Ok...so here's what's goin' down...
Beholden! I shall refer to this picture and the stuff in it often in the following paragraphs.
(Disregard the grey on Turborang, he is awsome enough to not use all his colors I guess. Feel free to do the same.)
Ok, so here are the rules!
You are making the hero of some imaginary NES game, left to your discretion.
You can either use the base models or create one of your own. Feel free to do any pose you want, even showing off your attacks!
Colors: You may select three colors, black and white are freebies, transparency doesn't count as a color.
Image must be a Gif, for that authentic NES feel!!
Names are optional, but it may help you win...
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By the end of the month, or longer if everyone wants it, everyone will vote for their favorite characters of each category...
1. Retro rating: Based on all the glorious fads of the eighties, like ninjas and laser swords! An example of something non-retro would be a character based on modern day fads and ideals.
2. Color usage: It can be quite tricky using your limited colors to full effect!
3. And originality!
Let the battle commence!


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Behold, the first fearsome competitor...the half-blood slayer, Vampiros!

Behold! I call him...Fight-knight!

Hmm I might give it a try.. Is there a size we have to follow. Sorry just woke up and I am a bit fuzzy, rough night lastnight lol..

looks like everybody's taking advantage of the one color grace option.

well, here's mine:

3 colors plus trans, baby

Reminds me of the ol' rom hacking days... haha

haha, thanks.. I think everyone should be shooting for three colors.

that's because they were clever when they made mega man.  All the sprites in that game were layed out in an 8x8 grid (all the sprites in any NES game were layed out as 8x8 tiles, actually), and each tile could have a certain pallet index assigned to it.  Megaman's body was a completely different sprite than his face, and they both used completely different palletes.

(I'm no programmer, so my terms might be wrong)

see?

it's good to know your roots, sometimes..

 

by the way.. that's a shot from megaman 2, using tile layer pro.
roms are illegal unless you own the original game.  I own megaman 2,
so no worries.

They're never legal to own.

Nice, I like it

well.. once the revolution comes out,  I guess we won't even have to worry about that..

very what?

Yeah, those look awesome! Especially the animations... very NES-like

Its 3 colors + black and white not one more you can count :P

oh but i completely agree with you on that, but the contest rules specified that black and white were freebies, so i used them :P

Jasc Animation shop 3

My apologies about the b/w color thing di0xygen... didn't catch that part of it.

Di0xygen: Great GREAT stuff!

Pawige: Man they are soo cool. I absolutely adore your colors and the animation.

(huh so much praise from me )

nvision: nice, reminds me a bit of sals' stuff. But that's maybe because he did so much vampires...

That's a really tempting collab... Sedge isn't that something for you Mr. low-color?

Maestro:  Why would you take this down?  It's great stuff... the club looks a little caveman-ish, but the axe slash is really well done.

Ok, here is my entry:

 

You can guess 3 times who it is on this picture.

 

Yes, its inkspot, your greatest enemy! Its toxic thick oil type ink what is alive and can form shapes and can lift a gun, as seen.

 

But well, I am kind of pissed because this animation is pure crap but I messed around like whole hour in Image Ready and canot even edit an imported picture... Whole hour I just inserted pictures what I drew in MS Paint. Image ready is so stupid and useless, thank god I haven't paid for this piece of crap!

So, here is the unanimated yhing, for better look:

 

If someone knows a program what is suitable for making gifs from several drawn pictures, then please tell the name of that program or I will come and crawl into your brain from your ears and nose!

 

Thank you.

Here's my entry: the OK-Bot! ...Don't ask.

  

Are you a bad enough dude to save the pre- I mean, face this robot? I think not.


No, he's not flipping us off, he's sticking his thumb up
(6 colours: 3 shades of brown, black, white and transparancy)

f**k, it looked better on a background. Not enough contrast. I actually did it by accident. It wasn't ment to be an 8bit sprite.

this looks like fun, i did a caveman (5 colors including transparency)

oh, my bad, well a little edit and....

and this

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