8-Bit Trip is a stupendous stop-motion Lego tribute to classic video games (chiptune soundtrack, of course) filled with wicked in-jokes. It reportedly took 1500 hours to create. I believe it.
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Aug 23, 2009
Stop-motion Lego tribute to 8-bit video games
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