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🌻John Hyphen🐎
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mourning an age when there could be multiple video games based on an anthropomorphised red dot from the 7-up label

cover art for the 'cool spot' video game on sega mega drive the eponymous 'cool spot' is a red circle with sunglasses and a small circular mouth. it (he?) has spaghetti-thin limbs, at the end of which we find big white runners with another red spot on them (a picture of its own face?) and a pair of white gloves with four fingers each. the spot is on a sand dune, waves breaking in the background, and is lurching at the viewer menacingly. a purple surf board is stuck in the sand behind it, bearing a yin-yang symbol (more spots?) and emblasoned with the word 'RADICAL'. in front of that, obscured partially by the sand, is a grey/black box, possibly a representation of the sega mega drive itself.
cover art for the 'Spot' video game on the nintendo entertainment system the titular 'spot' is seen zooming out of the 7-up logo that birthed it, to stand astride a roll of video film bearing mulitple images of its own self. the spot is a red circle in cool shades, wearing white shoes with a red spot on them, and four-fingered gloves that look like medical gloves inflated to amuse a frightened child in the doctor's office. text assures us that 'the game critics say: two thumbs up; spot is cool if you're six or sixty'. this is accompanied by two disembodied white-gloved hands giving the thumbs up signal. we note that these hands have the customary five fingers, indicating that the critics in question are primates, unlike the spot. the game carries a golden official nintendo seal of quality
cover art for 'spot: the cool adventure' video game on nintendo gameboy here we see spot, a red circle, standing slightly sideways so in fact presenting itself to us as more of an oval, indicating that it exists as a representation of the 2-dimensional shape, and not as a 3-dimensional sphere viewed in 2 dimensions. it's wearing the shades again, and white runners and inflated gloves. spot is apparently blowing on the logo of the game, and the word 'cool' is encased in ice, presumably due to the refreshing blast of cold air that spot is emitting. above the spot float bubbles, we can assume eluding to the effervescent nature of the soft drink from which the mascot hails.
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