What's up and really welcome to Aja and Game Scoop.

I'm your host, David Hatfield and you might be wondering where are my co-hosts this week.

Well, we do have a great show of plan for you.

I'm this week, during by Justin Davis and Sam Clayborn.

Tina and I mean, he could not join us this week.

She had something come up last minute.

So you got a three-person podcast this week.

But then some difficulties happen.

So we lost the first couple of minutes of audio from the episode.

I've got to get you copped the speed and then I'm going to hand you off for the rest of the episode.

Which is still a great show.

Our butt first, this episode is my soul cyber Monday purchase that I made.

The this coffee table book arcade game typography from a designer Toshi Omigari.

And it's awesome. It's so nerdy. It's so dami.

It just goes through breaking down what goes into all of the fonts and typography from arcade games from the 80s and 90s.

This is so me. I love it.

The little sort of like set up for the book is that video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 90s faced color and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible creativity.

Letters had to exist within an eight by eight pixel grid.

So artists found ways to create expressive and elegant character sets on tiny canvases.

And he just goes through hundreds and hundreds of games and just sort of like gives his his take on what went into the font.

You got food fight here. One of my favorite arcade games, one of my favorite games I used to play on the Atari 7800.

Of which they say arcade graphics eventually became powerful enough to spare resources for the development of minor elements such as type.

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