Top 10 best and worst of videogame hair By Val1s  [23 more lists]

The difficulty in depicting hair convincingly has been around since the inception of videogames. With too few pixels to represent waving locks of hair, most of the earliest games characters were bald or wore hats. Whether it was Pacman’s smooth dome or Mario’s cap, it was amazing what sprite artists managed to do with only a few pixels.

Moving into the modern age of gaming, its amazing that artists have so much scope to craft stunning styles but still manage to get it so very wrong so often. For every great haircut, there’s a styling disaster to match. Here’s the five best and five worst haircuts in videogames: