Rad mix of hi/lo-tech live action and 8-bit gaming.

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This is RADICAL my Radical Friends! Worthless the Illest!

         

Nice. I want to play that submarine game.

         

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I never thought I would enjoy an 8-bit flashback so much!

         

I love it. I've never seen anybody mix 8-bit video and live action in quite this way. Amazing video, with a great song, too!

         

I hate to sound like the most anal party pooper in the world.... but these type of pixel art gfx really annoy me.

Pixel art rules are simple. A grid, with each pixel a different color. These pixels cannot rotate move, or grow in size - just change color.

The guys boxing weren't pixel art; they were just jittery moving cut-outs. Characters don't act like they're flash animation for a reason; the technology didn't exist.

I know, I know... anal. but you see guys like Paul Robertson or Shynola and everything else doesn't compare.

Oh, and experient, gosox & 8-bit boy are all aliases of the director(s).

         

Don't forget Lobo. They were front-runners with their 8-bit and 16-bit video game-look videos. Their videos for Ural 13 Diktators and the two they did for Golden Shower were some of my favorites at the time.

         

Oh, and experient, gosox & 8-bit boy are all aliases of the director(s).

LOL

         

anal pixel art observations aside, that video is fugging excellent. these guys are the dons, and i want their children. show me any other uk hip hop video anywhere near this good, and i'll eat my hat... wicked work o' radical ones!

         

If it wasn't enough to write the word 'worthless' across one's head, an 'artist' has serious problems when he has to ape The Stig.

         

"show me any other uk hip hop video anywhere near this good, and i'll eat my hat..."

How many hats?

         

Worthless video is sick! -- and the 8 bit is banging, n'est ce pas?

         

The "pixel expert" upthread might just be that, but obviously doesn't know much about 8-bit. None of the things that those directors did, however creatively impressive and pixel perfect, could fly on an 8-bit platform from a technical standpoint. Plus, as much as I enjoyed that Paul Robertson video (I don't like the other one he cites), it is way too hyper-ironic to fly as an homage to 8-bit. This clip by Radical Friend captures perfectly the simplicity, earnest aesthetic and rudimentary competitive feel and action of 8-bit GAMING. What other video can you link me to that does that?! Also, I don't see anything wrong with the way it was done either AND it is indeed the best UK Hip-Hop video you are likely to find.

         

Are you kidding me? Only the fonts and some background elements in this video "could fly on an 8-bit platform from a technical standpoint". And that's beside the point. If you want to argue about the technical feasibility of what you can do with an 8-bit console, feel free. I made for games for 12 years. I promise you I know what can and can't be done.

For the sake of nerdy arguments, the Lobo videos for Ural 13 Diktators' "Ural" is absolutely true to 16-bit restrictions, and the majority of the Golden Shower video for "Video Game System" is true to 8-bit console restrictions (down to the amazing homages to classic titles). Certainly more-so than this video. But the bottom line is that this shit is played out as anything other than yet another grasp at nostalgia.

I can't tell if this is just rampant fanboy-ism and friends of the director/band, or the band and director posting about themselves.

         

um, actually I just stumbled in here and saw the video but I am a longtime 8-bit gaming enthusiast. You say the feasibility of the stuff actually working on the platform is beside the point, and then you go and offer an elaborate rationale for videos that are feasible to their platform. So obviously it is important to you or you would be going on about it. The SPEED in which events happen in the Junior Senior video is not even close to being commensurate with the 8-bit platform was actually my main point. It's not that nerdy, it just doesn't really have that true 8-bit feel to me and if anything is being overly tongue-in-cheek about it in a way that frankly offends me and/or my 8-bit aesthetic sensibilities slightly. But putting the tech stuff aside as you suggest (but don't abide by), I like the way this clip gets at the raw head-to-head aspect of early gaming, whether 8-bit or Odyssey. I think it is a bit unusual for a UK hip-hop artist to be repping a video like this so it will be interesting to see how that all goes down. The Streets do indeed make good videos, point taken, but they ain't exactly street-level shit any more (absolutely no pun intended). Most of the UK stuff I see now is gritty stuff shot on film, with low budget/low skill effects (if any), and the usual spectre of violence, sex or both. I am not a fanboy but rather I am in the industry and it is part of my job to watch videos. I like this one and now that I watch it again, the song is starting to stay in my head too, which is not something I usually get off a hip-hop clip. Also, if you want to talk homage, how about the music bed being blatantly lifted from Metroid with a splash screen to match?! That is hot shit.

         

8 bit blah blah blah. this videos boring...