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Have you ever misinterpreted Spectrum graphics badly?

RalfRalf
edited November 2013 in Games
I mean, have you ever seen in Spetrum game something completely different than it was artist intention ?

Sometimes it's quite easy on Spectrum as the sprites are often very tiny,consist of few pixels and it's easy to confuse a pipe with a stick or something like that

I had for example an unofficial :oops: version of Pssst with loading screen removed. So for my all childhood I believed that the robot from Psst was ...
an owl :)

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  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2010
    I thought the flying pig sprite in Jet Set Willy was some sort of griffin. I didn't quite get the reference to a certain album cover. Mind you, a lot of the sprites don't look like anything recognisable.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    I always thought the baseball bat in Double Dragon looked like a Bernard Matthews Turkey Drummer :D
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  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited March 2010
    Can't say that I have, but I did recently totally mishear an announcement of a forthcoming programme on Radio 4: the original trailer (I thought) was promoting something called 'Cross Incontinents', which had me wondering about the merits of a programme full of people furious about the fact they'd pissed themselves.....

    ...turns out the item in question was in fact the travel programme 'Crossing Continents' :smile:
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited March 2010
    I'm sure there have been cases like that with speccy games but at the moment I cannot remember any off the top of my head.

    Slightly similar and even though it will be a little off-topic, I'm sure everyone has experienced the same - that is, you see a picture in your field of view, but you are not actually focusing on it. Like the way you are now reading my post and my avatar is somewhere to the left. So you "see" a posters avatar but are not actually looking at it directly, and then you may totally misinterpret stuff. A bit like when you look at some abstract art or a cloud and see something.

    An example was Woody's old avatar with the Rambo loading screen (and a Sir Clive (?) head instead of Stallone) - in said scenario I thought i saw a weird face with big glasses. There's probably other avatars but I can't find any examples at the moment.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2010
    Amfoot wrote: »
    Can't say that I have, but I did recently totally mishear an announcement of a forthcoming programme on Radio 4: the original trailer (I thought) was promoting something called 'Cross Incontinents', which had me wondering about the merits of a programme full of people furious about the fact they'd pissed themselves.....
    I had a similar one wondering what the smeg they were on about with people having trouble with "All-Star Females". Turns out it was "All-Staff emails" that were the bane of so many listeners' daily lives...
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  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    edited March 2010
    i thought that the dogs in the great escape were pigs.
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2010
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    i thought that the dogs in the great escape were pigs.
    Maybe they were those schweinhund you keep hearing about in 80s war comics...
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  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited March 2010
    Every time I played Daley Thompson's Decathlon, I always thought Miner Willy was among the crowd, just next to the 'Ocean' banner, to the left...

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  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »

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    I was always on the look-out for the flying red circles in the same game. :S
  • Emlyn_HughesEmlyn_Hughes
    edited March 2010
    Ralf wrote: »
    . So for my all childhood I believed that the robot from Psst was ... an owl :)
    For me it will be always an owl and nobody will make me change my mind. ;)
  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2010
    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    i thought that the dogs in the great escape were pigs.

    I thought the same thing!
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  • chop983chop983
    edited March 2010
    I thought the car explosion in Spy Hunter was a collection of Denton Design's unused sprites, quickly shown one after the other, one looked like a dog to me.
  • mjwilsonmjwilson
    edited March 2010
    I used to call one of the characters in Shadowfire "Mickey Mouse" (to the annoyance of my brother, who said that they didn't look at all similar).
  • frobushfrobush
    edited March 2010
    I always thought that David Thorpe's Hunchback II sprite was wearing a baseball cap. I later found out it was meant to be his nose!

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    (JPEG mish mash).

    Oh, and before anyone mentions it - the dogs in Green Beret look like sheep.
  • RalfRalf
    edited March 2010
    My another, really bad (was it a poor tv ?) misinterpretation:




    In my real Spectrum times I always believed that there is a big ape driving a car in Chequered Flag loading screen :)

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  • SwainySwainy
    edited March 2010
    Here's one that got me when I was younger. Rastan... To the left of the health bar was a heart but I always thought that it looked like a roast chicken.

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  • grey keygrey key
    edited March 2010
    I always thought that when the guy in Marsport crouched down to fire the gun, it looked rather like he was a flasher, they changed a few things in it at my suggestion, but that one was an intended keeper. They always had a good sense of humour and I am sure that they had thought the same thing from day one. It was a great one to test play for them.
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  • The PresidentThe President
    edited March 2010
    I have always wondered what exactly is Vixen doing?
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited March 2010
    Ralf wrote: »
    In my real Spectrum times I always believed that there is a big ape driving a car in Chequered Flag loading screen :)

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    Looks like a Spooky Pacman to me. :-o

    When the main character crouched in "Myth, history in the making", it looked like he was taking a dump!
  • ArjunArjun
    edited March 2010
    I've always found The Sentinel confusing to look at. It's only after I stare at the screen for a while that the mish-mash of lines converge to something that resembles a landscape!
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited March 2010
    I always thought the sheep in Green Beret looked like dogs.
  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2010
    When Dan Dare teleports in Dan Dare 3, it looks like he has a knob between his legs!
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited March 2010
    frobush wrote: »
    Oh, and before anyone mentions it - the dogs in Green Beret look like sheep.
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    I always thought the sheep in Green Beret looked like dogs.

    Wwwwhat???
  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2010
    Sheepdogs.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    I always find the term mutant dogsheep works better.

    That way you're less likely confusing them with a faithfull Border Collie, which infact is an actual Sheepdog.

    Baaaaaah! :D
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  • RNDRND
    edited March 2010
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited March 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I always find the term mutant dogsheep works better.

    That way you're less likely confusing them with a faithfull Border Collie, which infact is an actual Sheepdog.

    Baaaaaah! :D
    But then you might confuse them with an Old English Sheepdog.
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  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited March 2010
    One of my brothers used to call the armed guards in Jet Set Willy - those found, for instance, in The Security Guard, Up On The Battlements and I'm Sure I've Seen This Before - 'the Popes', because he mistook them for, well, Catholic religious leaders.

    The other one believed that the stones dropped by the pterodactyl in Ugh! were, in fact, its poop.

    As for myself, even after completing That's the Spirit, I can't for the life of me understand what the double axe-like object is supposed to be. Luckily it's not needed to complete the game.
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  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited March 2010
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    I always thought the sheep in Green Beret looked like dogs.

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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  • frobushfrobush
    edited March 2010
    The original alsatian graphics and animations had to be removed, with great expense, after complaints that they were too frightening for children to see.
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