misunderstand sprites

[Anonymous No.2146220]

Can we have one of those?

[Anonymous No.2146227]

Having a hard time picturing that one, OP.

[Anonymous No.2146240]

>>2146220
I always thought he was supposed to look like a surgeon.

[Anonymous No.2146242]

>>2146240
Isn't that what OP thought it was? Oh wait, he thought it was an eye? Yeah from the drawing I saw it as one of those mirror headbands doctors wear.

[Anonymous No.2146265]

[Anonymous No.2146286]

>>2146265
I still like "Happy Little Boy Looking Up" Wario.

[Anonymous No.2146304]

>>2146265
I always saw and stillbsee a bulldog

[Anonymous No.2146817]

[Anonymous No.2146829]

>>2146817
>guaranteed replies
well now im not gonna reply to you

[Anonymous No.2146837]

[Anonymous No.2146846]

I didn't realize this guy had a small head at the front, I just saw him as a headless insect thing which made him look creepier, now he's kinda comical.

[Anonynomus No.2146863]

inb4 Peon

[Anonymous No.2146868]

Inb4 ahgahnim with bangs.

[Anonymous No.2146875]

>>2146286

[Anonymous No.2146994]

>>2146817
Wait, it wasn't like that?

[Anonymous No.2146997]

>>2146817
goddamit

it didn't help that the destruction looked like it collapsed vertically

[Anonymous No.2147001]

>>2146846
>Duriel
>comical
nah this bitch will fuck you up big time if you're a druid or amazon

[Anonymous No.2147005]

somone post aganim from alttp

[Anonymous No.2147008]

>>2146994
kinda, what he saw looks a bot like what the ship would look from behind

[Anonymous No.2147012]

[Anonymous No.2147040]

I thought his face was a duck beak, the white part of the helmet was his face

[Anonymous No.2147048]

[Anonymous No.2147058]

deleted this twice already, I think it's finaly how I saw it as a kid

[Anonymous No.2147067]

One I saved from a previous thread.

[Anonymous No.2147071]

>>2146846
Looks like a lurker.

[Anonymous No.2147080]

>>2146837
my nigga

[Anonymous No.2147097]

>>2146242
Agreed. totally looked like a head reflector.

[Anonymous No.2147110]

>>2147058
It's clearly a DJ with headphones

[Anonymous No.2147278]

>>2146817
No. Just. No... Not again!
...the shadow wars...

[Anonymous No.2147282]

>>2146227

[Anonymous No.2147291]

>>2146846
Duriel is a giant hydralisk and will fuck you up just like one, too.

[Anonymous No.2147295]

>>2147058
I always thought it was a wizard football player

[Anonymous No.2147326]

>>2146817
The weird perspective the overworld map used didn't help. Look at the mountain right behind it, it clearly goes "up" and isn't elongated, so you're inclined to think the tall black thing right next to it is vertical too. Then again it's such a bizarre sprite you really have no idea what to think.

[Anonymous No.2147339]

[Anonymous No.2147361]

>>2147339
He's going to kiss you to death.

[Anonymous No.2147367]

[Anonymous No.2147368]

>>2147067
guht lort

nao ei cannot unsee dhat

[Anonymous No.2147481]

>>2146817

Only blind subhuman nigger fucks would think that, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.2147484]

>>2147067
Only blind subhuman nigger fucks would think that, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.2147495]

>>2146837

HOLY SHIT
WHAT THE FUCK
NO
I REFUSE, THOSE ARE RED GLANDS NOT EYES

[Anonymous No.2147505]

>>2147058
>duck
Never in all my life have I understood this

[Anonymous No.2147520]

>>2147484
You sound rather stupid

[Anonymous No.2147549]

>>2147058
I didn't even know he had feet. To his day he always looked like a shoulder and head; leaning over the blocks like they were a shelf.

[Anonymous No.2147554]

>>2147012
I chuckled

[Anonymous No.2147570]

>>2147067
We need aliens to defeat aliens!

