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!

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

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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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Tags: A Nightmare on Elm Street, CarnEvil, Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Kid Dracula, Masters of the Universe, Night Slashers, Silent Hill, Splatterhouse, The Exorcist
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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

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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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Tags: Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Kid Dracula, Night Slashers, Splatterhouse
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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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Tags: Castlevania, Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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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!

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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!

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Stay tuned, there’s still more DangerTerrorHorrorThon waiting to find you!

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Tags: Altered Beast, Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Splatterhouse
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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!

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Tags: Castlevania, Clock Tower, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Devil May Cry, Mortal Kombat, Saturday Night Slam Masters series, Splatterhouse
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In 2006, a small town arcade was forced to close due to machinations of opportunistic politicians and preachers. The arcade’s owner was run out of town and the cabinets, mostly horror games, were ordered to be destroyed in a public ceremony. One of the former employees, Amelia, refused to let this happen. Rallying a crew of fellow misfits, she liberated the coin-op machines, evaded the local police through multiple states until reaching the one place outside the reach of the law: infamous Alexandria Mall.

The legend of the Alexandria Mall is too long to repeat here, but ask any witness of the midnight skirmish that caused the building to be burned to the ground only to reappear the next morning will tell you how that was only the beginning of the weirdness. Amelia used the doomed machines to start “The Arcade of the Damned,” and began to hunt down additional coin-op games with far more sinister histories.

Custom Sprites
– Illmosis/ScrollBoss: Amelia
– Castlevania: Elizabeth Bartley (Bloodlines)
– Night Slashers: Vampire Boss
– Horror: a new Freddy sprite in the same style as the 2018 Horror print, Nancy Thompson (Elm Street 1 style), Sam (Trick ‘R Treat), the Bishop of Battle (Nightmares). Improved sprites of Michael Myers (Halloween 2 lobby card and sheet disguise sprites) and Mike (Phantasm)

Mini-logos: Trick ‘R Treat and the Bishop of Battle added to movies gallery.

All newness added to the main GFX Generators, where you can make pics like the top of this post!

Previous DTHT 2019 updates
DTHT 2019 pt.1 – Death Lives
DTHT 2019 pt.2 – Half-Man, Half-Beast, All-Horror!
DTHT 2019 pt.3 – Beyond Death

Filed under: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Amelia, Arcade of the Damned, Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Halloween, Night Slashers, Phantasm, Trick 'R Treat
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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!

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Tags: Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Re-Animator, Splatterhouse
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It’s time again.

The DangerTerrorHorrorThon lives again, but not for long if these participants have anything to say about it!

Custom Sprites
– Castlevania: Death (Castlevania NES and Symphony of the Night designs)
– Ghosts ‘n Goblins: Skeleton Murderer
– Gauntlet: Death
– Kid Icarus: Grim Reaper
– Night Slashers: Boss 6

All sprites have been added to the GFX Generators

The HorrorThon continues tomorrow when things get wild!

Filed under: ScrollBoss Updates, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Castlevania, CastleVania series, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Gauntlet, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Kid Icarus, Night Slashers
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I couldn’t just let the 20th anniversary go by without doing at least a little something.

A new Alucard sprite has been added to the Castlevania Custom Sprite gallery and the main image generator.

There will be another small update in a few days, mainly adding the Mega Man NES screens to the new generator engine. Mega Man content is still a good way to get attention, isn’t it? I’m allowed to say that out loud, right?

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Tags: Castlevania
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This update could be done only at night, for it is filled with Vampires!

Custom Sprites
– Castlevania: Dracula (original CV and SotN)
– Alpha Denshi (NEW!): Kyros
– Movies: Blacula/Mamuwalde and Selene (Underworld)
– VanillawareVampire (Dragon’s Crown)

Mini-logos
– Movies: Kyros
– Movies: Blacula and Underworld

All of these bloodsuckers (and their mini-logos) have been added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own screens and graphics, including one with that new Dracula’s lair background based on the original Castlevania.

You know, that’s a lot of vampires and tomorrow’s the last day for the DangerTerrorHorrorThon. I really hope someone shows up to make sure these nosferatu MF’ers don’t get out of control…

previous parts of the DTHT: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

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Tags: Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Dragon's Crown, Kyros
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