Eleven years ago, Halloween fell on a Friday and I made that the theme of the update. Now I’m bringing that energy back in more than just the sprites in this final HorrorThon 2025 update!

Custom Sprites:
Friday the 13th : Jason Voorhees (walking) and unnamed running counselor.
Halloween: Michael Myers/The Shape – 1978 top of the stairs pose
Splatterhouse: Terror Mask boss (giant mask version)

All new custom sprites were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators. And now, the DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2025 video!


More TRICK OR BEAT ‘EM UP hype, a video from… Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman?!?


The 2025 DangerTerrorHorrorThon is ON!

part 1: Remains of the Night
Custom Sprites:
Mega Man : Skullman
Castlevania: Dhuron
Splatterhouse: Splatterhouse 2 Zombie

part 2: Creature Features
Custom Sprites:
Darkstalkers: Demitri (scratch-made idle pose)
Castlevania: Medusa
Horror – Critters: The Crites (just the small ones, for now)

Mini-Logos: Man-Bat added to DC Comics, Critters added to Movies.

All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. Dhuron is in the “Castlevania skeletons” character slot.

One more day of horror left!


Arcade Quartermaster has the new shrines up, with one for Smash TV and Sky Destroyer!

The Trick or Beat ‘Em Up project has been on a posting storm this month with gameplay mockups, all-new music, and more on the Instagram account! My favorite video so far shows a big part of why the game has its name.

The 2025 DangerTerrorHorrorThon is ON!

part 1
Horror – The Craft: completely redone Nancy Downs hovering (“Surprise”) sprite.
Marvel Comics: New Scarlet Witch spellcasting pose
Illmosis/ScrollBoss: An updated version of the new ‘cos-ladies’ Witch sprite I added last week and a second version in a slightly more traditional-looking witch outfit.

Stay tuned, there’ll be a second themed part of this update added later today. The title: On Leather Wings. Pretty sure some comic and cartoon fans can guess at least one of the sprites in that batch!


edit 10:19 PM:
part 2


Altered Beast: Skinny Orcuses added
Mega Man: Batton added
DC Comics: Man-Bat added

All new custom sprites were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. The cos-lady witches now have more palette separation for their outfits.


The Trick or Beat ‘Em Up project has a cool, brutal beatdown demo on the project’s IG page. Check out the project’s Linktree for more info and how to help!

Can’t have a HorrorThon without a teaser video, can we?

Over a dozen new static sprites for the site (that’s not even counting alternate versions of them) and more new animation than usual will be in the main video.

The HorrorThon kicks off next week, but here’s a little something to get you

GFX Generator: The new 2025 theater lobby with posters chosen by site visitors has been added to the Screenstyles with multiple background choices: Group, Vs., Marvel vs. Capcom ending, Box 160 x 192 pixels, and Comic 88 pixel. In the Box and Comic settings, I made an extra version that crops to the two movies that got the most votes: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2.

As a bonus surprise, I’ve put an early version of a new sprite into the “ScrollBoss – Cos-ladies” character: a witch! For now all you can do is change the color of her skin, hair, eyes, and laces while she wears an all-black outfit. She’ll have more extra palette powers (and possibly other surprises) when she’s updated during next week’s HorrorThon! Speaking of which, here’s a taste of the new pixel art that will stalk this site during the marathon:

The HorrorThon will start later this month, but you can help out right now!


Maddie Tenay has a problem… she wants to put up a new set of posters, but can’t decide which to use. So now it’s YOUR turn! Leave a reply with up to four choices out of the posters below and that new line-up will be added to the image generators when the HorrorThon starts later this month. Voting will end on October 15th!

edit October 18, 2025: Thank you to everyone who voted here, on Bluesky, and on Instagram! There will be a small site update next week that adds the new background with the winning posters. Here’s the what won, arranged in the order of votes (click thumbnail below to see a bigger version of this CRT_VIEW filtered preview):

Here’s the breakdown of the top 4:
Dawn of the Dead – votes 9
Evil Dead 2 – votes 8
Halloween, votes 6
Nightmare on Elm votes 5

This background will be added to the Group, Vs., Marvel vs. Capcom ending, Box 160 x 192 pixels, and Comic 88 pixel screenstyles in the generator. Don’t worry, I’ve already set up a cropped version for Box and Comic that focus on the two posters with the most votes: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2. So tune in next week for a tiny update with that and then get ready for the HorrorThon in the last week of October!

A few small things added before have been added as we September behind and get ready for this year’s HorrorThon in October.


GFX Image Generators: Bishimon, Bulleta/BBH, Demitri, Donovan, and Felicia have been updated with their idle/standing sprite from the original Capcom games. I’ll be adding the other characters’ idle poses soon.

ToyBoss: a new picture with the villainous half of Capcom’s Marvel Super Heroes roster in Marvel Legends form. I finally finished getting all the parts for Blackheart a little while back, got Shuma-Gorath/Gargantos on Sunday, and took a quick pic of all the villains. That makes Marvel Super Heroes the first fighting game roster I’ve ever finished!

update: October 1, 2025 2:49AM EST:


idles added for Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei, Lilith, Lord Raptor/Zabel, Pyron, and Q.Bee.

update: October 1, 2025 4:30PM EST:


Last of the idle sprites added.

