Xennial Memes

Topics Games

Retro Video Games

Black-and-white hand-drawn comic styled like a side-scrolling platformer. A small figure climbs stairs collecting stars and reaches an EXIT. Screen: "LEVEL END you have gathered ✸ x 3,154 it is pointless to gather these". The figure then meets a large dark creature: "i have done nothing wrong but you are still going to destroy me". The creature sobs. Caption: "CREATURE most vulnerable while HEAVING WITH SOBS". The… Pixel art equation. Small 8-bit Mario, labeled "Person who's a potential customer", plus a Fire Flower, labeled "Your product", equals Fire Mario throwing a fireball, labeled "Awesome person who can do rad shit!" An orange arrow from the text "This isn't what your business sells." points at the flower. A blue arrow from "This is." points at Fire Mario. Footer: "© 2013 UserOnboard.com" Vintage-style poster with a gray Super Nintendo controller illustration on crinkled cream paper. Text below reads "GAMING since 1988". Footer reads "VICTORIABRETON.COM | VBTYPOGRAPHY.ETSY.COM | VICTORIABRETON.TUMBLR.COM". A faint watermark reads "VICTORIABRETON". A huge dark flowchart titled "How to Write a Game Story". A green START triangle leads to "Add zombies." and "Do you care about story?", then branches through questions like "Are you pretentious?", "Sweet. Genre?", "Is there a princess, possibly in another castle?", "Aliens?", "Mafia?", and "Cool with cribbing Tolkien?". Endings include "THE END", "NOPE SEQUEL", "Oh. You don't need this chart.", and "Real clever.… White pixelated text on a black background dotted with small yellow pixel stars reads: "EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST." A red quote card with a white opening quotation mark above a white horizontal line. White capital letters read: "VIDEO GAMES FOSTER THE MINDSET THAT ALLOWS CREATIVITY TO GROW." Below a second white line is the attribution "NOLAN BUSHNELL". Green T-shirt-style illustration of a small, pixelated 8-bit Link sprite crouching at the lower left. On a black brick wall behind him, his shadow stretches up as a realistic, detailed silhouette of a tall Link holding a sword and shield. The image contains no text. A demotivational-poster-style image with a black background. A pixel art portrait shows a green-skinned man with a teal pompadour, a cybernetic metal plate over one eye with a glowing red lens, and a purple cloak, against an orange backdrop. Large text: "VIDEO GAME MEME". Smaller text: "Leroy Jenkins stole my sweet roll when I found out the cake was a lie. I yelled objection, but he did a barrel roll, so now all my… Pixel art screenshot from The Legend of Zelda on NES: on a black cave background, an old man in a red robe stands between two flickering fires above a sword. White text at the top reads: "IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS." A 3x3 alignment chart on a black background, each square a portrait of a game industry figure with a quote. LAWFUL GOOD: "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." NEUTRAL GOOD: "I get about 10,000 emails each time we release a game, and while I can't respond to all of them, I do read all of them." CHAOTIC GOOD: "As long as there's at least one publisher out there who is interested in… Aperture Science safety poster with a red header reading "KNOW YOUR PARADOXES!" and "IN THE EVENT OF ROGUE AI", flanked by yellow warning triangles. A blue panel lists "1. STAND STILL", "2. REMAIN CALM", "3. SCREAM:" then a boxed list: "THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE!", "NEW MISSION: REFUSE THIS MISSION!", "DOES A SET OF ALL SETS CONTAIN ITSELF?" The Aperture logo sits at the bottom. A diagram of a round robot core with… Pixel-art Pac-Man and two ghosts glow against a dark navy background, each leaving a long horizontal light streak. A red streak trails a red ghost, a yellow streak trails Pac-Man with his mouth open, and a cyan streak trails a blue ghost. No text appears.