Brother Brain

June 7, 2012 8:43 AM

Brother Brain is an artist who makes colorful, vibrant, seamlessly looping animations from classic video games. Click on an image for a larger version, and an annotation of the game that the image comes from.
posted by codacorolla (17 comments total)

This.
posted by ersatz at 8:54 AM on June 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

Or this :)

I'm being pandered to.
posted by ersatz at 8:57 AM on June 7, 2012

This NES Top Gun gif reminded me what 90% of playing one of the only NES games I had as a kid was like.
posted by cirrostratus at 8:59 AM on June 7, 2012 [3 favorites]

Haha! Landing on the aircraft carrier was a pain in the nuts.
posted by Fister Roboto at 9:11 AM on June 7, 2012

Good to see some love for the old school as well.
posted by jquinby at 9:36 AM on June 7, 2012

Galaga had the Enterprise?!
posted by mkb at 9:38 AM on June 7, 2012

There's something extremely satisfying about watching this.
posted by mcmile at 9:45 AM on June 7, 2012

There's something extremely satisfying about watching this.

I was seriously bracing for that last long piece to go off-by-one.
posted by jquinby at 9:48 AM on June 7, 2012

Lovely, absolutely lovely.
posted by PipRuss at 10:03 AM on June 7, 2012

Galaga had the Enterprise?!

Yes. It was the enemy graphic used for the last Challenging Stage before they cycled. A little joke thrown in by the programmers.
posted by JHarris at 10:42 AM on June 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

(If anyone needs any of these things explained, I can probably answer questions relating to most of them.)
posted by JHarris at 10:42 AM on June 7, 2012 [1 favorite]

These are some pretty awesome LiveJournal icons.

...what?
posted by Tomorrowful at 11:43 AM on June 7, 2012

I love retro gaming, and even just got an SNES emulator for my Android (making the buttons bigger really helps). But I don't really get the appeal of this other than it being a catalogue for message board avatars.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 3:46 PM on June 7, 2012

There's something extremely satisfying about watching this.

And there's something extremely frustrating about watching this. Why can a simple Mario image make me angry?
posted by ymgve at 4:45 PM on June 7, 2012

When I mouse over the images, it gives me a number. Anyone agot any idea what it means?
posted by marienbad at 4:52 PM on June 7, 2012

When I mouse over the images, it gives me a number. Anyone agot any idea what it means?

Notes. It's the Tumblr equivalent of a retweet - basically how many times people have shared it on their own blogs.
posted by codacorolla at 6:12 PM on June 7, 2012

And there's something extremely frustrating about watching this. Why can a simple Mario image make me angry?

It's because Mario and the background graphics are from Mario 2, but the Question Box is from Mario 1.
posted by JHarris at 8:12 PM on June 7, 2012