History Main / ASCIIArt

* [[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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': BMO printed an ASCII picture of Gunter while analyzing the Ice King's video diaries.

** [[MemeticMolester Pedobear]] shows an interest in [[{{Lolicon}} certain subjects]].

Compare the simplest form of this, the {{Emoticon}}. ScantronPicture is a more maual way of getting the same effect.

Compare the simplest form of this, the {{Emoticon}}.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', being inspired by roguelikes (and partly one itself), is made entirely in ASCII... Sort of. It doesn't actually output true ASCII characters by default, but rather uses a graphical tileset that mimics the latest revision of ANSI. You can tell by the fact that if you look very closely, the "smiley face" characters (☺) that are used to represent dwarves have three-pixel beards.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', being inspired by roguelikes (and partly one itself), is made entirely in ASCII art just like them. You can download a graphics set, though.

** [[CaptainObvious Admiral]] [[Franchise/StarWars Ackbar]] may have a timely warning!

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* The good majority of {{roguelike}}s are rendered in ASCII art, including ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'', ''VideoGame/{{NetHack}}'', and ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery''.

[[caption-width-right:288:Fractal Ascii Art]]
Using typed characters in a way that makes pictures. Usually done by treating the characters as pixels (best done with a [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} monospaced font]], and in a text file) and placing the characters in the appropriate spots line by line.

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

!!Notable forms of AsciiArt:

* ''PaniPoniDash'' sometimes replaced faces with [=ShiftJIS=] art.

* One character in ''You And Me And Everyone We Know'' makes ASCII art as a hobby. He makes a detailed image of a tiger.

* ''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.

* The back cover of JagaJazzist's album ''The Stix'' has the album credits formatted in the shape of a mountain range. (It's not true ASCII art, as it's not monospaced.)

* The good majority of {{Roguelikes}}, including ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'', ''VideoGame/{{NetHack}}'', and ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery''.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', being inspired by {{Roguelike}}s (and partially one itself), is made entirely in ASCII art just like them. You can download a graphics set, though.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' At one point durring the mission where you recruit [[spoiler:Johnny Gat, Mat Miller]] screws with the graphics and turns you into a toilet and then the whole game into AsciiArt for the time you are in the mid-way point hallway.

* ''{{monospace}}'' is a {{webcomic}} based on this concept.

* A forum {{Troll}} has [[MemeticMutation several stock Asciis]] including:

** ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics' T. rex'' yelling

* ／人 ◕‿‿◕ 人＼ - Kyubey's [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] from ''Anime/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.
** Similarly, Rainbow Dash's memetic "so AWESOME" face from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, "/)^3^(\", has been adopted as an emoticon by a lot of the fandom.
* Some users of {{Facebook}} occasionally decorate their status messages with Unicode art: the Latin-1 range, stars, Japanese characters, box drawing characters, etc.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow4'' At one point durring the mission where you recruit [[spoiler:Johnny Gat, Mat Miller]] screws with the graphics and turns you into a toilet and then the whole game into AsciiArt for the time you are in the mid-way point hallway.

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

* There was, at one point, an attempt to re-create ''StarWars'' in ASCII art. It got about a third of the way through.

** [[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!

* The good majority of {{Roguelikes}}, including {{Rogue}}, {{NetHack}}, and {{Ancient Domains of Mystery}}.

* The good majority of {{Roguelikes}}, including {{Rogue}}, {{NetHack}}, and {{AncientDomainsofMystery}}.

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

* ''TheSimpsons'' had a couch gag with ASCII art.

* ／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.

*** [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} You fool! You've activated my trap card!]]