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Josey Wales And The Pussycats

The Woody With No Name

Forgiven

Goin' Down To Zelda Town, To Play My Troubles Away

Where did you think all those Links came from? (Zelda Town by Scott Campbell for SUPER iam8bit)

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You Are Out Of Lives, Link!

Skeleton Warrior Waterpark

Are You Going To Zombie Fair? Brains, Brains, Brains And Brains

8-Bit Pulp Fiction

Andy Rash's Iotacons are extremely low-res full-body portraits of celebrities and characters from pop culture. They are usually no more than 25 pixels high, and end up looking like they walked out of an early video game. (From Fuel Your Illustration's interview with Rash)

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Where No Pixel Has Gone Before

Street Fighter Kiss

8-Bit Terrarium

Go Ask Alice, When She's Ten Feet Tall

I was unfamiliar with the game American McGee's Alice until I saw some of the art from Gallery 1988's show. Above is a poster from Ken Wong, the art director for video game design house Spicy Horse. It's wonderfully twisted.

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Alice In Zombieland

Pulp Fiction Wonderland

Through The Remixed Looking Glass

P Is For Pac-Man, T Is For Tetris

Another awesome alphabet series from Fabian Gonzalez, who says he is wrapping up the series with this video-game-inspired alphabet. I did my worse on this one, only picking up 12 of 24. You can also get it on a poster or tee.

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A Superheroes ABC

A Perfectly Cromulent Alphabet

Z Is For Zissou: A Pop Culture Alphabet

You Are Out Of Lives, Link!

Link! Cover your heart! Cover your heart! (No Time For Love, Dr. Jones by Dan Hipp)

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Indiana Jones And The Morning Paper

I'm Indy The Archeology Man

What's In Your Gamer Closet?

Shy Guy And Goomba Are Run-SMB

So I took a big chance at the Mushroom Kingdom dance

With a Mario who was ready to play

Wasn't me he was foolin,

'Cause he knew what he was doin'

When he told me how to walk this way

(RUN SMB by Baardei at RedBubble, via Shirtoid)

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Walker This Way

The Style of Music

Two Girls, One-Up

We’re On A Mission From God

The Blues Brothers as a Grand Theft Auto spinoff? You know the soundtrack would be cool. (GTA featuring Blues Brothers by Jimiyo)

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Pop Culture Built My Hotrod

Good Guys In Bad Games

Extreme Movie Makeovers

8-Bit Little Shop Of Horrors

"Cause if you feed me, Seymour, I can grow up big and strong." (8-bit little shop of horrors by Dann Matthews, via Gamefreaks)

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Where No Pixel Has Gone Before

Street Fighter Kiss

8-Bit Terrarium

What's In Your Gamer Closet?

I'd wear the Halo suit over Donkey Kong's. Mario wouldn't stand a chance. (Gamer's Closet from 604republic, who look like they may have raided Glen Brogan's closet.)

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The Ultimate Video Game Party

The Many Faces Of A Space Invader

Choose Your (Video Game) Weapon

What Mario Saw...

Seriously, how did he not go completely insane? (Mario World by Alexey Mikhaylov, via Comics Alliance)

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The Ugly Truth About Warp Tunnels

The Nasty, Brutish And Short Life Of Mario

Super Mario Bros: Mario's Mass Grave

Knights Of The Nintendo Table

The Konami Code Of Arms, an instructional infographic of the greatest video game cheat code of all time, rendered as a heraldic shield, by Pop Chart Lab.

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Konami Code Last Supper

Star Trek Knights of the Round Table

The Creation of Mario

Blinky, Pinky, Inky And Clyde Get Some New Friends

Pac-Man should be seriously concerned. With Rorschach, Master Chief and Predator among the new ghosts I don't think there are enough power pellets to save him. Click through for a full list of all the ghosts. (Pacman Ghosts by Ryan Coleman via Rampaged Reality)

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Pac-Man's Last Supper

Fast Food Final Fantasy

Ronald McDonald Sephiroth and Colonel Sanders Cloud. So the final victor will be KFC? I wouldn't have guessed. Shot by Steve Burt at the 2008 Anime Expo in Los Angeles.

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Fast Food, Fast Times
Super Col. Sanders Mario
And I'll Whisper, "Would You Like Fries With That?"

World of Ni-Craft

King Arthur: O Knights of Ni, you are just and fair, and we will return with a shrubbery.

Leader of The Knights who say Ni!: One that looks nice.

King Arthur: Of course.

Leader of The Knights who say NI!: And not too expensive.

Monty Python meets World of Warcraft in a cross-generational nerdsplosion, on sale cheap at TeeFury today and less so at RedBubble after that. (World of Ni-Craft by Jimiyo)

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'It's Just A Flesh Wound' Operation Game

Scarface Angry Birds

Pop Culture Built My Hotrod

Mario Gets An Offer He Can't Refuse

Bowser sends Mario a message. I try not to post too many Mario pictures but just when I think I'm out... Evan Yarbrough pulls me back in. (Link via Spoke Art)

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The Frogfather

The Lolfather

Mario's Mass Grave

Angry Batbirds

The Angry Birds go to Gotham. Illustrated by Daniel Halyburton and Jennifer Herd for Bite. (Thanks for the tip, Walter)

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Genus Aves Iratus (Angry Birds)

Scarface Angry Birds

I Tawt I Taw An Angry Bird

Final Philosophical Fight

This is an entirely accurate representation of the Academy in Athens, or at least as far as I recall from class. I think I may have mentioned I wasn't a particularly strong student. (Final Philosophical Fight by Eduardo San Gil)

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The Odyssey of Chuck Norris

Odysseus And The Facebook Peril

Ancient Star Wars Greek Vase