I've got six things on my mind... and this sprite is one of them

D’you ever lie awake at night and think about how, with only a few points in space of differing shape, size and limited colour, one can basically conjure up an entire guy?

I often find myself daydreaming about particular videogame sprites while going about my day. A whole universe of lil fellas occupy the inside of my brain, biding their time, waiting for just the right moment to worm themselves from my head straight into my heart

maybe one holds an impressive stance…

or a satisfying form factor and colour scheme…

or a vaguely threatening (yet endearing) aura…

or just a certain je ne sais quoi

what are some of your favourite videogame sprites and what is it about them that ignites such passion from within?

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Not sure why but every time I see this thing I’m like “hell yeah”

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:hugemrsaturn:

everyone loves mr saturn and i get to say it first

but ive been thinking a lot about negative man lately

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other faves

:gotohell:

:dongdance:

:shuffle:

:stampstampstamp:

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Oh yeah, huge shoutout to whoever sprited the original versions of these things. They nailed the assignment. They look like they shimmer like jewels, and the connection sprites are incredibly readable at all resolutions.

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Particularly a fan of how connected puyos would stare at one another:

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:officersonic:

is a Lifestyle… a question-worthy one, but if you NintenDO, it means you SEGAdon’t, and Sonic cannot have that going on in his Backyard…

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the rat people in the little master games

i have no desire to play these after 5 minutes with each but i like looking at these guys

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Cop Sonic is now going to chase me in my nightmares alongside Mappy…

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Pengo is probably my best sprite friend

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I like how the spritesheet makes it look like there are two Pengos joined at the butt:

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Thinking about a new avatar but I’m so attached to mine and idk if the CERO Z would be readable shrunk down

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Negative Man ftw

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Not to derail this thread but… what is this videogame??

Edit: okay I got to the Pengo bit and things are starting to make more sense, but I’m still slightly confused…

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Derail containment

Game Center Love plus Pengo is 4 otherwise unrelated games, 3 of them brand new, in one arcade cabinet, maybe for the novelty and the fact they are all multiplayer games, or maybe because Triangle Service doesn’t have a lot of money.

It’s hard to say if “plus Pengo” has an apologetic tone because this HD version of the game already came out as a standalone arcade game, or they named it that way because Pengo rules. But when it came time to port it to xbox 360 they put only Pengo on the front cover and ignored the other 3 games, making their intentions clear.

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i love this thread concept and i’ll reply on topic later but you fucking GOT my attention with the Prefab Sprout title

Prefab Sprite would be a very good chiptune Sprouts cover band name…

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Hell yeah, sprite-loving Sprout fans unite!!

Prefab Sprite is very good. I don’t wanna admit to how long I spent trying to workshop “desire as a sylph-figured creature” into the title of the thread… (sylph is a synonym of sprite, it should be so easy! gaahhh…)

Been humming and hawing over whether or not to do a 20 big ones thread for the big PS… Perhaps the appetite is there for it? (yeah okay, I’ll stop with the puns… I’m no Paddy McAloon!)

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Sprite? More of a 7-Up man, myself

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