It's Pixel!

Posted by Derek Yu Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:50:00 GMT

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And I wasn’t sure if there was a camera powerful enough to capture his true majesty (modesty?). From the Cave Story Wii blog.

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  1. renkin said 6 minutes later:

    Omg, he’s real.

  2. Dusty Spur said 16 minutes later:

    Pixel = fuckin’ pimp

  3. Seth said 38 minutes later:

    I was expecting something much more square and single-colored

  4. KennEH! said about 1 hour later:

    YAY! New fap material.

  5. Gutter said about 1 hour later:

    ‘shopped

  6. gustav said about 1 hour later:

    dude messed up his wii :(((

  7. Smoke said about 1 hour later:

    Cave Story ripoff. Look at his pad.

  8. HandCraftedRadio said about 1 hour later:

    Oh great. Another person claiming to be the ‘real’ pixel. I can’t believe you fall for these things derek.

  9. Benzido said about 2 hours later:

    Is that… two wiis duct-taped together?

  10. xsportseeker said about 2 hours later:

    The back… of a God! The pic becomes believable after you spot his mouse.

    Looks like a mouse that had almost 24-hours a day of usage.

    I’ll buy a Wii with Pixel’s signature, even though I don’t really want a Wii right now.

  11. Valkyrie said about 2 hours later:

    Do realize that the camera was only able to support the back of his head. God knows what would’ve happened if he had turned around at that exact moment.

  12. Adamski said about 3 hours later:

    You guys need to get over trends and start setting them with your own unique styles and games.

  13. Miya said about 4 hours later:

    The back of his neck is so hot,

  14. Robert said about 4 hours later:

    Huh… I sort of expected a halo around him or something…

  15. Quetz said about 5 hours later:

    Man, I’d pay a zillion bucks for one of those Wiis. A zillion!

  16. greywolf said about 5 hours later:

    I can’t believe that a picture of the back of Pixel’s head counts as news. I like Cave Story as much as anyone, but at this point it’s just getting absurd.

  17. king said about 5 hours later:

    If we ever saw his face, we would cease to exist.

  18. alspal said about 5 hours later:

    Greywolf, will you not bow before him?

  19. your mom said about 7 hours later:

    He looks chinese ?:

  20. Shabadage said about 7 hours later:

    pick up the phone adam.

  21. Honesty said about 7 hours later:

    Obviously, he IS japanese. Chinese and Japanese has the same ancestry.

  22. Jad said about 7 hours later:

    D:

    OH NOES TIHS NOT NWES

    WAI U POST TIEHS

    fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap

  23. Biggerfish said about 8 hours later:

    Pixel needs to toughen up and show his face on the internet.

    Yeah, I said it.

  24. Eclipse said about 9 hours later:

    if you carefully zoom on the mouse you can see his face reflected on it.

    And he’s not human.

  25. Guy said about 9 hours later:

    Is pixel now a label? Like nike?

  26. bateleur said about 10 hours later:

    He looks about twelve years old.

    Wait… is Pixel twelve years old?!

  27. corpus said about 11 hours later:

    Have you.. ever actually seen a twelve year old?

  28. Hamburger said about 11 hours later:

    This is getting downright crazy. Is there a set rule that you can’t go two days without mentioning Cave Story or lightning will strike you?

  29. Adamski said about 12 hours later:

    Are you guys sure he’s actually drawing on a wii, and not a display stand or something? It looks a bit thick to be a wii, unless it’s two on top of each other… why he’d balance them on top of each other I don’t know.

  30. Adamski said about 12 hours later:

    Oh nvm there are cables going in to it. Another use for Sharpies I guess.

  31. Jad said about 12 hours later:

    Hamburger:

    No, but since Pixel and his game is quite legendary among very many indie game fans, the first picture of him ever released is probably something that many, including me, would like to know about.

    Where’s the downright crazy part? Go tell the ‘cvstry rpff’-guys instead, they’re the annoying ones ):

    Btw guys, THIS IS NEWS (because I really think so @ w@)

  32. fartron said about 12 hours later:

    How many megapixels?

