Fans of retro video games have found a variety of ways to pay tribute to legendary 8-bit classics, from Google’s awesome Pacman anniversary homepage to hardcore nerds going as far as getting tattoos of their favorite game characters. It was only a matter of time until someone came up with an idea as amazing as this one…

In the city of Stockholm, Sweden, an entire subway station has been redecorated to look like the scenery from the most famous arcade games. The existing tiles were replaced with new ones to form a giant mosaic of game characters and landscapes. The tiles perfectly simulate an 8-bit graphic design, so it looks like you’re acttualy in the land of Super Mario, surrounded by pipes, or run into Pacman trying to escape from Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde.

Making the subway look like every geek gamers paradise was indeed an original way to revitalize what had previously been just another dreary looking building. For more awesome 8-bit art, check out these 8 bit illustrations.

5. Doom

Getting a wrestler who can’t act to star as the movies protagonist is going to make this a fail from the word go! Based on the legendary video game series we all know and love, Doom follows the story of a space station which rips open a dimension into the demon world. Sounds good but it’s not. The only real novelty the movie ever had through its entirety is when it changed into first person view mode as a way of giving fans of the video game some sort of recognition to the game. Of course this was short lived and doesn’t take away the bad acting, terrible action scenes and Dwayne Johnson. There hasn’t been a video game movie this bad since Mario Brothers.

4. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Street Fighters are all about huge warriors, hadouken’s and fantastic storylines. So it’s obvious that a movie which takes all that away and turns it into a run of the mill action flick is going to end up on this list! Aside from the fact that Bison is some scrawny blonde guy in a suit, Chun-Li is American and super arts are replaced with gun fights, you also have to contend with an appalling storyline and bad acting! If you are a die hard Street Fighter fan then avoid this movie at all costs. It’s directed by the same guy who made the Doom movie, need I say more?

3. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

You can’t make a regular old CGI sci-fi movie, brandish it with the name Final Fantasy to draw in fans of the fantastic RPG franchise and then disappoint them by having absolutely no game related elements to it. We’re not saying the movie was completely awful as it did have quite an interesting story to it and the animation was very impressive, but it just wasn’t Final Fantasy and was an insult to all of us who paid good money to see it at the cinema.

2. Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive games aren’t the best when it comes to the fighting game genre. For some reason the developers believe that by giving the female characters large pixilated breasts that we will succumb to buying into the franchise. It didn’t work with the games, why would it then work with the movie?! With no real plot, a Ryu Hayabusa that looks nothing like Ryu Hayabusa and terrible cheesy acting, this movie is nothing more than a big flop!

1. House of the Dead

This very unpleasant movie completely dishonored the arcade rail shooting franchise we have all grown up with. Made up of one dimensional characters, poor acting, awful techno music and a bunch of things that don’t make sense, it’s easy to see why this movie ended up on the list! One minute zombies can only be killed with a shot to the head, other times they can be killed with a shot to the chest. The only real resemblance this film has to the video games is the fact that it has zombies in it, but that’s about it! For the most part it’s just filled with pointless action scenes, and over use of silly special effects and the usual failsafe of adding half naked women into the picture. Avoid!

This is a guest post written by Simon Pearman, Simon is a writer for Liberty Games a supplier of arcades and other cool games room gear.

The strategic life-simulation computer game Sims was the main inspiration for French collective Paper Donuts’ “breakfast out of paper” photoshoot. The collective decided to use a girl as the Sims character to show what a Sims-breakfast would look like in real life.

They even put the well-known “green diamond” over her head to indicate that she is in a good mood.

The entire breakfast is made out of paper cut in a way that makes it look pixilated, and it does look very cool, but its taste is rather, shall we say, papery.

mm..sliced paper oranges and paper grapefruit juice.  The only thing this woman needs is her morning newspaper, which, in a twist of irony, is made out of plastic.

Paper eggs, strawberries and sausages, oh my! What will I tell the paper doctor when I have a heart attack?

This breakfast ends in the way ever breakfast should end.  With a giant candy bar, a cupcake, and a donut.  Anything that can be done to accelerate the need for gastric bypass surgery…that’s the idea.

yum..a giant hamburger filled to the brim. Somewhere, up in heaven, Dave Thomas is blushing.

I’ll take two packets of paper Sweet’N Low in my tea, thank you. Paper saccharin never tasted so good.

McDonald’s fries do begin to float when you let them sit for long periods of time. I’ve witnessed this phenomenon with my own eyes. It may have been because the fries were laced with acid, but that’s a story for another time.

A paper apple, and a knife with..blood on it? I imagine it’s jam, but some people do like their toast smothered in blood, and we should respect that.

Even though this fruit is made out of paper, it’s making me hungry. I might resolve to eat it.

This artist has made many other objects out of paper, including these realistic animal and nature sculptures.

A Jaguar covered up in 14,000 post-its. A prank made by an office worker’s colleagues. It took them a mere two hours to accomplish this prank.

The worker named Walt reacted by saying: “Where did my car go?”

A senior  high school prank made by group of students. It took them three hours to be done, and it cost them about $100 to buy all the post-its.

Office prank where they covered up a whole office in bright yellow post-its.

During the Memorial Day weekend in 2005 a couple of co-workers created this mosaic piece of Elvis. The work is done so detailed that the colored post-its are blending together.

Designer Rebecca Murtaugh used post-its as inspiration to create a so-called post-it-room.

Famous  video game character Mega Man.

As a result of a campaign against skin cancer, they put pink post-its on mannequins and placed them by a swimming pool to make people aware of how to treat their skin and avoid too much sun.

These 8-bit illustrations are made by artist and designer Jude Buffum from Philadelphia. He gets his inspiration from various old school movies, video games, toys and politics.

Jude named this piece “Mushroom Recession” with most popular 8-bit character Super Mario.

Bowling theme series based on Coen brother’s movie “The Big Lebowski”.

Milton Waddams and Bill Lumbergh from popular 1999 comedy “Office Space”.

Kanye West, T-Pain and Lil Wayne using auto-tune software to manipulate their voices.

Jude’s artistic (and weird) view on 90′s TV show “Save by the bell”.

For Obama’s nomination at 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Megaman vs. Dick Cheney

Super Keyboard Cat Bros is a video Jude made combining Super Mario and interet meme “Keyboard Cat” . Check it out on youtube.