Games With Little Tiny Graphics

video games
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I really like games with big or normal sized things rendered as little tiny sprite graphics.

Like how in Bangai-O you're piloting a huge mech, but it's rendered on screen as this little tiny thing with little tiny missiles blowing up little tiny houses.

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Or like Elevator Action Returns where it's small sprite characters on a huge playfield.

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I was having trouble finding it, but I know there's an R-Type (maybe another shooter?) game with a launch sequence where it shows little tiny sprite people guiding the ship out of a launch bay.

What are some other games with so tiny smol graphics?

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https://gunturtle.itch.io/picomin

hehe, I always loved this one

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Cybernator for SNES and the Lemmings games come to mind.


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@milo#24982 The itty-bitty-baby character sprites from the Lost Underworld in Earthbound are a personal favorite

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Also, I've always loved the exasperated micro Crono sprite if you leave the game idle on the overworld

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@kory#24992

That Earthbound example is exactly what I'm talking about!! Love it!

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the dudes in cannon fodder are pretty li'l

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NGsRUxbhAL4/maxresdefault.jpg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WBX8Txs9I

https://youtu.be/RYVDt8XhTBM?t=639

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the difference between each zoom level is beautiful

https://youtu.be/BzNKY9ExQEo?t=114

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There‘s also the area in Yume Nikki that’s a Mother 1 parody.

I love tiny graphics too!

I got a surprising amount of enjoyment from Picomin just now!

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Risk of Rain. The player is the little orange dude and other enemies generally follow that scale (please ignore giant worm)

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@Snowdecahedron#25054

Aw yes! I love risk of rain! Great example.

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A few more tiny friends:

The little mecha who appears on the SFII Turbo title screen:

https://twitter.com/games_blackhole/status/1376872682483027970?s=21

Sonic CD mini Sonic (also Rad Mobile Sonic, speaking of tiny dudes)

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Leaving your vehicle in Blaster Master

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Minish Link!

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Soldat
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Robotron 2084
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@kory#25078

That little tiny Sonic is just perfect!! I forgot all bout that guy.

And your Blaster Master example makes me think of a sort of spin-off idea of this thread that I thought of while making this one: Games where your little tiny guy can leave the little tiny vehicle.

Like Gato Roboto:
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And when I was a kid I played this arcade game called Speed Rumbler where you could get in and out of your car at will and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
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@milo#25124 Yes! I love that little pseudo subgenre–Retro City Rampage also comes to mind, and I guess those original top down GTAs?

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https://youtu.be/vRmVC9AVRBs?t=150?

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These dudes are the only thing I remember from Datastorm on the Amiga
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Mad Stalker

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