25 years ago, on this very, one of the greatest beat ’em up sagas began when Sega’s Bare Knuckle hit the Mega Drive system in Japan. Mixing the best elements of Technos’ Double Dragon and Capcom’s Final Fight (then the two most recent evolutionary steps in the walk ‘n brawl genre), flavor from Sega’s own Golden Axe system (complete with smart bomb attacks), and a heaping dose of their own style, Noriyoshi Ohba and his team created a solid classic. The game still outshines brawlers on far more powerful systems, especially the legendary soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro.
Bare Knuckle made its way to the U.S. a few weeks later under the Streets of Rage moniker. Expect another ScrollBoss update dedicated to the game (and series) on that. For now…
check out these new fighting-scale sprites of SoR/BK 1 and 2 versions of Axel Stone’s fighting stance have been added to the SoR Custom Sprite gallery and GFX Generators (where he also has a bunch of palettes). I also added a Bare Knuckle mini-logo and made some slight improvements to the Nora sprite from the last round of updates.
Filed under: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Bare Knuckle, Streets of Rage
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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!
Filed under: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Adventures of Lolo, anniversary, Balloon Fighter, Bare Knuckle, dc comics, Eggerland, g.i. joe, Streets of Rage
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