Lucas M. Thomas

Who's booing? SNES sports games were legit! Great find!

Friday, February 21, 1986. 40 years ago this very minute (it’s a little past noon here in Japan), people were discovering Zelda’s secrets for the first time.

'93 . . . something related to Super Mario All-Stars?

found a god-tier panel in a history of hyrule promo zine

Jackpot!

Kid Icarus final level password with tips! Password is IeW6a? N2dF00 u0000G K50WOD Pit will be at peak level. The stage will loop until you defeat 50 enemies. When you fight Medusa, position Pit toward the left middle of the screen and fire away.

Use this password to skip to the final level of Kid Icarus and get the best ending. It'll work on your original NES copy or Switch Online.

A hand drawn map of the original NES Castlevania game.

The full map to the original Castlevania. This is a brilliant map. Despite seeing a map in between stages, you don't really think about how it all connects, but the flow lines up almost perfectly making one cohesive castle.

Cropped original box art for Mega Man 1. Dr. Wily's Castle from the Rock Man manual is overlaid on top.

My interpretation of Dr. Wily's Castle for Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man. The castle features a similar structure as the original art but works in ideas and colors from stages in the game. A large skull face is chiseled into the mountain.

Mega Man’s original box art secretly got one thing right! Dr. Wily’s castle is the background.

It’s based on a single piece of art (that I’m aware of) from the Rock Man manual/poster, which I also used as reference for the strategy guide.

So uh I own this beaut now! Looks even better in person plus there's a little bonus Elec Man sketch. And a rad Mega Man zine full of @cak3oman.bsky.social's art and a sweet postage stamp sheet. Made my day, thank you so much cak3o!

Pixel art lineup of megaman X bosses. The tagline says Megaman X9

The full lineup of the old Megaman X9 project. Mosquito, Fox and Possum were based on ideas I started when I was around 8, so this stuff is ancient. Hell, I replaced other bosses with Crane, Hermit, Giraffe, Porcupine and Angler because Capcom made the same boss ideas later.
#megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

My favorite Pokémon!

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Fire Man as he appears in Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man.

Fire Man as he appears in HDGG: Mega Man. I wanted to make Fire Man massive, someone that looks like they could just incinerate stuff all day. I played up his huge shoulder pads and built the rest of him strong to support it.

What came to light?

@snakepixel.art Huge congrats on making it into the Top 20! Go Cactus Man!

[News] User Voting for Mega Man: Dual Override Robot Master Design Contest Now Open
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Sound Fantasy

I mentioned briefly in the sidebar that a mobile gambling game used the name "Dragon Hopper" before Nintendo could roll out this re-release of the Virtual Boy, so that may be the reason why Nintendo is now calling it "D-Hopper" instead. Unfortunate! But I expect the in-game title screen is intact.

As hoped for in our newest issue, Dragon Hopper has just been confirmed for release 30 years after its Summer 1996 release plans were cancelled!

I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.

Solar Striker acknowledged in the Nintendo Today app! This game has never been re-released. They should bring it to the NSO Game Boy app!

Maybe the vertical slice/Kickstarter route? Putting together one playable demo level and then having a crowdfunding campaign to run it up the flagpole and see if enough people would plunk down the cash to invest in full development of a complete game. I'm sure they would!

Simon, please just make a Mega Man clone game. Your fanart of the series from over the years is too painfully good for it to not be playable. Bot Boy. Robo Kid. Something! Just legally-distinct it and make it real!

Pixel art of various animal themed robot bosses. The tag at the top says MegaGear X

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups.

Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight.
#megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

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Source: models.spriters-resource.com user "Ray Koopa", models.spriters-resource.com/wii_u/mariokart8/asset/298370

In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the Dragon Driftway takes place on a giant dragon based on Gobblegut from Super Mario Galaxy 2. The full dragon is never seen in-game all at once. Here is the track model with everything but the dragon removed.

My book, the 𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗩𝗼𝗹. 𝟮, is sold out on Amazon. It's still available on The Yetee:
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It will not be reprinted, so get it now before it's gone.

Here's a 24-page PDF preview:
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