The Unofficial Black History Month update

I’m still working on a commission, but I had time here and there to get some pixel work done. Check it out!

Custom Sprites: DC (Amanda Waller), Marvel (new scratch-made Black Panther, in a pose similar to the old sprite edit), Video System Co. (Glen from Karate Blazers)
Logos: Karate Blazers (ripped from tiles for accuracy with the black pixels)
Mini-Logos: DC (Amanda Waller), Marvel (Jean Grey), Video System Co. (Video System, Karate Blazers)

All applicable newness has been added to the GFX Generators.

I always feel like I’ve done a good job on a sprite if WizzyWhipitWonderful picks it to display during those CPS-2-style music tracks and this is no exception. Check out this new hype track done by WizzyWhipitWonderful (composed by Antoine Pickens of LiveWire Productions):

Be sure to subscribe to WWW’s YouTube channel for continued exposure to that sweet, sweet CPS-2 audio flavor!

My commission work should be finished some time in March (at the latest), so expect the next batch of newness then.

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Cyber Week 2015

Disappointed in the lack of cybernetics I saw on Cyber Monday, I’ve decided to try and make up for that by celebrating cyber-related characters and games for the entire week. Check back with this post for updates every day!

Tuesday:


Cyborg, in classic flavor, is now in the DC Comics gallery and GFX Generators (where he has extra palettes)!

Wednesday:


A new sprite of Kamaitachi from Ninja Warriors Again (from the beautifully developed SNES/SFAM game by Natsume) has been added to the Taito gallery and GFX Generators (where the Mego WGS style in the GroupShot generator finally has a Taito character bubble set)! Kunoichi (my old version of her need to be redone) and Ninja won’t show up in this theme, but they’re on my to-sprite list.

Thursday:


Welcome your new cyborg gang overlord, Martha from Technos’ beat ’em up, Combatribes. She’s been added to the Technos gallery and GFX Generators along with two versions of the Combatribes logo has been added to the mini-logo page.

Friday:


Partly pixels, partly real, a new sprite of Steelheart, from the SilverHawks cartoon and toyline, has been added to the Toys and Cartoons gallery and the GFX Generators! The SilverHawks logo has been added to the Toys and Cartoons mini-logo gallery.

Reminder: the prints in the shop are on sale until this Sunday, November 6th. 8×10 and 8×11 prints are $4.50 each while the 11 x 17 prints $8.50 each. There’s a wider variety of prints on the Illmosis site print page, so check that out, too!

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DangerTerrorHorrorThon Halloween 2015 wrap-up

Halloween is here and there’s a bonus surprise in the Halloween DangerTerrorHorrorThon wrap-up! Let’s see all the new things that appeared this week…

Custom Sprites:
– Capcom: Zombie (Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts versions)
– Castlevania: Simon Belmont (new CV1 NES stance from last year’s Trevor sprite & improved taunt), Grant Danasty, Carmilla (Rondo of Blood)
– – Konami: Silent Hill Nurse
– Namco: Biggy Man (Splatterhouse)
– Nintendo: Medusa (classic, big)
– Wayforward: Rottytops
– Games (other): Julie and Zeke (Zombies Ate My Neighbors), the Pumpkin boss from Monster Party.
– DC Comics: Solomon Grundy (uploaded on a Monday)
– Movies: Tarman (Return of the Living Dead), Chucky, Michael Myers/The Shape, Ghostface (Scream), Leatherface
– NES-like 32×16 and 32×3: Altered Beast werewolf

Mini-logos:
– Capcom: Ghosts ‘n Goblins
– Konami: Silent Hill (movie)
– LucasArts: Zombies Ate My Neighbors
– Movies: Chucky, Leatherface, Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (thanks to Christopher B. for the Atari 2600 idea)

All fighting size custom sprites and mini-logos have been added to the GFX Generators so you can use them to make your own spooky fake screenshots and pixel graphics!

Don’t forget that I still have that Horror legend vs. screen print in the ScrollBoss Shop for $6 + S&H!


BTW: The Chucky sprite and his portrait in that print come from the same linework, but at different sizes.

