Deciphering the Pixels: What Game Do You See?

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If you’ve been playing video games as long as we have, you’ve probably seen about 25 versions of Street Fighter, from the first game in the series all the way to the newest, Street Fighter 4. But we’re pretty dang sure that you’ve never seen the game in quite this way before [via Technabob]:

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You’re looking at Ken and Blanka squaring off. Without audio you may not see it right away, but listening to Ken’s “Hadoken” or Blanka rolling across the screen and then putting pixels to the sound, you can clearly tell what you are looking at.

A YouTube member named “gamecitynottingham” produced this video and is promoting an expo-style video-game show called GameCity Squared. He says that “GameCity looks poised to become our industry’s first Sundance.”

Check out the other games that received his pixel treatment here.