Games as image files?

Question

Gaming consoles

Can you please tell me if there really are games in the form of an image or representing such an opportunity for mini-games for example pixel art or 8bit? It seems that there was such a project that uses images, like game cartridges.

Answer 1

You are looking for PICO-8 , it understands "cartridges" as png images .

Answer 2

Are you talking about "spot the differences"? Yes, these really exist)
Or are you talking about programming games using pictures? Yes, there are those too. For example, there is the Pixl language.

Answer 3

It is possible to create an html5+javascript game in the form of a single file, encode it in a data url with base64 encoding, make a qr-code from the received string
, unfortunately, the size of this code is too small in the standard, so do not expect working examples, but there are no technical difficulties here.
example of games 1kb here https://js1k.com/