8-bit

The best console era ever,
the NES dominated all and many great games were created like:

- Super Mario Bros. 1
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Mega Man 2
- Mega Man 3
- Castlevania 1-3
- Final Fantasy I - III
- Zelda I + II

etc.

At one time, nintendo had to take all NES back because of problems with overheating!
Everyone had an NES in the 80s.

The most popular problem was that the cartridges got dusty and you had to BLOW inside the NES and cartridge to make it work again.

NES roced.

Bari :"The NES changed my life,now I love videogames more than anything"

Renke:"Dude, let me blow into the cartridge, I want to play World Cup Soccer!""

by Bari April 24, 2005

8-bit ryan

A British YouTuber who plays multiple different video games such as horror, survival, etc.

Person 1: Have you seen 8-Bit Ryan's latest video?
Person 2: Who is he? Come watch Spongebob instead.

by 87Oscar87 October 24, 2017

8-bit brawl

Two guys fighting using moves from video games.

These two guys in line for street fighter 4 got in an 8-bit brawl and one tried using hadouken.

by COMIEDIAN4LIFE March 16, 2009

8-bit

8 binary numbers (ie. 10110101, which is equal to the decimal 181) that form 1 bit. During the late 1970's up through the mid-late 1980's, most commercial CPU's could only count 8-bit numbers, ranging from 0-255.

Somehow, people only tend to think of video games when refering to 8-bit things, which it completely innacurate. Many computer systems, as well as video games, were concidered "8-bit."

8-bit processors were eventually replaced by more powerful and faster 16-bit CPU's such as IBM's 8080 line and Motorola's 68000.

Computers: Atari x00 series, Commodore series (PET 16, C-64, C-128, etc.), Apple series, and other similar systems that used the 6502, 6800, or Z-80 processors and their varients.

Game systems: Atari 2600 and 5200, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Nintendo's Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Colecovision, etc.

by ataricom April 28, 2005

8BitStinger

8BitStinger the famous YouTuber that has many names, the bee king, the God of time, bee boi, OddEvents, etc...

Look it's a bird, it's a plane, its... 8BitStinger.

by Not8BitStinger January 18, 2022

8 bit rainbow

This is a stage of being high. When you pass your hand slowly in front of your face in a rainbow shaped arc, you should see your hand looking rough around the edges. When you are completely chopped, the roughness will break up your hand into an image skipping across the background. To your mind, it will look like a rainbow rendered in 8 bit detail. Bonus stage! If your hand is made out of stripes of different colors, you are doing something very well.

Extra credit: Watch the video of the double rainbow guy freaking out.

Coloradoian: "Hey man, hit this."
Washingtonite: "Duuuude hang on, I can see the 8 bit rainbow."
Coloradoian: "Damn son, you be flyin'!"

by treehugg3r May 13, 2013

8-bit

Sub-genre of electronic music; Created from modified 8-bit consoles (NES, Atari, Sega Master System, etc.) and cartridges.

Listening to 8-bit takes me back to the good ol' days when controlers were the least ergonomic part of the game system

by Insane Milkman April 23, 2005