If the London Games were an old-school video game, they would be ...cute. Celebrate the Olympics with this 8-bit montage by Flikli. -via the A.V. Club
If the London Games were an old-school video game, they would not look like that. Completely ignoring the restrictions in terms of palette and amount of colors you can have on the screen at the same time, you simply cannot rotate pixels. You couldn't do it back in 8bit times, nor can you do it today. A pixel is square (or rectangular) and aligned perpendicularly to the sides of the monitor.
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