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Have you ever misinterpreted Spectrum graphics badly?

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  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited March 2010
    joefish wrote: »
    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...

    In a similar line, at work they are often talking about "P 'n' L problems"...

    Andrew
  • andrewbroadandrewbroad
    edited March 2010
    Several graphics in Jet Set Willy are open to (mis)interpretation, including:
    • I used to think the flower in "Inside the MegaTrunk", "Tree Top" and "Watch Tower" was some sort of lion.
    • I used to think the monks were wearing caps until I realised that they had long noses and shaven heads!
    • I used to think the guardian in "The Bathroom" was a bone-shaped sponge. Now I think it's a pair of atlases.
  • DarenDaren
    edited March 2010
    Did anyone else think that when the guy from fairlight was fighting, it looked like he was having a Barclays?
  • laddermanladderman
    edited March 2010
    Hello all

    When the main character in Commando(elite) is running to the top left/right,it looks like he is Goose stepping!?.Are you sure he is on the allied side?.

    Colin
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    andrewbroad wrote: »
    [*] I used to think the guardian in "The Bathroom" was a bone-shaped sponge. Now I think it's a pair of atlases.[/list]

    Ah yes the good old "bollocks" sprite :D
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  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited March 2010
    andrewbroad wrote: »
    Several graphics in Jet Set Willy are open to (mis)interpretation, including:
    • [...] I used to think the monks were wearing caps until I realised that they had long noses and shaven heads!

    Mind you, I thought they were ducks until a few months ago, when someone here mentioned them as monks.
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  • MrDMrD
    edited March 2010
    Alessandro Grussu wrote: »
    Mind you, I thought they were ducks until a few months ago, when someone here mentioned them as monks.

    I've always thought they were ducks too! Might have had something to do with the following JSW article in YS that mentions "Napoleonic Ducks" :

    http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr04/yr04_60.htm

    I'm not convinced that they are monks - having monks in an abbey would seem too obvious and surely not surreal enough for JSW?
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    zx1 wrote: »
    When Dan Dare teleports in Dan Dare 3, it looks like he has a knob between his legs!

    Same goes when you do a flying kick in Kung Fu Master... although it's a very strange-shaped appendage :D
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  • spiderspider
    edited October 2013
    I used to think (a long time ago) in JSW the top landing cyan sprite was a ghost sweeping the floor... :oops:
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  • de Vandemar Croupde Vandemar Croup
    edited October 2013
    spider wrote: »
    I used to think (a long time ago) in JSW the top landing cyan sprite was a ghost sweeping the floor... :oops:

    detto - or maybe not a ghost actually, but some humanoid-spectre-animal-like creature with stereoscopic vision (seeing one eye only in 2D profile) and octopussy-squiddy floating and retrracting members.

    now, I wonder, wha't s the word out there for this - is it a swiss army knife after all?
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    The red thing on the left hand side of East Wall Base looks like a Shreddie.

    I'm still freaked out by those massive lions in the Chapel and Priest's Hole... the way their mouths don't quite close properly... aaaargh!
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    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2013
    leespoons wrote: »
    Same goes when you do a flying kick in Kung Fu Master... although it's a very strange-shaped appendage :D

    I always thought it looked like he was air guitaring his leg :D

    Plus the footsweep he doesn't look like he's crouching he looks like he's just sitting on the floor like he's doing a gymnastics class, and then the actual kick looks like he's really failing badly at simple yoga techniques :lol:
    leespoons wrote: »
    The red thing on the left hand side of East Wall Base looks like a Shreddie.

    I'm still freaked out by those massive lions in the Chapel and Priest's Hole... the way their mouths don't quite close properly... aaaargh!

    I never once thought the skulls looked like lions, but the horns do look like an afro, or maybe a clown wig :D
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    Skulls? Wait, what? :lol:
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  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2013
    The giant 3-sprite demon heads.
    Joefish
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    It's a lion goddammit! :D
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  • R-TapeR-Tape
    edited October 2013
    leespoons wrote: »
    It's a lion goddammit! :D

    spoons_zps2eac5cb2.png

    Why has Lee Spoons changed his avatar to what everybody knows is a satanic death priest with a clown wig and manky teeth??!!

    (A lion?! My arse is a better lion than that!) :p
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  • chevchev
    edited October 2013
    R-Tape wrote: »
    Why has Lee Spoons changed his avatar to what everybody knows is a satanic death priest with a clown wig and manky teeth??!!

    I think you'll find it's the top part of Skeletor's staff:

    2413657-skeletor.jpg
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  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    The thing is, my 10-year-old self thought it was a lion, so no matter how much the evidence stacks up against me, it's always going to be a lion.

    I'll self-facepalm myself if you like, but I'm never going to call it anything other than a lion.

    lion_face_palm.jpg
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    WhenIWasCruel wrote: »
    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2013
    When you complete the first level of Return of the Jedi it looks like the ewoks are wanking!:lol:
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  • spudspud
    edited October 2013
    R-Tape wrote: »
    spoons_zps2eac5cb2.png

    Why has Lee Spoons changed his avatar to what everybody knows is a satanic death priest with a clown wig and manky teeth??!!

    (A lion?! My arse is a better lion than that!) :p


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    I think it is the old archibishop Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited October 2013
    We have a winner!

    (it's still a bloody lion to me)
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    "Let's not be childish. Let's play Spectrum games."
  • WookieeWookiee
    edited October 2013
    very good!
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited October 2013
    My sister always thought that the top down view of the soldiers in Into the Eagles Nest was actually a side ways view of penguins wandering around.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2013
    me and my brother always used to call that JSW baddy 'Fatima Whitbread'. we must've thought it looked just like her, and it kind of does
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited October 2013
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited October 2013
    aowen wrote: »
    I think you'll find it's the top part of Skeletor's staff:

    That's a phrase that should be forever banned from ever appearing on the internet again...
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  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited October 2013
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    [about the player character in Kung Fu Master] he doesn't look like he's crouching he looks like he's just sitting on the floor like he's doing a gymnastics class
    To me he looks like he's defecating on a squat toilet.
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  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited October 2013
    joefish wrote: »
    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.

    I thought it was a massive fat fly.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2013
    OK, there was one sprite in Jet Set Willy my brother and I had a curious, if perhaps a bit racialist innit, name for. Can anyone guess what we referred to as the 'Chinese Porta-Potty'?
    Joefish
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  • RalfRalf
    edited October 2013
    It's not Spectrum related but I've thought I'll share it anyway.

    In early 90ties me and my mates were a big fans of UFO:Enemy Unknown for PC.

    The first alien race that you'll probably meet there are Sectoids.

    But me and my mates didn't call Sectoids Sectoids :) We called them ... Ethiopians.

    You know, we knew from TV images of hunger victims from Ethiopia and they seemed really similar to these aliens

    1zcfugx.jpg

    Today I think it was quite offensive and bad taste but then I found it funny, foolish teenage years.
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