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[JMickle]

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Dr Willy's big yellow feet.

THIS IS THE BEST EVER

[kyn]

Almost forgot about Sonic's saggy tits for the Master System.



To be fair, now that I look at the sprite closely it really doesn't look like it, but in my old TV the colors and shapes really mashed together. And it wasn't like I believed those were actually tits, but I just couldn't unsee it.

[s0]

Why? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO POST THIS?! 
I'm mentally scarred for life now, thanks a lot.

[Bones]

I'm sure most all of you have seen this.
If not, this is for good measure.

[Fifth]

In the Sega Master System game Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, partway through the third area there's this weird little red thing that looks kind of like it's spinning around in circles.  The thing is completely invincible, and I had no idea as a kid what it was supposed to be.



I thought that maybe it was a strange little man holding a suitcase, or possibly a campfire... but nothing made any sense to me.

It was only after I played Pocky and Rocky on the SNES that I realized that it was actually a bamboo shoot with eyes.

...At least I think so.

[Kramlack]

@Bones: I hadn't seen this, nor was I aware of it. Thanks for ruining Mario for me. Forever.

@Fifth: Looks like a pine cone if you ask me.

[ChevyRay]

Haha great thread, I always see things like this in funny ways.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw SMRPG's Geno with a big orange nose:



When it was actually a curl on his hat, and he actually had a small nose beneath:

[BlueSweatshirt]

Well, I never noticed that small nose underneath, that's for sure.

[Xion]

Geno was just one of those dudes I never even tried to decipher. I never did make heads or tails of that dude. That large image is actually the first proper look at him I've ever had.

[ChevyRay]

Well, SMRPG wasn't exactly "pixel art" as much as rastered 3D models cleaned up a bit, so lots of the graphics in the game were pretty hard to decipher.

[gimymblert]

Also this



Dr Willy's big yellow feet.

THIS IS THE BEST EVER

Very very clever 

[Hempuli‽]

Ha, this thread is pretty cool.

I remember reading that a lot of people always saw Link to the Past's Ganon as a toad-like creature with its mouth open, instead of his robe and tiara above his head. (at least I think it's Ganon, I don't follow Zelda's plot all that much)



If you're one of those people, don't worry, you are not alone.
_{And no, I don't see it that way.}

I actually saw him as a cyclops, with the tiara being the eye. When looking at that sprite, I can no longer do that, though.

[Seth]

oh man I know I have tons of crap like this but it's one of those things I can't remember unless I go back and play all those old games...

[sega]

Also this



Dr Willy's big yellow feet.

THIS IS THE BEST EVER

Very very clever 

I DEFINITELY saw Wily's spaceship in this way as a kid.  I thought I might feel comforted if I knew someone else saw it that way too, but it turns out I'm not.

[Pietepiet]

Goomba's aren't mushrooms. That brightly coloured lower part of the body is a beak!

[s0]

I know what you mean, but no matter how much I try, I can't see it that way. 

[MaloEspada]

I was thought these were... slug things.


Any guesses?

[JMickle]

algae, kelp, that kind of thing?

sea plants, basically

[JustinGameDesign]

I was thought these were... slug things.


Any guesses?

Those guys from Ika-chan are totally abalone, which are something between an oyster and a snail.  In the ocean all sorts of sea flora grow right over the shell just like in the game, but here's a reference pic of what they look like all by themselves:



They cooked them alive in front of us at a staff party in Japan once.  I couldn't eat something I'd watched fight for its life. 

Anyway, a Japanese person would be way more familiar with abalone than most people in other more landlocked countries, so no surprise that a cute sprite version would be hard to discern.

[Copyrite]

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Dr Willy's big yellow feet.

Never saw it like that, but I sure had a hard time deciding if those "feet" are part of the UFO or his hands, like he's flying that thing using two joysticks or something.

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