April 12, 2025: Save The World, Or Play Pixelated Golf?

I love the idea of hiding information in a tabletop RPG world in new and interesting ways, and I just stumbled across one I'd never thought of: putting it on an Atari 2600 cartridge.

This hacker programmed the Atari 2600 as a digital photo frame and shared details on the project, including how images are limited to 64×84 pixels, black and white. If you don't want to program the actual hardware to make it happen (although it'd be really cool!), the article provides enough information so that you can describe it vividly in a game or create a visual aid. The link even offers instructions on how to turn your own pictures into the suitable format!

If you want to amp up the challenges for the players even more, maybe make the heroes have to track down the cartridge buried among thousands of others in a New Mexico landfill . . .

-- Steven Marsh