I was a bit cryptic in Friday’s update on whether the theme was over. Well, I had one more sprite to make. Ladies, gentlemen and screwheads, meet Ash Williams.

Be sure to check out VGJunk’s Halloween Spooktacular reviews, including today’s review of Capcom’s Vampire Savior! You’ll find a lot of far more obscure games lurking in his Halloween tag, so roll through it to find new picks for your own Halloween game list.

JustinGameDesign made a fun group of 8-bit sprites for the spooky season, with characters from a wide array of sources. He even put them into a nice deviantART gallery so you can see them all in the same spot!

NOW I’m done with the Halloween updates. Happy Halloween!

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ScrollBoss 15th Anniversary Unspectacular

Today marks 15 years of this site’s existence on the outskirts of the internet! Most of today’s update centers on sprites that I wanted to redo from scratch, but there’s also a new ScrollBoss character (you’ll see more from her in future updates) and sprites based on the games of late, great Iwata-san.

Custom Sprites
– HAL Laboratory: Lolo and Lala (Eggerland series) kick off the new gallery.
– Nintendo: Balloon Fighter added.
– Sega: a new scratch-made Shiva (Streets of Rage series) sprite added.
– DC: Green Lantern Hal Jordan
– G.I.JOE: the Baroness
– Illmosis Network: The new gallery starts with “V” but my other characters will be added later.

Mini-logos
– Nintendo: Balloon Fight

All of those sprites were added to the GFX Generators

I’m still a bit worn out from the past few weeks and the yesterday’s great convention, so I couldn’t write the big, detailed “Thank You” post that I wanted to make yet, but will get that together this week. For now, I’d just like to thank everyone who visits the site. You’re one of the biggest factors that kept me going through that whole time. ScrollBoss has been here since the days when these older games were looked down upon by a lot of people and I’ve tried to let this place be a lighthouse for anyone looking for place to appreciate older action games and pixel art. I still have a lot of new things on the way for this site, so I hope you keep visiting every once in a while!

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Gotham City Pixels, pt. 3

Today’s the last of the Gotham City-themed updates, but it’s also ties up a few loose ends and fixes a few things. Here’s what’s up:

Custom Sprites – Batgirl, Bane and Catman have been added to the DC Gallery. A few more Catwoman sprite was added to the Catwoman.

Mini-logos: Batgirl, Bane, Penguin (Mego) and Catman logos added to DC gallery

Those new items have been added to the GFX Generators along with the third background of this week’s theme: a street based on the first stage of Batman for the Sega Genesis. That stage has two versions: original flavor and custom generic bar with neon signs and trash. I also added a couple of plain Catwoman sprites with a lot of palette options, because there’s no such thing as too many Catwomans.

That’s it for this theme. I’ve got to get back to work on pixel art and scribbles for the upcoming All AmeriCon convention. Again, due to the convention being on July 18th, the anniversary update on July 19th won’t be big. I hope you have fun with these updates and I’ll be back again in a few weeks!

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Gotham City Pixels, pt. 2

Anyone who needs a bad pun for this update can choose between “Catwomen on a Hot Brick Roof” or “Catwomen Not on the Moon.” Check it out:

Custom Sprites: There are so many new Catwoman sprites that she becomes the first comic character here to get her own gallery! All new sprites have been added to that Catwoman gallery. No, I didn’t sprite every single Catwoman, but I think it’s a good start.

Mini-logos: Catwoman (Mego logo) added to DC gallery

All those feline-related pixels have been added to the GFX Generators where you’ll also find yet another background: a rooftop with a Bat-Signal shining in the sky! Many of her sprites in the generators have extra palettes, so have fun playing with those, too.

There will be a small wrap-up update tomorrow that includes Gotham’s favorite librarian and another background!

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Gotham City Pixels, pt. 1

Custom Sprites: new sprites of the Joker, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, the Scarecrow, the Riddler, and the Penguin (resized, improved) added to the DC gallery!

Mini-logos: Scarecrow (80s) and Mr. Freeze (80s and 90s) added to DC gallery

All these things have been added to the GFX Generators where you’ll also find that new hideout background!

