I couldn’t let Pac-Man Day pass without adding a little something to the site!

Pac-Man: Pac-Man in his Pac-Land stance, including with his default hat from that game and even a sprite with his longer nose from the Japanese version! While Namco’s 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land doesn’t get mentioned enough in U.S. gaming circles, you’d be surprised at how many developers around the world were influenced and inspired by it.

The new Pac-Sprites have been added to the main image generator, where I made the pic at the top of the post.

(edit: note from earlier in the day)
Sorry for the lateness, I’ll be adding it and it the variants later tonight. The tags in the blog post are a clue.

Hey, did you see the all-new Pac-Man cartoon series’ debut on YouTube today? If not, check it out here:

Liu Kang’s sprite and mini-logo was added to the main GFX Generator, along with Mortal Kombat circle layout for the Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes template.
edit May 11, 2026: also added 3 backgrounds from Mortal Kombat and 3 from Mortal Kombat II to the Group, Vs. MvC1 ending, 160x192p box, and 88x136p comic screenstyle options.

BTW: there was a small update earlier in the week adding Double Dragon 1995 Neo-Geo portraits to the regular sprite galleries and image generators.

Time to post more previews from the lab. Don’t worry, both are pretty much Easy Mode here (and the answer to one is in the comments of another post):

May 6th, 2026:
Double Dragon Neo-Geo: starts with the 96 x 112 pixel portraits and 128 x 176 pixel portraits.

GFX Generators: Double Dragon Neo-Geo portraits added to the Lee Brothers, Marian, Abobo, and Burnov. Also removed the rest of the workarounds from the GFX Image Generators from a few weeks ago when I got the https working on the site.

Custom Sprites:
– Combatribes: Finally gets its own gallery page and new fight stance sprites for all three heroes.
– Moon Child: Yes, I couldn’t resist and had to make a sprite of him, too. If you don’t know about him, I’ll explain later in this update post.

Mini-logo: Moon Child added to Team Hoi
– edit April 29, 2026: after original game artist added a much clearer version of the game logo, I updated my mini-logo version to match it better AND added a gradient light blue-to-white version.

All new sprites and mini-logos were added to the main GFX Generator, which I used to make the graphic at the top of this post. I still have some item preview errors to iron out after adding SSL earlier this month, but the picture results still work.
edit April 25 3:18 AM: I think I’ve got the issue ironed out, things SHOULD be back to normal.

One of my favorite game-related happenings this year is the discovery, online rise and legit appreciation of the 1997 PC Moon Child, mainly on Bluesky. What pulled me in was this Bluesky post about the unexpected music, because, no, I was not ready. You can read a more about the game’s creation, set backs, and current revival phenomenon in this Aftermath story, but I have to post some of the music that helped hook so many of us.

I’ll basically say what the Bluesky post said: think of the music a cute late 90s platformer game. Seriously. Once you’ve thought of it, play the video.

These pics show progress on the 3D toy aisles I’m working on in Blender, with the Transformers section getting Megatron and Starscream in the second pic.

I planned to have a toy section update, but that’ll have to wait, even though I did take a few pics of the SH Figuarts Mario.

5:19 PM EST: Sorry for the mess. Site’s currently going through some issues due to trying to add SSL, mainly with preview images in the GFX Generators. Weirdly enough the image generator itself seems to still make shots correctly.

update 7:21 PM EST: cooked up a workaround for image generator preview problems that I know about. Please leave a reply if you spot any other problems!