perplexing graphics... ambivalent sprites

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• Alessandro Grussu

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Once upon a time, there was a thread... ;)
  
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28737

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• de Vandemar Croup

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Alessandro Grussu wrote: »

  Once upon a time, there was a thread... ;)
  
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28737

  
  
  aaah, yeah.
  once upon a time I used to regularly visit the WoS world... but now I'm getting lost, like an old man in a super store.
  thanks for pointing me out the right direction, mr. grussu! :)
  
  but yeah, I got a vague idea, blurry hunch there must something like this already discussed, but... as I've already said, I'm just getting lost here :)
  
  got just about a minute to pause my work, spit the burning passionate feeling of an idea to a thread to get rid of the burden from my chest - so there's no really a time to browse it all through, especially if you don't know what the keywords for such a topic would be... so I'm sorry, but I couldn't do a research. it's not like old days when I could spend my time here... :cry:

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• Alessandro Grussu

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Don't worry :) the issue you mentioned instantly reminded me of the time I wrote about the way my elder brother misinterpreted the stones dropped by the pterodactyl in Ugh!, so I knew what to look for ;)

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• joefish

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  They're snowshoes.

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• tolls

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  de Vandemar Croup wrote: »

  what sprites/tiles/parts of graphics in spectrum did you find perplexing, or made you think it's a different item than was supposed to represent?
  
  like: I still nowadays am thinking the collectibles in the Cold Room of Manic Miner are tennis rockets... :)
  just recently realised they gotta be (presumably) ice lollys, but still - I see them sa tennis rockets, no matter what.
  really deep imprint of an impression... :)
  
  
  

  
  I think they're meant to be snow shoes?
  
  
  
  Whoops - beat me to it :)
• de Vandemar Croup

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  joefish wrote: »

  They're snowshoes.

  
  now that's a twist! :)
  good, the thread made it's point!
  
  would never come across my mind, but you may be sooooo right! :D
  
  
  
  

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• leespoons

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  It's a little-known* fact that snowshoes were invented by Fred Perry in 1938, who stuck two tennis rackets to his feet whilst on holiday in the Alps. So you were right all along!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  *because I just made it up

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• chev

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  I always thought the guardian in the bathroom in JSW was a pair of bog rolls. Now after reading that earlier thread I'm not so sure.

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• Arjun

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Snow shoes? Well I'll be..
  
  Like old man dVC I thought they were tennis rackets too. Not too farfetched considering the rest of the game has some wacky sprites in all sorts of places!

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• ZnorXman

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  I never saw them as tennis rackets ... ping-pong paddles, yes.
  
  
• Zoffy

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  I'm sure they are tennis racquets as well, they're the wrong shape to be snowshoes. Their presence in this room being a jokey reference to using racquets as snowshoes.

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• Zagreb

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  aowen wrote: »

  I always thought the guardian in the bathroom in JSW was a pair of bog rolls. Now after reading that earlier thread I'm not so sure.

  
  When I were a lad we thought those were, erm, a pair of balls in the biological sense. We thought the game was quite giggly and rude as a result.
  
  As I said in t'other thread, I also thought that the flying pig was just a really big, fat fly.