If you like sprite animation, then you probably have seen lots of Flash that use them. Sprites are pretty much just graphics used to create Flash movies. When you have a bunch of these sprites together, you have what is called a sprite sheet. Newgrounds is famous for housing sprite animations on your favorite video games including Mario, Zelda, and Megaman. A lot of the sprite animations on that site use 8 or 16-bit sprites. This means that most of the sprites used are from NES, SNES, and Genesis games.
You can check out sprite sheets for various video games here:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=video+game+sprite+sheets
While checking out Newgrounds I found a really cool Flash movies that were part of a series called 8-bit Theater that features the light warriors from the very first Final Fantasy. This series makes use of sprite-like graphics that resemble the sheets found at Google. The 8-bit comes from the fact that the original Final Fantasy came from the NES, which is an 8-bit console gaming system. Everyone is in 8-bit theater, your figher, black belt, theif, red mage, black mage, and white mage. My favorite character is the red mage because he is a well-rounded character who can cast both black and white magic. The red mage can also wield a sword unlike his black and white counterparts.
You can watch 8-bit Theater on Newgrounds:
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/8bittheater.html
I did some searching and found out that 8-bit Theater has a website that contains a bunch of comics:
They have comics also, which I know used to be popular before the Internet. We used to actually read before the Internet became to rich in multimedia. Now everything is video. =/
Favorite Final Fantasy Party
Since I am revisiting Final Fantasy now, I want to talk about what I believe is the best part for Final Fantasy.
- Fighter/Knight
- Black Belt/Master
- Red Mage/Red Wizard
- White Mage/White Wizard
Here is my recommended party of four plus their respective class upgrades. I like having the red mage because of his versatility. The white mage is your primary healer/defensive character since he can leave the highest level white spells that the red mage cannot. The fighter is your tank and will absorb damage while the black belt is a low-cost physical attacker. This is definitely the best party for your first time through the game.

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