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A Brief History Of Graphics: Pixels, Sprites and Polygons

16/01/2015 By ausretrogamer

Graphics_titleIf your New Year’s resolution was to learn more about video game graphics, you are in luck. For those of you with limited time to spare, I present three videos by Ahoy, providing a brief history of graphics; from pixels and sprites, to those super cool polygons! Are video games all about graphics? Of course not! Feast your eyes and ears right now, you may learn something.

Part 1: Pixels Pioneers

Part 2: Sprite Supreme

Part 3: Polygon Realm

source: Ahoy

Filed Under: History Tagged With: History, History of graphics, Pixels, Polygons, retrogaming, Sprites, video, video gaming graphics

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