A Tribute To 8-Bit Video Games Done With Legos

Published on August 24th, 2009

Posted by Uncle Dave in Games, Video

This apparently took a mere 1500 hours to create.

Now confess. How many of you spent at least that long trying to master some of these games?

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# 1 Alfred1 said, on August 24th, 2009 at 4:37 am

What that “out of memory” dude at the end, the mouth wide open, John C Dvorak?

# 2 Benjamin said, on August 24th, 2009 at 5:19 am

Nice. I like Lego stop motion animation. Search YouTube for more examples. I like this genre. It sounds like really hard work.

# 3 andycatus said, on August 24th, 2009 at 7:03 am

Amend the title to
“A Tribute To 8-Bit Video Games Done With Lego”.

WTF is Legos? A Greek island?

# 4 Miguel said, on August 24th, 2009 at 8:02 am

I lived through the 80′s 8 bit revolution, and I still wonder what I’d feel then if I knew one day I’d watch VIDEO, on a COMPUTER, with MUSIC, playing a tribute to the games I then played, sent from another computer on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD, though something called an INTERNET…

This would be unimaginable then! I was happy just to see squares or rudimentary figures moving up and down in my lovely old Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

# 5 ECA said, on August 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am

OK,
who wants to convert that to 256 colors??

# 6 The Monster's Lawyer said, on August 24th, 2009 at 8:36 am

(yawn)

# 7 Alfred1 said, on August 24th, 2009 at 9:52 am

#3 Yes, in ancient times, it was the isle of Legos, where neither sex was allowed…

It was where the first artificial life forms were constructed by Dr Moreau, a French transplant evil scientist who asked the eternal question, “what planet are you on, you don’t know what a lego is?”

# 8 CrankyGeeksFan said, on August 24th, 2009 at 10:23 am

#2 Benjamin,

I visited a couple of arcades. I didn’t play much. I tried to do well at Pac-man, and reached the third screen (not to well).

Great computer generated video of a c. 1984 arcade! Click the left side of the screen for sound effects only and the right side for music and sound effects.

http://www.cinemarcade.com/movies/arcade84.mov

This is a montage of stills from an arcade c. 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdNBk_liGvw&feature=fvw

# 9 Uncle Dave said, on August 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am

#3: What are Legos? Were you never a kid?

# 10 Jason said, on August 24th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

That video probably took longer to make than the programming for Pac-Man did.

# 11 Richard L. said, on August 24th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

#8: I think the point of #3 is that there is no plural to Lego. It shouldn’t have an “s” at the end. Hence the Greek island joke.

# 12 Zybch said, on August 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Nice stuff, except for the non-lego bits. They killed it for me.

# 13 Egon Ruuda said, on August 24th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

Those two swedes sure know how to make stopmotion lego videos. I saw some others from the same team wich was made for some commercial, i think.

# 14 Uncle Dave said, on August 24th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

#10: So, the plural of Lego is Lego?

# 15 Richard L. said, on August 24th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

#13: yes, or if you prefer Lego bricks (or Lego toys). There was some ruffled feathers a few years ago from Lego about that. Search ‘Lego bricks vs “legos”‘ on the web for details.

Lego even makes a point to splash a temporary web page on http://www.legos.com saying: Oh! you must mean http://www.lego.com let us take you there, instead of at strait redirect.

# 16 gooddebate said, on August 24th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

Come on, haven’t you guys heard of the internet? Look it up, the plural of Lego is Lego Bricks.

# 17 andycatus said, on August 25th, 2009 at 12:47 am

#13 Yes. Plural of Lego is Lego.

Put it in the Blog’s staff training manual.

Everytime Lego is featured on this blog the same mistake is made every time. It will happen again. But please try to remember.

tinyurl.com/lq6wp5

# 18 r4 ds said, on August 25th, 2009 at 3:18 am

It was really great video i ever seen…
I totally enjoy the whole….

# 19 Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein said, on August 25th, 2009 at 4:07 am

Yeah the ZX Spectrum ruled!!! Now, the funniest irony is that they make a HD version of the video available. What’s the point of high definition to see a video that’s purposefully low-res/blocky/jagged to look like classic games? The quick part for Tetris was the best.

# 20 aion kinah said, on August 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

Honestly, I spent over a week just to master Pac-Man! But during those days, money and time spent on arcade are all worth it. It feels like heaven, right? Admit it.

# 21 r4 ds said, on September 3rd, 2009 at 3:36 am

Hi all…
I am playing games on pc and i like to more about gaming…
I like this article because it’s about gaming…

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