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Science Buddies: The Pixel Puzzle: Why Video Game Characters Look Better Today ActivityScience Buddies: The Pixel Puzzle: Why Video Game Characters Look Better Today Activity
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Science Buddies: The Pixel Puzzle: Why Video Game Characters Look Better Today

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Video games today look better than video games from the 80's, this is because now the number of pixels, or dots on the screen, used to represent video game objects has greatly increased. In the 80's, Mario was no more than 16 pixels tall and 12 pixels wide. Put your artistic talent to use and discover whether the number of pixels correlates to a video games appearance.

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computer game project, science fair project idea, video game art, video game project, science buddies, pixel, gaming

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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