This 26th anniversary update may be low key compared to last year’s big 25th anniversary celebration, but today’s newness brings new sprites of one whole sci-fi game trio, completes another sci-fi team, brings in a classic comic book villain who recently became a final boss, and gives a vehicle to another final boss!

Custom Sprites:
– Alien Storm (new): long overdue idle stance sprites of Karla, Gordon, and Scooter. I also sprited Karla’s select screen pose.
– Donkey Kong (new separate): completely redrawn Donkey Kong Junior
– Flicky (new): Flicky
– Kid Icarus: Palutena
– Mega Man: Dr. Wily in the Wily UFO 2 (open and closed)
– Quartet (new separate): Joe and Lee (finally)
– Marvel Comics: Annihilus (classic comic)

Mini-logos:
– Capcom: Andore (SF6 cutscene)
– Nintendo: Kid Icarus
– Sega: Flicky
– Marvel: Annihilus

Game Index: MARVEL Cosmic Invasion

Toyboss: Took a new TMNT villain group pic, adding the VHS box ‘toon Foot Soldier.

New custom sprites and mini-logos added to the GFX Generators.

This will probably be the last time I do an anniversary update like this, so next year’s will be different. PROBABLY, it depends on how certain things I’m working on turn out between now and then. The main thing is to not just have another “bigger update than usual.” The main thing is to still do something special for all the people who still come through to check out this old website.

Here’s a couple of teasers from recent sprite linework scans and all I’ll say is that’s both of them are super-villains.

Thank you for visiting the site and I hope you come back for more pixels and fun when you get the chance!

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Tags: Alien Storm, Donkey Kong Junior, Flicky, Kid Icarus, marvel comics, MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, Quartet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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The Kickstarter campaign for the Pizza Kidd beat ’em up ends Sunday, July 12th at 11:59PM. It’s almost at the finish line, and still needs backers to make the campaign successful. Check out this new video made for the home stretch:

I was honored to be one of the many pixel artists to make some official promo pixel art for the game and here’s my pixel art of standout character Black Roze:

You can see more on the Pizza Kidd accounts on Twitter (I’m not calling it X, c’mon now) and Bluesky. Please help spread the word and consider pledging to get more pixel-based brawling out on the streets!

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ToyBoss/Toybox – The toy photo galleries have been redone and now share a bit of code with the pixel art galleries. Not sure how much you’ll notice on your side of the screen, but hopefully this makes the page load more quickly. It also lets me add a lot of photos that I left out to keep the page’s file size down. Some of the galleries now have different urls, but the old ones should still work, too.
– Double Dragon: Syndicate Collectibles: First I got Jimmy Lee and took some new photos of both brothers and some faked enemies. Then I got Willy, the game’s final boss and a beast of an action figure, and took a group pic of all three regular figures. Keeping my fingers crossed that this line continues, especially for Abobo and Linda.
– Street Fighter: New heroes group shot including my new Jada Toys Blanka. I’m SLOWLY catching up in this line.
– Masters of the Universe: New gallery with three new Masterverse pics.
– Marvel Legends: A big group shot of characters who were in the Marvel side of the legendary Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes toy line up (except Conan).
– DC Comics: added Justice League “original seven” pic and updated heroes pic, including new additions McF Martian Manhunter and Captain Marvel/Shazam.
– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: updated heroes lineup pic with NECA comic Casey Jones (gray shirt), archive pic of the Pizza Club boxes stacked up.
– Wrestling: added an old “everybody I have” photo from March 16th, 2024. Sadly, I didn’t have a figure of Stone Cold then.

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The site anniversary is on the 19th of July, but I don’t know what I’ll be able to finish for it because I’ll be working on commissions for a while. I already have a few finished sprites to add and linework already drawn for more, so it definitely won’t be an empty update.

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The brand new Warp Point website brings a new school approach to the old school concept of video game website webrings. It groups together the latest updates from a wide, growing variety of video game fansites, and I’m proud to say that the ScrollBoss site was invited to be a part of it, too. With the internet being cluttered with more and more meaningless slop, it’s a great way to find new game sites or be notified that a favorite site recently updated. Their 88 x 31 pixel button (so glad to see that format making a comeback) is now part of this site’s sidebar quick links, and I’ll be adding it to more places soon, so you (and I) and go there and see what the other sites are up to. Really, that’s how it was when I started in the 00s and I’m grateful that someone has brought that back again!

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Beatdown City Survivors, the horror-flavored sequel to Treachery in Beatdown City, has been available for a while, and you can get the scoop on the official site!

