/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>4027793

How could you possibly think that, did you not have Ladybugs where you lived?

>>4027793
My life won't be the same again.

>>4027810
Yes, I did. I just thought that since the legs were tiny and blurred together on my shitty TV, and you only saw them climbing vines, that it was some kind of weird living totem. I only realized it was a bug while I was replaying SMB2 earlier today.

>>4027793
>>4027810
I always saw it as a face and never once stopped to question why they designed such an enemy. I mean games back then were often pretty abstract.

>>4027813
this

>>4027836
>chuckl'd

I'm still not sure that I fully understand Porky's sprite

... or his design in general

>>4028054

Well your drawing there makes it look like he's got a fat upper lip instead of a piggly nose, and now I have something new I can't unsee.

Keep flying you crazy Space Dog!

>>4027810
To be fair to OP, he's probably not actually retarded. We are talking about a game where a flying mask chases after you when you pick up a key, so a face climbing a vine isn't totally out of the question.

We're doing this shit

>>4028252
Oh shit what.
I thought it was some kind of floating tower/castle/thing. Being a spaceship makes it seem a lot less ominous.

>>4027813

Didn't everyone see Happy Little Boy Wario?

>>4028257

>>4028252
>Its a spaceship, not a cone castle

My whole life is a lie

>>4028241
Fair enough, I guess I was one of those kids who was obsessed with bugs so I made the connection immediately.

>>4028248
oh god, if I didn't have the Super Mario RPG strategy guide as a kid, I probably would have seen this too.

>>4028284
That reminds me, my five year old self didn't know what Zelda was and I had no instruction manual to go off of, so when I saw my parents playing this, I thought Link was some kind of pig like goblin man.

>>4028252
>>4028279
In all seriousness though once I saw the star destroyer picture I felt like an idiot for thinking it was a tower all my life.

>>4028252
Holy mama

>>4028252
Are we sure that's true? There's the bigass elevator and the pyramid shape when it's all still underwater. Shadow does imply that it's rather tall, not long.

The guy who designed that sprite did an okay job, but it would've been more coherent with smarter shadow placement. Or somebody else, along the way, could've maybe noticed that it's hard to tell, and clarify what exactly it is in the dialog with Schala or some shit.

>>4028348
Maybe this will help

>>4028320
HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>4028320
i don't remember from what game is that, could you tell me please?

>>4028248
i can't see the bird sorry

>>4028320
What?

>>4028284
Literally no one thought this.

>>4028127

Yeah that was always a weird one. I think I struggled with it a bit, and then eventually settled on the correct interpretation.

>>4027793
>what it actually was
>two ladybugs
>its hip to be autistic fail
>my obituary will be 'nothing of value was lost'

>>4028127
This is a strange one, because everyone in my family remembers that she was holding something a lot more dark-brownish that couldn't have been her hand way back then.

Maybe it was just the tv.

>>4028293
thats cute

I thought they were armored, flying eyeballs. Honest mistake, really.

>>4028505
I think this was discussed on Game Grumps when they did Zelda II

>>4029129
Ah, so it's a meme. Because you cannot even remotely think that looks like an arm. You can't even slightly convince your brain that it's an arm.

>>4029031

kek

warcraft2peon.jpg

fucking werewolves. I thought they were some kind of mutant. Thanks Dad.

>>4029043
it always looked like a flying medieval helmet to me

>>4029043

same

why the hell did they have a pellet floating in its mouth anyway

>>4029452
>Everyone thinks exactly like me
I think you might have actual autism.

>>4028284
holy shit, me.

I always though it was the arm that rises the shield.

>>4030013
No, you're just a tryhard faggot who resorts to lying to fit in. Literally no person could see it as an arm.

>>4030013
>>4030016
Also, samefagging.

>>4030020
>Assuming everyone who disagrees with you is the same person
Literal 'tism.

>>4030024
Yeah, just a coincidence you posted that then someone else agreed with you.

Literally no one can confuse it for being an arm.

>>4029031

From the thumbnail it looks like Homer Simpson taking a shit viewed from behind

>>4027793

I don't like these threads. It's always retards quick to brag about how retarded they are.

>>4031424
pretty retarded of you to post in a thread you dislike.

>>4031452
They're just an excuse to make up some bullshit like >>4028284

>>4028135
i wanna play space dog game

>>4028501
this is capcom backpedaling from putting a knife nigger in their game

>>4031424

>>4028252
>The Reapers are here

>>4028501
What? Looks nothing like the sprite.

I always thought the arm on a Bullet Bill was another eyeball.

>>4032872
Jesus, almost 20 years have passed, and only now I get to know the truth.

>>4028248
...I thought he was a bug. The green thing is antennae and the cape is open wing casings.

I find MSX stuff easy to fuck up sometimes.

>>4027836
Amano's concept art was just meant as being "concept" in the early FFs to get inspired by, the actual sprite design was done by Kazuko Shibuya and Koichi Ishii

>>4032872
wtf?

when I was a kid I even called that unit "the ballship"

>>4034885
>>4033056
Mostly all of the units had easily accessible hand drawn art in the manuals you received when you bought the games.

>>4034915
>bought
>games
>pc
AHAHAH

>>4028252
People who saw this wrong need to learn to look at shadows

also final fantasy airships.

Am i the only one who always saw this when I was younger until recently?

