ONE YEAR NECRO awwww yeah bitchez
(Well, one year, three weeks and four days)
OK but seriously. I was studying the animations in Super Bomberman 3 again when I noticed this little gem:
That is a Core Mechanism being destroyed by a bomb blast. Notice anything about the resulting explosion? Yeah, it's a skull.
Here's the full animation (some details may be messed up; I just ripped them from gameplay so I had to remove the "800" points that appears over the sprites... Not that anyone cares but me).
The fire is skull-shaped for two flames whoops I mean frames.
Somehow, I don't recall having ever noticed this before, and it's kind of odd seeing it now. Every time I detonated one of those things, in the dozen or two times I've played through this game, a little firey skull face briefly popped up on screen like a subliminally backmasked Satanic message in a hardcore rock song. For years I have been seeing hundreds of these little skulls appear without actually noticing them. Surely they have affected my psyche on some fundamental level.