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Once again shouting out the Pizza Kidd pixel art beat ’em up Kickstarter, fighting its way to the finish line, so please help out if you can!

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Kimimi made a post about getting Escalator Action (not a typo, not a photo manipulation) and I’ve been waiting for that review ever since. That wait is over, so check it out on Kimimi’s blog!

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I meant to post this days ago, but I hope any alert is better than none: the toy section update will happen either next Monday or Tuesday. I’ve already taken some roster update pics (two are because of what I showed you in the last update) and I’ll be taking more pics this weekend. You’ll also see the next big coding update for the section that makes the galleries work on the same system, which will let me make bigger toy section galleries.

I’ve gotten even more since then, mostly thanks to sales and gift cards.

Jimmy Lee figure boxed

Hasbro Secret Wars Falcon and ReAction+ Cobra Commander with cape

Mr. Fuji, G.I. JOE Classified Big Boa and Zap, Hasbro Secret Wars Daredevil

All three non-exclusive Double Dragon figures are in the Prime Day sale (I bought mine BEFORE that sale, but during an earlier sale) here. Mr. Fuji was already on sale at Target and I added him to get free shipping for a Bull Nakano pre-order while they were having a $10 off $40 sale, so I got even more $ off. Amazon was price matching that sale, so I ordered Falcon and Cobra Commander there and put some gift card $ on that. Also, Zap and Big Boa were bought in April at BigBadToyStore, but I didn’t have them shipped off until my Daredevil pre-order hit the store last week. So, no, I didn’t buy all this at once for regular price.

I’m going to spoil one that I already post on social media, here’s a shot with “every real Marvel character who was in the MEGO World’s Greatest Superheroes toyline” photo:

70s Mego Marvel Comics line-up in Hasbro Marvel Legends figures

I photographed a second take at that group and improved a few things, and you’ll be seeing that one in the update.

“Hey, how close are you to doing that with the DC half of Mego?”
Not even close to half. A fourth, maybe? McFarlane figures can be tricky to get and some of the earlier Mattel and DC Direct figures are expensive on the aftermarket. Let’s see if Mattel makes it easier for me when they get the collector line license back in 2027.

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Beatdown City Survivors, the sequel to Treachery in Beatdown City, has been out for a minute or two, get the scoop on the official site!

Once again shouting out the Pizza Kidd pixel art beat ’em up Kickstarter, it’s over the halfway to the goal, so help out if you can!

Kimimi made a post about getting Escalator Action (not a typo, not a photo manipulation) and I’ve been waiting for that review ever since. That wait is over, so check it out on Kimimi’s blog!

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Tags: Double Dragon, g.i. joe, marvel comics, wrestling
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Last week’s update just wasn’t enough, so let’s go back to Eternia for a bit of extra fun!

Custom Sprites: Masters of the Universe
– new Evil-Lyn sprite using the same base as the Teela sprite I added last week.
– new Mer-Man sprites using the Vintage Figure side pose.
– The He-Man, Teela, Skeletor, and Tri-Klops sprites from last week’s update all have improvements, including height adjustments.

Custom Sprites: Illmosis
– new sprite of Hilde/Santessa in work clothes and holding a Teela Masters of the Universe figure. Giving Hilde a non-Christmas-y look is something I’d thought about for a while, but multiple people wanting to see her show up more pushed me to finally sprite it.

All new and/or improved sprites added to the GFX Generator and this new short video for Masters of the Universe.

There’ll be more fun in Eternia later this year, especially as I work on that “vintage toy” sprite base (which debuted in last week’s update) to help fill out the roster a bit more. I still have some personal favorites that need to be made.

Still planning to add to the toy section of this site before the month is over along with getting ready to do some time sensitive commission work. I got one roster update pic done last week and will cook up a few more this weekend. But here’s a few pics with some of my newest (for now) items, including a Wall XD Artist Proof Display Panel by DioBolic Studios. It’s still unpainted, I might just wait until getting a second section and paint them at the same time so they’ll match. Funny enough, I got the Teela the day after last week’s update.

Toy-related things I got in early June 2026. Two Joneses, a Teela, and a piece of street.

Vigilante goes out on patrol and finds a completely different green dude than usual.

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Pizza Kidd is back on the menu, check out the Kickstarter campaign here for the stylized pixel art beat ’em up!

Help Pizza Kidd deliver sci-fi-flavored pixel art brawling mayhem by backing the Kickstarter! Try a slice by getting the demo on Steam.

