When I was a tween on the California coast in the mid eighties, there were very few articles of clothing that I loved more than my T&C Surf Designs shirts and board shorts. The clothes were stupid expensive compared to the stuff you could get at K-Mart, but I begged to be dressed like the other cool kids at school. I wore them until they were way too tight.
The NES game Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage wasn't the best skateboarding game ever, but it was on a very short list of games that included "extreme" sports. Skate or Die was the only other one, and it was equally as bad.
Pictured above are Joe Cool, Thrilla Gorilla, and Tiki Man in action. I'm starting to put colored borders on almost anything I make anymore, and I particularly like the neon borders to give these a little extra 80's flair.
This entry was posted in Nintendo, Original Designs, Perler beads, Pop Culture, Video Games and tagged 8-bit, bead sprite, beadsprite, beadsprites, NES, Nintendo, Perler, Perler Beads, pop-culture, video game characters on February 17, 2015 by Danthol.
I made this for a co-worker who is really into Batman and the classic NES games.
This is from the game Batman Returns for the original Nintendo. I gave it a grey border to match the grey of the Adam West Batman suit, and I like the way that sprites with borders that aren't the typical "black".
This entry was posted in Nintendo, Perler beads, Pop Culture, Post-Iron, Video Games and tagged 8-bit, bead sprite, beadsprite, beadsprites, NES, Nintendo, Perler, Perler Beads, pop-culture, video game characters on February 8, 2015 by Danthol.