How were video games in the late 80s/early 90s animated before huge digital advances were made? Additionally, how was music added?
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On some early machines like Commodore 64 and Vic 20. You would actually take the ASCII characters and re draw them as something else. So a little man might be made up legs and a body as two characters. But the actual characters were originally # and $ symbols. For the legs you might have a few characters so it would look like it’s walking.
Some machines had sprites which were little graphics which you could move around the screen.
The 8 bit guy has a good video on old school graphics https://youtu.be/Tfh0ytz8S0k
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