Pages: [1]

Author Topic: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool  (Read 1128 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Don Flamenco

  • FootDiFootDiFootDive
  • Senior Member
"Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« on: February 03, 2010, 08:12:53 PM »
Anyone else notice that any game/videogame-related enterprise gets instant gamer cred if you have the word "pixel" in it?  Pixeljunk, Broken Pixels, Axel and Pixel, a shit ton of Xbox Indie games and PC games, dead pixel, etc. etc.  It's more ubiquitous than "Super" on a SNES game. 


Starting to feel patronized when I see that word in anything game related.

/bizarre procrastination rant
Logged

BobFromPikeCreek

  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 08:33:48 PM »
Yes.
Logged
zzzzz

Don Flamenco

  • FootDiFootDiFootDive
  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2010, 08:37:35 PM »
cool. I was just wondering if anyone else, as in, any other single person had noticed.  Now that I have confirmation, this thread can be locked. 

Logged

Olivia Wilde Homo

  • Proud Kinkshamer
  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2010, 08:54:30 PM »
"Pixel" is now cool because of the minimalist approach to Web 2.0.  It doesn't really get much more minimalist than "pixel."

In the future, we'll be playing Voxeljunk Shooter.
Logged
🍆🍆

pilonv1

  • I love you just the way I am
  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2010, 08:56:28 PM »
pixel is the hipster of gaming
Logged
itm

Raban

  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2010, 09:24:37 PM »
Quote from: T EXP on February 03, 2010, 08:54:30 PM
"Pixel" is now cool because of the minimalist approach to Web 2.0.  It doesn't really get much more minimalist than "pixel."

In the future, we'll be playing Voxeljunk Shooter.

I'd say more in video games it's popular because of Cave Story, but maybe I'm wrong.

Either way, this doesn't really bother me. I don't care what games are titled, I care what they play like.
Logged

Don Flamenco

  • FootDiFootDiFootDive
  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2010, 09:32:10 PM »
Quote from: Raban on February 03, 2010, 09:24:37 PM
Quote from: T EXP on February 03, 2010, 08:54:30 PM
"Pixel" is now cool because of the minimalist approach to Web 2.0.  It doesn't really get much more minimalist than "pixel."

In the future, we'll be playing Voxeljunk Shooter.

I'd say more in video games it's popular because of Cave Story, but maybe I'm wrong.

Either way, this doesn't really bother me. I don't care what games are titled, I care what they play like.

same here.  it's just an interesting phenomenon to me.  I think it has more to do with 8-bit/16-bit nostalgia, which pushed games like Cave Story.
Logged

Mr. Gundam

  • Icon
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2010, 09:34:59 PM »
I'd like to see the 3D Dot Game genre take over.
Logged
野球

GoofyGoober

  • Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2010, 09:52:01 AM »
I never noticed. But it's mostly development house names that have it isn't it? SNES Days every game had super in it. Super F-zero, super castlevania, super r-type, etc. That was bad.
Logged

Brehvolution

  • Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside.
  • Senior Member
Re: "Pixel" is cruise-control for cool
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2010, 10:28:38 AM »
Name change to Zero Pixel please. :smug
Logged
©ZH
Pages: [1]