ANDROID NIM. Game for the Commodore PET by Don Dennis (1979).
A Twitter profile from Smart Argentina (@smartArg) features all the frames to a text art animation, a car commercial. I put this gif animation together to see what it looks like – the idea being that you press / hold the ‘j’ button on your keyboard to automatically jump to the next tweet in succession.
You can try it out for yourself here
PS – I tried to get this to upload as a photo post (the image easily fits the limits, yet wouldn’t upload – no idea why …)
Bill Geers teletext animations from 1989, straight outta the bible. Full playlist here. Made on the BBC Micro, which had a built-in teletext graphics mode.
More teletext animations.
Videoplace by Myron Krueger at the University of Connecticut’s Artificial Reality Lab, 1985. Only vaguely related to textmode, but…
Acid Burger by Hack n’ Trade, 2011, with graphics by Raquel Meyers. Also check acidburger.com (2010).
Post updated in 2024.