The fear is here once again! Here’s the first update:
Stay tuned, there’s one small update coming later tonight!
This stab at the horrorthon is ALL GAME, with a few do-overs some long overdue additions, and a surprise monster from a sequel.
Custom Sprites:
– Altered Beast: humanoid non-powered-up player 1 & 2
– Castlevania: all-new Carmilla (Rondo of Blood) and Succubus (Symphony of the Night)
– Splatterhouse: Rick Taylor in the Splatterhouse 2 mask and all-new Screaming Mimi from Splatterhouse 2
All new items added to the Image Generators, where you can make screenshots like the one at the top of this post!
Arcade Quartermaster update by adding the Playchoice-10 edition of Castlevania to the shrines! The site has also been adding background music to many of the earlier shrines, so now is a good time to revisit a few and hear what jumps out at you.
TheWolfBunny’s Super Mario Bros. NES font got a MASSIVE update with more letter and symbol characters, easily making it one of the most comprehensive 8-bit-style fonts you can find today. And it’s STILL FREE!
Stay tuned, there’s still more DangerTerrorHorrorThon waiting to find you!
The DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2021 continues
October 30th, 2021
4:30 PM
11:00 PM
All new fighter-scale sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Image Generators!
The Newness The Ghoulness is On! Three days of dangerous, terrifying, and horrifying additions to the site begin here!
custom sprites:
– Castlevania: Mummy Man and Phantom Bat
– Devil May Cry (new gallery): Dante (MvC3 fight stance)
– Mortal Kombat: Mileena
– Splatterhouse: “Mutant” Rick
– Saturday Night Slam Masters (new gallery): the Wraith
– Clock Tower: Scissorman (Clock Tower)
mini-logos:
– Dante (DMC) added to Capcom.
– Mileena added to Midway
New custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the main GFX Generator, along with an improved version of the “Arcade of the Damned” background seen in this news post!
Tune in tomorrow for day two of the 2020 DangerTerrorHorrorThon!
Mad science has been blurring the line between the living and the dead in the world of horror for a long time and this update is full of the results (and more than one mad scientist).
Custom Sprites
– Splatterhouse: new sprites of Rick Taylor (part 3) and one of the Revival Dead. Reshaded the 2013 Master Dead sprite.
– Castlevania: added a version of The Creature (a more classic-looking head)
– Resident Evil: added zombie cop
– Horror: added new sprite of Re-Animator’s Dr. Hill, improved Herbert West sprite
Previous DTHT 2019 updates
pt.1: Death Lives
pt.2: Half-Man, Half-Beast, All-Horror!
All newness added to the main GFX Generators, where you can make pics like the top of this post!
Tomorrow features the debut of a new ScrollBoss site character. You know that horror arcade background in the image generators that I made last year? That arcade’s owner, briefly seen in the promo video posted two days ago, makes her debut tomorrow. The party’s at her place and everyone’s invited!
The DangerTerrorHorrorThon is finally done, and it’s time for the wrap-up post (and a few extras):
Custom Sprites
Altered Beast: Werewolf (new pose), Neff, Aggar (flying head and whole Aggar), Chicken Stinger
Splatterhouse: Rick Taylor (new pose), Jennifer Willis, Evil Cross & Nightmare, Biggy Man, Nobu
Castlevania: Alucard, Queen Medusa, Sonia Belmont
Gauntlet: Demon
Ghosts ‘n Goblins series: Red Arremer/Firebrand
Mario Series: Boo
Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Stanley Decker
Illmosis/ScrollBoss: Ghost
the Horror gallery:
– Halloween: Michael Myers/The Shape (sheet disguise), Dr. Loomis, Jamie Lloyd, and, added today, an improved version of my 2016 Laurie Strode sprite
– Phantasm: the Tall Man (new version of blade-bearing spheres), Mike
– WNUF: Frank Stewart
Mini-logos: Sonia (Castlevania) added to Konami gallery, Carrie and Phantasm (Remastered) added to movie gallery.
All of these things were added to the GFX Generator, along with that new ominous arcade background.
The horror print (available on the shop page) made a cameo in a Destructoid article about some spooky Nintendo Switch games! Mad thanks to Jonathan Holmes for both buying a print and spreading the word! By the way, if you think the reshading job I did for the Laurie sprite looks like the horror print, well, we’ll have to save that conversation for a later date.