  33. GC said about 14 hours later:

    .17864

  34. pnutz said about 14 hours later:

    His face is naturally pixellated, something like 8x8 with a terrible palette. It safe to assume that he’s kind of sensitive about it.

  35. !CE-9 said about 15 hours later:

    so how do we know it’s not somebody else’s back?

  36. Eclipse said about 16 hours later:

    it’s not pixel, the art on the wii is blatantly The Underside style

  37. Guy said about 17 hours later:

    I think fanboysim is bad in general, especially in indie gaming. But I know its useless to start a discussion about it here, I will be stoned by people here. When you reach a point you can’t even discuss something because it will make people angry, you know something is wrong.

  38. greywolf said about 17 hours later:

    @Guy: You speak the truth.

  39. ben2theedge said about 18 hours later:

    Notice how the Pixel in its natural habitat flourishes because it has adapted its shirt to blend perfectly with the surrounding floor, making it safe from predators and territorial rival indie gamers.

  40. Quetz said about 18 hours later:

    Fanboyism is usually characterized by irrational fanaticism. Our love is really the most rational way to feel after Cave Story :o

  41. Guy said about 18 hours later:

    Quetz, I was hoping you were ironic, but I am afraid you are not.

    ben2theedge, huh? There are no rivalries in the indie scene that I am aware of.

    I don’t have much strength to argue about this too much, so I will leave it as is.

  42. Codemonkey said about 19 hours later:

    Huzzah.

  43. BeamSplashX said about 19 hours later:

    Ben knows what he’s talking about, he was working on a Metroidvania game once. I don’t recall any pictures of him blending into his surroundings though.

  44. Guy said about 20 hours later:

    How exactly can “rival” indie gamers(developers?) can harm his indie game in a legal way?

  45. Hooker with No BeViS said about 20 hours later:

    @Guy, whoa after everything I cannot belive you honestly blame fanboyism when people start to stone you. =D Read posts and people disagree everyday, no big fits there necessarily.

    I don’t know if you somehow drew different conclusions but I never got pissed off to you becouse you don’t share interest or don’t digg same developers than I (Honestly, why would I bother getting upset about that?).

    Anyway, I’m just gonna leave that up to that. I don’t know what others think about you.

  46. Valkyrie said about 20 hours later:

    The rival developers would have to make a game better than Cave Story, and making a game that includes as much polish, dedication, and downright fun as Cave Story is too damn hard for a lot of people to muster. So we hate him for being awesome, yet love him for being awesome. People strive to best him, though they know they might never do so.

    It’s the great square of Pixelism.

  47. Guy said about 21 hours later:

    This is ridiculous.

    Its not like there are so many indie games out there. Any addition of a decent+ indie game to the market will be welcomed most likely by some people. Of course, indie games do not have such a big client base in the first place. Most of them, at least.

    Different people have different taste. No game can be pleasing to all the players in the world. This is how indie games started anyway, they targeted a niche market.

    There are alot of games out there, there are alot of people out there. Each person find the games that he likes, and ignore the games he is not interested at.

    I have played many games, and I liked alot, some of them. But I cannot recall a single game that I will call “legendary”, thats pure exageration.

    Games are alot of things, but games are not everything. There is more to life than just games. And I really havn’t found anything I can admire so much to call it legendary in life itself, so that includes games as well.

    (Gosh, did I just start a philosophical discussion?)

  48. Derek said about 21 hours later:

    Haha, well… I thought it was a fun picture. When we did our interview with Pixel years ago, he declined to include a photo of himself. He’s a pretty shy person and as far as I know this is the first shot of him.

    As you said, Guy, there’s more to life than games. So I like to break up the game news every now and then with stuff like this. It’s nice to get to know the people behind the games, too.

  49. Guy said about 22 hours later:

    Sure derek, I didn’t have any complaints about the picture itself, just some of the comments here.

    But maybe I am complaining too much.

  50. HandCraftedRadio said about 22 hours later:

    I think Guy’s just mad because pixel doesn’t return any of his fan email.

  51. Guy said about 22 hours later:

    Heh…

  52. sfried said about 23 hours later:

    This many replies just from a shot of Pixel’s head…from behind.

