Shop Sign

Every shop but the Black Market's Ankh shop has a sign over its entrance, a board painted with what the shop sells, so the player can tell a General Store from a Weapon Shop before he walks in. It's solid, and what breaks blocks breaks it.

As a shop's room is laid out, its sign tile makes the sign, and the shop's kind picks its picture ^[1]:

The clip shows a Bomb Shop's: the player drops down beside its sign, a bomb on a board over the entrance, and walks in, and the shopkeeper welcomes him ^[2].

A Bomb, a Mattock or a rolling Boulder breaks a sign, and its destroy event, its own, makes rubble and nothing else ^[3]. Breaking it doesn't by itself anger the Shopkeeper: unlike the shop's walls and floor, the sign isn't marked as part of the shop, and its destroy event doesn't run the check the walls' does ^{[4] [5]}. A lit bomb in the shop within 96 pixels of him angers him anyway, before it goes off ^[6] (Every Shopkeeper angered by one bomb).

Every area's room script makes shop signs the same way: the Mines' ^[1], the Jungle's ^[7], the Ice Caves' ^[8], the Temple's ^[9], the Black Market's, which has no Kissing Parlor ^[10], and a Yeti lair's ^[11]. The level editor has no tile for it. The Black Market's Ankh shop, a room open only from above, has no sign ^[12].