Sprite work by James Beaver
When I first sprited Joe Musashi from scratch in 2012, it was in his original uniform from the Shinobi arcade game and I tried (but failed) to make his face look a bit like Sonny Chiba (the Revenge of Shinobi/the Super Shinobi title screen is based on a pic of him as Hanzo Hattori). The results weren't as Chiba-like as I'd hoped, but it keeps him from looking generic. I finally sprited him in his Revenge of Shinobi look in 2014 to celebrate that specific game's 25th anniversary).
Nakohara (the final boss from Shinobi) and the low-level ninja from Revenge of Shinobi were made at the same time as the Shinobi 1 Joe sprite. The Revenge of Shinobi Bat-doppelganger sprite, based on a boss removed from the later revisions of game (too legally dangerous), was sprited in 2014 when comic fandom decided that celebrating Batman's 75th once just wasn't enough, as if Batman doesn't get enough attention.
2025: I started redoing Joes sprites in 2017, that's what's in the main pic now. |