>>4028320
>Voltron Legendary Defender.png

>>4028501
I thought he was captain Haddocks and Mack The Knife illegitimate son. Of course they wouldn't recognize it because copyright reasons

Apparently these are some kind of floating plant creature, but I always saw them as weird butt-bugs.

>>4029903
>My dad threw away instruction manuals and boxes
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
My parents did this too, goddamnit
Sorry for your loss anon

MY LIFE WAS A LIE!

>>4034986
This one I genuinely think you have to be a complete and utter retard to believe, as the "What it actually was" sprite is the creature jumping up just a second after you see the first sprite

>>4028501
Right is promo art for the SFC version, which takes some stylistic liberty with the original character designs. Damnd also looked pretty weird on the SFC boxart.

>>4035640
Forgot my image.

>>4035621

They may have been teeth back then, but i'm pretty sure this mistake has been rectified and now they're officially confirmed as buttons.

Pic related, its a Ninji from Paper Mario

>>4035627
you can call me an retard on that, since they show their full body after it jumping but i still keep seeing this way even when i know it's supposted to be his eyes.

>>4035661
Gaaaay. It was better when they were little black ninja owl things.

>>4035661
Naturally, the middle render in my image was from Super Mario Run. It's just weird to see that the original artist never intended them to be red buttons.

>>4035717
>waist is 3 pixels wide

Jesus, DK really squeezed her hard didn't he

>>4034986
Did anyone know that Yoshi can eat them?

>>4035627
I think a lot of these are a matter of being unable to unsee the sprites as something else even when you know what they're supposed to be.

>>4035724
As God intended

>>4032872

>>4035919
Yes. I only managed to pull it off once, as a youngling.

>>4035919
It's hard to do

Im retarded

This thread is amazing y'all, thanks

>>4036292
Those are two different sprites.

>>4033334
what is the tool they use to do those black lines?

>>4036301
lol

>>4036301
Oh fuck, I remember this game, my dad used to try and beat this shit for like a month until he just gave up out of shitty clunky bullshit gameplay. Kind of like Darkman.

>>4027793
similar but I thought the red part were the lips

>>4036343
a pen?

>>4027813
I always thought he looked like he had granny glasses in this particular sprite, like the kind John Lennon was famous for

>>4028284
I feel stupid for not seeing the sword, I guess it's because it's the same colour as his skin.

I still see it wrong sometimes.

>>4028284
I saw this too, they could've used a different color for his sword
who knew one autist would get triggered by this

>>4036469
>>4028284
how did you guys not see it as links dick tho? thats how I saw it. Link masturbating

>>4036587

Source on that middle image? I want to own that.

I thought the medal on this cover was a hamburger.

>>4036620
u dumb or need glasses

>>4035983

WHAT? Those AREN'T the eyes? Jesus.

>>4036469
Dude, stop lying. If, IF, you could somehow see the sword as an arm (you can't) playing the game for 2 seconds and swinging your sword would CLEARLY show it to be a sword. You can't think it's an arm having seen his stab animation >>4030028. So cut the bullshit faggot.

>>4036731

1990 official Nintendo calendar

>>4028279
Excellent analysis.

>>4028293
>Kobold link

>>4036731
I fully agree with you. It's just one of those things that I saw when I was 9 or 10 years old and never questioned it again.

>>4036343
>>4036367
Yeah, it looks like plain old black ink to me.

>>4036731
Also, didn't notice you thought I was the same guy as the first retard. Don't suppose this will help.

>>4036620
You aren't the only one

>>4036772
MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

>>4028279
After all these years I thought it was a pyramid, I stand corrected. The first part of the shadow falls under the star ship. It's a ship of course.

>>4036620
Same, sister and I always preferred to pick that one because the hamburger was funny

>>4036560
NES sprites could only support 3 colors at a time. That's why Mario's hair was always the same color as his clothes in the NES games, and why he didn't have gloves until Super Mario WOrld.

>>4036613
It's a clay model Nintendo used during the development of A Link to the Past, likely intended for reference purposes.

>>4034915
The original manual does have a lot of good shit in it, but I think more people got the battle chest that came with a tiny manual for the expansion only, as well as those dumb prima strategy guides. I don't care enough to flip through them to see if the art or lore are in those, though.

Might not have always been the case, I forget when exactly I picked up my copy (probably '05 or something), but it definitely only had a tiny BW manual, the strategy guides, a tech tree chart, and a free trial for world of warcraft.

>>4037106

Source? Nothing on that page says anything about the clay models, and I can't find anything that says they used clay models during development.

I'm not in doubt I just want a credible source. Because if it's true this could mean that the Pink hair really wasn't a mistake.

>>4036748
hahaha
HAHAHAAHA

To this day I still don't know what the prehistoric men are supposed to look like in Chrono Trigger.
I see a face with a giant eye on it,

>>4036748
b-b-but how can it be? w-w-why nintendo, WHY? ;_;

I remember playing super metroid in target as a kid. I thought it was iron man

>>4037365
They look like Chrono with a mean face and a beard.

>>4037365

I look at it and I see a face like pic related

>>4037091
>"Can only support 3 colors"
Posts sprites with 4 colors (+transparency).

>>4036620
>"unreleased in the USA!"
>picture of hamburger

Really energized my white matter microstructures.

