Video game tattoo ideas

28 photos and flash · 18% Traditional, 7% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Colour tattoo of a video game style emblem with two keyblades, a golden crown and a star charm on a thigh.
Keyblade emblem on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a pixel-art creeper face with a dark block outline, placed on a calf.
Pixelated creeper face on a calf
Black and grey traditional flash sheet on a wooden table, showing video game themed designs including a castle, bomb, ghost, shy guy, tombstone reading GAME OVER and a pin-up figure.
Video game themed flash sheet in black and grey
Two matching forearm tattoos: a shaded grey game controller on the left and a colour stack of books on the right, each with the words I have lived a thousand lives.
Matching controller and books forearm tattoos
Full sleeve neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing cartoon video game motifs including a floating character, clouds, a question block, a green pipe and a piranha plant.
Video game sleeve tattoo on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a yellow Pac-Man style character with a dark outline, chasing a grey ghost, with a separate green dollar sign to the right, on the forearm.
Pac-Man chasing a ghost with a dollar sign
Colour tattoo of cartoon Mario in a red raccoon suit with a striped tail, drawn in bold black outlines on a limb.
Cartoon Mario in raccoon suit on an arm
Two colour tattoos of cartoon mushrooms with simple faces, one green and one red, on the ankles of two people shown side by side.
Matching green and red mushroom ankle tattoos
Small coloured video game icons tattooed on the fingers of a hand resting on a cola can, including a yellow star and a red mushroom.
Video game icons tattooed on fingers
Small red and black Poke Ball tattoo with soft shading, placed behind the ear on the side of the head.
Poke Ball tattoo behind the ear
Colour tattoo of an NES controller with Super Mario mushrooms, Boo, a Goomba, a Bob-omb, a fire flower and a Yoshi egg across the upper chest and shoulder.
Nintendo controller and Super Mario items on chest
Colour tattoo of a grey Portal companion cube with red hearts around it on pale skin, placement on the body not clearly visible.
Companion cube with red hearts
Colour tattoo of the green Yoshi character from Nintendo holding a large crayon, with script reading Life is a work of art on the upper text.
Yoshi holding a crayon with script quote
Small pixel art tattoo of a trainer in a red cap beside Pikachu on the forearm, shown in black, red and yellow ink.
Pixel art trainer and Pikachu on a forearm
Small solid black winged Triforce emblem tattoo on the inner upper arm of a woman with long auburn hair wearing a white top.
Winged Triforce crest on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a pixel art piranha plant with a red and white head and green leaves, on the inner forearm.
Pixel art piranha plant on a forearm
Small colour tattoo of a white egg with three green spots, shaded in grey, on the side of an ankle.
Green spotted egg on an ankle
Traditional style flash design of a purple Hylian shield with a gold triangle emblem, a blue hilted sword, two red roses and a banner reading It's dangerous to go alone, coloured on paper.
Hylian shield, sword and roses flash
Colour cartoon-style tattoo of the Vault Boy character giving a thumbs up inside a dark grey cog, on skin of the back.
Vault Boy thumbs up in a gear
Pixel art tattoo of a red-capped trainer and Pikachu in colour on the ankle.
Pixel art Pokémon trainer and Pikachu on an ankle
Two matching tattoos of a Portal-style ring with a black stick figure, one blue on a hip above a belt and one orange on a lower stomach above patterned shorts.
Matching Portal rings on two hips
Colourful Tetris pieces fall down the inner forearm and stack into a pile at the wrist, in a geometric style with dark outlines.
Falling Tetris blocks on a forearm
Forearm tattoo of the quadratic formula with a yellow Pac-Man eating into the equation and a blue ghost beside it.
Quadratic formula with Pac-Man and ghost on forearm
Colour tattoo in a pixel-art video game style on an upper arm, showing a green 1-up mushroom, red hearts, gold coins, bullet bills and a castle.
Video game mushroom and castle on upper arm
Full sleeve tattoo of cartoon video game scenes with clouds, a green pipe and a red piranha plant, in traditional style on an upper arm.
Video game sleeve on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a pixel art wizard hat with a yellow brim and blue robe, outlined in black, on the upper back.
Pixel art wizard hat on upper back
Colour traditional-style tattoo of the Fallout Vault Boy giving a thumbs up beneath a mushroom cloud, on a limb with a red circle behind the figure.
Vault Boy and mushroom cloud on a leg
Colour tattoo of Mario from the Super Mario games on an upper arm, with a question block, mushroom, green pipe and piranha plant against a blue sky.
Mario scene on upper arm