[eso76]

And I love the feeling of pandemonium in this KOF94 one. Probably helps that the city in the back looks like it's on fire.

helps that the city in the back is straight from Akira. Scanned from this frame in fact.



i instantly noticed when the game came out because i was remaking the exact same Akira frame pixel by pixel on Amiga 1200 for a 2D beat em up (never released, but i had 3 backgrounds i'd like to show you, shame they are on an amiga floppy which i doubt can still be read).

maybe not 'secret that blows your mind' material, but still interesting.

off topic, the same image was obviously an inspiration for Last Resort too

[jett]

the background in THIS :)

Man that is some sweet spritework. Do the devs working on that actually work on retail games? :P

[BigBadShamoo]

Holy shit at this thread.

Like holy shit.

Amazing.

[PJX]

yeah, that's definitely something I've been wishing for. All SF3 stages in 3S online edition

That's something I would love as well but I don't think Capcom would be willing to waste the time and effort to do it.

[Azure J]

You know, the more I look at this one:



the more I wish I could make it my PC background, complete with rainy animation.

[Raging Spaniard]

You know, the more I look at this one: the more I wish I could make it my PC background, complete with rainy animation.

Animated gif's work as desktop wallpapers, actually.

edit: mm, its not working? Weird, Ive gotten them to work before ...

[PBMax]

Art of Fighting 2:






Real Bout Fatal Fury 2:




Garou: Mark of the Wolves:




KOF 95:




Last Blade:












Last Blade 2:

[jett]

Man SNK's background artists are just the best. Where are you getting those animated MOTW background gifs from? I'd like to see Terry's stage.

[PBMax]

KOF 99:

[Azure J]

Garou: Mark of the Wolves:

Mother of God. <3

[Nishastra]

You know, the more I look at this one: [Rain] the more I wish I could make it my PC background, complete with rainy animation.

That's funny. I thought about doing exactly that earlier today, but then I discovered that Windows can't do it without extra software any more. Used to be able to do that kind of thing with ActiveDesktop, but they killed it off with Vista.

[PBMax]

To really appreciate the sheer skill of SNK's artists it's worth noting the Neo-Geo's tech specs:

Main processor: Motorola 68000, 12 MHz
Co-processor: Zilog Z80, 4 MHz
Main memory (used directly by 68000): 64 KB
Main video memory : 74 KB
Video memory: 64 KB
Palette memory : 8 KB
Fast video RAM : 2 KB
Sound memory (used directly by Z80): 2 KB
Display resolution: 320x224 (many games only used the centermost 304 pixels)
Color palette: 65,536 (16-bit)
Maximum colors on screen: 4,096 (12-bit)

[thechristoph]

Man, the industry abandoned 2D way too soon. If only we had another gen between the SNES and Playstation eras... le sigh...

[careksims]

Why can't they bring this stuff back. Such amazing stuff and still holds up to today. I miss it so much. 2-d forever.

[someguyinahat]

so Raging Spaniard, did you make your final decision on a background yet?

[Izayoi]

So much atmosphere, goddamn.

This makes me want to pull all of my old fighters out again.

[Syril]

Man SNK's background artists are just the best. Where are you getting those animated MOTW background gifs from? I'd like to see Terry's stage.

All three of them, you mean?

[Flying_Phoenix]

Unfortunately there aren't any larger background pics but The Fallen Angels had some great looking ones:

This game looks beautiful.

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

My question is where the f*ck ALL of these awesome gifs come from?

[Showmeyamoves]

I know it's not as good as some of the other kof stages posted already but I kinda like this one.


The music makes it awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzbx...eature=related

But anyways my real favorite from KOF2002 is this.

[Platy]

2 things that i NEVER noticed that i think that should be pretty visible : The gravity problem on darkstalkers and the ..... well ... the ... neo geo logo above

SamSho2:

And talking about snk .... while i hate most of SNK's art direction, i LOVE everything related to Last Blade 1 and 2

[Raging Spaniard]

so Raging Spaniard, did you make your final decision on a background yet?

