TSR COMPO VOL.2: CUSTOM ALL THE WAY

[Chris2Balls [:B]]

original character do not steal

It's a really cool sprite, but does Pulseman count as a rip-off? I've never heard of him being a ripoff of Zero before, much less Mega Man.

but still, isn't the point of the sprite not to be a character that already exists, but rather an original rip-off? Pulseman exists and therefore isn't a rip-off.

We'll just have to see until Metaru posts, but yes: the point is to take an existing and well-known videogame character (regardless of whether it's a rip-off itself or not) and create a (possibly humorous) variant.