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That, and game boy, one of the best selling consoles ever, had perfectly defined square pixels.
by ino 10y ago
That, and game boy, one of the best selling consoles ever, had perfectly defined square pixels.
- colanderman 10y agoYep, Game Boy was a different medium. And Nintendo's artists didn't just take the Mario graphics assets from the NES and plop them on a Game Boy; that would have looked like shit for a number of reasons. Yet that is what people do when they take the 8-bit-era Mario sprite and render it with giant squares. Graphics assets are no more a picture than a recording of an artist's brush strokes are. They can only be interpreted in the context of a medium, be it CRT scanlines vs. LCD squares or oil-on-canvas vs. ink-on-papyrus.