Eli5: How is it that a Nintendo or Super Nintendo video game, with its graphics, its music and everything else, fits in a few kb when a single image or a single musical composition uses more than that?
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In addition to what everyone else is saying, the creators (I feel bad calling them developers, since they were designers, developers, artists and sound engineers) of those games were fucking wizards of artifact reuse.
Like the bushes in Mario are just recolored clouds. This blew my fucking mind when it was first pointed out to me.
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