If we get rid of the high priority sprites lining the top half of the gumball machine, we can get a better look at the generic placeholder gumballs which make up the foreground plane:
Oh, it seems we have a low priority sprite hiding behind the foreground layer. You would be forgiven for thinking that it's just a second Thunder Barrier, but we know better by now.
Hey, at least they managed to find a use for one of the sprites!
The better part is playing this bonus stage on certain online Flash emulators that don't handle the gumball graphics properly!
ReplyDeleteI feel kind of bad for calling them gumball though, because it seems the Japanese manuals and such call them item balls and says that the clear ball is "a ball with nothing in it" with gachapon machines in mind. Stealth also had to ensure that his audience knew that when talking about the Sonic 3 & Knuckles remaster demo on Tumblr.
Wait, gachapon machines are/were unknown to US people? I've seen them here in South America since I was an infant.
ReplyDeleteThis waas lovely to read
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