What started as an effort to add more to the image generator/screenshot maker’s Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending options turned into a Secret Wars update with some new sprites. Basically the theme was a secret even to myself while I was working on most of it.

Custom Sprites – Marvel Comics: Black Costume Spider-Man (in the #8 cover by Mike Zeck), Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter (debuted in the series), Absorbing Man (all-new sprite, different style from the 2015 sprite), the Wrecker, and Volcana (also debuted in the series)
mini-logos – Marvel: the Wrecker

The new sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Image Generators, which was used to make the image at the top of this post. New options were added to the Marvel vs. Capcom ending found in the fight-size generator.
– backgrounds: a rocky Battleworld stage based on two ads for the toyline
– frames: Marvel Super Heroes arcade ending, and a new custom Secret Wars frame.
– sprite layouts: a new “beat ’em up – 2 players” option, used in the pic at the top of this post.
Coincidentally, Capcom’s MSH line-up features 6 (Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, Magneto) of the 8 characters that made up the Mattel Secret Wars toyline’s first year. That stray thought started the whole chain that led to nearly everything in this update.


I’ll be one of the guests on the the Dire’s Place YouTube stream this Saturday, and the topic will be 90s cartoons! The cartoon I chose to talk about has one of the characters from this update!

Monday: There’s going to be an update this week that’s mostly Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, and I’m going to post previews here and on other spots online. Here’s a do-over that actually got requested a while back, the Absorbing Man, Crusher Creel!


Looks like an ending for a Capcom Secret Wars fighting game, right? This frame and background will be added as options to the MvC1 ending screenstyle in the screenshot makers, and the background (based on a couple of ads for the toyline) will be added to other screenstyles in that generator at a later date. See you tomorrow for the next preview!


Tuesday: Preview 2 is another enemy of Thor who made it into the comics: The Wrecker! He’ll be the only member of the Wrecking Crew in the update, but I think he’s enough trouble as it is.


Wednesday: This update’s been heavy on the villainous side so far, but luckily we have a hero to save the day, and she made her debut in the comic series! That’s right, the Julia Carpenter version of Spider-Woman finally gets a sprite!


Will Thursday’s preview be friend or foe?


Thursday: Another Secret Wars debut (and debut on the site), it’s Volcana! Transformed into a superhuman by Doctor Doom on Battleworld, Volcana fights for that side, but turns out to nowhere near as evil as the circle she runs with then.


The update hits tomorrow!

ToyBoss: Lots of new photos, including the recent new thangs (♫ new thangs, new thangs ♫) of Gamerverse Psylocke and the Jada Toys SDCC Neo-Metall 6-pack, along with some roster pic additions (the Punisher, finally) and updates (Capcom’s MSH).

Adding to that, I’ve started the first step of recoding this section, adding a gallery feature that splits off some of the sections into their own thing. Some of these have new pics not found in the “Latest” section, so look around if you have the time. There are some older pictures I didn’t add before now because they weren’t game-related enough and I didn’t want to crowd out the video game characters here. I even added a few shots I took of those background rocks I made when I was working on them in 2023.

I say it’s the first step because I’ve also been slowly working on a rewrite of the custom sprite and sprite gallery systems, and the next upgrade of the Toyboss section will be based on that rewrite. It’s been a side project, so it’s going to be a long while before it’s ready. Nowhere near as big as the recent Spriters Resource update, but it’ll let me do a few new things.

Custom Sprites:
G.I.JOE: Stalker gets a new pose and an update of his 2017 sprite to match the new pose. The new pose uses the same standing body as the sprite’s in June’s update, but with a new rifle-holding right arm. There might be even more changes later as I keep redoing G.I.JOE sprites (especially the males in the Original 13 squad) using this base body and changing other to match it.
Princess of Power: I made some adjustments to the She-Ra sprite, but don’t be surprised if I make more adjustments later.

The new customs sprites were added to the main image generator. Also added to that are:
– End – Marvel vs. Capcom 384×224: new option to use the G.I.JOE Konami arcade font.


I’ve also been working on sprites and animations for different clips, especially this one. There may be a new multi-topic video on the YouTube channel in September, depending on how things go.


This is perfectly on topic, because I’m still in shock at this announcement. Here’s the video for those of you who don’t know yet:

Not only does this look amazing, it looks like it has solid game play, too. A Masters of the Universe beat ’em up with hints of Golden Axe in the play style is pretty much a dream game for me, so I’m already hype about it! The Steam page for it is already up, so you can put it on your wishlist.


edit:
The pre-September Arcade Quartermaster update is brought to you by the letter R and the company Sega! The new shrines are the Westone/Sega beat ’em up Riot City and a Sega rail shooter that takes the genre’s name literally, Rail Chase

Also adding this trailer for the upcoming brawler, Pizza Kidd!