Today is the eighth month’s ninth day, which mean this site celebrates 1989, the greatest year in video game history*!
This site even has a sub-section dedicated to the year for reasons you’ll see mentioned there. Then again, you’ll probably figure out why once you see all the stuff I’m celebrating (and there’s still a lot left out). Everything in this update is linked to that magical year when many of this site’s favorite games, series, consoles and more debuted. Unfortunately, there’s so much stuff that I couldn’t even fit it into 3 screenshots, so, as a first, the sprite preview is a video!
Custom Sprites:
– Capcom: Quick Man added to Mega Man section.
– – Final Fight: two new scratch-made Cody sprites!
– – Strider (new separate section): (a new Tom Pooh sprite (and redone colors on the hand-up pose) in the Strider section
– Nintendo: Tatanga (Super Mario Land)
– Sega: scratch-made E-SWAT’s police ICE armor and enemy unknown/File 96 enemies
– – Golden Axe: resprited Tyris Flare fight stance
– – Shinobi: new scratch-made Pink Dragon and redone Kasumi sprites
– Sunsoft: Tuff Turf’s heroes and lady added.
– Technos: new standing sprites for Kunio, Riki, Hasebe, Alex and Ryan
– Games(other): Prince of Persia (original) added.
– DC Comics: the Joker in the 1989 NES Batman stance
– Music: new gallery starts with new Chuck D (Public Enemy) sprite and older sprites and sprite edits.
– Toys ‘n Toons: Marge, Lisa and Bart Simpson. The Simpsons cartoon started in 1989!
– G.I. JOE: Snake-Eyes in his version 3 (1989) outfit
– TMNT: Krang (in his standing pose from the 1989 beat ’em up)
Mini-Logos: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner), Public Enemy (Music) and the Simpsons (Television) added.
The new custom sprites and mini-logos have been added to the GFX Generators.
My apologies to any fans of 1989 games who were left out, like Mendel Palace/Quinty, Double Dragon 2(NES), Astyanax, Crime City, and dozens more. There are too many good 1989 games to celebrate and many of my older sprites needed to be redone. Let me know about your favorite 1989 games and characters in the comment section!
* – 1989 being the greatest game year is hyperbole mostly for fun, but also designed to drive disagreement-induced hits, but at least this website admits it.
Some other 1989 stuff you could add.
Anime started that year: Adult Goku, Gohan and Regular Vegeta (DBZ), Ranma Saotome (Both boy and girl), Jushin Liger
The Little Mermaid: Ariel and Ursula.
Taylor Swift: For a joke
That’s a lot of great suggestions and I saw a few of those (LIGER!) when I tried to find 1989-related things in other genres. This place will have a wrestling gallery by the time the Revenge of 1989 returns next year and Liger will be perfect for that. Ranma 1/2 and DBZ sprites might need be in there, too.
Thanks for the ideas!