Edge magazine has sent out an amazing bonus to current subscribers – a specially-commissioned pixel art poster crammed with videogame references.
The artist was Gary “armyoftrolls” Lucken. And boy does he do great work.
I’ve just spent my lunchtime creating a “grid reference” version, so we can solve the mysteries together. Download link appears below.
The poster jpeg is a bit “low res” – but if you download it, then zoom in (using an image viewer) you should be able to identify most of the characters/machines/levels in the picture..
Rightclick on image & "save as" to download.
Here’s a few, to get you started…
- N-17 = Link from Legend of Zelda
- E-16 = Player’s army from Syndicate
- ]-06 = Undead from Ghosts n Goblins
- [-24 = Bub n Bob from Bubble Symphony/Bubble Bobble
Please add your finds (including grid references) in the comments!
Original story found @ Offworld.
UPDATE: If you feel like giving this a bit of “Digg-loving” or Reddit-loving that would be great.
June 11, 2009 at 4:28 pm |
[...] Game, a gaming blog that has been added to my RSS reader after giving it a once over just now, has dissected the poster into individual grids that are easier to sift through for information. Readers are invited to save the grid version, [...]
June 11, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
[...] me that he has created a grid version for anyone who is serious about character hunting, available here. Thanks [...]
June 11, 2009 at 5:22 pm |
O-28 – Q-28 = Ken vs. Guile in Guile’s stage (Street Fighter II/etc)
B-3 – C-4 = Arwings (Star Fox)
F/G/H in the first 16 rows = Falling Tetris pieces
K-8 and surrounding area = Princess Peach’s castle from Mario 64 complete with Mario out front, a couple of Goomba, Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, Yoshi on the roof, a Moogle balanced on a spire, and happy Super Mario World hills behind the castle around F-8. The castle is also patrolled by Mushbooms and Rabites from the Secret of Mana series. Jaws appears to be in charge of guarding the moat.
Intersection of E/F-8/9 = Mega Man (in the Mega Man X style suit)
!-28 and surrounding area = Patapons vs. the Crab Boss (Patapon series)
*-28 and area = Animal Crossing characters at the “Nintendo Petting Zoo”
Y-25 = Parappa the Rapper and co on stage
X-25 = Loco Roco characters immediately nearby Parappa
Z-7 = Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series
G-22 = Sonic the Hedgehog is standing at the beginning of an entire Sonic-themed course
–15 = Someone is in a hot air balloon shaped like Professor Ryuta Kawashima’s virtual head from the Brain Age series
A-16 = Lara Croft from Tomb Raider
B-10 and down the building = Lemmings with umbrellas don’t go splat
O-7 = A Nintendo Entertainment System is on a flatbed truck
E-7 and surrounding area = Darwinians from Introversion Software’s title Darwinia seem to have escaped their VR habitat to watch the race
–8 = Bomberman is looking over the wall
]-10 = George (the giant ape from Rampage)
T-3 – T-14 = The Citadel from Half-Life 2
N-8/O-8 = A green-coloured Prinny from Disgaea? Hard to tell, might be a character I don’t recognize.
^-10 and area = Red and Blue teams from Advance Wars square off.
%-4 = Puyo are congregating at the corner (from Puyo Puyo)
#-3 = The Prince is going to eventually roll everything in here up. Just give him time. (Katamari Damacy series)
&-9 = The R-9a “Arrowhead” flies with an option powerup, from R-Type
J-23 = Super Monkey Ball
Q-10 = Enemy from Galaga in the window
Z-8 = Five of these seven blue-roofed houses have Sims gem cursors over them, and one person to the left of Sub-Zero has one
*-3 = Cherry from Pac-Man (and likely tons of other games)
O-13 = The “Flame Grill” is likely a Bomberman reference
I-28 = Sony PSP on a billboard
(-20 = Pac-Man ghost
+-20 = Nintendo Gameboy
Also, large and very obvious ones: The Cacodemon from DOOM, the arcade units, such as Bubble Bobble and Space Invaders.
Well… I’ve no life. Someone else’s turn.
June 11, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
Wow Elix, that’s a very impressive start.
June 13, 2009 at 11:40 am |
[...] Edge pixel poster challenge – now with added grid! Edge magazine has sent out an amazing bonus to current subscribers – a specially-commissioned pixel art poster [...] [...]
June 13, 2009 at 5:02 pm |
Wow, impressive piece of pixel art and impressive work for both elix and J-OMG :O!
June 15, 2009 at 5:30 pm |
[...] up from our earlier post last week, it’s time to combine all the “game spotting” solutions that were made, [...]
June 17, 2009 at 3:31 am |
[...] mentioned in a previous post that Just One More Game was running an Internet-wide challenge to get people to catch every reference in the epic Edge Pixel Poster. Well the results are in [...]