Nope, but Im leaning towards the ones that arent so omgfuckingperfect. Theres a fun challenge in taking something from "Last Blade" and making it steampunk though ...

[luka]

Just to give SNK's recent efforts some recognition:

[Flying_Phoenix]

[Azure J]

I love how the moon has a "NeoGeo" inscribed on it in that Last Blade background. :lol

[SciencePilot]

Sorry I don't have anything to add, but I just wanted to say this thread is amazing. Please never die, pixel art. Please never die.

[Raging Spaniard]

Trust me, neither of those are the most original ideas for a background ever. Theyre both going for landscapes you see in Japan occasionally.

[jett]

All three of them, you mean?

Right.

[DrFunk]

CERTAINLY, THEY EXISTED

[Zeal]

i was just about to post this. good form.

last blade series is so awesome.

[Rocwell]

Man this thread is awesome, I wanted to post the MVC bathhouse stage but my google fu has failed me. The best I could find was this partial shot from some mugen forum...

SNK really makes the best backgrounds though, that plaza with the rain in particular is absolutely stunning.

[someguyinahat]

Nope, but Im leaning towards the ones that arent so omgfuckingperfect. Theres a fun challenge in taking something from "Last Blade" and making it steampunk though ...

Oh, you want IMPERFECT backgrounds! This might be a good challenge then...going back to the granddaddy of them all...

[Raging Spaniard]

Oh, you want IMPERFECT backgrounds! This might be a good challenge then...going back to the granddaddy of them all...

I guess the YELLOW needs to be there in order to be recognizable!

Found a bunch more, all from the vs. series or a few from Children of the Atom









This ones more funny than anything











Bonus, Dans stage in Alpha 2 is dope!

[Solune]

I love how the moon has a "NeoGeo" inscribed on it in that Last Blade background. :lol

Mind blown.

[PBMax]

I love how the moon has a "NeoGeo" inscribed on it in that Last Blade background. :lol

That one is actually from SamSho2.

[Scythe27]

I had no idea how amazingly detailed some of those KoF backgrounds were.. incredible. Especially the one with the rain... damn.

[luka]

I love how the moon has a "NeoGeo" inscribed on it in that Last Blade background. :lol

OMG

and yeah that's samurai spirits :P

Garou: Mark of the Wolves:

This is amazing. I've never even really noticed the incredible lighting in this scene.

[sixteen-bit]

Gorgeous.

[Clott]

.....What a great idea for a topic, am I the only one that hasn't seen this one done before?

[krakov]

So many awesome memories, my mind is blown by the sheer amount of details in some of these that I haven't noticed before. I really like the old KOF backgrounds and the intros they had back then.

[Flying_Phoenix]

Trust me, neither of those are the most original ideas for a background ever. Theyre both going for landscapes you see in Japan occasionally.

I was just trying to display "evolution".

[SalsaShark]

Shots like these make me think that some fighting games could use a further-away camera.

[N4Us]

This game looks beautiful.

It's very nice looking overall, the sprites look amazing too and it blows my mind that it only came out in 1998:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkcYlmvmwU

The designers of this game later went on to work on KOF and Garou, and I think 99-2000 in general really show it's influence from this game.

[To Far Away Times]

This thread is some of the best evidence yet that 2D is a far superior option to 2.5D.

[Foxy Fox 39]

Shots like these make me think that some fighting games could use a further-away camera.

One of my complaints with the new marvel. ITS SO CLOSE!

[shidoshi]

Someone post Stage of SNK from CvS1 please, I can't find it!

If you're talking about the rainy street scene with the arcade, that's exactly what I'm trying to find. Probably my favorite 2D fighting game background ever.

[Finaika]

If you're talking about the rainy street scene with the arcade, that's exactly what I'm trying to find. Probably my favorite 2D fighting game background ever.

This one?

[IMG]http://i38.************/xm3eh2.png[/IMG]

[Raife]

I never noticed how stunning the backgrounds in some of these games I've spent hours and hours playing are. Definitely dragging Last Blade 2 out of the closet to play some matches.

[GotchaForce]

CVS1 had the best backgrounds, somebody post them all!

[Augemitbutter]

can't beat SNK.