How to get that look with a camera?

I really love the visual style of this game, so I've been wondering how to achieve it with a camera. Especially the lights, that form these stripes up and down the screen(I really don't know if there's a proper term for that).
 
Do I just have to get a really cheap digital camera and film in low light settings or do I need special filters? Would be awesome if someone could help me out with that!

If my memory serves me correctly, 28 Days Later (which had a really awesome shitty look to it), was filmed with a cheap crappy Mini-DV. If you are looking to film something really grungy i'd use tape I guess?

" I really love the visual style of this game, so I've been wondering how to achieve it with a camera. Especially the lights, that form these stripes up and down the screen(I really don't know if there's a proper term for that).  Do I just have to get a really cheap digital camera and film in low light settings or do I need special filters? Would be awesome if someone could help me out with that! "

A shitty camera is supposed to do that.

It's called learn compositing software

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A shitty camera is supposed to do that.

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If you ever figure out a way to pull this off legitimately (no filters) I'd love to know.

I've been wondering how to do this as well. My interests peeked after Mega64 did their MVC3 video where they made it look like a old VHS recording. I emailed them a question about how they did it, but never got a reply back :(

If you need to create macroblocks in a video, use an old old codec like cinepack and the quality as low as possible. 
noise is easy enough to apply with filters. 
still can't figure out how to get lightbanding without using a high end video editor like after effects...

Hey it's, eleven years later, and I still badly want to re-create this look through purchase or effect. But ideally, in real time, not post editing. Today this reminded me to play around with Glitch Studio on my iphone, and, it's never going to be as good as the mimicked raw bad video the game represents. I always felt like it was not just a cheap camera, but a live streaming one over a bad connection with an old codec.. Lots going on.

But I bet after this many years if I still think about this despite the gameplay, some others probably still are too..

@deadweezel: the hard part is to make the lines perfectly vertical, but essentially all you have to do is to breathe on your phone's camera lens and then wipe it with your hand, leaving it slightly dirty and wet. The angle you wipe it at will affect the direction of the light 'beams'. You may want to put some protective film on the lens or use an old camera where it doesn't matter if you scratch it since you'll need to redo it a few times in order to get the right look.

Once you get close enough you can always just record and then crop and rotate the video a little during editing. That'll of course give you even more of that digital zoom look (and then use pretty heavy compression to make the look even dirtier).

Your best results will probably be with some cheap android phones or tablets, no fancy Samsungs or stuff like that (except maybe their cheaper Galaxy Ax line). You want as cheap and bad cameras as you can get.

Quite - The slow down during explosions in the game wouldn't be achievable unless there was some serious shock to the camera (Think like a CD skipping). This would probably only be possible with some more analog formats, almost certainly not with modern HD cameras saved to an SD card. I've dropped a C100 before and that kept on trucking.

It's not a realtime effect, but there's an iOS app called DU-VFX that will also do a bit of this. Otherwise, the only way I've managed to do stuff like this was with After Effects and various templates. Here's a good start.

@fisk0: some good ideas there.. I do have a bunch of old phones around

@davotron: cheers there