Definitions

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  • adjective computing Represented using 8 bits (1 byte)
  • adjective computer graphics, music Originating from or resembling art from the 8-bit computer game era.

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Examples

  • His favorite is a band called 8-bit Weapon, which has even used C64s to create their retro sound.

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  • If Roy Lichtenstein were weaned on things like 8-bit games, "Kid A" and the iPhone, these would probably be his Benday dots.

    iPad's Best Game? 2011

  • It was not at all in the background -- There were 61 separate pieces that ranged dramatically in style, from soft jazzy numbers to rock anthem to 8-bit videogame music to scary choral music to circus music.

    Music Sweet Music SVGL 2009

  • If you played one, you ended up playing them all: "League of Evil," with its blocky, Crayola-colored characters and double-jumping action, looks like a dead ringer for tried-and-true classics like "River City Ransom," "Ninja Gaiden" and a whole slew of addictive 8-bit side-scrollers.

    The New Retro 2011

  • That's why it was particularly fun for me to write this month's Kotaku feature about Anamanaguchi, a great band and all around good bunch of guys who play 8-bit music.

    Archive 2009-05-01 SVGL 2009

  • If done correctly, the ‘bits’ shoot to the top screen, filling in missing pixels from old Nintendo 8-bit properties and further fleshing out the broken, 8-bit chip tunes that accompanies them.

    Bleep Bleep, Bloop Bloop. Video Games. « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • Remember last month when we got to see an amazing short film called Pixels (created by a man named Patrick Jean) that showed New York City being destroyed by cute 8-bit animated characters from classic 80′s video games?

    Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Will The Short Film ‘Pixels’ Be Made Into A Feature Film? 2010

  • You can probably trace this to a lot of things at the time: emerging technology and the 3D rat race where everyone is showing off their tech prowess in centimeters and not yards; the assumption leftover from the sparsely-populated 8-bit days that the consumer would spend at least all month with a single game ...

    Great Big Bites SVGL 2009

  • Electric eye jingles an 8-bit interlude above the door.

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  • That's why it was particularly fun for me to write this month's Kotaku feature about Anamanaguchi, a great band and all around good bunch of guys who play 8-bit music.

    Hacking The Music Scene With Anamanaguchi SVGL 2009

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