>>4037365
>>4037378

>>4037397
Made me lol

>>4037397
kek

>>4037307
It's definitely supposed to be pink hair. That's from an official Nintendo magazine. I think we can trust it.

>>4036323
Almost like it's to illustrate the point...

>>4036731
Why is this guy so angry about this anyways?
Looks like different people saw it differently, to me it will always look like he's holding a green knife vertically and close to his face with both hands.
I think you might be autistic, with all this "you can't POSSIBLY percieve this aspect of reality in a way different than I do" and how you don't seem to realize that one can still see these vague low-res images as something else even when one knows what they actually are supposed to be.

>>4036497
kek

>>4028127
I always thought she was holding a weird banana and that's why Mike poses with them at the end.

>>4037387
None of those sprites have 4 colors. They're divided into sections, each of which only has three colors.
Mega Man uses a more advanced version of this trick. His face is a separate sprite.

>>4037967
>>4030028
What arm do you have that it has two elbows? Like I said, you cannot perceive it to be a sword if you just press the attack button ONCE. You're lying, simply put, to try to get some gay meme to catch on.

>>4036748
Jesus Christ. I got nothing.

>>4036748
This is fake but it's hilarious.

>>4038252
It's not fake, but it's also just a shitty Nintendo power calender or something.

>>4036748
NANI?

>>4036748

This calender is all kinds of fucked though, look at that fucking Samus in the upper left.

>>4038049
As someone who is used to watching people like you rant and rave about shit like this, I'm actually glad to be part of this. I'm >>4036469
and >>4036774. It's amazing how you can reply in a thread and have someone absolutely lose their shit over something like this.

>>4036469
>>4036731
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uf-WXe7Eo
Skip to 10:30

>>4036748
Mother fucking CANON.

>>4036772
Oh. Ohhh.

>>4038424
Samus looks like some kinda lego deep sea diver

>>4036343
T square and a set square?

>>4036497
I learn something new every thread

>>4038424
And then they did it again

>>4038778
wow

Lego scuba Samus is canon. Get rekt Primefags.

>>4038778
This frog Mario is really weird.

>>4036748
What the actual fuck

>>4038778
I need a better quality scan of that.

>>4036620
SAME

>>4036620

I could see the white ribbons, bit didn't quite know what they were, so I thought it was some kind of weird burger looking jellyfish.

>>4032872

IT'S NOT A BALL? I always come to these threads to laugh at idiots, but I guess now I finally know the feeling of seeing something wrong for 20 years.

>>4035919
i wonder how that would feel like haha.

>>4036772
Is that simon?

>>4029856
Jesus Christ, I'm just seeing the snout for the first time.

>>4036856
Yes

Super Mario Land on Gameboy

>>4040710

I mean, Goombas are actually mushrooms so you're not entirely wrong there.

>>4028320

imdying

>>4041467
I thought they were chestnuts.

>>4041801

They're named after Chestnuts in Japan, but they're definitely mushrooms. They're even the same sprite as the SMB1 super mushroom but with feet and eyes and a different color.

I don't know which game said it, but they've been described as defectors from the Mushroom Kingdom.

>>4041801
>>4041825

Forgot pic.

>>4028279
Name of the game?

>>4036620
kek, i still see this

>>4041841
chrono nigger

>>4028293
>tfw no game with a moblin sidekick

>>4037091
what is that last sprite?

>>4041875

I'd kill for a Zelda game full of friendly monsters like Paper Mario.

>>4041879

Donkey Kong '94
Probably the best Mario game on the Gameboy.

>>4041863
I finished the game and I don't remember that black christmas tree.
I'm getting old.

>>4041885
right
im aware of it and i remember seeing someone play it and thinking it was a pretty good looking game
its weird that its just kinda never talked about

>>4037397
MAGUS MAN RANDY SAVAGE!

>>4033334
Is that a Blue Mage design for FFIII? Weird.

>>4036856
Every time I play this game it takes me a second to see it the right way.

I still see the cloud as doing some stupid anime face instead of just it being puffy.

>>4043274
Maybe that's why they actually gave the clouds faces later.

At first I thought that the teeth were eyes, the white parts were lips, and that the one spike was an eye

>>4044449

I could see where you would get that.

DESU there were a lot of cases in Super Mario RPG especially where the sprites were hard to make out. That game had such a bad art style. It's like they were going for "the first Donkey Kong Country but worse."

bump

>>4037397

No matter how I look at her, I'll always see Nurse Joy as a giant head with a huge mouth instead of a petite qt sprite with her arms folded in front of her.

>>4037397
this

>>4045746

I miss when pokemon centers looked like quaint log cabins on the inside.

>>4045746
Seeing anything beyond Gen 1 always makes me sad because it painfully reminds me of the fact that they did not introduce anything really novel after that. They just kept regurgitating the same shit every two years, whereas Gen 1, while flawed in some (or a lot, depending on your view) aspects, did something really new and interesting when it first came out.

"The fanboys look unhappy." "Add more Pokemon!"

>>4036748
>it's real
Are you fucking kidding me...

>>4041801
They started out as chestnuts but were mistaken for mushrooms all the time (understandably, too) so they just thought "eh fuck it" and made them mushrooms from then on.

The round goombas in World are a subspecies intended to be a nod to the whole chestnut thing. 3D World brings them back alongside the original Goomba and they behave just like how they did in World.

