gbadev.org forum archive

This is a read-only mirror of the content originally found on forum.gbadev.org (now offline), salvaged from Wayback machine copies. A new forum can be found here.

OffTopic > The word 'Sprite'

#2735 - bertil - Tue Feb 11, 2003 5:53 pm

I've been wondering for a while why exactly it's called sprites. That it should come from the word sprite, as in elf/fairy, seems a bit far-fetched though it does make some rather vague sense. So I thought it may be a short form of something ... small pixelly rectangukuar image thingy element.......maybe not.....
Anyone knows where it comes from or what it stands for?