videogame color convetions....

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I'm looking at you, Capcom.

Playing UN Squad. Stealth enemies (aka homing weapons don't work) are PURPLE. Many shooter games have red enemies drop powerups... 1943, etc.

Flashing red areas on bosses are WEAK POINTS

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Sunday, 4 December 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Red = damage or berserker (sometimes +HP), yellow = invincible, green = poison, blue = magic related

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

low-level enemies (slimes, imps) are BLUE.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 December 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Top level enemies are white -> silver -> gold.

― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I love games that reuse sprites with diff. palates!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

mortal kombat and street fighter to thread!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah! like in final fight you'll be beating up all these lame dudes, like three at a time, but then another guy that's completely identical except for the color of his clothes walks on and you know right away he's really tough.

i also like getting the different colored clothes in zelda 3. green is default and red is the strongest. i can't remember if there's another one in between.

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yeah mk was huge on that! weren't there like 5 separate ninja characters that were pallete swaps by mk3? ermac was the coolest.

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

heavily palette-switched bestiaries never get enough respect.

In Minish Cap I don't think you get to change clothes! You just run around being green the whole game. Which considering it was developed by Capcom is strange! I mean, Mega Man, for crying out loud.

Then again you also run around being green the whole game in Bionic Commando. Which had the simplest color scheme in the world: White = Neutral, Green = Friendly, Red = Enemy. Hooray!!

― TOMBOT, Monday, 5 December 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

the mid-stage for Link is usually blue.

― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

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