Duplicate Image: One Game For The Price Of Two

This trope shares its image with Pokemon Red And Blue. Also, even though Pokemon is probably the best example of this, the image seems to contain lots of Fan Myopia, in my honest opinion.

Aside from some other game collage, I'm not sure how we'd pic this.

Would they look better vertically?

Maybe. We can't really increase the resolution, though, as the gameboy's resolution was only 160x144.

Vertical's fine since the article's fairly long.

Vertical looks good. Resolution is fine.

That was my thought.

In some cases, it is possible to double (or some other natural multiplier) the resolution, since that means each pixel will be represented by four, and no pixels will be cut or modified. Generally better for small sprites rather than screenshots, though.

edited 30th Jul '12 2:34:34 PM by AnotherDuck

If you exactly double the res, with no (or "nearest neighbor") resampling, the pixels are maintained. May be too tall though.

My attempt at picturing this trope:

edited 30th Jul '12 5:05:20 PM by ShadowHog

That's not bad either.

Sonic is clearer. The only thing I can say about it is that it's aesthetically inconsistent, since the first two images are box art, while the last is a title screen. The cartridge helps a little, though.

edited 30th Jul '12 11:18:50 PM by AnotherDuck

I prefer the Sonic image.

Can we get a shot of the cartridge that's a bit clearer about it being a cartridge placed into a cartridge?

Actually, bringing up the boxart/title screen inconsistency and asking for me to make it clearer that it's a cartridge inside a cartridge gives me an idea... make it three title screens, and pair each one with its respective cartridge. (Reason being that S3&K, as a whole, doesn't have a boxart, while the two separate parts do, but all three do have distinct title screens/cartridge setups.) I'll probably look into it when I get back home, can't do it at work obviously.

edited 31st Jul '12 9:50:59 AM by ShadowHog

Good luck!

OK, we have a problem. This trope is actually two tropes. The first is the one I'm illustrating, and the second is the one the sonic image is illustrating. Neither is really a good illustration of the other.

Article ends:

"There are three sections to this article: Examples of one game in multiple concurrent versions, examples of one story being split over multiple games, and examples of this phenomenon outside of games and gaming media."

I don't think an image needs to depict more than one.

edited 31st Jul '12 12:08:22 PM by rodneyAnonymous

That's pretty good...the only tweak I'd suggest is if you could possibly get a better shot of the combined cartridges.

Same shot, but larger and offset from the title screen like the other two:

Looks good.

Thumbs up on the offset, good call.

+1

edited 31st Jul '12 10:50:42 PM by AnotherDuck

Looks good to me.

Bump; one or two more votes for the last Sonic pic and we can run with it.