Sega's video-game artists had to draw pixels by hand on crazy, custom machines in the 1980s and 90s

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<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNEjSKcZHY_45Vuupb_HG0oqlJPL6w&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=fzS_V6CwJInb1AbKsrLYAw&url=http://qz.com/766684/segas-video-game-artists-had-to-draw-pixels-by-hand-on-crazy-custom-machines-in-the-1980s-and-90s/"><img src="//t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsatWldmhEJUAeUaruzcTEOzgrXSfj5 TDYHkhRMZg3lwb5fDQ9D4Ex3Whmm19uNFTwPMR9Fs-8" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">Quartz</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNEjSKcZHY_45Vuupb_HG0oqlJPL6w&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=fzS_V6CwJInb1AbKsrLYAw&url=http://qz.com/766684/segas-video-game-artists-had-to-draw-pixels-by-hand-on-crazy-custom-machines-in-the-1980s-and-90s/"><b><b>Sega&#39;s</b> video-game artists had to draw pixels by hand on crazy, custom machines in the 1980s and 90s</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">Quartz</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">Making video games today can take years of work. But in the 80s and 90s, it involved a whole other layer of difficulty. Not only did gaming companies have to make the games, they had to invent the machines used to make them. Video Games Densetsu, a&nbsp;...</font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dbttu40Y8tyfxoM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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