Tag Archives: animation

Maki Ueda

Owata 人生 オワタ- a game in Shift-JIS ASCII by IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIl, 2008. Play it online here.

Spirited away GIF by unknown author and year.

TextFighter, an Apple II-game by Bret Victor, 1994. “A full featured arcade-style fighting game that uses only text characters and runs on any Apple II.”

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

First this page appears to be just a text. But if you select the text, it turns into a girl’s face (and further down some χχχ-bits). The second picture shows a Google-translation of the page (ie the code, not the text).

(via @despens)

mosa2mo (2011).

Density by K.O Götz, 1962. Although technically more similar to pixel graphics, this computer animation looks rather textmode to all the whales in the house. Also available on archive.org.