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This was an Old School Triumph: Asciiportal

joe larson asciiportal puzzle ascii

So, Portal… was never a pile of eyeball candy or anything–it looked as good as it needed to look, with some really neat visuals that resulted from looking through portals, adorable turret buddies, and delicious cake, but it’s not like anyone was trying for a graphical feat there. However, this

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September 29th, 2009 by: Alisha K.

Do a Little Stargazing With Your Nintendo Ds

ascii astroarts hoshizora navi astronomy stars

Between the inventive homebrew community and all the “practical” software titles available at retail, you can do just about anything with a Nintendo DS these days, and in March, you’ll even be able to use your DS as an interactive star chart. Provided you can read Japanese, of course.

The…

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January 22nd, 2009 by: Alisha K.

Ascii Curtain has Plenty of Character(S)

ASCII Curtain by Nienke Sybrandy

This cool fabric curtain may look like a tree from afar, but once you’re up close, you’ll see that it’s made of tens of thousands of tiny ASCII characters.

Created by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, the huge (18′ x 11′) curtain panel was digitally printed with dot matrix characters to…

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March 15th, 2008 by: Technabob

Hardest Platform Game Ever, and It’s in ASCII

Jineseiowata no Daibouken ASCII Game

If you’re into platformers and you think you can beat them all, you’ve gotta check out this Flash-based game from Japan, Jineseiowata no Daibouken.

This game will kick you in the ass (twice), then serve it to you for dinner. It’s loaded with all sorts of fun tributes to classic…

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February 3rd, 2007 by: Technabob

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