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Star Wars

Here is a Boba Fett in the Mega Man sprite style

Samurai Showdown

It’s Ukyo from the Neo Geo pocket version of the game!

Final Fantasy

The Black Mage from Final Fantasy

Punch Out

Here is Glass Joe from Punch Out. Over 8 feet tall and 1400 blocks of wood!

Metroid

Here is a Metroid from……Metroid. I like the open spaces in the middle and the green stain.

8 BIT WOOD in EGM magazine, October 2010

Mega Man

Mega Man was one of the pieces I most wanted to make when I started work on the Space Invaders. At the time I thought “holy smokes, he is huge and complex….I’ll never make him”…fast forward a month or two and voila, Mega Man and […]

Contra

Contra was one of the few co-op games on the NES. Everyone knows this one….everyone knows the code for more lives… One of my friends at work suggested I make a Contra piece….so I did. I thought making a Spreadshot icon would be nice too. […]

Ninja Gaiden

Hiiiiyaaahhhh!!!! I was never very good at Ninja Gaiden for the NES. In fact, I was terrible at it, so I just watched my friends play it. The piece here is of the hero of the game, Ryu, in his climbing animation. For this piece […]

Adventure

The grandest of all Atari 2600 games! Adventure!!! The very first game to ever feature an Easter Egg by a (the) programmer… This game had it all…terrifying enemies, a dashing hero, a chalice and a sword that looks just like an arrow. My friend Kyle […]

Excite Bike

Excite Bike was one of the first complex pixel art pieces I tried. Multiple colors, lots of edges, some floating pixels...this one was quite a bit more difficult than the earlier ones like Space Invaders and Joust. I watched Indiana Jones on a loop as I cut the wood, stained it and glued it all together. I really enjoyed Excite Bike when I was younger, the feeling of speed as you would launch off a ramp or hit a turbo pad was unlike anything else at the time. This one reads really well from a distance and I dig the action of him being in the middle of a wheelie or a jump.

Mario

I knew that I wanted to make some pixel art pieces that featured one of the most beloved characters of all time but I was having a hard time deciding on which sprite. After some searching I decided to create the Raccoon Suit Mario in […]

Bubble Bobble

Bubble Bobble

I must admit that I have never actually played Bubble Bobble. A friend at work suggested I make a Bubble Bobble sprite piece…and so I did. This is actually the second one that I made, the first was a smaller piece used as a test […]