Text-based horror
Having played my fair share of text-based adventure games as a kid, I can tell you the joy that was getting to the occasional point when a crazy-awful illustration would pop onto the screen after multiple pages of story whizzed past. And when we progressed to mostly picture based games, the illustrations were an ever-present fact of storytelling, even if they didn’t really look all that fantastic.
Fast forward to now and we have io9 presenting us with haunting animated gifs in the style of vintage computer games by Uno Moralez. It’s like Zen & The Art of The Macintosh gone spooky.