DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2024 pt. 3

This update stars one horror movie classic from the 70s and one from the 80s, but this update has a little something for almost everyone!



Custom Sprites:
– Nightmare on Elm Street: celebrating the 40th anniversary of that first film with new sprites of Freddy and Tina
– Horror: Regan from the Exorcist, Acid Dracula (WNUF Halloween Special)
– Masters of the Universe: Shadow Weaver (She-Ra)
– Night Slashers: updated Hong Hua with redrawn head.
– ScrollBoss characters: Vonetta (a.k.a. Vernacula) gets a new pose

Mini-logos: The Exorcist added to movies.

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

Couldn’t let you go without giving you a another short video for the HorrorThon, so here it is!



Take care and have Happy Halloween!

The fan-made Mega Splatterhouse demo for Genesis/Mega Drive is available for download, so run and get it while you can!

In related news, West Mansion, the Splatterhouse Fan Site, updated today, so check the news page to see what’s new!

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DangerTerrorHorrorThon pt. 2

We return to those really weird-looking woods that seem to attract clowns, but it looks like the usual layer of mist has somehow drawn another threat into the mix…


Custom Sprites:
– Midway: CarnEvil’s Sneek
– NARC: a redrawn Kinky Pinky (replacing the one from 2013)
– Horror: Jumbo from Killer Klowns from Outer Space
– Silent Hill: Red Pyramid

Mini-logos: CarnEvil added to Midway-Williams gallery

GFX Generators: the new sprites and mini-logo have been added to the main image generator, which was used to make the graphic at the top of this post.

There’s more horror to come tomorrow night. It’s going to be Halloween and it’s going to be special. And whatever you do, DON’T FALL ASLEEP.

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DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2024 pt.1


Celebrating 10 years of fear with the tenth annual DangerTerrorHorrorThon!

Custom Sprites:
– Castlevania: Kid Dracula, Dragon Cannon/Bone Pillar (Castlevania 1 style) and bat (ANIMATED .GIF!)
– Splatterhouse: idle and blade idle for Rick with the TubroGrafx-16 mask.
– Night Slashers: new Mummy boss sprite and redone Christopher sprite

Mini-logos: Kid Dracula added to Konami gallery, Killer Klowns from Outer Space added to movies.

GFX Generators: the Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending screen option now has a horror movie theater lobby background, something that’s only been in the site’s videos for a few years. The secretly-added Cosplay Ladies Nurse sprite(called that until I can come up with a better name) was updated and has more color options. Weirdly, there seems to be a bug where the extra color options don’t take effect sometimes, so I’ll have to try and figure out how to fix that. edit: error fixed

The DangerTerrorHorrorThon returns tomorrow night with more horror, including an often-requested survival horror enemy and a return of the clowns in the woods!

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HorrorThon 2024 semi-secret pre-show

I’ve started working on sprites for this year’s HorrorThon, but I’ll be adding things here and there before it starts, mostly to image generators, every once in a while until this year’s HorrorThon starts. I won’t be posting about this on social media, so this is a like an extra thing for those of you who regularly visit the site without me hollering about it on Twitter, Bluesky, IG, etc.

October 11, 2024:


GFX Generators:
– fight-size generator – Marvel vs Capcom ending: new backgrounds include Castlevania Level 5 and final boss fight remakes and a horror-themed theater lobby (seen in videos, never in the generators until now).
– Last year I silently added an unfinished Nurse sprite to the “ScrollBoss – cosplay ladies” character. That sprite just got a lot of fixes, details (a secondary uniform color) and more color separations, including the secondary uniform color and shoes. The original and longer skirt versions are still tests until I’m sure everything works, then I’ll add a few more variations.

October 26, 2024:
Promo video added to the YouTube channel

After that video I don’t think I’ll be spoiling anything by adding the Killer Klowns from Outer Space mini-logo to the mini-logo gallery and the KKfOS character slot in the image generator which only has a sprite of Shorty.