[Anonymous No.2147608]

This one fucked me up so hard as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2147618]

>>2146227
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.2147623]

>>2147618
It's like that pretty lady old woman illusion

[Anonymous No.2147642]

>>2147618
see>>2147282

[Anonymous No.2147656]

>>2147067
u wot

[Anonymous No.2147840]

>>2146227
Took me awhile.

[Anonymous No.2147857]

>>2146227
Is it supposed to be this optical illusion?

[Anonymous No.2147881]

[Anonymous No.2147884]

>>2147881
what

[Anonymous No.2147886]

>>2147367
Looking at the sprite, I see a profiled face with a big 'ol jew schnozz.

[Anonymous No.2147903]

>>2147884
Sorry I forgot to put in the original picture, it's a goomba from Mario on the NES

[Anonymous No.2147905]

>>2147857
See
>>2147623
>>2147

[Anonymous No.2147969]

>>2146817

No one saw it like this, because even in the game they call it a "boat" not a fucking aircastle

[Anonymous No.2148032]

>>2147969

Source please. I don't remember it being referred to as a boat.

[Anonymous No.2148172]

>>2146817
Can we just not post this one ever again?

>>2147278
>shadow wars
>someone remembered
Was it really that funny, or what? I just called it as I saw it. Everyone getting butthurt over interpretations of a sprite, with both sides claiming a shadow shape proves their side correct. Sure sounds like a war to me.

Also, did anyone save the flag thing that an anon made?

[Anonymous No.2148225]

>>2148032
It wasn't, he's full of shit. It's not a fucking boat at all.

[Anonymous No.2148672]

>>2148032
>>2148225

Regardless if hes full of shit or not, the shit clearly looks like a star destroyer, I mean you have to be retarded to think it looks like a fucking tower or w/e.

I mean even the ocean palace sorta looked like a UFO or some shit, not even a palace.

[Anonymous No.2148705]

>>2148672
No, you have to be a person who perceives things differently, just like everything else in these threads.

[Anonymous No.2148748]

>>2147608
That sprite was so confusing to me

[Anonymous No.2148794]

It's like that young lady / old hag optical illusion

[Anonymous No.2149097]

>>2148672
It IS a tower, though. The only "proof" that exists to say it isn't is all the fucking shadow bullshit that either side can argue away easily.

[Anonymous No.2149106]

>>2148794
Every old hag has a massive jew nose

[Anonymous No.2149137]

>>2146220
Looks like a weird one-eyed egg with a satellite dish to me.

[Anonymous No.2149142]

>>2149097
I still think its a tower.

[Anonymous No.2149159]

>>2149142
It IS a tower. Look at how much time is spent going up huge elevators. You spend way more time going up it than going horizontal.

[Anonymous No.2149620]

>>2148794
I've always seen a mustache too...

[Anonymous No.2149636]

>>2149097

If I recall in the DS translation they actually do refer to it as a boat, now weather this is in the SNES version I don't know.

I believe the line where its referred to as a boat is also shortly after its appearance but I could be wrong, it might be some random npc that says it.

[Anonymous No.2149645]

>>2147278
The Shadow Wars... It's been many winters since I heard that name. I lost two of my best friends in the fiery chaos of that unspeakable conflict. Though I've grown weary with age, those dreadful banners still shine vividly in my memory.

[Anonymous No.2149657]

>>2149645
One it's the Black Omen but what means that pine tree?
Are they tree huggers?

Just kidding, fighting is bad.

[Anonymous No.2149692]

>>2149657
Historians who have read the sacred /vr/ses have tried to interpret the symbols on the flags, and our best guess is that the blue one is a mountain, and the red one is some type of primitive hand-axe or mining tool. We may never know, because both civilizations were wiped out by the dispute, so great was their mutual hatred.

[Anonymous No.2149716]

The Black Omen is definitely a ship, and when you're fighting against Zeal, you're standing on top of the ship's bridge. If you look at the bottom of the background when you're on top of the Omen, you can see Earth peeking through, showing that it's at a higher elevation than the rest of the ship, despite it being in the middle of the map sprite. It's definitely not a tower.

