Thought the nose was the mouth.
Duuuuude, no freaking way! Why... How... B-But *sounds of brain fragments defying gravity*
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Mis-seen sprites of the 8- and 16-bit ERA
- Thread starter Gifmaker
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Duuuuude, no freaking way! Why... How... B-But *sounds of brain fragments defying gravity*
Thought the nose was the mouth.
I'm still not convinced, look at the little flying thingies it spawns. They look exactly like it, only smaller, and they have that ellipse shaped mouth.
That works fine in stills, and is probably the intended design...
...but the problem is in animation, it moves much closer to how the pyramid design would. Notice it bobbing up and down, notice the beam shooting from right where the center of the base of the pyramid would be, and notice how it disintegrates from bottom to top as it falls upon the sphere of energy:
Also, notice the perspective that the dome of energy establishes (about a 45 degree angle view). It fits perfectly with the perspective of the black omen if it were a pyramid, and doesn't fit at all with the perspective of almost a top-down view the star destroyer interpretation requires.
That works fine in stills, and is probably the intended design...
...but the problem is in animation, it moves much closer to how the pyramid design would. Notice it bobbing up and down, notice the beam shooting from right where the center of the base of the pyramid would be, and notice how it disintegrates from bottom to top as it falls upon the sphere of energy:
Also, notice the perspective that the dome of energy establishes (about a 45 degree angle view). It fits perfectly with the perspective of the black omen if it were a pyramid, and doesn't fit at all with the perspective of almost a top-down view the star destroyer interpretation requires.
Probaly a technical limitation as it would be difficult to animate it correctly from this angle.
Something I forgot to mention is Queen Zeal directly refers to the Black Omen as a "ship" in the Japanese version.
Yeah, probably, but that doesn't change what we got. Fact is, in motion, the pyramid interpretation works better, despite their likely original intention.
Also, I don't see why a sci-fi ship can't be shaped like a pyramid. I've seen weirder ships, and I feel like I may have even seen a pyramid ship or two in sci-fi.
Thought the nose was the mouth.
My brain is still having trouble believing this is true. Like, I keep trying to come up with explanations for my original view of the most being the mouth like maybe this photo is doctored. Truly blew my mind like the bush/clouds from SMB.
There's also the issue with the elevator sections. Yes, there are only two of them, but they're really long for the Star Destroyer design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWj1SYb9Js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWj1SYb9Js
Seeing the Black Omen this way is revelatory. Always thought of it as a tower until 3 minutes ago. Now I can't see it as anything but a Star Destroyer-like ship. Wowzers.
Warcraft icons are a field day for this. I still don't know what that blue mitama-looking thing covered in piercings is supposed to be.
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Have the smallest of image! This Emperor Gestahl from Final Fantasy VI, i always thought his sprite looked like some dog with long ear. Funny enough, a few patches ago in FFXIV they released a minion of a dog called gestahl, so i guess it was a common mistake back then!
The minion in question in XIV.
I always saw him as a dog-man and never questioned it. What's wrong with me.
The Agahnim example is particularly funny for me, because I didn't see him in either of those two ways. I thought he was supposed to be some sort of rodent or something. Maybe a mole?
When I was a kid, I thought this girl's hair was like Jessie's from the anime, long and curved to the back. It took me a while to figure out it was actually a ponytail.
Also, there's a sprite of a little kid playing a game boy, I couldn't find it. I thought the game boy was a cup of coffee he was drinking, I only realized my mistake when I learned english and read he saying something about playing with a link cable.
Believing what a random person on the internet tells you without evidence is the lie.
Because it is the mouth. They're clearly larger versions of the little dudes that come out their ears. The line is the bottom, the curve below it is the bottom surface viewed at a slight angle.
Thought the nose was the mouth.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...eC011-1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120313155945
This... People got way into one person's interpretation but nothing supports it.
I was well into my 20's before I realized Link wasn't holding a green sword vertically in front of him.
It's clearly his shield in other frames of animation, but I never had the game, so I didn't know.
Ooh I love threads like this
I always saw his arm as a grinning mouth. Doesn't help that every larger bullet enemy actually does have a mouth, and in Mario 64 he also has a mouth. I don't think I realised it was an arm until the DS remake
I... I honestly can't remember if I noticed that the ones from SMB3 had faces. I knew SMW and on, but did I know this?
I can't remember.
Someone wrote into our podcast about how they spent 20 years thinking of Koopa Troopas as tragic fallen Southern belles like Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire, because of a weird confluence of young childhood events - the first of which was a friends mom telling him that Koopa Troopas were women wearing bustles.
The whole story gets far more elaborate, and the nuance and tragic pity this guy ends up having for Koopa Troopas due to this weird childhood assumption, even into young adulthood, is pretty incredible. If you want to listen to it you can here (embed should timecode jump straight to the story):
The whole story gets far more elaborate, and the nuance and tragic pity this guy ends up having for Koopa Troopas due to this weird childhood assumption, even into young adulthood, is pretty incredible. If you want to listen to it you can here (embed should timecode jump straight to the story):
Someone wrote into our podcast about how they spent 20 years thinking of Koopa Troopas as tragic fallen Southern belles like Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire, because of a weird confluence of young childhood events - the first of which was a friends mom telling him that Koopa Troopas were women wearing bustles.
The whole story gets far more elaborate, and the nuance and tragic pity this guy ends up having for Koopa Troopas due to this weird childhood assumption, even into young adulthood, is pretty incredible. If you want to listen to it you can here (embed should timecode jump straight to the story):
This is amazing.
We're all in agreement that when people start posting Commander Vidya, we've gone too far, correct? The one that assumes someone somehow saw Robotnik in Sonic 1/2 as a floating head in a helmet? That's by far the most-forced example of this sprite misinterpretation thing.
My biggest example as a kid wasn't that interesting. It was just me taking too long to realize Red/Gold's mouths weren't necklaces in the first 2 Pokèmon games.
It took me a solid minute to figure out what you meant, but... wrong or not, I'll never unsee this.
My biggest example as a kid wasn't that interesting. It was just me taking too long to realize Red/Gold's mouths weren't necklaces in the first 2 Pokèmon games.
Thought the nose was the mouth.
It took me a solid minute to figure out what you meant, but... wrong or not, I'll never unsee this.
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But what I thought was a mouth is still a nose...
So they don't actually have mouths
But your source is an American comic where the artist who drew it might have grown up seeing it wrong. I want some of the original artwork or to hear from the creators!
Holy shit, lol! :)I know, right?! They shoulda worked that into the remake, goddammit!
Also, bonus art for GlacialTruffle lol:
Link from A Link to the Past always looked like some kind of weird bear cub to me and I still can't unsee it. Maybe it's the shading around the face combined with the long brown sleeves.
Also, the pink hair is just weird. I didn't like this sprite after playing Zelda I and II as a kid and I still don't like it today.
Also, the pink hair is just weird. I didn't like this sprite after playing Zelda I and II as a kid and I still don't like it today.
Definitely a mouth. The design is very clearly based on the traditional Japanese oni:It's a mouth.
Oh my godDefinitely a mouth. The design is very clearly based on the traditional Japanese oni:
Another Secret of Mana one: Sage Luka
For a while, I thought her face was a big, ugly nose; her chin was her mouth, and her chest was her chin.
This combined with the "She's really 200 years old?!" just made it funnier.
Whelp, know when I'm beat.Definitely a mouth. The design is very clearly based on the traditional Japanese oni:
