8-bit

Refers to the size of the internal registers of the CPUs used in the early days of personal computers and gaming consoles. It does not refer solely to NES or any single computer. Other examples of 8-bit CPUs included:

TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A
Commodore PET
VIC 20
Commodore 64
Apple

I learned how to code on my TI-99/4a. 8-bit forever!

by ogreesh April 27, 2005

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

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

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 24, 2005

8-bit

the era of gaming where computers used 8-bit methods of producing the game programing and 8-bit systems were the most up to date

The 8-bit era was during the late 1980s and introduced better animation to games.

by The Return of Light Joker May 1, 2008

8-bit

nes was a system that took everything and put it back to place, without the original nintendo you wouldn't have your "PS2's" and "Xbox's". At one point all of nintendos systems were being taken back because of every single problem you had to face due to such a fucken piece of shit at least segas system didn't have catridge defiency but this square piece of ingenious technology couldn't last a day without constant blowing and the constant clicking of the on and off button.

the nintendo never got old it just fell apart.

by tis indeed the day of reckoning April 26, 2005

8-bit

In financial terms, the cost having intercourse with yo' mama.

D-amnnnn, yo' someone lemme git 8-bit, yo' mama's lookin' fly today.

by Moogwai March 24, 2009