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Wreck It Ralph - Fix It Felix NES style
Here's a preview of the new sprite I did up for the fake NES cartridge I’m making of Fix-It Felix Jr.The reason I didn’t just use the sprite that Disney made (on the left) is because you have to take...
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DOWNGRADED: Popeye (Nintendo, 1982-1983)
I thought it would be fun to showcase the occasional little examination of video game ports that had to make sacrifices to fit on home hardware.I was playing Popeye tonight at Pinballz arcade and not...
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Donkey Kong 3: Pixels Are Graphics
Here's a not so amusing anecdote about Donkey Kong 3.When I was a kid, probably about eight or nine years old, my mom took me and my brother to the video store where my love of the NES really began--we...
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Balloon Fight Poster - Balloon Trip 2013
I wanted to try another 3D paper piece for this one. I drew and colored the characters in photoshop, printed and cut them out, taped em to sticks and took a bunch of photos. Getting the right angles...
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The Tower of Druaga and Fix It Felix Jr. connection
Here's something fun while we're on the subject of Wreck-It Ralph. The filmmakers had an obvious love for 80's arcade culture and incorporated all sorts of fun references into the different game...
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DOWNGRADED: Gradius (Konami, 1985-1986)
Gradius for NES. This game has haunted me for most of my life. It was the first SNES game I owned (and it still works just fine!) and when Gradius V came out on PS2 I tried, I really tried to beat that...
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More sprite comparisons from NES Wreck It Ralph
"I TRIED"Don't mind me, just tossing this out there. Here's the original Wreck It Ralph arcade graphics compared with the downsized NES version. Taking an already-made sprite and trying to condense it...
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Retro Rally Trophy Cartridge!
I know these things are silly but they're fun to do. This is a "trophy cart" for the ongoing video game competition I'm having with my brother (the only old game fan I can find around here...
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Pocket Collection - Slakoth and Chikorita (NES)
No bogus story here: just a little project I was thinking of doing with several "special edition" NES carts based on different pokemon.I think they're kind of classy!...as far as Pokemon goes at least....
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Pokemon Pixel Zoo - Part 1
More behind this link down here! I made a nightmarish zoo of NES style pokemon. Happy valentines day!
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Fix It Felix, Jr. (NES)
Thrift store finally paid off! I even got a good deal on it, haha.Sorry about the delay--here are some photos of the Fix-It Felix Jr. NES cart. As I mentioned earlier, the only differences I could...
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Pokemon Pixel Zoo - Part 2
New pokemon sprites! Today they're outrunning forest fires, vomiting blood, losing limbs and having general freakouts.New pokemon sprites. Today they're outrunning forest fires, vomiting blood, losing...
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Koichi Sugiyama made two very similar video game themes
Another tale of mild interest! I was playing THISFrom Jesus Christ Himself To Your Own Famicomand noticed a striking similarity between its menu song and that of another famous game.Even if you've only...
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Retro Rally 2: Warpzone Wildcard Poster
Nothing too ambitious this time, just a fun little poster design for the second "Retro Rally" event. Last time we had a 15 minute point battle in Balloon Fight's "Balloon Trip" mode (I won), and this...
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Minna no Balloon Fight (みんなのバルーンファイト) (Famicom)
What, no manual?Released as a budget title in 1990, Minna no Balloon Fight (Everyone's Balloon Fight) was a sort of four player battle royal version of the 1983 original. As you might have guessed, it...
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So this is how I store Famicom cartridges
I find wonderfully hideous 80's cassette tape racks and boxes at my local thrift store all the time. Guess what is the exact same size as a cassette case ? ?THESE GUYSThis one holds 30 carts! More...
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Nothing could prepare me for the cuteness of Namcot boxes
(Sorry about the terrible photography here, I'm going to redo them later)It's the size that counts here, not the image on the coverI knew some Famicom releases by Namcot (or Namco Home Entertainment if...
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Binary Land (Famicom) reproduction label
Here's an old thing I'm reposting because I finally took photos of it (the previous entry used a mockup image). Binary Land is probably the best penguin romance game I've ever played.Before I had a...
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Famicase Exhibition 2013
Sorry about my absence lately, I had found out that the deadline to submit to this:was coming soon and the pressure to come up with something created a block that I couldn't break through for a long...
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Chikorita in the Rain
I haven't been up to posting/designing lately! But I made this gif. When it comes to Pokemon I find myself drawing Chikorita more than anything because it's such a simplistic character design you can...
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