>>4028252
That's not true! That's IMPOSSIBLE!!!

>>4036497
I STILL can't unsee his nostrils as eyes in the heat of the moment. You can't really take in the details when you're running around and dodging rockets.

>>4045797
>they did not introduce anything really novel after that

In the 3DS games you can pull up a screen of your Pokemon and pet them with the stylus. They have a favorite spot they like being scratched in, and you can also hand feed them treats. I can't think of a single kid back in the day who didn't wish they could play with their Pokemon like that. Really glad you can do that now.

>>4036497

As a kid, I though he was eyeless. Honestly it's more creepy like that. Seeing the eyes as an adult just makes him look goofy as fuck, like that one alien from The Last Starfighter.

>>4045847
And it only took them, what, 15 years to implement that feature? Sure it's cute, but as far as core gameplay mechanics go, they've been reselling the same game for two decades.

I thought that in the Silence attack, the character grew old and that X was a white beard.

>>4045909
Fix'd that for you.
Didn't even use a FILTER.

You're Welcome.

>>4036267
For you...

In my defense, I never used the magic amulets, so I didn't know it summoned the mermaids.

>>4045884

>as far as core gameplay mechanics go, they've been reselling the same game for two decades.

The structure is the same, where the overall goal is to collect all the pokemon and also defeat all the gym leaders (Sun & Moon kind of changed that though) but the gameplay has had some major changes.

The most obvious examples I can think of are in Gen 2 where the Special stat was split into Special Attack and Special Defense, and then Gen 4 where the distinction of Physical or Special attack was based on what the move itself was rather than its elemental type, which is pretty huge. Double battles and triple battles are also a pretty unique addition. Pokemon also have different "abilities" now separate from their stats that can hugely affect their play styles. Then other features like the Battle Tower where you can infinitely battle trainers post-game with equal leveled teams, pokemon breeding, pokemon natures and re-worked IV/EV stat systems, the introduction of held items, the introduction of berries and being able to plant and farm them, pokeballs that have different capture rates depending on how you use them and also have different colors and designs that can be seen when you send out a pokemon you captured in one, the addition of rare "shiny" pokemon you can encounter that have alternate colors, etc

The series has evolved quite a bit from gen 1.

>>4046064
I can't blame you, who would want to summon corn

>>4046090
Hey, corn is tasty and rich in vitamins.

>>4041825
I think they were described as such in either SMB1 or 3, but it's definitely not true anymore, as the Goombas have had their own king since Paper Mario 64.

>>4036748
Here's yet another horrible rendition from the same calendar. That artist could have learned from this thread...

>>4046119

You don't think the King of the Goombas could be the one that lead the Goombas to defect in the first place?

Besides, the Goomba King isn't a real king, he's just kind of a boss who gave himself the title. Bowser is the Goomba's only king.

Also, Paper Mario isn't Canon to the main games, not that Canon matteres in Mario.

>>4046140
My take on this.

>>4046089
To be quite honest senpai, none of this really strikes me as a bold deviation from the base formula. Look at what other RPGs, like the Final Fantasy series, did in the same time. Pokemon has been mostly stagnant, while they did add some minor bells and whistles every new Gen to distinguish them from the one that came before.

>>4046817

>a bold deviation from the base formula

The basic concept of the main series games hasn't changed. There's no reason to fundementally change it and they have several spin-off series for when they want to make a new kind of game anyway. The gameplay in gen 1 vs the gameplay now is like the difference between rock n roll from the 1950s and rock n roll from every successive decade. It's based on the same foundation but re-worked and made more complex. The way a pokemon battle works in the most recent games, especially in the meta, is miles away from how it played in gen 1.

>>4046183
dude that metroid is aesthetic

>>4046837

They could at least try to make single player content a little different. How many different versions of "evil team wakes a sleeping legendary" do we need?

Pokemon stopped feeling like a 90's JRPG with Sun and Moon but it only started feeling like an early 2000's JRPG. I'm so tired of the same thing happening but a little remixed in every game. And it looks like they're about to make that very literal shortly.

>>4046837
I might just be just out of touch, I guess.

I recognize that to someone who stuck with the series over the years these changes may feel like some genuine, big improvements (especially since they handle the gameplay so conservatively to begin with). I never played through anything beyond Gen 2 because I felt like they just kept shoveling out new ugly Pokemans so you could catch them all™. Maybe it's because I subconsciously feel my memories of Gen 1 devaluated as the original 151 now make up only a fraction of the pantheon in newer Gens, whereas they used to be all there was (and to my emotionally biased heart, they still are). Observing the development of the games from the outside from that point on may only have furthered my prejudices, I guess the games simply did not develop the way I hoped they would. I must be getting old.

I mean, the games still sell really well and you're not the only one who is still with the franchise, so Nintendo/Gamefreak must be on about something. Probably the fans would have shunned an entry that deviated too much from what they were used to...

Ah, well. There's no harm in people being happy with their product and having fun playing. Carry on.

>>4046090
GENTLEMEN
BEHOLD

>>4046465
>>4046140
Props to Super Mario Land 2, which also fucked me over in the same way.

Also, joke posting this motherfucker.

>>4046863
God, fuck everything about FRLG's make over.

