Giant shoulder pads
Cartoon / anime theme
Characters fairly consistently have oddly large shoulder pads, pauldrons, or such. Especially when they are impractically large.
36
games
17platforms
Alternate names: Giant pauldrons
Name variations: huge shoulder pads, huge pauldrons
SNES 1994-03-19
WIIU 2012-11-18
WIN 2004-11-22
GC 2002-11-18
PS3 2012-08-14
WIN 2012-08-14
WIN 2011-09
PS4 2014-10-28
GB 1991-08-26
X360 2011-09
GC 2004-11-15
WIN 2010-06-24
This was for a time a joked measure of a character's power in anime&manga.
Example from Space Marine:
Example from Space Marine:
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The first Giant shoulder pads video game was released on August 26, 1991.