Rom Check Fail
"You don't need to be a videogame fan or being a teenager in the seventies / eighties to know videogame classics like Space Invaders, Pacman or Tetris. Their iconic power is still intact in the public imagination, also thanks to many reinterpretations and updates. Their patterns are often used by game artists as metaphors to create new connected sense: Mario Bros. can be restyled with a new graphic, so you can take your cue from it to discuss immigrant labor conditions, Space Invaders can be used to represent the never ending battle among Linux and the proprietary operating systems and so on. Sometimes the action's target is the algorithm itself. In "Basho's frogger", "Mario Battle no.1" and "Tetris 1d" the hack is s pure conceptual practice that intentionally kills the ludic component: In the best software art tradition, the program functionality (entertainment in this case) is attacked with Luddite fervour" (Paolo Pedercini, Neural)
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