Here’s a game-focused update for Black History Month 2025!
Custom Sprites:
– Guardians of the ‘Hood: not only did I redo both of Tanya’s old sprites, but I also made her win pose, and they all match. This game also got a solo gallery.
– Streets of Rage: I made improvements on my sprites for Adam and Skate, but scroll down if you want to see even more.
– Raging Justice: redrew the head for the Nikki Justice sprite I made in 2018, plus gave the game its own gallery.
All custom sprites for this update were added to the main GFX Generator, where I made the pic at the top of this post!
Taking it back to the old days of the site, I’m updating some of the sprite galleries. That’s right, the galleries with sprites from real games.
Sprites:
– Riot City: Starting the gallery with idle, walk, and taunt .GIFs of heroes Paul and Bobby, including one of the greatest walk animations of all time. I thought I posted these sprites years ago, but I only had the rips sitting in .MNG files and versions done for that “beat ’em up heroes” video clip.
– Streets of Rage: captured and added .GIF of the idle loops for Adam, Axel, and Blaze
Finally, I had to quickly change plans and make an update to my 2023 Black History Month-themed video, with nearly every clip updated and new character profile moments. All the new custom sprites show up in this, and you’ll also get a look at the newly animated Adam Hunter and ‘Skate’ Hunter sprites!
The Arcade Quartermaster celebrated its 17th birthday on Feb. 24th by adding shrines for Tekken 2 and DBZ fighting games!
The Beat ‘Em Up genre is really proving its naysayers wrong this year. As someone running a fan site in honor of those games for almost 20 years, I thought this would be the perfect time to gloat celebrate this new wave of appreciate of digital side-scrolling brawlers. This site has seen beat ’em up-themed updates over the years, but I think I need to do more to rep the genre, so expect to see more updates like this in the future. Today’s newness is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Data East’s Bad Dudes, but you’ll find a 90’s brawler in her newest outfit, a character from a new beat ’em up, some superheroes, and some characters from Capcom’s Beat ‘Em Up Bundle!
Custom Sprite gallery updates:
– Bad Dudes: Blade and Striker (fight stance), Dragonninja, Mini, Kunoichi (finally got a good standing sprite!)
– Captain Commando (new separate gallery): Ninja Commando and Brenda & Carol
– Other Games (independent): Nikki Rage from Raging Justice
– Streets of Rage: Blaze Fielding (Streets of Rage 4)
– Marvel Comics: Spider-Man and Namor (both scratch-made and in their Spider-Man: the Video Game fight stances)
Reminder that the new Horror print is now in the shop!
Kickstarter alert: Bushinden: a combat platformer with beautiful pixel art!
Arcade Quartermaster just added three new shrines: Taito’s PU-LI-RU-LA, Data East’s WIZARD FIRE, and Athena’s CASTLE OF DRAGON!
I need to work on new prints to be ready for the Youngstown Comic-Con (I’ll only have a table there on the Sunday the 8th), so ScrollBoss will be KINDA quiet until after the convention. Conveniently, this site’s 18th anniversary will hit a little over a week after that. There will probably be small updates here and there, especially when I get pixel art or game-related prints done.
Until next time, here are a few previews:
The long-awaited Raging Justice is out now! I bought it for PC/Steam and had fun playing it. There are tons of nice little combat touches, including knocking characters into the background, enemy arrests (with bonus points for catching foes who have warrants out for them). No, it’s not a stat-building, free-roaming game like a lot of other modern Walk ‘n Brawls, but I know a lot of other people who prefer arcade-length games; the can be played through with a visiting friend and short enough for a non-marathon stream. Check this out if that sounds like your kind of party!
