matt sephton on Nostr: Posted earlier elsewhere In old arcade games and 8-bit systems like Spectrum, BBC ...

Posted earlier elsewhere

In old arcade games and 8-bit systems like Spectrum, BBC Micro, Sharp X1, and so on, sprites were created by redefining the font data.

I created a game on Acorn Electron ~1990 that redefined a letter as a car. Here's the exact page I used as ref https://archive.org/details/acorn-electron-user-guide/page/94/mode/2up