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Old school sprites that you misinterpreted
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oldie but goodie, but I see a completely shadowed face with a golden mask.
I always thought the pink circle in the middle of Poliwag's face was its nose.
It wasn't until I saw its "nose" open up in Pokemon Go that I realized that was its mouth. Can you blame me, though? Neither of its evolutions have mouths, just two dots where their nose should be.
It wasn't until I saw its "nose" open up in Pokemon Go that I realized that was its mouth. Can you blame me, though? Neither of its evolutions have mouths, just two dots where their nose should be.
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I always thought the pink circle in the middle of Poliwag's face was its nose.
It wasn't until I saw its "nose" open up in Pokemon Go that I realized that was its mouth. Can you blame me, though? Neither of its evolutions have mouths, just two dots where their nose should be.
you just blew my mind
The scaled-and-rotated Cheep Cheep float on the victory screen of Super Mario Kart as it falls away.
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Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
is this not a green bandana and white hair?
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He always looked like a more human version of Frankenstein's monster to me regardless
I always thought he looked like Darth Vader.
Still to this day
my childhood is ruined.
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
i REFUSE to believe that's a hat. i don't care what retconning gamefreak does.
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
Was expecting the usual suspects but this has me all fucked up
Sorry to post a tweet, but I drew a couple of mine. I constantly saw Suikoden II's Riou with this weird smug face because of his metal headband thing; and Final Form Lavos looked like dogs to me.
That's a hat...?? Like... a hair net, maybe
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
That's a hat...?? Like... a hair net, maybe
I always thought the pink circle in the middle of Poliwag's face was its nose.
It wasn't until I saw its "nose" open up in Pokemon Go that I realized that was its mouth. Can you blame me, though? Neither of its evolutions have mouths, just two dots where their nose should be.
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
Remove these, what the crap. How when why
Wait what? I think i am having teouvle seeing the winking orc!WarCraft ||
For years as a kid I thought it was a female Orc with one eye shut with like a smirk or smile from the horn
Why did you do this to us. The heck is wrong with you
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
It's his hair, canon be damned.
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
The scaled-and-rotated Cheep Cheep float on the victory screen of Super Mario Kart as it falls away.
I'm sorry lol. It fucked me up when I found out and my 1000+ hrs of playtime were tainted.
What stupid kind of stupid hat looks like this? Of course it is his hair tucked behind a bandana!
Wasn't till I got older that I realised he's wearing a hat.
Oh, and it took me years to make sense of this sprite, at all.
I couldn't even tell what I saw. I looked like a weird, shrinked version of Link that somehow lost its face, has a disfigured body or turned around or raised his hands. Took me years to realise he sits, his feet stretched towards the camera, head tilted and arms hanging beside his feet.
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I still have to consciously remind myself that's not his face.
I also can't help but see this as anything else. What the hell were they even going for?
The Black Omen from Chrono Trigger looks like some sort of tower, but it's actually a Star Destroyer
Maybe not an old school sprite per se, but WoW's Cleave icon:
Took me over a decade of playing Warrior to realize it was an axe being swung, and not a green parrot with a steel beak.
Took me over a decade of playing Warrior to realize it was an axe being swung, and not a green parrot with a steel beak.
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Ohh
Also the white pixels on his cheeks make it look like he's crying
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yes, his eyes are supposed to be larger than they might appear to some people
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I always saw him the intended way, but the misinterpretation is pretty funny. The misinterpreted face reminds me of Pokey from Earthbound/Mother 2.
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Isn't this the correct reading?
Like a generic Chinese emperor type character?
Yes. There is literally a minion in FFXIV based on this.
not a gaming sprite but gaming sprite related - i spent years growing up in atlanta trying to puzzle out why our basketball team had a snaggle toothed pacman eating a misshappen pellet as its logo until i finally saw the hawk
i wonder if a similar misinterpretation is why the goomba-equivalents in the mario bros clone Giana Sisters are owls
I thought the botom part was like a birds beak. I had no idea it was a walking mushroom
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Maybe not an old school sprite per se, but WoW's Cleave icon:
Took me over a decade of playing Warrior to realize it was an axe being swung, and not a green parrot with a steel beak.
speaking of Blizzard..I always thought Kerrigan was black
A lack of discription doesn't help, so I'll elaborate.
This guy always looked like he had a Super long face, when in actuality, the blacker pixels on the bottom of his head was mean to be shadowing to define his head shape, and he's just supposed to look like a generic guy.
He always came across having an open mouth grin to me, though. Like he was always stoked, which wasn't helped by having a character with this sprite going "I'm so rich and happy, hahaha!" It felt like the correct interpretation with that personality on display for it's most defined use.
I have always been perplexed by his design, and never saw the actual head until this moment, so this I get. However...
The Black Omen from Chrono Trigger looks like some sort of tower, but it's actually a Star Destroyer
I have NO idea, not trying to be rude, how Anyone could have seen this thing as a tower, when it so clearly looks like a North-facing starship of some sort. I'm gonna guess pop-culture osmosis had given me and a bunch of others a head start on this, but the elevated platform on the middle and the two thrusters in the back tip it off so clearly.
I don't disrespect how people come to believe it's a tower, but it's a perspective completely alien to me, and I can't imagine how anyone got to that conclusion.
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I've been under the impression the Omen was a floating tower thing up until I saw this post yesterday. I don't think it's weird to interpret the tower and not a pizza ship. If the nose was pointing downward instead of up, it may have helped. Also, a large tower seems more ominous/massive in my mind that the ship reading.