Post subject: Star wars poster, with a twist
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How many videogame characters/references do you recognize?
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I'm guessing the purple-haired elf is from Phantasy Star. The Space Invaders are upside-down! No idea who the dude with the pole is (EDIT: oh, wait, he's the protagonist from Space Quest, isn't he?) Only thing I can think of for the girl in pink is wossname driving the White Cat from the F-Zero series, which is almost certainly wrong. No idea who the evil-overlord-catman is, nor the guy beneath the elf. I assume the vector ship is from some 1970's game; I guess maybe it's a 3D re-envisioning of the Asteroids ship to go with the actual asteroids in the background. Pretty sure I know all the others, unless the blue sphere planet is a reference to something.
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Derakon wrote:
No idea who the evil-overlord-catman is, nor the guy beneath the elf.
The catman I believe is from Wing Commander. And what elf? The chick he's standing behind? She's from Channel 5.
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the girl, in the pink and white, Ashley Williams from Mass effect? she wore a suit just like that.
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How many video game references do I see? probably a little over 9000.
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The maoi looks irritatingly familiar to something I've seen before. I'm curious to find out what it's from.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Derakon wrote:
No idea who the evil-overlord-catman is, nor the guy beneath the elf.
The catman I believe is from Wing Commander. And what elf? The chick he's standing behind? She's from Channel 5.
Ah, never played Wing Commander (nor Mass Effect). But I did recognize Ulala. The elf is the floating head with purple hair and giant pointy ears, just to the right of an Arwing and just to the left of Mopman.
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I found this poster to be quite ugly and very annoying. It's almost repulsive.
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erokky wrote:
The maoi looks irritatingly familiar to something I've seen before. I'm curious to find out what it's from.
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Odd, the Samus I knew uses the Power Beam on her right hand. Just seeing all the distinct objects/characters takes some work. This appears to be a decent job.
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erokky wrote:
The maoi looks irritatingly familiar to something I've seen before. I'm curious to find out what it's from.
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erokky wrote:
The maoi looks irritatingly familiar to something I've seen before. I'm curious to find out what it's from.
'' Irritatingly? Try Super Pitfall.
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It's from Gradius 3 because the ships above them are also taken straight from the cover of Gradius 3. There are also tiny "asteroids" hidden at the bottom.
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FatRatKnight wrote:
Odd, the Samus I knew uses the Power Beam on her right hand. Just seeing all the distinct objects/characters takes some work. This appears to be a decent job.
While it's correct, it's intending to portray the original poster, which had Luke holding a blaster in his left hand.
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Perhaps I misinterpreted all three responses to my previous post but the maoi featured on the poster in the original post looks strikingly familiar. Irritatingly was a poor choice of a word, but it has irritated me enough to want to find out the origin of it. Looks like an album cover.
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Why didn't google correct me, I wonder.
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erokky wrote:
Why didn't google correct me, I wonder.
I suppose that when enough people use the wrong word, google starts to think that it's actually a real word.
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erokky wrote:
The maoi looks irritatingly familiar to something I've seen before. I'm curious to find out what it's from.
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