LCD Game Graphics

LCDゲームの様式 / 1980–1991 / Style / Consumer Tech Aesthetics

The fixed-segment LCD screens of Game & Watch: motion told entirely through pre-molded poses — an art of frames — layered over printed backgrounds in a look of their own.

Fixed-segment figures / Two layers over printed backgrounds / Frame-step motion / Silver shells and the cross key

LCD Game Graphics — ゲーム&ウオッチ『タートルブリッジ』1982（CC BY-SA 2.0） — ゲーム&ウオッチ『タートルブリッジ』1982（CC BY-SA 2.0）／『ボクシング』（CC BY-SA 2.0）

LCD Game Graphics — 『ボクシング』（CC BY-SA 2.0） — ゲーム&ウオッチ『タートルブリッジ』1982（CC BY-SA 2.0）／『ボクシング』（CC BY-SA 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type: Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition: Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material: Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution: Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study: Gunpei Yokoi's withered technology / the constraints of segment design / the borrowing from calculator LCDs

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