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Originally Posted by Winterfang

I would said that but they tend to forget the Art part of Pixel Art.

I wish Capcom stuff where easier to find animated. This stage is crumbling down because of the fighting and the guy is yelling at you, is pretty fun to see in the game.

Woah, is that the shop from Street Fighter Alpha on the left hand side of that screenshot?

@Platy-
Thank you!

Fantastic animation and the stuff put in there really manage to bring out how much of a Space God-like entity Pyron is.

Originally Posted by Choppasmith

Always loved how great the water animates in a lot of their stages.

First image from AoF3 I believe.

Originally Posted by El Sloth

Needs more Darkstalkers.

I know man! ...and not just the 3rd game, the first 2 had some neat backgrounds.

Originally Posted by MarcoZombieCannon

First one is from Guilty Gear XX (says so in the filename), second one I'm not sure. Filename is HNK, Hokuto no Ken(?), I don't know of any Fist of the North Star 2D fighters off of the top of my head though.

2nd one is Toki's stage from HnK.

Originally Posted by AC!D

Woah, is that the shop from Street Fighter Alpha on the left hand side of that screenshot?

Yup it is the same shop.

Originally Posted by InfiniDragon

Right song (Tears), wrong version.

This is the one you want here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7ginT44cQ

Loved KOF 99's look and music.

Heh I was at worked when I linked them and just picked the first links I found on YT ^_^;

Originally Posted by Ironmask

edit: also this one from Butt's stage totally screams "You Came to the Wrong Neighborhood ,muthaf*er1"

Kyokugen Bear is best bear.

Originally Posted by AC!D

Woah, is that the shop from Street Fighter Alpha on the left hand side of that screenshot?

Yep, and I'm pretty sure the guy that is yelling is supposed to be Takuma Sakazaki aka Mr. Karate

Originally Posted by Tizoc

Kyokugen Bear is best bear.

Kyokugen is the one true fighting style.

Originally Posted by Zaventem

I'm sad pixel art is probably gonna be lost next gen. RI.P good looking 2d games.

People have been saying this since PSX and it still doesn't happen.

CAVE's games this gen are pixel art treasures.

Originally Posted by Tizoc

@Platy-
Thank you!

Fantastic animation and the stuff put in there really manage to bring out how much of a Space God-like entity Pyron is.

Never noticed before what happens if you stare at those stairs too long.

(Don't stare at the stairs too long.)

Originally Posted by AC!D

Woah, is that the shop from Street Fighter Alpha on the left hand side of that screenshot?

Holy shit! I never noticed. That's AWESOME.

This thread needs more Marvel Super Heroes and Xmen: CotA love.

beautiful. wish these would apply to a genre i was more interested in =/

SNK background have so many details, you wish you could explore more, but your imagination just fills up the rest.

Capcom backgrounds lack something, but they are also impressive.

I can't find a gif or video of X-Men:COTA Danger Room, the details there are awesome. If while fighting you jump, laser will shoot at where you were standing (as if you just evaded the hit), if you do a high jump spikes appear, and if you run a big colum (iirc) drops from above, all of this to simulate random dangers you have to avoid.

Those Battle Colosseum ones are jawdropping, especially the gray-toned ones. It's just a few shades, and yet its full of detail and far from boring.

Originally Posted by Jezan

SNK background have so many details, you wish you could explore more, but your imagination just fills up the rest.

Capcom backgrounds lack something, but they are also impressive.

I can't find a gif or video of X-Men:COTA Danger Room, the details there are awesome. If while fighting you jump, laser will shoot at where you were standing (as if you just evaded the hit), if you do a high jump spikes appear, and if you run a big colum (iirc) drops from above, all of this to simulate random dangers you have to avoid.

The Spiral stage was incredible, too. I admit, half the reason I played that game was to see backgrounds.

Originally Posted by Village

From more recent fighting games I have been playing. And ones I can appreciate a bit more since I don't have much of a connection to snk fighters.

France stage from TTT2



And the sentinel/ metro city stage from umvc3 ,



sadly I cannot find gifs

There should be a stage viewer in 3D fighting games.

Originally Posted by Winterfang

I would said that but they tend to forget the Art part of Pixel Art.

I wish Capcom stuff where easier to find animated. This stage is crumbling down because of the fighting and the guy is yelling at you, is pretty fun to see in the game.

What game is that from?

Originally Posted by jaxword

What game is that from?

Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000.

Originally Posted by ReturnOfTheRAT

Should be NeoGafLand.

glad to see I'm not the only one who had to read it twice :)

A Gaf Sprite Artist need to edit it.

Think it's been posted already but my favourite stage is Akuma's bonus stage in Third Strike - the dark forest with the large moon. Especially love the alternate version with the blood red moon!

Does anyone have a hi-res large (1600x1200 or 1280x1024) version of it? Would love to have it as a desktop wallpaper!

Always loved fighting on this stage.

KOF XI. I wish they where more animated.

I like how a lot of these stages have people just sitting around in the background, not even watching.

"Huh, people brawling in the street? Again? Boring, back to washing my clothes."

Does anyone have animated gifs of stages from the arcade MK games?

Originally Posted by boutdown

Does anyone have animated gifs of stages from the arcade MK games?

The HG101 article has a few good shots of them, but no gifs to my knowledge. Some of them are pretty great.

Originally Posted by cj_iwakura

The HG101 article has a few good shots of them, but no gifs to my knowledge. Some of them are pretty great.

Can you export this gif?

There is a gif on this page but somehow they cut it up into pieces so I can't save it or anything.

http://www.mortalkombatwarehouse.com...scorpionslair/

I wish more fighting games came out per year so that we didn't have the post the same ones. They remain beautiful, though! S.N.K., yum.

How about A.D.K.'s Ninja Masters: Scroll Of The Supreme Ninpo?



They didn't have the cash for awesome stuff, but that one has a regal sort of beauty and symmetry.

Originally Posted by GhaleonQ

I wish more fighting games came out per year so that we didn't have the post the same ones. They remain beautiful, though! S.N.K., yum.

How about A.D.K.'s Ninja Masters: Scroll Of The Supreme Ninpo?



They didn't have the cash for awesome stuff, but that one has a regal sort of beauty and symmetry.

Wow this one has a very nice dept to it.

Originally Posted by KDash31987

Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000.

That reminds me. Are there any handheld-only titles with good backgrounds? Anyone? I would think the Neo Geo Pocket Color couldn't handle it, but the Game Boy Advance and DS likely could.

Originally Posted by Choppasmith

The SNK Wikia has a bunch of these stages archived for viewing.

http://snk.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Stages

Ah, took me a while as I lost the link, but here is the ULTIMATE source of Arcade stage rips (both SNK and Capcom)

http://www.emugif.com/index/column.htm###

You don't know how much I love you for this<3

Sorry about the necrobump, I just couldn't resist.

I know Third Strike gets unfavorably compared to NG and SI but a lot of the stages have an amazing aesthetic. The fantastic music gives them a very particular character too.

These are beautiful.

All these backgrounds are simply amazing, you can just see the passion poured into them. The SNK and Capcom of old will always be the gold standard.

Here are some of my faves from the Alpha series:

Someone needs to find a quality SFII blanka stage GIF.

Ha ha, awesome.

Are there any gifs of Chaos Code's backgrounds? Some of them are pretty great, lots of background action.