Gwiz u ever watch the Code Monkeys show from G4? It's the only 8-bit sprite art show on TV that I'm aware of. Basically South Park in an 80s game studio. I loved that shit when it was new circa 2007.

I love teh FPS.

I've been playing since I was a kid, but one of my best memories was when I switched to keyboard/mouse from arrow keys and hope. If I remember correctly Wolf3d had no multi-player, but I did Doom a couple times on DWANGO. I just assumed everyone on there was some sort of superhero so I focused on making maps and playing by myself. (Don't come in mom!)

When I started playing Duke3d regularly with friends however, I became acutely aware that the arrow keys won't cut it. The turning moment was a 1 on 1 match with my longtime game-nerd friend Lee.

We setup a time and day to play, and we each had friends come over to watch. In those days playing multi-player directly person to person was still cool enough that you would drive to your buddy's house just to watch it take place. With a couple folks watching at each end, he completely schooled me. It wasn't even close. I didn't get a hit on him most encounters. This thorough ass-whooping was unbelievable. For over an hour I tried, but couldn't get a single kill. With my pride on the line, I devised a plan.

In the initial version of Duke you could lay down as many pipebombs as you wanted, provide you had them to throw. I learned the map, learned his pattern, and cautiously avoided him while grabbing the pipebomb stack each time it spawned. I left pipebombs scattered, and when I thought they were randomly distributed enough I holed myself up in a corner with a viewpoint of the only elevator up to my eagle's nest. The pipebomb spawn was ten feet in front of me. I laid out all the pipebombs I could at the top of that elevator. Each time it spawned I would grab the 4 pack, put all 4 in the same place at the top of the elevator, and retreat hastily to my protected corner.

Finally the time came. I saw the elevator called down. I knew he was coming up. I would get this kill and then end the game, false pride in tact. My time of vengeance was finally here! The elevator came up, and with perfect timing I hit the fire button and saw the beginning of the largest group of sprite based explosions known to man. The beginning. I didn't see the end. Instead I saw:




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C:\Games\Duke3d>

Dystopian: He's not saying that he's unimpressed by the maneuver the chimps 'pulled off' but by the fake 'heat-sensing camera'. At about 3:30 you can clearly see that the chimps are just little light green chimp-shaped animations fake-walking through a dark green background. Watch how the animations rotate to turn. They're just animated sprites (a la GTA 1 and 2.) Now, it's entirely possible that the maneuver as described actually happened and the documentarians dreamed up the 'night-cam' animation to help explain the story, but it's also true that there's no real evidence that what was described actually occurred. There's footage of chimps, and their prey, and there's a bit of a chimp grabbing at its prey, but nothing that proves it happened...

However, if it did, I'm sure he's impressed, as we all probably would be. (:

Thank you for the promote. I love this tune right now... what sells it to me is the sample of the 12 year old screaming OMG... It makes this perfect in my eyes.
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promote coz dubstep

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Yeah, Battlezone FTW. Also Pole Position was a 3d perspective, but I think it used something like sprites - and not true polygons.

More than 8 independent sprites. Though clever programmers were able to reassign sprite registers in the h-blanks. And what was the resolution? I seem to recall the C64 had half the lateral resolution (something like 192) when colour sprites were used.

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Brilliant= and true about the cloud/shrub thing. They were just reusing sprites on the NES.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by spoco2.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by kronosposeidon. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Not only fake, but a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/BANNED-GERMAN-SPRITE-AD-BJ

Also fresh vegetable are more expensive, have a shorter shelf life, usually have to be prepared, and kids are less likely to want to eat them. Not that any of that excuses feeding your kids junk, but those are some of the bigger reasons than marketing.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I'm sure these kids could easily differentiate between Cheetos and Doritos, Skittles and M&Ms or Coke and Sprite. It's disturbing to see the kinds of foods that are marketed to kids these days, and even more disturbing to see parents fall prey to this marketing.

I'm sure these kids could easily differentiate between Cheetos and Doritos, Skittles and M&Ms or Coke and Sprite. It's disturbing to see the kinds of foods that are marketed to kids these days, and even more disturbing to see parents fall prey to this marketing. There should be some kind of a public service effort (like the successful campaign against smoking) to teach parents the importance of encouraging good eating habits - keep all that junk food out of the house. It could save a lot of people a lot of grief from obesity, heart disease and other maladies in the long run.

I'm not sure why it would be the fault of public schools that these kids don't know what a vegetable is. Are parents no longer accountable for anything? A teacher can only do so much, you can't expect them to also be a parent.

I'd upvote this if it weren't for the goofy politicized title. Don't get so caught up in the horse race that it obscures the bigger picture.

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i loved this movie..who played the devil dude?
bill curry?he was awesome.
Tim Curry dear, so I done good huh? remind me to show you the one of oona the sprite : )

kitten natividad.
the woman with the muscular breasts is a 70's porn star.
i'm just sayin.......
how do i know that?
uh.../shuffles feet....
got lucky and guessed?
have an implant that has all film stars logged?
a friendly sprite told me?
.....ah poop......

Breast physics, soft shadows, hair collisions, just short of recockulous poly count on that model, and... billboard sprites for water splashes? AND I THOUGHT I LOVED HER, IT WAS ALL A LIE!