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September 2024 finale

Wrapping up the month with a few odds-and-ends before getting back to work on some commission and then getting ready for the you-know-what in October.

Game Index:
– Crime Fighters: a bit of rewriting, plus extra outside confirmation that the game was the template for Konami’s later brawlers, thanks to a great interview Time Extension had with some Konami staff members who worked on it.

mini-logos:
– DC Comics: the 1976 DC Bullet (welcome back, best DC logo)

ToyBoss: a few new photos added, mostly of my newly-acquired 52Toys Mike Haggar figure.

Arcade Quartermaster‘s update is live, too! Two new shrines: Data East’s ninja platformer Hangzo and Konami’s Jackal (a.k.a. Top Gunner)

Reminder that Rob ‘Dire51’ Strangman (author and creator of the OPCFG, West Mansion Splatterhouse fan site, and more) has a Kickstarter campaign for four of his books about gaming and more, including updated versions of his previously released books. Please check it out, back it if you can, and spread the word about the campaign!

Another game-related Kickstarter from a long-time site runner to check out is the NES Endings Compendium: Volume 2. This one is from Rey from the VGMuseum, one of the best screenshot and ending resources out there (and my first go-to site choice when I need to look at screenshots I haven’t taken yet).

So… if you’ve been on social media you may have noticed that people have been trying to bring back goofy arguments from 2016 while the the world feels like it’s on the verge of falling apart for frighteningly real reasons. Really, some of them never stopped, checking in every few months to see if they could get any traction off the grifts again. A while back I’d joked that if this is what’s hot in the streets right now that I’d just start reposting my 2016 updates and acting like they’re new. Now that 2016 nostalgia is at its peak and more annoying than ever, I’ve made a decision about October: I’m going to bring back something dumb from 2016, too.

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Marvel vs. Catcom 2(024)

Right now I’m starting work on an old commission request, but I have a few new, overdue, and fixed things for the site.


Custom Sprites:
– DC Comics: Catwoman’s character gallery is fixed (thanks to the site visitor on IG who let me know that was broken before), she now has her own little row on the main page. I also finished and added the Batman Returns and Golden Age Purple Dress versions of her calm stand pose, originally done for the Catwoman sprite display for a Batman video showcase long ago but not added to the site until now.

GFX Generator –
– Marvel vs. Capcom 2 characters/sprites of Ruby Heart, Hayato (Star Gladiator), Amingo finally added (JustNoPoint rips).
– Marvel vs Capcom ending: the Punisher (arcade) and MvC2 skins added. I made the MvC2 skin’s font by hand based on the font in the credits and score screen, forcing everything into 8×16 spaces as it’d be in a CPS-2 game

Rob ‘Dire51’ Strangman (author and creator of the OPCFG, West Mansion Splatterhouse fan site, and more) has a Kickstarter campaign for four of his books about gaming and more, including updated versions of his previously released books.


I’m looking forward to the material I haven’t read yet and re-reading what I’d read before. One of the things I’ll continue to mention is that I’m grateful he wrote a book talking about the early 80s from a non-rich kid point of view, especially when talking about things like the now-mythical Video Game Crash of 1983. There are also interviews with game creators and other people in the industry and contributions from others in the fan community. If you want to know how much community is in the mix, I drew all the covers and was one of the people who requested a music-related question to arcade Strider director/artist Kouichi Yotsui about a fan-favorite character. Please check it out, back it if you can, and spread the word!

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The Revenge of 1989, 2024 edition pt. 4

Time to wrap up this year’s 1989 celebration with new sprites and a new video!

Custom Sprites:
– Final Fight: big update for my 2019 Rolento FF1 sprite
– Ninja Gaiden: new Bomberhead sprite added.
– Strider: new Strider Hiryu pose (based on the Famicom ad from the unrealeased game) and a new side-view idle sprite of the Grandmaster added
– Marvel Comics: Dazzler (heavily updated sprites + new separate and more accurate PotX and Konami outfits) and the Juggernaut (PotX) (appeared in the 1989 NES Uncanny X-Men game and 1989’Pryde of the X-Men’ cartoon pilot)

The new custom sprites were added to the Fight-size generator.