>>4046848

More creativity in the stories would be nice, yeah. As far as gameplay goes though, given that they can't really make huge changes to the main series without people complaining that it's not a pokemon game anymore, the changes they do bring with each generation add a lot to the gameplay.

>>4046854

I played gen 1 and 2, then later I played Platinum, X, and Sun/Moon. When you play the later games and then go back and try to play gen 1, it feels so primitive. On the surface it might look like the games haven't changed much, but the additional gameplay mechanics and all the refining and expanding on of earlier features are night and day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-Ju2aR9SI

This is about as new and different as you can get with the game without it just being a different game altogether. 3 pokemon on each team fighting at the same time, having been bred and trained in specific ways that give much more control over what role they play on the team, making use of weather conditions and unique pokemon-specific abilities for synergy, holding items that either activate and give bonuses during the battle, give passive bonuses to stats, or increase the duration of status moves, in a battle where the strategy revolves having your main support pokemon reverse the priority of the speed bracket. I mean shit, it's pretty damn different.

>>4046928
See, you've lost me there. You elaborated on all those intricate gameplay aspects I still don't care abut while disregarding my introspective self-reflection. It's OK. I don't need to understand or play the new Pokemans, but you go, girl!

>>4046928
>given that they can't really make huge changes to the main series without people complaining that it's not a pokemon game anymore

That's a risk they need to take for the series to grow. Zelda finally stepped into the modern age and there's plenty of people who are too attached to the old formula pissing and moaning about the lack of traditional elements, and yet this has been the most successful Zelda in years.

Obviously Pokemon doesn't need to do this, because it has it's fan\s by the balls. There's an alarming number of people who buy both versions of each game even though there's no real reason to, and people are still drawn to that dumb anime even though it's more formulaic than the games at this point and refuses to break the status quo. Pokemon doesn't NEED to change to be successful.

But I'm not going to listen to anyone saying that Pokemon is taking "leaps and bounds" in the games because it hasn't.

>>4046939

You don't have to play anything, I'm just making the case for why it doesn't make sense when someone says the pokemon games are the same thing every time.

>>4046953

Like I said, they do spin-off games when they try something totally new

>But I'm not going to listen to anyone saying that Pokemon is taking "leaps and bounds" in the games because it hasn't.

I didn't use the phrase you're quoting but there's clearly a big difference in the way the games play now compared to gen 1 or 2. I've given a list of major changes and linked a video of a prime example of it. You should be able to agree at this point. It's like saying Mario games have been the same thing from Super Mario Bros to Mario Galaxy, or that there's no big difference between Shogun: Total War vs. Warhammer: Total War. They're series that stick to their core design but the features evolve and give a different experience.

>>4041825
Funny coincidence: gomba literally means mushroom in hungarian

>>4046971
>I didn't use the phrase you're quoting but

Yeah no shit, that's what happens when you make very small incremental improvements to the gameplay over the course of 20 years. Like I said, Pokemon has evolved, but it's still only at the level of an early 2000's RPG after years of being a 90's RPG.

I just don't think they've done enough to deserve the amount of praise that they get, especially since a lot of Pokemon players I know give other series shit for not evolving enough

It just gets under my skin when people pretend Pokemon has grown significantly as a series just because they reskinned gyms and HMs or some shit like that.

>spinoffs

Right, I don't think the Mario Platformers are fresh enough, I could always play Mario Kart to scratch that itch for a fresh platformer.

>>4047001

>Pokemon has evolved, but it's still only at the level of an early 2000's RPG after years of being a 90's RPG.

What does that even mean? What should a handheld turn-based JRPG built around the idea of collecting, trading and training monsters for battling look like, an open-world action-RPG with crafting and survival elements?

Each game takes the previous game and improves and expands in almost every way. Your objections are so vague I don't understand why you think it hasn't grown significantly.

>>4046863
What were those spherical things? Giant barrels? They are fence now but I kinda miss them.

>>4047547
>>4046863
They're bollards.

>>4047920
Huh. Didn't know those things even had a name. I thought they were just generic pillars.

>>4038778
>
Gat-damn! thats some bootleggy looking shit

>>4044449
Wait, so which ones are the real eyes then?
Because all I'm seeing is >>4044478 type of eyes.

>>4048108

On top of the head, they're two little beady black eyes.

>>4048101

It may as well be a bootleg since it's not Japanese. Nintendo doesn't even acknowledge actually good shit that was produced for other countries, like the Legend of Zelda artwork by Ketsuya Terada, may be from a Japanese artist, but it only existed so americans wouldn't look think they were playing a babby game.

>>4037091
That's nonsense. NES sprites could only be 8x8 or 8x16, which means that every single Mario sprite actually took up multiple "hardware" sprites at once that all moved at the same time to look like one big one. You could very easily just layer yet another sprite on top of those that added additional colors, and that's actually precisely what Mega Man did. Most devs were just lazy.

>>4035919
>>4036267

I never knew you could do this. Neat! And when you spit him out, you only spit out his eyes.

Here's one I just rediscovered. It's from Aerial Assault, an obscure D-list shmup on the Game Gear.

In my defense, I had never seen a mecha anime before playing this game, so I had no reference for what this enemy is actually supposed to be.