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The Masters of the Universe movie is in theaters now, so I figured (sensible chuckle) this would be the right time to add some Eternian pixels to the site!

Custom Sprites: Masters of the Universe
– He-Man: new “I have the POWER” pose, all new sprite with parts of his original harness were from my 2017 scratch-made sprite.
– Skeletor: redone Havok Staff stand sprite, using parts of a new sprite base I made and piece of my 2021 sprite.
– Teela: new sprite with Masterverse-style weapons
– all-new sprites of Tri-Klops and Buzz-Off in the 1982 stance (I’ll explain in a sec).

He-Man and Skeletor now have separate galleries and their earlier sprites have been moved there.

Props to long-time friend of the site (and contributor) Psicoso for suggesting I make a standard base for MotU characters. It’s something I didn’t do before because I thought people would be mad if they had the same bodies… even though the original toyline did it first. That first pose is based directly on the 1982 toy sculpt. Then my new He-Man and Skeletor sprites have parts made to match this new base. Do you like how these sprites look? I’m not promising that I’ll make the whole line, but I’ll make a lot more with this base.

The new sprites were also added to the GFX Generator, along with an all-new background outside Castle Grayskull! This was something I’d started in 2025 but wasn’t satisfied with the castle I was drawing, so I drew it over again this year. There are still some things I’d like to add to it, but it’s good enough to show now. I’ve also added a custom Masters of the Universe theme to the MvC ending. Check THIS out:

I made that Grayskull-ish background for the text, along with that new dialogue font based on what you’d see on the old-school MotU toy packaging. Trying to find all those letters, numbers and symbols on different cardbacks almost took as much time as it took to draw them.

If you’re a Masters of the Universe fan, more sprites based on this series and Princess of Power (1980s) will be added this year, along withe replacements for earlier sprites I’ve made.

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I’ll be doing some special case commission work later this month, so this site will probably be quiet for a while. There will be a toy section update this month that would’ve happened last month if Amazon hadn’t canceled my Nendoroid Kirby re-issue pre-order on the day they were supposed to deliver it. Am I still salty about that? YES I AM, because I can’t find it for regular price anywhere now. Luckily, I’ve got some other things in that’ll let me update some rosters, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and DC Comics.

The next main update will be on July 19th, 2026, the 26th Anniversary of the site. I’ll be concentrating on games more for that one.

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Here’s a couple of teasers for this week’s update.

New/improved sprites of characters already on the site, some new characters (in the teasers), and few things for the image generators!

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I couldn’t let Pac-Man Day pass without adding a little something to the site!

Pac-Man: Pac-Man in his Pac-Land stance, including with his default hat from that game and even a sprite with his longer nose from the Japanese version! While Namco’s 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land doesn’t get mentioned enough in U.S. gaming circles, you’d be surprised at how many developers around the world were influenced and inspired by it.

The new Pac-Sprites have been added to the main image generator, where I made the pic at the top of the post.

(edit: note from earlier in the day)
Sorry for the lateness, I’ll be adding it and it the variants later tonight. The tags in the blog post are a clue.

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Hey, did you see the all-new Pac-Man cartoon series’ debut on YouTube today? If not, check it out here:

The show has a fun story set-up, the use of a cartoon-style chase to work that pac-gimmick, and the unexpected guest characters honestly made me smile. Really good voices and fun music, too! In a better world, this would be on Saturday Morning TV to spread more Pac-Man Fever around even more.

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Custom Sprites – Mortal Kombat: MKII Liu Kang
mini-logos: Liu Kang

Liu Kang’s sprite and mini-logo was added to the main GFX Generator, along with Mortal Kombat circle layout for the Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes template.
edit May 11, 2026: also added 3 backgrounds from Mortal Kombat and 3 from Mortal Kombat II to the Group, Vs. MvC1 ending, 160x192p box, and 88x136p comic screenstyle options.

BTW: there was a small update earlier in the week adding Double Dragon 1995 Neo-Geo portraits to the regular sprite galleries and image generators.

Time to post more previews from the lab. Don’t worry, both are pretty much Easy Mode here (and the answer to one is in the comments of another post):

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May 6th, 2026:
Double Dragon Neo-Geo: starts with the 96 x 112 pixel portraits and 128 x 176 pixel portraits.

GFX Generators: Double Dragon Neo-Geo portraits added to the Lee Brothers, Marian, Abobo, and Burnov. Also removed the rest of the workarounds from the GFX Image Generators from a few weeks ago when I got the https working on the site.

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