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Re:8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux... by jcromartie on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @08:46AM (#3589923)
I wasn't going to nitpick but yeah.

This is an adventure game running on an 8-bit computer (Apple II): http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/42948-king-s-quest-a...

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Re:8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux... by georgemcfly on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @10:41AM (#3590371)
Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much better term as it doesn't tie the graphics to any type of hardware.
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