History Main / ASCIIArt

** Similarly, Rainbow Dash's memetic "so AWESOME" face from FriendshipIsMagic, "/)^3^(\", has been adopted as an emoticon by a lot of the fandom.

Often seen in online game walkthroughs, (like at {{Game FAQs}}). {{Message Board}}s and software crack teams will have this as well.

As with any art, the quality of a piece of ASCII art depends on the skill of the artist.

* ''Informed Sources'' by Willard Bain, 1967, has some real, and some pseudo ASCII art. The whole book is in the form of teletype output (all Caps!) Near the end it lapses into ASCII art, showing a aerial dog-fight, but then uses characters which could NOT have been typed by a teletype terminal, as they are not aligned, and are partial overstrikes. Not an easy book to find though.

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* ''DwarfFortress'', being inspired by {{Roguelike}}s, is made entirely in ASCII art just like them. You can download a graphics set, though.

* A forum {{Troll}} has [[MemeticMutation several stock Asciis]] including:
** The [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] {{FacePalm}}
** [[MemeticMolester Pedobear]] shows an interest in [[{{Lolicon}} certain subjects]].
*** ''Dateline'''s Chris Hanson would like you to [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown take a seat right over there]]...

** The middle finger salute one.
* For AprilFoolsDay 2010, YouTube had a filter for at least half of the available videos named "[=TEXTp=]" which rendered different ASCII characters for different shades of a color. It was TooCoolToLive, unfortunately. VLC Media Player does have [[http://windowsvj.com/wpblog/2010/03/vlc-media-player-ascii-mode/ a similar effect]], though.

** The [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] {{FacePalm}}

* [[http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=LUEshi LUEshi]], a ASCII rendering of the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' box art, is the mascot of LUE, a board on GameFAQs.

* For AprilFoolsDay 2010, YouTube had a filter for at least half of the available videos named "[=TEXTp=]" which rendered different ASCII characters for different shades of a color. It was TooCoolToLive, unfortunately. VLC Media Player does have [[http://windowsvj.com/wpblog/2010/03/vlc-media-player-ascii-mode/ a similar effect]] though.

Using typed characters in a way that makes pictures. Usually done by treating the characters as pixels (best done with a monospaced font, and in a text file) and placing the characters in the appropriate spots line by line.

** Webcomic/DinosaurComics' T-rex yelling

* Some users of {{Facebook}} occasionally decorate their status messages with Unicode art: the Latin-1 range, stars, Japanese characters, etc.

** [[spoiler:Calling the BBS number gives ASCII art of what turned out to be official art from Portal 2.]]

* [[http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=LUEshi LUEshi]] is the mascot of LUE, a board on GameFAQs.

* The credits of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. There are some in the source files [[DummiedOut that don't get used]].
** [[spoiler:Calling the BBS number gives ASCII art of what turned out to be official art from Portal 2.]]
* Taken to ridiculous extremes by the Japanese, who have thousands of characters in their fonts and aren't afraid to use them. 2Channel even has a whole board for it. Although technically speaking, this is Shift-JIS art, not ASCII art (look it up).
* [[http://wikifaqs.net/index.php?title=LUEshi LUEshi]] is the mascot of LUE, a board on GameFAQs.
* [[http://www.rinji.tv/densha/ ''Densha Otoko'']], ''Train Man'' in English, has a lot of ASCII art. It is touted as an actual, somewhat edited, stream from 2ch. Worth reading. Note that the ASCII art requires that you have the Japanese fonts installed.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_porn ASCII Porn]].

* A forum {{Troll}} has [[MemeticMutation several stock Asciis]] including:
** The [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] {{FacePalm}}
** [[MemeticMolester Pedobear]] shows an interest in [[{{Lolicon}} certain subjects]].
*** ''Dateline'''s Chris Hanson would like you to [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown take a seat right over there]]...
** Webcomic/DinosaurComics' T-rex yelling
** [[FamilyGuy Blaccuweather reporter Ollie Williams]] popping in for a quick update of his opinion of the topic..
**[[CaptainObvious Admiral]] [[StarWars Ackbar]] may have a timely warning!
*** [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} You fool! You've activated my trap card!]]
** The middle finger salute one.

* ''PaniPoniDash'' sometimes replaced faces with [=ShiftJIS=] art.
* There was, at one point, an attempt to re-create ''StarWars'' in ASCII art. It got about a third of the way through.
** [[http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ Here it is.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXaEYpifhg This]] video for the Beck song "Black Tambourine" is ASCII-licious.
* For AprilFoolsDay 2010, YouTube had a filter for at least half of the available videos named "[=TEXTp=]" which rendered different ASCII characters for different shades of a color. It was TooCoolToLive, unfortunately. VLC Media Player does have [[http://windowsvj.com/wpblog/2010/03/vlc-media-player-ascii-mode/ a similar effect]] though.
* ''{{monospace}}'' is a {{webcomic}} based on this concept.
* ／人 ◕‿‿◕ 人＼ - Kyubey's [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has hit memetic status. It's difficult to find a Madoka-related video on [=YouTube=] that doesn't have it in any of the comments.
* ''TheSimpsons'' had a couch gag with ASCII art.

* The credits of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. There are some in the source files [[DummiedOut that don't get used.]]
** [[spoiler: Calling the BBS number gives ASCII art of what turned out to be official art from Portal 2.]]

* For awesome uses of ASCII Art, there are modified versions of ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' that render the graphics in ASCII.

* PaniPoniDash sometimes replaced faces with [=ShiftJIS=] art.
* There was, at one point, an attempt to recreate ''StarWars'' in ASCII art. It got about a third of the way through.

* {{monospace}} is a {{webcomic}} based on this concept.
* ／人 ◕‿‿◕ 人＼ - Kyubey's [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] from PuellaMagiMadokaMagica has hit memetic status. It's difficult to find a Madoka-related video on Youtube that doesn't have it in any of the comments.

* DwarfFortress, being inspired by {{Roguelike}}s, is made entirely in ASCII Art just like them. You can download graphics set, though.

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Compare {{Emoticon}}.

* The credits of ''{{Portal}}''. There are some in the source files [[DummiedOut that don't get used.]]

* {{FanFic/NobodyDies}}'s chapter 39 has a giant "[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann GIGA DRILL BREAKER]]" in ASCII.

* This is actually how ''{{Touhou}}'''s [[MemeticMutation yukkuris]] were born; the ASCIIArt the original poster had used made the girls' heads look deformed, and the rest went down in infamy.

** DinosaurComics' T-rex yelling

* For awesome uses of ASCII Art, there are modified versions of ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' and ''UnrealTournament'' that render the graphics in ASCII.

* ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ - Kyubey's [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] from PuellaMagiMadokaMagica has hit memetic status. It's difficult to find a Madoka-related video on Youtube that doesn't have it in any of the comments.

* For awesome uses of ASCII Art, there are modified versions of ''Game/{{Quake}}'' and ''UnrealTournament'' that render the graphics in ASCII.

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[[caption-width:288:Fractal Ascii Art]]

* {{FanFic/NobodyDies}}'s chapter 39 has a giant "GIGA DRILL BREAKER" in ASCII.

** Wasn't that FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K?

***[[YuGiOh You fool! You've activated my trap card!]]