8-bitten


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Sufferers exhibit dangerously low levels of pixel density and an unhealthy longing for the recent past. Caused by bytes from low-res spiders.

Description
8-Bitten is a visible illness. Patients display as pixelized caricatures with appropriately jerky walk-cycles. If one navigates around them via camera they will notice that they are represented in a flat plane, snapping to the next "angle" of view.

Diagnosis
The following confirms how difficult this illness is to diagnose and which rooms are best for diagnosing.


 * Illness Difficulty: 50%
 * GP's Office
 * General Diagnosis

Treatment
The following is required to treat this illness.


 * Resolution Lab
 * Doctor

Trivia
8-bit is a game art style in the 1980s' era (also known as 8-bit era due to the processor's architecture), which the game console's computing and displaying capability is limited.

In computer programming, a programming mistake is called a "bug", and the tool that assists to "catch" the "bugs" is called debugger. Using a Debugger to treat 8-bitten disease implies that the 8-bitten is a programming bug, which is an another joke in itself.

(Actually, as mentioned before, as an art style, it is basically impossible that a programming bug would cause a graphic to be 8-bit. A programming bug would more likely to cause the limbs to be distorted, or causes a character to pass through a wall.)

When idle or bored, 8-bitten patients sometimes perform a distinctive foot-tapping animation, followed by a shake of the index finger. This is borrowed from Sega's mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, who also appears in the hospitals' Arcade Machines. (This despite the fact that Sonic had very little presence on eight-bit systems, and is best known for his sixteen-bit games.)

Sadly their ghosts do not suffer from the same condition.