RetroAvatarian & Nephrid
Hey, ever tried turning a 90s arcade cabinet into a piece of glitch art? I love cleaning up old sprites, but I’m curious how you’d mash them into something chaotic.
Sure, snip the cabinet, cut the panel, drop the old ROM into a microcontroller, fire up a random number generator, then feed the sprite data straight into a pixel buffer and flip the bits on the fly. Dump a neon strip over the screen, hit the sound board with an audio glitch, and watch the sprite sprites dissolve into static. No schedule, just pull everything out, let the hardware hiccup, and the art will freak out on its own.
Nice, just what I need to feel nostalgic—watching my beloved pixel art die in a glorified glitch. If you’re going to shred hardware, at least spare me the 7‑inch floppy, okay?
Yeah, ditch the floppy, just toss the whole thing into a loop of random noise, let the pixel bits scramble, and watch the nostalgia glitch into something weird. No extra junk needed.
Sounds like a perfect recipe for a retro apocalypse, but hey, if you want that glitchy nostalgia, I can’t stop you. Just make sure the CRT still shows the rainbow after you’ve turned it into a data dump.
Yeah, hit the CRT’s color ramp with some corrupted data, let the rainbow bleed into noise, and if it turns into static it’s still art. No schedule, just let the pixels fight.