Here’s a test version of the Gotham Villains pixel print I’m working on.

Wondering why the Catwoman sprite isn’t in this update? Don’t worry, she’s just being fashionably late. Tune in tomorrow… (relatively) same Sprite-time, same Sprite-channel!

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Working on the future

Custom Sprites – the following scratch-made sprites were added to the galleries
– Sega: Opa-Opa and Upa-Upa
– DC Comics: an all-new Riddler sprite
– Jaleco: a new Kazan (Brawl Brothers/Rushing Beat Ran) standing sprite
– Games (Independent): new gallery page with Bruizer and Pugi from Combat Core and a 2013 sprite of Sen from Project Sen (which reminds me that I need to make a better sprite of her)

Mini-Logos – Opa-Opa and Upa-Upa added to Sega gallery, the Riddler added to DC Comics gallery
All of these things have been added to the GFX Generators. Opa-Opa was secretly added last week, but this update gives him a palette for his brother, Upa-Upa.

The Bruizer and Pugi sprites were made to show support for the Combat Core Kickstarter. The campaign ends on Sunday, June 14th, and the party brawler (the best name I’ve seen for that kind of fighting game) still needs your help to be funded. You can even get an alpha of the game from the Kickstarter page to convince you that the game is worth helping!

Check out this MABManZ interview with Rated S Gaming that also has footage of new things in the game, including an arena with a Japanese Exploding Ropes Death Match wrestling ring.

That’s all the main info for today’s update, but there’s a bit more info behind this cut. Have a good weekend!

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Everybody Loves the Sunshine (Superman)

Action Comics #1 was published on this date in 1938, so I finally made a few more Superman Battle Hover sprites. Today’s variations are Action Comics #1 Superman, Sunshine Superman and the Superman from the “Universe of Evil” episode of the Superfriends cartoon. Basically, anything to avoid making a sprite of the Sentry. They’re in the GFX Generators and the Battle Hover gallery.

VGJunk just turned five years old this week and celebrated with a review of Captain Commando. Check it out if you haven’t already and follow the VG Junk Tumblr for bonus fun.

Artist, video game appreciator, action flick connoisseur and all-around cool cat Rusty Shackles also celebrated the anniversary of being alive and I’ll use this opportunity to plug his website and the Insert Quarter Bin Tumblr filled with video game/comic book mash-up that are actually funny and awesome.

There’s a Flash Sale in the Playstation Store this weekend and you’ll find popular gems like Hotline Miami and Retro City Rampage there alongside two personal favorites of mine: Double Dragon Neon (by WayForward) and Anarchy Reigns (by Platinum Games). The PS3 version of DD Neon lacks online multiplayer, but that didn’t stop me from loving the hell out of playing it.

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Street Vixens of Rambeau

I planned to have a bigger update than this, but, well, I’ll get into that later. For now, here’s the newness:


New sprites of Adam Hunter (from Sega’s Streets of Rage, Vixen (DC Comics) and Monica Rambeau in her Captain Marvel uniform (Marvel Comics) have been added to the Sega, DC and Marvel galleries. Ms. Rambeau’s Captain Marvel logo being added to the mini-logos gallery. All three characters are in the GFX Generators where Vixen also has 3 more palettes.

The All AmeriCon convention hits Warren, Ohio again on July 18th (one day before this site’s 15th Anniversary) and I’ll be getting a table there to sell scribbles. Get info about it by checking out the Facebook page for the event. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that a few people I know from the internet will roll through, but I’ll announce that once it’s ready.

My plan is to get some pixel art things to sell alongside my usual scribbles and, possible, a mini-art book. To do that, I really do have to detach a bit from this site to work on those things and it needs to start not now, but right now. This site will still be updated at least once a month until the anniversary in July, though it won’t be as much as the crazy deluge of pixels I’ve been dropping on you for the past few months. Clean up work on the generators will continue to make way for crazy new features and a few things on the site will be fixed up. Some of the things I’m working on will also be sold through this site, because I want to make a game-related mini-book, too.

BTW: I had line work for one more sprite, but I might just save her for May. You’ll know why if you know who she is.

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