Sprites

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Almost resembling a jellyfish, sprites feature a central blob of light (on Earth, it’s 15 to 30 miles, or 24 to 48 kilometers, across), with long tendrils extending both down toward the ground and upward. Source: Internet

And could display 64 sprites at once, 16 per scanline, in 512 colors. Source: Internet

Instead, it has a single non-scrolling tilemap layer called the fix layer, while any scrolling layers rely exclusively on drawing sprites to create the scrolling backgrounds (like the Sega Y Board ). Source: Internet

If the two hardware sprites are not enough for a game, a developer may share one sprite among several objects (as with the ghosts in Pac-Man ) or draw software sprites, which is only a little more difficult than drawing a fixed playfield. Source: Internet

Also like the first game, although the game world itself is fully 3D, the characters populating each level are 2D sprites. Source: Internet

Denise can also lay up to eight 16 pixel wide sprites per scan line (in automatic mode) on top, underneath, or between playfields, and detect collisions between sprites and the playfields or between sprites. Source: Internet