>MUH ELEVATORS

The travel from the rear entrance on the bottom of the ship to the upper bridge is just that long. You only explore a small portion of the ship, in the end.

[Anonymous No.2149720]

>>2149716
I always saw the "engines" as eyes. To me it looked like a big space bug.

[Anonymous No.2149763]

>>2149716
Why can't you see the Bow of the ship from where you fight Queen Zeel?

[Anonymous No.2149783]

>>2149763
Because the bridge is raised above the main body of the ship, and the viewing angle in that background is lower than it is when you're seeing it on the world map. As shown in the pic, the map sprite is almost a direct top view, while the battle background is more isometric.

[Anonymous No.2149821]

>>2149716
Why (and how, for that matter) did the Zealians build a goddamn spaceship on the ocean floor?
It was just supposed to be a structure from which they could better harvest Lavos's energy from, and somehow they ended up with a fucking spaceship?

[Anonymous No.2149979]

>>2149821
That's exactly why I never saw it as a spaceship.

I mean, NOW I see it, obviously, but it never occurred to me as a kid that it could be anything but a floating palace. It's called the ocean PALACE. Being shaped like a starship implies that Zeal always intended for it to be able to fly, which doesn't make any logical sense.

[Anonymous No.2150006]

Your face when.

[Anonymous No.2150008]

>>2150006

[Anonymous No.2150257]

>>2150006

Celebrating their 100th year as a company around that time too.

[Anonymous No.2150462]

>lavos is a creature from space that forced the evolution of humanity
>why would the black omen be a spaceship instead of a tower

Are you srs

[Anonymous No.2150475]

I couldn't have been the only kid that thought this

[Anonymous No.2150674]

>>2147367
>>2147886
Looks like an angry Brooklyn taxi driver that turned into a horrible mosquito monster.

[Anonymous No.2150825]

>>2150475
Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!

[Anonymous No.2150850]

>>2149716
Legitimate complaint at Square now, why would they depict the Black Omen from behind on the world map? When showing things on the map, you're always going with clarity over realism, which for example usually results in a world where everything is facing south. Not very plausible, but it's necessary to make everything easy to read.
This shit is in fact so common, that even the idea that the Black Omen could be interpreted as anything other than a floating tower structure was above me.

So regardless of what it's actually supposed to be, in the end it's all about Square doing a horrible depiction job.

[Anonymous No.2150885]

>>2149979
>>2150850
As I said, it doesn't help that the destruction makes it look like a pure vertical structure
jump at 8:17
http://youtu.be/69wgSYk72Gs?t=8m17s

[Anonymous No.2150936]

>>2150885

Yeah it doesn't help, but nothing you can do about birds eye view world maps.

The games also make the characters look like the size of houses, but you know they aren't.

[Anonymous No.2151149]

>>2150936
>there are people who actually argue Lavos is the size of a mountain based on his overworld sprite
>they literally believe this

[Anonymous No.2151158]

I don't even know

[Anonymous No.2151162]

>>2150475
to be fair, in the days of Atari 2600 the sprites could have been a lot of things

They were left very open to interpretation, specially if you lost the instruction manual

[Anonymous No.2151191]

>>2147608
I always thought it was those Japanese folding blinds

[Anonymous No.2151272]

>>2150850
I can only think of two reasons.

1. The artwork for the area where the battle on top of the ship takes place was already completed, and they wanted the map sprite to match its appearance, so you could see where you were actually at.

2. The walkway leading up to the entrance is on the back of the ship, and maybe they wanted the ship facing north so you could see the place you're actually entering the Black Omen from.

[Anonymous No.2151497]

>>2151162
>first Zelda
>mfw cute jumping bunny heads
>they're actually terrifying monstrosities spawned directly from hell

[Anonymous No.2151510]

>>2146220
Good job, OP. Now we get to read them rehash the Black Omen argument again.

Sheeeit.

[Anonymous No.2151519]

>>2151158

[Anonymous No.2151558]

>>2146837
After over 10 years I finally see that this is an actual head... Wow.

