2D Will Never Die

A scrapbook of pixels and other 2D art

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Technodrome size reference

[leecario]

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Battle Mania a.k.a. Trouble Shooter 1 & 2 - definitely my kind of humor.

[pixelartus]

Boogie Wings

Developer: Data East Released: 1992 System: Arcade Genre: Scrolling Shooter + Run and Gun Wikipedia Entry Review (VGJunk)

Source of Screenshots: VGJunk

Boogie Wings Longplay (46 min): YouTube.com // Longplays.org

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This has to be one of the best obscure games I’ve ever found out about

[never-obsolete]

The Johnny Castaway screen saver (1992)

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A screen saver that pieced together a full story through sets of randomly selected events. Very clever concept, and apparently developed a small cult following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5lxiTJGqHw https://genesistemple.com/johnny-castaway-no-johnny-is-an-island

[itsfantasticac]

Beyond being the first CPS3 game, Warzard/Red Earth was Capcom’s first game in which they used 3D rendering to assist with drawing sprites. This technique is more apparent for Hauzer and Gigi, but Tao/Mai-Ling’s sprites also used prerendered images as a base.

[the2dstagesfg]

“Bath House” from Marvel vs Capcom 1

[vgjunk]

X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Genesis / Megadrive.

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Genesis graphics at their best

[vgjunk]

Marvel vs. Capcom, arcade.

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Love these slightly larger than normal styles from character select screens

[the2dstagesfg]

“Daily Bugle” from Marvel Super Heroes

[2dwillneverdie]

Brilliant stage idea, brilliant execution

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[the2dstagesfg]

“Ken’s Stage” from Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 2

One of the best stages in fighting games.

[2dwillneverdie]

Ah the days when cameos were novel and exciting. Alpha 2 had the coolest stages in the entire Street Fighter series.

[the2dstagesfg]

“Apocalypse Now!” from Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (Capcom/1997)

[atomic-crusader]

Reptomicus, The She-Beast, The Invader from Dimension X, and The Brain from Beyond Infinity from the video game I Was An Atomic Mutant! (2003, PC)

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A low-budget game about low-budget B-movie monsters. The gameplay was kind of underwhelming, but it had an amazing over-the-top presentation and spot-on soundtrack. Whoever made this game was truly in love with its source material. The cinema mode alone is a thing of beauty.

For my part, I would've liked to see the cast be a guy in an obvious rubber lizard suit, a clunky 'Robot vs Aztec Mummy' type of alien machine (has to complete its mission before catching earth-flu), a wobbly brain puppet where you could see the wires (has to use its insano-ray to enslave the humans in each level in order to fight the military), and a completely normal looking 1950s actress daintily smashing everything (hunting for her terrified scientist boyfriend). Maybe a hint of a boom mic here and there. Also Roger Corman doing an introductory voiceover.

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Cool details: games that let you free prisoners

[kirokazepixel]

Sketch to Pixel art // Game: For The Warp. 

Check it out on steam, launching this Friday 27th 

[kazucrash-deactivated20191209]

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Guilty Pleasure: melting animations

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Finding pleasing proportions on the ol’ 384 x 224 arcade screen. Count how many landmarks match up on Ryu, the UI elements, and even the fighters’ horizontal starting positions.