  53. Dusty Spur said about 23 hours later:

    GOD DEREK WHAT A WASTE OF AN ARTICLE THERE IS 30 SECONDS I’LL NEVER GET BACK

    FUCKING DICKHEAD

  54. Codemonkey said about 23 hours later:

    Cave story isn’t very hard, but then again I haven’t made it to hell yet.

  55. Shih Tzu said 1 day later:

    You stared at the picture for 30 seconds?

  56. I Like Cake said 1 day later:

    He was trying to see the sailboat.

  57. alspal said 1 day later:

    lol, some person makes a decent game and everyone starts arguing.

  58. Guy said 1 day later:

    This makes me sick, I hate this bullshit.

    I’m sick of you stupid fanboys.

  59. Tyrone said 1 day later:

    Wow, I never noticed that he blends in with the background. How MGS of him.

  60. Guy said 1 day later:

    Sorry guys I kind of went over the top there I’m sorry I’ve just been going through alot of shit lately…. just bear with me.

  61. Derek said 1 day later:

    :O …It’s cool, dude!

  62. undertech said 1 day later:

    Is that Ron Livingston?

  63. Guy said 1 day later:

    Great, somone pretends to be me, I did say the two last comments. Mabye its time to register?

  64. Guy said 1 day later:

    *didn’t

  65. Guy said 1 day later:

    Oh, you can’t register? That has its disadvantages….

  66. Quetz said 1 day later:

    Awkward.

  67. Eclipse said 1 day later:

    @Guy: a lot of “fanboy” comments here are just ironic, you know, tigsource stuff.

  68. Guy said 1 day later:

    Yea, I thought that might be the case. But I wasn’t sure about it. At least at some of them.

  69. Trotim said 1 day later:

    “You guys need to get over trends and start setting them with your own unique styles and games.”

    QFT

  70. RayRayTea said 1 day later:

    Hehe I’d like to have that Wii.

  71. Manbaby said 1 day later:

    HOLY SHIT GUYS PIXEL!!

  72. aguy said 1 day later:

    Looks like it’s a development console, not a reguar Wii. I seriously doubt it’s going to end up in circulation.

  73. Dusty Spur said 1 day later:

    Just for the record guys, being dense doesn’t make you cool.

  74. Eclipse said 1 day later:

    @aguy: yep it is indeed a wii devkit or a debug version… or two wiis glued together D:

  75. HandCraftedRadio said 1 day later:

    Maybe it’s the special edition cave story wii. Balrog shaped.

  76. Tyrone said 1 day later:

    It’s not a dev kit. It’s a production Wii on top of a dev kit.

  77. null said 2 days later:

    His shirt is the same color as the floor. He really knows how to blend in with his surroundings and keep a low profile.

  78. sfried said 3 days later:

    It can’t be a Wii dev kit. Wii devs kits have a green front faceplate.

  79. Tyrone said 3 days later:

    Definitely a RVT-Reader. The green portion is obstructed by Amaya.

  80. haowan said 3 days later:

    Wii dev kits are big and black and look nothing like a Wii. They have NDEV written on the front. Neither of those pictured is a dev kit. The test kits look like Wiis but have a red front plate. Hope that helps.

  81. Tyrone said 3 days later:

    You’re only partially correct There is a unit called the NDEV–that’s for compiling and general use with the Wii SDK. But there are a few versions of the RVT-Readers, the most common being green and red.

    http://nicalis.com/blog/images/RVT.png

  82. Tyrone said 3 days later:

    Hmm, I don’t know what happened to my comment.

    Haowan, you’re not entirely correct. There is an NDEV unit, but it’s used mostly for compiling and general use with the Wii SDK. There are a few versions of the Wii debugs which resemble productions units, the most common ones are green or red.

    There’s a photo on the blog, if you care to see.

  83. haowan said 4 days later:

    Yeah test kits, debug kits, they look like production Wiis. Dev kits look like big black boxes. I work on Wii for my day job too :)

  84. sfried said 6 days later:

    In that case, when will they release the special black version Wii that they used when they first revealed the console at Tokyo Game Show? The only color they seem to come in is white.

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