[Anonymous No.2151589]

I can't draw for shit, but I've never seen anyone mention it in one of these threads. Didn't realize it was a Gameboy until the GBA games.

[Anonymous No.2151595]

>>2151589
I always just assumed he was wearing these

[Anonymous No.2151596]

>>2151589
Yeah that's what I thought as well

[Anonymous No.2151631]

>>2146829
ya done fucked up

[Anonymous No.2151638]

>>2151497
Link's world in the first game is horrifying

If the illustrations in the instruction manual are to be believed, his enemies are intimidating and hideous

It's a shame all of his enemies in the newer games have gone the cutesy route.

[Anonymous No.2151658]

>>2151589
I always knew it was a gameboy, because when you talk to him he turns his head to the side.

Also, isn't there one of those NPC's who says "Game Boy games are fun!" or something?

[Anonymous No.2151661]

>>2151638
Eh, they don't look that cutesy to me, I think the one in your pic is something like Wind Waker where everything is cutesy.

Though, I do miss when everything seemed cutesy during the 8-bit era. Link's Awakening Octoroks are the best.

[Anonymous No.2151662]

>>2151589
I always thought it was a little cup of coffee

[Anonymous No.2151693]

>>2151519
>>2151158

I always saw these guys as lumbering gorillas.

>>2151162
And this thing as some sabre tooth dog who's giant tooth was coming right straight out its throat.

[Anonymous No.2151709]

>>2151497
it looks more like crawfish to me

[Anonymous No.2151712]

Everybody in robes = giant grinning soulless nightmare

[Anonymous No.2151771]

>>2149716

[Anonymous No.2151813]

>>2149821

the ocean palace got transformed before it rose as the black omen. the illustrations for the ocean palace and black omen look very different.

also lol @ /vr/ arguing over the black omen again

[Dr. Dude !!xYApC7v7+j4 No.2151919]

>>2151589
I always thought it was a rocking horse.

[Anonymous No.2152082]

>>2151662
Me too anon! Understood now that is was a GB, which makes more sense.

[Anonymous No.2152493]

>>2151497
fuck

[Anonymous No.2152525]

>>2151149
Well how big is Lavos really? I was not really clear on that.

[Anonymous No.2152546]

>>2152525
The outer shell is supposed to be roughly 30m / 100 feet tall, according to some Japanese sites.

[Anonymous No.2152561]

I like my idea for Mr. Ead better actually

[Anonymous No.2152575]

>>2152546
I don't think I'd really go by that. Even Japanese sites can't make up their mind about how big Lavos is meant to be. About the only way to find out would be to find some concept art for Lavos, or something.

[Anonymous No.2152585]

[Anonymous No.2152603]

>>2152561
I always thought the mustache was a pair of sunglasses and the eyes were eyebrows. The chin was a smile.

[Anonymous No.2152607]

>>2152603
Wait, looking at both the F-Zero X and GX images, I realize those actually are eyebrows.

Still, I didn't see his actual eyes.

[Anonymous No.2152726]

>>2152561
Holy shit me too, I always thought he had like a jack-o-lantern face.

[Anonymous No.2152732]

obligatory

[Anonymous No.2152759]

>>2151813
I've never seen an official illustration of the Ocean Palace. Show me.

[Anonymous No.2152782]

>>2150825
you win

[Anonymous No.2152789]

>>2150475
Looked more like a sea horse to me.

[Anonymous No.2152797]

>>2146286

[Anonymous No.2152808]

>>2152525
His sprite gets cut off, so not counting the full length of the spikes, his main body I don't think is that large, like 20 feet.

[Anonymous No.2152810]

>>2152808
Well, a lot of enemies are scaled down, too. Look at Zombor in-game, then in the animated OP, where it's fairly huge.

[Anonymous No.2152826]

>>2152810
I don't remember how Zombor looked in it but the cartoon cutscenes came years later and are not true to the original vision most likely. He's pretty big in the game though, like 2-3x the character's height iirc.

[Anonymous No.2152954]

>>2151771
First Lavos Core and now this.