08222010
Athena Dissected from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.
For my 11th birthday I got the NES game Athena from my Uncle in the mail. I’d never heard of the game before, none of my friends had it, Nintendo Power never talked about it, so it was pretty mysterious plus the graphics were a little more beautiful and colorful than average. To get very far in the game was practically impossible, making it all the more mystifying. Now about 20 years later I can open it as a very small file on my computer and observe the entire game in one big tile, solving the enigma. It’s just a bunch of pixels…a bizarre 80s Japanese take on Greek mythology. Here it is, laid out with an 8-bit version of Bach’s Invention 9 playing.
I caught a video a while back of some dude editing an old game’s brain while he was playing it. Or something like that. It was awesome. Before that, I didn’t know that all the images were on one big patchwork-lookin thing.
Weird
i love it,
it is really satisfying to re experience this visual,
i think my mind made up alot of the detail
that’s what i liked about the first final fantasy.
it left more to my head to imagine, i revolted when they started going the route of super realistic
because it took part of the fantasy away.
see if you can find the game faxanadu, a real dark old medieval game that was extremely difficult.
an asset to the lavender corporation for sure.
you will be dark politics +2