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Flickr user and long time Something Awful forum member, foglera, has artfully put together some nostalgic pieces of video game history using perler beads. Foglera used google images for reference material, and the end result is nothing short of amazing. Have a look at more of Foglera’s work after the jump.

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Via: foglera

       
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  • mr. bones
    wow. these are amazing. i want megaman vs. metal man. is he selling these?
  • Nice! The round beads give the sprites an added bit of dimension. Real cool, especially Koopa Troopa from Mario Kart.
  • You can buy the tools/beads needed to make these at a local craft store, you put them on a small plate w/ of points, then use an iron to melt them together. Since all the NES based art is pixel based, it is easy to re-create.

    That being said, this guy still made some awesome stuff, and it still takes patience and ability - I'm not knocking what he did, it's AWESOME.
  • mchi
    hmm...
    pixel graphics used to represent illustrated art on limited display systems now brought back to life using colored beads on a table... brilliant or boring? want to impress me, draw me a 1600x1200 display with your colored beads of this very web page. then my hat will be off to you.
  • Sewerraccoon
    No way I've done this before! My little sister has some of these and I made the Mario sprite from SMB 1. These are even cooler and bigger though. Awesomzorz
  • mumucachu366
    I used to make those things all the time, but never had the creative genius to make classic NES characters out of them, thanks, now I've gotta get to the store as soon as possible and buy some beads and waste away more of my life! Haha
  • Old Fart
    Interesting but amazing?? Give a 10 year old some colored beads and one of those low res 32x64 pixellated characters from "The Good Old Days" and they can do the same thing.

    I agree with mchi, make a 1600x1200 bead picture and I will say amazing...
  • foglera
    Pardon me a moment, I have to nip down to JOANN Fabrics to pick up 1.92 million beads, that I might cobble together an eighteen-foot by twenty-five-foot recreation of THIS VERY WEB PAGE. Your laughter is falling on deaf ears, my friends, for it will be I who has the last laugh when I have earned accolades and kudos from vaunted Internauts First Class "mchi" and "Old Fart"!!

    Oh yes.
  • Angie
    These are actually quite difficult to create -- Even though you just arrange the beads, and iron, there are so many things that could potentially go wrong, choosing the correct color s would be the most difficult [even with a perfect match sometimes another color will work best, gotto have an eye for these things] next would be the ironing -- you don't get that right, you're screwed! - especially with the larger pieces. In my opinion, this guy's stuff is great
  • Derek
    Holy crap, I didn't know people still made those bead things. I used to make those all the time as a kid, and I dug out a few I still had the other day. It's nice to see them again, especially in such a creative display. Props.
  • I have done this before, but on a much larger scale. As seen here: http://jenovatra.deviantart.com/art/Siren-84126740
  • Jerico Reyes
    lol i still wouldn't be able to do this pixel art thing
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