So you’ve got a few CPU cycles to burn and want your desktop wallpaper to pay homage to something awesome from your favourite pastime?
You’ve come to the right place. We have everything from animated GIF wallpapers to Rainmeter setups that will take a good while to set up.
The Blood-pumping desktop (for Windows)
Lifehacker recently featured a Rainmeter-based desktop, called The Blood-Pumping Desktop, from McTarkus.
Rainmeter is a desktop customisation program for Windows that lets you overlay various skins to display information right on top of your wallpaper.
A full description of how to configure Rainmeter to recreate this desktop is available on McTarkus’ Kinja blog.
Pixel art wallpapers
Imgur user SirDrinksAlot recently posted this collection of pixel art wallpapers he prepared.
Animated wallpapers
Another Imgur user, Unpopularpuffininperson, recently posted a gallery of animated wallpapers to the image sharing network.
Gaming wallpapers
Imgur also contains a number of galleries with images of gaming, science-fiction, and fantasy wallpapers.
Below is a selection of gaming and sci-fi wallpapers posted by three different users.
https://imgur.com/gallery/IWtDN
https://imgur.com/gallery/JoLsW
Those looking for wallpapers larger than the standard 1,920×1,080 size can also find many galleries for high-res images.
One such gallery is embedded below.
For those looking for something a little more retro, but still full HD, Penguillion has a collection of retro gaming wallpapers on Imgur.
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Man that Contra header brings back memories. Makes me feel like firing up Blood Dragon again to be honest.
“So you’ve got a few CPU cycles to burn and want your desktop wallpaper
to pay homage to something awesome from your favourite pastime?” May as well now that MS have killed of Aero Glass lol.