>>4038012
heh

>>4048296
That picture is wrong and it's a common misconception about MM. This particular frame of Mega Man isn't "2 sprites", it's 9 sprites.
Out of those, 8 use the first palette (blue), and 1 use the white/beige palette

Also
>You could very easily just layer yet another sprite on top of those that added additional colors

The more sprites you use, the quicker you hit the "8 sprites per scanline" limit.
Considering that a sprite is 8*8 pixels that limit is quickly reached, so I wouldn't call it lazyness.

>>4048296
>>4049187
Forgot pic

>>4048093
You thought wrong. Bet you feel pretty dumb now.

>>4045746

Gen 1 remains an odd gen for me due to all the sprites being weird for a kid like me.

I still can't get it into my head that the ledges are ledges. I just sort of see them as a brown barrier. All the rocks that block paths confused me as well. In game they must be fucking huge since you can't pass them, but to me they just look like big marshmellows. The bushes as well. They're everywhere and look like a blob of green, but they're meant to represent a bush or some sort of tree. Obviously there's the guard who everyone thought was a british guard.

I still don't know what these lines are meant to represent.

>>4030028
I always thought that Orpheus had rabbit feet.

>>4049413
>Lines
Appears to be a sidewalk.

I only recently noticed that he had a toothy frown, in my defense, the "slightly lighter purple" they used for the whites of his teeth do not contrast well with his skin.

>>4047001
They don't have hms anymore anon........

>>4052235
How fucking many years too late? That shit should have gone out the door by gen 3 or sooner.

And for the record, the same basic system is still there, it's whatever the pokemon ride system is called. They just made it so that you don't need to waste a party/move slot to use it.

>>4048329
>spit him out
Only in the GBA version.

>>4040710
>light in the center
>burger
Jesus, anon, everyone knows those falling platforms are apple cores.

>>4028454
Chrono Trigger.

>>4036748
LOL

>>4045746
Holy shit, I can see it.

Shouldn't have expected anything else from Action 52, though.

>>4045884
Why change a winning formula?
Each new game is basically just an update with dlc added, and considering how other games have much worse updates and much worse dlc, I'll go ahead and say pokemon get's a pass on this one
I do miss the comfy sprites though

>>4049204
doubtful. he learned something.

>>4029856
>>4040586
Even with the reference drawing, I can't see is as anything but a snout.

>>4051023
You're pretty good at drawing

>>4048101
>>4048212

also note it's a 1991 and 1992 calendar with 8-bit Nintendo characters and this was at the time the SNES was sold and advertised everywhere in developed as people were forgetting their old 8-bit NES. Only underdeveloped nations would still be stuck with old stuff instead of more recent stuff to bootleg

Carrots are healthy, right?

>>4046064
That's a cute mermaid, did you draw that?

>captcha: Sushi shop

>>4028252
>mfw
>>4036301
FUCK YEAH BLACK MANTA

>>4037153
fukkkk

>>4046902
Is there nothing that won't trigger you faggots?

While playing the game I saw these wasps as having some kind of police cap, must have been the speed and backgrounds.

>>4027795
This one always pissed me off...Square did this frequently with the earlier FF games.

>>4027793
eww

>>4055919

I was going to explain to you why this is wrong but it is much easier just to call you an idiot.

>>4038424
>when you realize they had the concept of Bioshock back then

>>4053132
Wait what... Source?

>>4056860
What's wrong about it?

>>4056991
it's a lot more obvious in the (unofficial) remake

>>4036620
oh yeah! i thought it was either that or like a cookie or something

>>4036808
wait they're not evil ghost owls?

>>4057282
idiot

>>4057719
Can you explain what's wrong with it?

>>4057780
There's nothing wrong with it, he's just trying to bait

>>4057884
Honestly, I'm not trying to bait. Frequently the sprites didn't match portraits.

I'm also thinking of Wedge and Biggs from FFVI.

What's the deal with being butthurt about it?

>>4036301
Hold on hold on... those aren't some weird ninja socks with exposed toes. The tan is the bottom sole of the shoe. Krillin wears shoes like that in Dragonball. Half the characters in kung fu movies wear those shoes. Whats going on here

>>4045874
I thought so too!
That is a creepier concept, being eyeless yet able to sense you with ease.

>>4058849
I saw a guy with an orange rugged shirt and a helmet.

>>4037365
I think it's some huge fucker, with a handlebar mustache and an Assault Club

>>4027793
>>>4037365
>I think it's some huge fucker, with a handlebar mustache and an Assault Club

It's a nose ring, ya dip!

>>4058895

>>4049413

If memory serves right, it is a highway under construction, with the equivalent of four lanes by four lanes.

Remember that Pokemon Red and Blue is just real Kanto region with landmarks and weird monsters.

>>4033334

fucking 8-bit theater ruined these sprites for me

>>4028284

well, I'm glad I'm not alone on this.

>>4028252

I still find it more terrible and imposing as a giant black tower.

>>4037397

you drink a good soup there fucker

>>4029043
I went back to read the instruction manual for Metroid 1 and that's pretty much the official artwork of the game dude, did you not read through it before even playing?

>>4058849
>switch to punching
>glove magically comes off
>brass knuckle magically comes on

>>4059902
Not the first time I played through it, no. Of course I did at some point, which is were my error become apparent to me.

>>4038424
This calendar was probably made by some homunculous at nintendo of america who didn't gie a shit. it should never be used in reference to anything.

