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Sprites that look like things they're not supposed to
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Bomber Bob
Banned
I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.
Well duck me in a pie
...My childhood was a lie!
I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.
breadtruck
Member
Agh from A Link to the Past.
I can happily say I seen him as intended.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.
No. They're his eyes. You never read the manual or looked at any of the promotional clay art.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Slakoth looks like an old man.
For those who don't know, what he actually looks like for reference:
For those who don't know, what he actually looks like for reference:
Rephin
Member
Welp, can't unsee it now, thanks! lolGrahf's profile from Xenogears:
RazorbackDB
Member
It's both:
He's holding onto it like a pogo stick. Oh and it's Mack.
The sword still has evil eyes though. Your childhood is not ruined.
ohh shit!, now I see his real hands, I always thought those were his shoulders!
Grahf's profile from Xenogears:
What have you done
The peon portrait in Warcraft 2 threw me off for years. Probably due to his right eye just barely being visible so I hardly even noticed it.
His left ear looked like his left eye and that he was winking or something. The left cheek was some kind of beak and the tusk his smiling mouth.
I was looking at this for a solid 20 seconds trying to figure out what it was meant to be
I am sleep deprived
striferser
Huge Nickleback Fan
Source: Deviantart, drawing by Discordy
Game: Cave Story (freeware version)
This is what happen to me. What i thought was sideburn is actually his eye, the nose is actually his headphone
Fried Food
Banned
Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:
Those orange things are not the eyes.
oh man, this broke me. As if meeting this bastards wasn't soul crushing enough.
Coonce
Member
well....
I lived life until age 20 thinking the sword was Link's arm until someone pointed it out.
I can't believe this hasn't been posted.
I know they're not doing what it looks like they're doing, but I have no idea what they are suppose to actually be doing here.
Guess I'll do the one I put in another thread like this: The killer plant monsters in Chrono Trigger:
In their idle animation I always see them as some beaked monster with tentacle limbs holding two orbs and wearing garish clothing with a large collar and a hood. Their real form is clearer once they start moving but even now I have a hard time seeing what they're supposed to be when they're idle.
In their idle animation I always see them as some beaked monster with tentacle limbs holding two orbs and wearing garish clothing with a large collar and a hood. Their real form is clearer once they start moving but even now I have a hard time seeing what they're supposed to be when they're idle.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
A TON of the non-portrait Warcraft icons were just something completely different from what I first thought they were, but I ended up recognizing them as what they were representing. I remember one particular Warrior one that never ever made sense to this day.
I always thought they were disarmingly cute, back when I thought those poison sacs were their eyes. Like you're fighting the undead, ogres, and giant suits of sentient armor, and then these little buggers walk up to you like "Hey what's up guy?" And then you two-hand smash them with a battle axe and kick their ragdoll corpses around as you go on your merry way.
Agh from A Link to the Past.
To this day I'm shocked to see how many people saw it as the first figure. It makes no sense to me. I've ALWAYS saw it like the second figure.
Whoever pointed this out to me ruined this sprite for me forever. I cannot unsee it. I saw it correctly for the first half of my life.
*shakes fist at clouds*
In Total Recall for NES the fists coming out of the holes to hit you look like dicks in a glory hole! Wait those are fists right?
It's funnier to think they are dicks.
Dead Man Typing
Member
I always thought that the small health item in Streets of Rage 2 was a cake, but apparently it's an apple.
I guess! What were the creators of that game on?
BassForever
Member
Guess I'll do the one I put in another thread like this: The killer plant monsters in Chrono Trigger:
In their idle animation I always see them as some beaked monster with tentacle limbs holding two orbs and wearing garish clothing with a large collar and a hood. Their real form is clearer once they start moving but even now I have a hard time seeing what they're supposed to be when they're idle.
I only figured this one out late last year. I've owned Chrono Trigger since it's first release on SNES and have completed it end-to-end at least 15 times.
Cyrus_Saren
Member
Emperor Gestahl from Final Fantasy VI was the first thing that came to mind for me. He always resembled a dog to me.
well....
Always wondered why Link always got these limited palettes in games. His dick sword in 2 and pink hair in 3, surely they could have overcome those limitations somehow?
hydragonwarrior
Member
Agh from A Link to the Past.
Lol yea I always thought Agahnim needed to cut his bangs.
Leafhopper
Banned
What are you getting at with this one?
Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:
Those orange things are not the eyes.
Holy shit!
Even after seeing this, it is still sooo hard not to look at those things as eyes!
Hero of Legend
Member
Pokemon Red and Green sprites sure were something.
Recolor I did with each one's Crystal sprite color (well Togetic's):
Hypemaster
Member
Pokemon Red and Green sprites sure were something.
Oh....wow.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Agh from A Link to the Past.
Pokemon Red and Green sprites sure were something.
Holy fuck
Emperor Gestahl always looked like a dog to me.
the mobile remake makes it much clearer
cannot unsee doggie
Agh from A Link to the Past.
wow
Living Proof
Member
I was just playing Castle in the Darkness and there's a common enemy towards the beginning of the game that is confusing as hell to look at. At first I assumed it was a zombie with poor sprite work or something generic like that, but a friend I showed the game to thought it was a dog. I don't know, maybe we're just dumb.
I have a lot of sprites engrained in my memory that look "off," though. Either I realized that the developers intended the sprite to be seen in a different way, or saw some concept art that corrected what I initially perceived, or so on. Still, it's the kind of thing that can never be unseen-- I don't think of them or even remember many Off the top of my head, but playing the game they're in instantly brings back childhood memories (doesn't seem to happen as much to me as an adult).
I have a lot of sprites engrained in my memory that look "off," though. Either I realized that the developers intended the sprite to be seen in a different way, or saw some concept art that corrected what I initially perceived, or so on. Still, it's the kind of thing that can never be unseen-- I don't think of them or even remember many Off the top of my head, but playing the game they're in instantly brings back childhood memories (doesn't seem to happen as much to me as an adult).
Pyccko
Member
I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.
Holy Mary mother of God. This is the first time I've been gotten in one of these threads, but goddamn.
Edit:
oh thank god
bahahaha, this is amazing
I can't believe this hasn't been posted.
From a similar thread on this that we had before http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=854929
I saw neither, I saw a goggles-wearing ninja.
Agh from A Link to the Past.
While this 'interpretation' is kinda funny it never made sense to me because the hands have the same color as his face, and other gold stuff used the same gold color iirc.
I thought they were gloves tbh, took me a long time to figure it out.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Grahf's profile from Xenogears:
That gave me a real good laugh.
