So what were these things if not ghosts?
>>12149336lewd
>>12149336they're the things ursula turned king trident into, those miserable little homonculi
>>12149336Officially they're "monsters".But everyone calls them ghosts.
>>12149424Toru Iwatani cited Casper and Obake no Q-Taro, two cartoon ghosts, as design inspiration. They've been ghosts since day zero.
>>12150002Nintendo really was big on Popeye at the time huh? IIRC Donkey Kong would have been a Popeye game and Mario would have never been a thing if there wasn't licensing problems.
>>12150018I was unaware that Nintendo created Pacman. they really did invent everything, thank fuck for Nintendo without them gaming wouldn't exist.
>>12150059This anon is suffering from the Botswana effect as can be seen from this irrefutable evidence I just forged. Forged meaning "legally prepared" in this universe.
>>12149424Weren't they called "Ghost Monsters?'
>>12150301interdasting
>>12149336When are these sprites used?
>>12150695In the between level cutscenes when you get far enough.
>>12150506Only in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon
>>12149336
>>12149336Originally they were just "monsters", but when it came to the west everyone saw them as bedsheet ghosts, so much so that every westoid creation involving Pac (hannah-barberah cartoon, pac world 1) made it so until Namco just went with it.
>>12150002They were still officially called monsters for a long time in Japan.
>>12150301looking at the original illustration, was puck man supposed to have legs?is that him on the bottom here?what a weird little guy
>>12150939Of course he has legs. How else does he move around? He doesn't just hover. That's impossible.