Bad news: the video is ALMOST ready. It’ll be added to the YouTube Channel and this post either later tonight or tomorrow. Sorry for the delay, but I’ll try to make it worth the wait.
The video is now ready! Here’s the Revenge of 1989 Sprite Showcase video!


Technically I should’ve called it a Showcade (multiple showcases), but some aren’t even whole showcases, but… whatever, man.

This hasn’t been an easy month (for offline reasons), so a lot of items I’d planned just aren’t ready yet, but you’ll see previews of a few (especially the backgrounds) in the new video.

The Arcade Quartermaster site just updated, too! New shrines of Battle Shark and Riding Fight have been added.

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The Revenge of 1989, 2024 edition pt. 3

Time for a little 1989 Boss Rush update!

Custom Sprites:
– Mega Man: Alien (Mega Man 2) added
– Strider: new Strider Hiryu pose (based on the Famicom ad from the unrealeased game) and Tong Pooh pose (and sub-gallery) added
– Shinobi: Shadow Dancer boss (from the Revenge of Shinobi)
– Marvel Comics: White Queen Emma Frost (appeared in the 1989 NES Uncanny X-Men game and 1989’Pryde of the X-Men’ cartoon pilot)

The new custom sprites were added to the Fight-size generator.

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The Revenge of 1989, 2024 edition pt. 2

Today’s update has fighter-sized sprites of movie characters from 1989 and some new Kunio/RCR 8-Bit style sprites of 1989 game characters!

Custom Sprites:
– DC Comics: 1989 Batman and criminal from the opening scene, and a generic Joker gang member.
– Movies: Indiana Jones (Last Crusade style). Also, this gallery now has navigation near the top that takes you directly to a movie’s section by clicking on its mini-logo.
– Kunio-Kun/RCR 8-Bit style: Haggar, redone Poison and Roxy, and Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) from Do the Right Thing (1989).

Mini-logos: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade added to movies.

The bigger sprites and mini-logo were added to the Fight-size generator and the Kunio/RCR sprites were added to the Fakescreen generator.

Bonus 1989 content: my pre-ordered TMNT VHS April O’Neil figure by NECA just got here weeks ahead of the ship date. She’s in both the arcade and NES TMNT games that were released in 1989, so she’s theme-appropriate!

I thought I missed my chance to get this earlier, so I feel lucky here. I’ll try to get some photos of her and the green machine (I have all four VHS box-release Turtles, too) before the month is through.

Reminder: The Revenge of 1989 – (35th anniversary edition) Sprite Showcase hits at the end of the month and I’m mostly working on that. Here’s a few teases of what else I was working on this week:

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The Revenge of 1989, 2024 edition pt. 1

It’s the ninth day of the eight month, that means it’s time for the ScrollBoss site to revive The Revenge of 1989!

What’s the deal with 1989? The short answer is that a lot of beat ’em up, hack ‘n slash, and platformer games featured heavily on this site debuted that year, 16-bit games hit North America, the portable system revolution started, and a ton of other things, some of which you can read about here.

Custom Sprites:
– Final Fight: redone Guy idle/fight stance sprite, modified ‘arms crossed’ taunt sprite to match the new idle.
– Golden Axe: redone Tyris Flare select screen pose
– Mega Man: non-MvC-look Mega Man in the NES pose
– Strider: Soldier (red and green)
– Shinobi: Yet another attempt to sprite Yamato, that good wolf from Shadow Dancer. Will it be the last? Who knows? Is it in today’s update? Yes.

All of the new custom sprites have been added to the main gfx generator, where I made the screenshot at the top of this post.

If this were just some normal year this update would be it. But this year is the 35th (!) Anniversary of 1989, so it’s time to do something special once again. There will be more site updates spread throughout August, ending with something I really wanted to do in 2014 but couldn’t: a video. Here’s a preview

Until then, get ready for more pixel art next week!

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