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[Tizoc]

I could never figure out what those Street Fighter icons were supposed to be.

I actually still dont know what they are after all these years.

There is also Crono's climb animation in Chrono Trigger. I still have trouble making it out even though I know thats what hes supposed to be doing.

They're actually a character from an old Capcom game from the 80s. Their name escapes me atm.

They are actually two characters from an obscure arcade game that Capcom made in 1986 called Hyperdyne Side Arms:

At least I think they are...

Oh there we go, yeah they're just chibi versions of those characters.

 

[peronmls]

Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:

Those orange things are not the eyes.

OMG! what are those ball things then???

Not a sprite, but still game related.

hahaha wow!

 

[BasilZero]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

I am probably one of the only few ones who actually saw him how he is suppose to be like XD.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

This shit is hilariois.

 

[BasilZero]

I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.

ded. I thought those were eyes!

Pokemon Red and Green sprites sure were something.

wow LOL

 

[Thorgal]

OMG! what are those ball things then???



!

Giant membrane bags holding the poison it spews at you .

 

[cacildo]

Gonna give this one for free, since im on mobile and it would suck to finde the image

in super mario world theres a sprite in which mario is wearing panties

 

[Goodacre0081]

un squadron had the same icons

 

[halfbeast]

(Link's death sprite from the GBC Zeldas)
That sprite confused me for years. I thought Link got a bowler hat and sat down all depressed with his arms in front.
I still don't know what it's supposed to represent.

I see a woman in green crotchless panties spreading her legs...

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Destiny cover art..

That is NOT a master chief helmet, it is the back of his head..
this fucks with my eyes, i see chief in poncho not the back of a titan, i only noticed other day when i got the theme and saw the position of his gun.. cant unsee, had to delete theme.

 

[Mexen]

Some of yous guys... I don't know how you're seeing what you're seeing.

White And Gold.

Spoiler

Black And Blue

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

He's collapsed into a sort of sitting position. Pardon the terrible diagram.

I was feeling smugly superior for seeing all the other sprites mentioned correctly all these years, until this. I too thought they were arms and not the soles of his shoes :/.

 

[Mexen]

This is what it always looked like to me:

I thought he was wearing diving goggles.

Because which Ninja doesn't swim, right?

 

[Kalliban]

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.

OH MY GOD! I always thought he was weirdly thin and winking! It took a while for me to see the real mouth, then it all got clear!

 

[Japanmanx3]

I personally have a really hard time seeing his hat's gem stone as a mouth...

Yeah me too. Quite surprised people thought it otherwise. But then again I thought the dress was white and gold so....

 

[Peltz]

Always saw the original SMB's goomba's "stem" as a beak, and it was like a big bird head with feet. I of course know how it's supposed to look like from subsequent games, but I still need to make an effort to see the original sprite correctly. <_<

Same here. I thought that was a beak until SMB3 came out.

 

[cantona222]

What was Nintendo trying to say here?

 

[Peltz]

They're actually a character from an old Capcom game from the 80s. Their name escapes me atm.



Oh there we go, yeah they're just chibi versions of those characters.

Thank you!!! This bugged me for years as well.

 

[Goodacre0081]

Destiny cover art..

That is NOT a master chief helmet, it is the back of his head..
this fucks with my eyes, i see chief in poncho not the back of a titan, i only noticed other day when i got the theme and saw the position of his gun.. cant unsee, had to delete theme.

probably not a coincidence

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Great your ruined Pokemon tree for me Ha Ha

 

[MrBadger]

Always saw the original SMB's goomba's "stem" as a beak, and it was like a big bird head with feet. I of course know how it's supposed to look like from subsequent games, but I still need to make an effort to see the original sprite correctly. <_<

Maybe that's why the enemies in Giana Sisters are owls

EDIT: I see I'm not the first person who thought that

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

Link is supposed to have blonde hair but he has pink hair on A Link to the Past.

What is the real reason for this?

 

[Akif]

Destiny cover art..

That is NOT a master chief helmet, it is the back of his head..
this fucks with my eyes, i see chief in poncho not the back of a titan, i only noticed other day when i got the theme and saw the position of his gun.. cant unsee, had to delete theme.

I've always seen it the same way as you. It looks so different now.

 

[Horp]

Whaaaaaaat?!

Haha, so many strong reactions to my stupidity in here. Ok in my defense, I was really young, and our old 486 monitor was really really dark.

 

[MrBadger]

Another one that got me - for the longest time, I thought Bullet Bill had a grin

And it really didn't help that in Super Mario World, the giant ones actually do

Didn't realise it was supposed to be an arm until Super Mario 64

 

[big_z]

most of these are pretty straight forward imo but can someone explain this one to me? I don't even know what he fuck im looking at.

Pokemon Red and Green sprites sure were something.

 

[Yrael]

most of these are pretty straight forward imo but can someone explain this one to me? I don't even know what he fuck im looking at.

It's actually a Hitmonchan pokemon with its fists raised in front of its face.

 

[Ito]

What is the real reason for this?

Probably something related to the character being easier to spot on the screen.

 

[TasTokyo]

Not a sprite, but a related example most of us should be familiar with:

Those orange things are not the eyes.

