"The simple austerity of black-and-white 8-bit videogame graphics predominant in the mid to late seventies often exudes an elegance that rivals even the most sophisticated 128-bit modern masterpiece. The graphic elements of the gameplay, now reduced to their most basic forms of repeated geometric patterns and binary abstract shapes, assume a timelessness that is betrayed only by a thin faded layer of once colorful transparent film or the worn paint of a now ancient cabinet."--from 'Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984.'
that text makes me want to fire up an
emulator, hook up one of my
2600s and pony up fifty bucks for a coffee-table book about video games.