Enjay wrote:I assume the colour oddities are a result of palette limitations and aesthetic choices, the cartoony style and trying to make the enemies distinct in low-res. The blue = black thing is seen in many places in the game and is probably much as DenisBelmondo says. I think the doberman dogs (from Spear?) were also blue where you would expect them to be black.
I always assumed this was the case too. The Wolf3D palette is really lacking in the black/gray range.
Enjay wrote:SS does not mean "black shirts" though. SS is short for Schutzstaffel with translates to protection squadron (according to both Wikipedia and google translate).
You are right, of course. Looking at it I don't where I got that crazy notion from. I might have read it somewhere but I know enough German now to know that the word for black is schwarz. Though it is very similar to schutz, so that might be where the misconception comes from.