>>4036808
FUCK

>>4058209
you're clearly the most butthurt one here

>>4028124
wait it was a nose? I always thought he was doing a face like that meme>>402812

>>4028279
WE

>>4027793
omfg I thought I was the only one to ever see it like this

>>4027793
I originally thought that the think at Wave Man's face was a beard, then I realized it was a snorkel.
To be fair I have no idea how that looks like a snorkel.

Anyone else? I still see it every time I replay the game

>>4055919
bait

>>4046465
Mein neger

>>4027793

>>4046863
fuck, now I can't unsee it as spurdo

>>4063787
no. you're actually retarded.

>>4065504
Holy shit dude. That's terrifying.

>>4065818
which version?

>>4065975
The mistaken one. I perceived Draygon how the artists intended. Kinda a retarded fetus.

The misperceived version is scary AF.

>>4065818
>>4065983
Yeah, I was actually somewhat disappointed when I played it again a couple years ago and realized I was looking at it wrong.

I remember after I first played it as a kid I had a nightmare where I looked out the window at night and that face was outside screaming at me.

>>4036748

>>4046854
I feel in terms of aesthetics and atmosphere Pokemon has deviated too much from what it used to be.

Also a big part of the old Pokemon was exploring the overworld and having a hard time figuring out what to do next and having to ask a buddy where to go or how to get out of a dungeon. With the new ones there's too much hand holding, scripted events, pointless attractions that water down the experience.

The core game hasn't changed much but it's like playing the same sport with whole new set of people you don't recognize, it's just not the same anymore.

>>4066049
>Pokemon
>having a hard time figuring out what to do next

Anon... what? It's a pretty linear game that was made for 6 year olds. How could you get lost?

Though I do agree the newer ones are way too dumbed down even from that.

>>4066407
The core progression was always pretty linear - follow a route, hit a city, fight the gym, go to the next route, maybe stick the odd additional dungeon or plot event in once in a while - but a lot of the optional areas were pretty satisfying as far as difficulty went. Compare the Sky Pillar from Ruby and Sapphire to the Sky Pillar in their 3DS remakes - the original was 10-ish floors of tough Pokemon, boulder and bike puzzles, whereas the one in the remakes is literally just five floors of exposition about some ancient dragon people or some shit with no puzzles or battles. This only really started to be a problem with the 3DS games, though.

>>4027935
I know that feel

>>4027793

>>4046020
>I ruined it for you. You're welcome

Fuck off.

>>4065504
Huh. Never realized how... Penisy he is

cringe

>>4062992
dude , that's kinda awesome .

>>4036748
I had this. It was my favorite ever calendar until I knew about boobs.

>>4069458
I salute you Captain Vidya

>>4037397
Well done.

>>4029903
wait what's that middle guy from, i forget and it's bugging me

>>4031424
Don't worry, (you) are the biggest retard

>>4069928

>>4062992

It's less a snorkal and more an oxygen tube which still raises the question of why would a robot need an air tube?

>>4068248

See that's a lot cooler. Kind of got that whole Poseidon thing going

I was 9, and didn't realize it was BJ in baby attire until I got an ugly first-gen LCD monitor years later

>>4043274
I have the same problem with wall signs in castlevania 2's towns. They're supposed to be scribbles, but they'll never not be smug.

>>4049413
>I still don't know what these lines are meant to represent.
Bike path. It's cycling road.

>>4070442
AAAHHH!!!! Real Monsters

>>4070695
Same reason your PC needs vents, good ventilation to prevent overheating.

>>4037307
>>4037106
This couldn't have been a mistake. They had to code unique color in the palette that's not used anywhere else, and Link's sprite ALREADY HAS YELLOW ON IT. If they wanted his hair to be blonde, it would actually use LESS colors than pink hair because they would be able to use yellow from his belt, or brown from his sleeves - but the thing is, green and pink make a nice color scheme together, so they didn't give a fuck and made it intentionally pink.

I could wax poetic about how supersaturated color makes link stand out, or how his sprite includes cyan, yellow and magenta - three basic pigment colors... But really, I can't imagine this being a mistake.

>>4048296
>>4049187
>>4049191
What you're both forgetting, and the reason that noone does it, is that, wait for it...
NES can have only 8 palettes on screen. Four background palettes, four sprite palettes. That Megaman face? That cost them an entire new sprite palette to draw it, which is why they also use these beige palette for energy capsule powerup, and for your lifebar.

If they gave Mario gloves, they would've had to sacrifice a sprite palette that could be used for unique enemies.
Ever noticed how Mario enemies are brilliantly colorful - reg, green, brown, black etc - while Megaman enemies are mostly blue and orange with thick black outlines? That's part of the reason, Mario had one extra sprite palette on-screen to work with.

>>4071806
Someone posted once an edited sprite of Link with yellow hair, it looked like shit. Bland and you couldn't even tell what was what. It was pink specifically so he'd stand out better, I'm sure.

>>4056860
>>4063946
Not him but I really don't get it.
I need some explaining.

>>4070714
Fancy Dad Blazkowicz for Quake Champions

>>4049413
>they just look like big marshmellows
I agree with that one.

>>4072138
I was told it was a palette issue. His hair is pink because they wanted rabbit link to be pink.

