Of course from every other gaming period too, please excuse my clumsy attempt at working that ERA into the title. A glorious thread that overly deserves its comeback, we've all had these sprites in our early gaming years that we always misinterpreted and only found out later what they're supposed to look like. This is the place to post them.
Obligatory famous example is that weird Agahnim sprite, but who's to blame when it looks pretty much nothing like the official artwork?
But here's my personal take from my childhood. Back at the time, Secret of Mana was THE Super NES Game for me (it still is, lol). But I misinterpreted quite some sprites, with the most glorious misinterpretation of mine probably being Jema:
Apparently, re-using the same color due to palette restrictions was not a concept that I was aware of back then (I was 5-ish, tbf). So when his armor and his hair used the same tone, in my mind they were combined somehow. I found out quickly how I was wrong, because there's an official artwork in the manual, and I was very confused about it. I knew how he was supposed to be seen from that point on, but to this day, I have a hard time seeing a beard in his sprite. It's still some kind of facial mask/gas mask.
Another hilarious example: Watts.
I never saw that face underneath the skull. Never! His beard was part of his attire, too, and the eyes I somehow completely ignored. For me, his entire head was simply hidden under the skull. By now, I see the "real" thing, but I can also see it the way I originally saw it. There are others in that game, too. What about you people?
Obligatory famous example is that weird Agahnim sprite, but who's to blame when it looks pretty much nothing like the official artwork?
But here's my personal take from my childhood. Back at the time, Secret of Mana was THE Super NES Game for me (it still is, lol). But I misinterpreted quite some sprites, with the most glorious misinterpretation of mine probably being Jema:
Apparently, re-using the same color due to palette restrictions was not a concept that I was aware of back then (I was 5-ish, tbf). So when his armor and his hair used the same tone, in my mind they were combined somehow. I found out quickly how I was wrong, because there's an official artwork in the manual, and I was very confused about it. I knew how he was supposed to be seen from that point on, but to this day, I have a hard time seeing a beard in his sprite. It's still some kind of facial mask/gas mask.
Another hilarious example: Watts.
I never saw that face underneath the skull. Never! His beard was part of his attire, too, and the eyes I somehow completely ignored. For me, his entire head was simply hidden under the skull. By now, I see the "real" thing, but I can also see it the way I originally saw it. There are others in that game, too. What about you people?
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