Hardcore Gaming 101 just released a new digest called The Guide to Retro Horror. The book includes material by Rob Strangman, creator of the legendary West Mansion Splatterhouse fan site and artwork by the always-fresh Rusty Shackles.
VGJunk has been on a roll with a wide variety of horror and monster game reviews throughout October, including Splatterhouse 3!
Arcade Quartermaster added new shrines, including Konami’s Haunted Castle, a game that’s considered scary for all the wrong reasons, and, to kick off Karnovember in the right way, the original arcade version of Karnov!
The movie became an instant favorite of mine when I saw it on Shudder long ago and I’m proud to own it on DVD (no VHS version for me… yet). There’s currently a GoFundMe campaign to get a sequel made! Consider helping out and supporting independent filmmaking if you can afford it!
Eddie in the City is having a sale on some cute, horror-themed miniatures, including a few game characters you’ll recognize if you’ve been following the HorrorThon!
This shmuplations.com translation of a 1988 interview with the Splatterhouse arcade team is right on time for the spooky season and full of interesting tidbits about the game’s creation.
Yesterday’s HorrorThon update was a haul of assorted candies, but this update moves with a sinister purpose.
30 years ago, arcades around the world were haunted by the twin horrors of Sega’s Altered Beast and Namco’s Splatterhouse. Both games come from the single-plane branch of the beat ’em up family tree, making this even more fitting for a double feature. Not only that, but these brawlers allow you to become the monster instead of just fighting them.
Altered Beast: Werewolf (new pose), Neff, Aggar (flying head and whole Aggar), Chicken Stinger
Splatterhouse: Rick Taylor (new pose), Jennifer Willis, Evil Cross & Nightmare, Biggy Man, Nobu
All of these things were added to the GFX Generator, even though Aggar is too tall for everything.
In case you haven’t heard, Hardcore Gaming 101 just released a new digest called The Guide to Retro Horror. The book includes material by Rob Strangman, creator of the legendary West Mansion Splatterhouse fan site (seriously, which other writer would you get to talk about Splatterhouse?) and artwork by the always-fresh Rusty Shackles (who ALWAYS gets characters of different tones and official art styles to work just right in his own drawing style).
Once again, VGJunk has been on a roll with a wide variety of horror and monster game reviews throughout October. You’ll find new games to try and others to probably avoid. VGJunk suffers the bad games for the people.
Arcade Quartermaster added new shrines, including Konami’s Haunted Castle, a game that’s considered scary for all the wrong reasons.
The DangerTerrorHorrorThon and Halloween. What could go wrong? Find out tomorrow!
Halloween is here and it’s time to wrap up the HorrorThon!
Custom Sprites
– Castlevania
– Night Slashers: Christopher, Jake and the Ripper
– Splatterhouse: Deadman, Top Heavy
– movies: Dracula (1931), Dr. Herbert West (Re-Animator)
– MotU: Scare Glow
Mini-logos: Circus Charlie and Maria added to Konami, Dracula (Universal pictures poster) added to movies.
The new sprites and that new background were added to the the fighter-scale image generator, where you can make graphics like the one at the top of this post! Meanwhile, the sale on line art and pixel art prints will continue until November 2nd.
Sunday is that day of the week when many people go out there to get themselves a little religion. With a site update like this, they may need it.
Custom Sprites
– Movies: Pinhead/Priest (Hellraiser)
– Konami: Silent Hill Nurses: Movie/Homecoming and Bubble Head.
– Splatterhouse (new solo gallery): Boss 5
– Capcom: Asteroth (Ghouls n’ Ghosts)
– Sega: Neff (Altered Beast)
Mini-logos
– Movies: Hellraiser
As usual, those new items were added added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own zombie or non-zombie horror (or non-horror) screens and graphics.
Custom Sprites (sprites also added to their GFX Generator characters)
Movies – A redone Jason Voorhees sprite
Tecmo – resprited the torso of the hockey mask drone from the arcade Ninja Gaiden.
GFX Generators: A new standalone version of the Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Savior) Vs. Screen is now ready and only has characters with all necessary elements. All of the standard Darkstalkers are there, but so are over a dozen guest stars. I’ve also made DS3-ish portraits for Splatterhouse’s Rick Taylor and Biggy Man.
While I planned to do a mini-DangerTerrorHorrorThon for this Friday the 13th, I’m a bit too tired from the day job to pull that off this time. Guess I’ll just have to save the horror for October…
