Largest person sprite in a BBC B game?

[garfield]

Hello all,

What game has the largest person sprite? A candidate I see is Tynesoft's "Big KO" which features combatants that often exceed 46 x 72 (square ratio) pixels. Example:

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Any other game sprite that stand out due to their size?

[Diminished]

It's not a person, but Boffin's tarantula is a big boy.

Citadel's Cowlmen monks always struck me as fairly large, but they're really only 10x32 with wide MODE 2 pixels.

[davidb]

Caesar the cat is quite large.

[tricky]

Another not a person is the end of level boss in Jeltron, which is something like 104x64 in square pixels.

[garfield]

thanks for the replies

[garfield]

Another not a person is the end of level boss in Jeltron, which is something like 104x64 in square pixels.

I think in terms of person sprites, nothing eclipses the size of The Big KO.

In terms of other types of sprites, I have just checked out Jeltron's boss. Impressively large!

[Symo]

The Barbarian games had pretty huge player sprites

[TobyLobster]

Frak! and enemies therein were quite large.

[TobyLobster]

[gfoot]

Is the Granny's Garden witch a contender or does she not count?

[garfield]

I think GG is a bit tenuous. I was more considering bitmap modes where the whole sprite is movable either in X axis or Y axis or both simultaneously.

[sa_scott]

Check out these (literal) bad boys from Goldbank:

(this is probably cheating, as this is a modified Mode 2 game with larger pixels)

[garfield]

I wouldn't necessarily call it cheating (the "extra wide" pixel aspect ratio). I thint Bank Panic type games have screens where the characters don't move (with their feet) per se. But rather they are like background elements where their arms move.

[TobyLobster]

Podd?

http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3001

[garfield]

A new champion emerges!

[tom_seddon]

Podd?
podd.png
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3001

Phew, going to be hard to beat that.

I was going to suggest one of the other Tynesoft sports games, such as Commonwealth Games, which from memory had some extra-large scaled-up sprites. (And on the sporting theme, By Fair Means or Foul had some big sprites too. But I don't think they're larger than The Big KO.)

Barbarian II had some large monster sprites: https://youtu.be/aW1Aq53wTMo?t=55 - do they count as people though? And the helicopters in Stryker's Run must have been a lot of bytes. But I haven't counted in either case.

--Tom

[garfield]

I guess "humanoid" is a suitable fudge term for creatures such as Barbarian 2 monsters and Podd itself!

[helpful]

BugEyes 2 has some pretty big sprites, e.g. the Sinclair C5
https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=346

[Cybershark]

I was going to suggest one of the other Tynesoft sports games, such as Commonwealth Games, which from memory had some extra-large scaled-up sprites.

The diver in Summer Olympiad was one that occurred to me.

Barbarian II had some large monster sprites...

Yes, I thought of those when someone earlier mentioned Barbarian. These fellas were pretty chunky:

[Triax]

What about that big red monster on the 5th screen of Jet Power Jack (ie. The Yugg monster)?

Not sure what qualifies as a sprite… is it any picture? In which case, what about the froogs from Space maze?

[tricky]

May be you need to define size!
Does only moving bits count?
Does only moving a frame every now and then count?
Does pixels per byte count?

[ivor_the_injun]

How about the Cute To Kill bosses? Very blocky and flickery, and not exactly man-on-the-street shapes, but massive regardless.

[Cybershark]

What about that big red monster on the 5th screen of Jet Power Jack (ie. The Yugg monster)?

I mean that is just a static level decoration which is made up from a bunch of individual blocks.
Might as well consider this a contender

How about the Cute To Kill bosses? Very blocky and flickery, and not exactly man-on-the-street shapes, but massive regardless.

Do those guys move? I forget.

Whilst not a moving character - nor a player graphic - Peter Scott's Network has the huge Controller guy lurking in the final room. Wish I could find a pic of him!

[billcarr2005]

Whilst not a moving character - nor a player graphic - Peter Scott's Network has the huge Controller guy lurking in the final room. Wish I could find a pic of him!

https://www.stairwaytohell.com/gamehelp ... index.html

[fizgog]

If we can include unfinished beeb games, then I did make a start over xmas on this maze game, but wanted to finish Pitfall first

[ivor_the_injun]

What about that big red monster on the 5th screen of Jet Power Jack (ie. The Yugg monster)?

I mean that is just a static level decoration which is made up from a bunch of individual blocks.
Might as well consider this a contender

How about the Cute To Kill bosses? Very blocky and flickery, and not exactly man-on-the-street shapes, but massive regardless.

Do those guys move? I forget.

They do indeed.



Another example around the 5 min mark here - I think there are bigger bosses in the game as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWo_3OVJvg

[Cybershark]

They do indeed.

I did have a quick go on it after my last post and saw for myself. I remember that I really wanted to like this game - which felt more like something on the Spectrum - but felt that the weapons ruined it. There are so many occasions where the guns just cannot hit the enemies and you're forced into taking damage as a result. It's like they were designed for a different game entirely

https://www.stairwaytohell.com/gamehelp ... index.html

Aha! Thanks so much for providing proof

...I did make a start over xmas on this maze game...

This looks very exciting! The monochrome has a very Vic20/ZX81 feel to it

Anyways, here's the diver fella from Summer Olympiad:

The dude that competes in the triple jump event is also a fair size:

[melchett]

Not a person but a big sprite fluidly animated - the UFO that you land in Bugeyes II / 2

[colinhoad]

Podd?
podd.png
http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3001

Was just scrolling through this thread and then up came Podd and I laughed out loud! Never thought the big red fella would win a Beeb game record