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Collection of pixel-art skylines from old arcade and video games

Rob Beschizza
Jul 08, 2026
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The future had a silver lining in 1988’s Robocop arcade game

Pixel Skylines collects background graphics from old video games that depict city skylines. The simple, grid-like design of skyscrapers lends them to representation as pixel art (faves that age me: 1987’s Double Dragon, below, and 1988’s Robocop, above) so that genre naturally dominates the set…

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