GFX Generator
– Fake Screenshot and River City Ransom: added a brand-new 8-bit Jason Voorhees sprite, because I couldn’t let the day go without at least a little something.
– Fight Size: Added idle and weird left-handed salute sprites to Guile. The custom Justice League Task Force Vs. Screen was fixed, the background now shows up. Then I noticed that the example screenshots for that and the group shot were so ancient that they still had Capcom DC sprite edits in them! One was from 2011, and I hadn’t made 100% scratch-made sprites of any classic Justice Leaguers by then. I’ll add them to the custom sprite gallery later, because I may make some more adjustments to them.

I finished a commission earlier this month, and, besides getting in a little rest and some actual game-playing, my main focus has been getting new things finished to get ready for this site’s 25th Anniversary on July 19th. I’m going to try and get a bit of everything represented in it, but the first three sprites I’ve finished for it are game-related. One finishes a beat ’em up crew and the other two heroes are from a highly influential action-adventure arcade series that people have been asking about for years. I’ve also improved and re-animated one beat ’em up hero’s idle stance and I’m working on making some adjustments, improvements, and surprises to the toy-related series I’ve worked on the most.

There will be another small June update before July’s madness, so keep an eye out then for some previews.

This site may not ever exist if the original Pac-Man game didn’t get me even more hooked on video games, so I couldn’t let the 45th Anniversary pass without an update!

Custom Sprites:
– Pac-Man: Puck-Man, Ruby-Spears Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man, Sour Puss, and an updated version of Pinky with the face (including eye-lashes) from the early Namco artwork.

All new sprites were added to the main GFX Generator (Sour Puss is in the Pac-Family character slot) where I made the pic at the top of the page.

And here’s a new Pac-Man video to celebrate the day! It’s similar to the short Pac-Man video I posted in 2021, but nearly every old clip was redone and you’ll see some new clips immediately:

It’s not enough to be called a Sprite Showcase, this was rushed all over again, but it’s REALLY close this time.

While we’re talking about Namco, West Mansion: The Splatterhouse fan-site got an update this week!

The Gaming Hell had its 17th anniversary on May 20th, and celebrated with The Quest of Ki! It’s the site’s latest fun read that’s exhaustively researched, alternate versions of the game, and screenshots with fun hover text. Congrats to Gaming Hell and thanks for all that work to shine on those games!

edit: Hanna-Barbera made the Pac-Man cartoon, and Ruby-Spears made “the Amazing Rubik” half of the Pac-Man/Amazing Rubik, and reading about that years ago really messed up my memory about that.

Been working on commissions lately, so I didn’t have a lot of time to make new things. But I still wanted to drop a quick update separate from what’s coming next week.
ToyBoss – added an updated TMNT Villains pic with the new NECA cartoon Shredder, all-new heroes and villains line-up pics for DC (a mixed DC Direct, Mattel, and McFarlane collection) including that new “Silver Age” Superman (really the José Luis García-López, artist of DC Comics Presents and the legendary DC Comics Style Guide), new Marvel Legends S.H.I.E.L.D. lineup, and my modern Autobot Transformers.
edit: added a pic that I just took of Jakks Sonic holding a Mattel Electronics Football game from a Super Impulse Toy Box I just got.
edit 2: added a pic I forgot: my updated Jakks Pacific Sonic 4-inch figure with added Classic Amy figure.

So what’s coming next week?

It’s a borderline random update, but I’ve been working on borderline random things this month.

Now that I have separate Superhero Sprite Showcase episodes for all the characters I’ve done them for so far, I’m embedding them in their sub-galleries.
Superman – Wolverine – Iron Man – Batman – Storm

Mini-Logos: Bucky O’Hare added to Comics – other and Crystal added to Marvel.

All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the PHP-powered GFX Generators where I made the screenshot at the top of this post! The fighting game-scale sprites are in this big graphic maker while the Kunio/RCR stuff is used in this screenshot maker that focuses on 8-bit screens.

Game Index: Avengers in Galactic Storm: added a page for it that also contains scans of the very early behind-the-scenes article on the game from the 1995 “Captain America Collectors’ Preview” comic. If you didn’t see the post I made about it before, this was from when the game was almost a side-scrolling beat ’em up/fighting game hybrid and had more playable characters. I have more to add to this entry in the future, but I really just wanted to get this update out there for Easter!

The Trick or Beat ‘Em Up project, the horror-themed side-scrolling brawler, is currently taking donations for fund work on the game. One of the goals is to “Immortalize Batsy The Cat” in pixel art that lives on in the game. Please read the plea and give if you can!

Back in 2021, I posted the third and fourth Superhero Sprite Showcases in a single video, mostly because I couldn’t make new video clips the usual way as Anime Studio stopped working (long story) and I had to cobble together a bunch of new ways to make clips in Blender and Magix Vegas. Batman got his solo Showcase a while back and now it’s time for Iron Man to get his. And to make up for it, I’ve added a lot of new and updated clips. That video hit the YouTube Channel last Friday, and here’s the site update with some of the new stuff made for the video:

Mini-logos – Marvel: Crimson Dynamo and Madame Masque added.

All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Generators, where you can make your own graphics like the one at the top of this post!

And now, check out the Iron Man 2025 Sprite Showcase!