>>4072173
I don't know anything about programming but they're two different sprites, I don't see why one would affect the other.

Wiggler was another one who confused the shit outta me. I couldn't see that the dot there was a nose, I thought it was some kind of weird mouth.
I still refuse to believe that was a nose. It looks way too big to be that.

I always thought there was some sort of bird Pokemon that I'd forgotten about.

>>4065697
In my defense, I was 7 and playing the game on a tiny green screen with no backlight

>>4072543

>>4072853
No need to defend yourself to some fuckstick cynical cuntmuscle.

I totally got it.

>>4068176
was about to call bullshit on naruto but then i got the joke

>>4053132

what the fuck shitty game is this some Action 52 shit

>>4072370
Maybe they wanted to use the same palette for rabbit and regular Link to simplify things?

>>4072676
I still to this day see Yoshi's in the rocks, sometimes they have a nose.

I saw this too, i thought the bone fish was like a watchdog for it or something.

FF6 had me seeing things wrong for years. Even disappointed me in most of the things when I figured out what it actually was.

>>4028320
I don't get it.

>>4073796
Those FFVI monster sprites are all brutal. Even as an adult know I struggle with them.

>>4073914
Nevermind.

>>4073796
oh SHIT

I always saw the bottom one as a smoking blue lion too. I just realized now it was a skellington with a blue aura. But to be fair I haven't looked at this sprite in over a decade too.

>>4073796
Also the third one I think is supposed to just be a big nosed monk with a necklace.

This has gotta be a common one right?

>>4074032
>it actually had arms with scissor hands

No?

>>4055919
>Nose under helmet in sprite
>Lower Chin under shadow in sprite
>Draw helmet on head and eye under shadow

>>4074032
>green nose
lol no
>squinty eyes
how in the nine hells do you see that? Seriously I've looked at it all over, from all kinds of angles, shrank it, blew it up, inverted colors, b&w'ed it, and even squinted MY eyes; I legitimately want to know how you saw that.

>>4065504
what the fuck did you think the eye was??

>>4073796
I saw a skeleton blowong a blue smoke lion. Like it was the essence of his soul coming to life from the remains of his body.

>>4074118
Draygon flies around the screen faster than any other enemy in the game. I never really got that good of a look at him, I just thought the eye was another gross bulbous lump on his body.

>>4072543
>cartoony game
>"noses can't be that big!"

>>4036497
I always saw him as having no eyes.

>>4074106
is this better?

>>4068248
did you draw this?

>>4065504
Well, technically what you saw isn't entirely incorrect, seeing as there are a bunch of skulls on his forehead.

>>4073796
I'm with you on the lion ghost. I think the monk is wearing a Bane mask.

>>4074340
Nope.
I'm trying hard to see it, I really am, but I think you've won the thread.

>>4032872
>>4035983
>>4036620
what the fuck

>>4074340
I see a circular area from the ligaments converging.
But i don't see how you could perceive that as eyes, since there is no contrast there. Even more so when the actual eye is animated.

>>4075019
>>4075740
Perhaps playing doom so young caused a pareidolia effect on me.

I also saw the crusher from the castles in SMW as slightly burnt toast, don't expect anyone saw similar.

>>4075929
I don't know what I thought it was, but it certainly didn't look wooden to me.

The stuff at the bottom made it look mushy to me. Like it was made of the same stuff that that guy from batman, clayface, is made out of.

>>4076060
It is mushy. That's how wood should look like after endless banging against the floor, frayed and mushy. I probably wouldn't have recognized the material without it.

>>4073796
If they remake VI like they are VII (for better or worse) I'm really curious what the monsters would look like. If they don't completely redo them I imagine quite a few monsters would look fucking terrifying in 3D.

I can't even begin to imagine how the final boss fight would work, though.

>>4075929
Well, it looks like treated cork wood(bottle stopper).

>>4075929
>slightly burnt toast

Well i can surely see it, Bowser's toaster really needs its heating rods recalibrated.

To me they always looked like made out of cork.

>>4075929
>>4076060
>>4076120
The way the bottom "splashes" out makes it look like a waterfall of diarrhea

>>4036774
>not running ad blocker

>>4038424
>>4038778

they used to sell those in the book clubs they'd give you in elementary school

>>4076778
oh man, the flimsy paper those were printed on. I used to get John Bellairs books from those. the memories...

>>4060016
>Brass knuckle
I thought it was a fucking ring

>>4032872
What the FUCK?
This changes everything. It's a disc, a fucking disc, not a ball

>>4028351
Oh cool, I can totally see it now. Thanks Anon.

>>4074340
Can't see it. It even closes its eye when it shoots its fireball.

>>4051023
I had to study that sprite to see what you meant. That said I'm sticking to the giga-lips.

>>4076778
It's kind of funny these were even allowed to be distributed since they're blatant propaganda. Didn't stop me from getting a lot of crappy books as a kid though.

>>4076967
how were they blatant propaganda?

>>4076981
Kids don't know a lot about literature and are incredibly impressionable. You're handing them a 4 page pamphlet with some books that paid their way to be advertised in it and, not knowing better, they eat it up. You think any kid would have read "Merry Christmas, Miss McConnell" if it hadn't been plastered on the front page? Some garbage like that isn't what kids should be reading, but they're more or less "told to" (by being given barely any other options) so the publisher can make a profit off them.