Bottom Half of Left-Facing Runner, Frame 1

The Aquarius built game screens from fixed character tiles. The computer had no programmable graphics, so its ready-made character set supplied pictures for games. Its runner is split into two vertically stacked tiles: the matching upper half and 𜷭 form one pose, while a different lower tile forms the next animation frame.

The Mattel Aquarius launched in 1983. Its character set also included a standing person, a robot, explosions, and geometric shapes; Unicode later retained these graphics to represent early computer character sets.