I'm not totally sure but it seemed like perhaps in the first game the orange orbs were eyes, and it was only the second game where it was changed.

Regarding the first game Miyazaki himself referred to the large orange orbs as eyes in an interview with Edge. The article is no longer online but these cached links should work:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...res/dark-matters-0/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=jp

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...s/dark-matters-0/2/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=jp

Here are the relevant parts from the article "Dark Souls&#8217; grand vision" January 31, 2012 9:21 am.

"Here, we sit down with Dark Souls creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki to discuss the game&#8217;s design and artistic vision in more granular detail."

"EDGE:The basilisk scampering around in The Depths is pretty grotesque.
Miyazaki: I make fun of the Basilisk because he has large eyeballs but spits poison. I&#8217;m rather fond of his character because of it, but players don&#8217;t like him. "

 

[BriGuy]

What was Nintendo trying to say here?

"The princess is in another castle. Deal with it."

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

Weird, how he is supposed to be seen is the only way I have ever seen him. I'm surprised so many people saw him the wrong way.

 

[Mdk7]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted.

Amazing thread, but this is really on a whole different level, LOL.

 

[Taruranto]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

Still can't get over Porky-Agahnim.

 

[Kirlia]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

I never saw him the left way (although I get why some see him like that), but I never thought the guy had an open mouth. I thought his face was completely obscured by his clothes, and all that could be seen were his eyes.

 

[Mexen]

I am... girl groot?

 

[Weltall Zero]

In chrono trigger, I used to think these frog creatures had a really big nose and the dark spot was their eyes. The "nose" was actually their tongue and dark spot a mouth.

Even knowing it was their tongue back then, I could never unseen the nose when they were facing the camera.

what
WHAT :-O

Eeeevery time, heh.

Spoiler

I also saw it wrong at first.

well....

What's not obvious about that one? There's ol' Link, happily going around holding his shield with his bared arm, sword sheathed and out of sight...

I lived life until age 20 thinking the sword was Link's arm until someone pointed it out.

What.
WHAT.
WHAT THE FUCK.
My childhood is a lie. ;_;

Not a game but cannot be unseen

I literally laughed myself to tears right now. Thanks!

Link is supposed to have blonde hair but he has pink hair on A Link to the Past.

(ALBW spoiler)

Spoiler

Ravio debuted in ALTTP confirmed.

You were seeing it right at first, it's not a sideburn, it's his right eye, check the remake:

That's... exactly what he's saying. He saw it as a sideburn when it's really his eye.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:

What it looks like:

What it really is:

Because the top of the structure is really this part:

The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.

 

[Corronchilejano]

I didn't see it at first, but some people thought Rachel looked like a gnome.

 

[TP-DK]

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.

Good one, actually this is the first time I'm looking at it right.

 

[MrBadger]

Krusty Weepinbell

 

[Weltall Zero]

Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:

Oh god, that one. I even made an image a few months back myself.

 

[Koozek]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

Mind-blowing stuff when I first saw this image years ago and realized I've been seeing it wrong for nearly 20 years, haha.

 

[B-Genius]

The Ak47 in Goldeneye 007 always looked like a pencil. I called it the Pencil Gun as a kid. Now that I'm browsing the Internet, I'm not the only one who thought this.

Yup, it's definitely a massive crayon.
I remember first seeing Goldeneye screenshots in an N64 magazine and thinking the same thing ever since.

Not a sprite, but still game related.

Holy crap double Goldeneye gold, lol.

 

[SystemUser]

Agh from A Link to the Past.

I personally have a really hard time seeing his hat's gem stone as a mouth...

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 can't tell where the mouth is on the intended view. The green haired hippie has a jawline and ears so it is easy for me the see the red square are the mouth. When I try to see the intended face wearing a headdress I can't figure out which part is the mouth. Is the whole face black with white eyes and the brown showing the mouth and nose? Or is the face supposed to be brown skinned, but wearing a mask? I have a hardtime seeing the mask and and open mouth. I think it is more likely that this was supposed to be a blackface character and not a brown face wearing a black zorro mask. Nintendo in the 90s was definitely not shy about making blackface characters. His hands are brown/gold, but so are his feet. Was he supposed to be barefoot?

 

[Caronte]

Not a sprite, but still game related.

What is that supposed to be then? A hand? Looks really weird.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

could never comprehend how the big white thing was a helmet on a groundhog.

his profile view always looks like a rhino with a big collar or something.

 

[Patryn]

Black Omen from Chrono Trigger:

What it looks like:

What it really is:

Because the top of the structure is really this part:

The Black Omen is a Star Destroyer and not some sort of weird-ass flying tower.

Holy shit. I always saw it as the giant pyramid tower thing.

 

[Violet_0]

well....

 

[ThatStupidLion]

The Ak47 in Goldeneye 007 always looked like a pencil. I called it the Pencil Gun as a kid. Now that I'm browsing the Internet, I'm not the only one who thought this.

always reminded me more of grease pencils than regular pencils

 

[KojiKnight]

I always looked at it as a sword with eyes, until I noticed the guy glasses and the "eyes" are actually his hands.

Holy shiiiiiiiit I always thought the same. This thread is full of disturbing childhood revelations.