ah yes its one of my favorites as well! <3 excellent job on this! <3 *instant wallpaper*

Oh that version of the boss theme. Thank you kindly.

Really does add to the image. And Oh yes, this bugger.

Thank you for the nostalgia.

Only 10-12 hours? An image like this would have taken me Days! Well Done Here! =^u^=

well, it was a few days,
but I put in about 2-3 hours a day.

Still tho. Very Impressive with such detail! =^_^=

thank you very much,
glad to see you enjoy.

wow.....talk about memories. XD I remember playing this on the old sega channel thing way back in the day.

fucking awesome

My memory was sullied by the bad remake/sequel that recently came out.

at least someone remembered it to make it.
and even though it was a bad remake, at least
it reminded folks that there exist a really good
game before it.

This looks really good, very stylish. Great work.

Damn...! Time well spent, because this looks awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX7WrHCaUA

Those goggles on him could even remind one of one of Elton John's outrageous glasses.

Awesome game is super awesome!!!

Oh Hell yeah.

Turned out fantastic Neokat, the colour looks great. Just like metal in most 90's games! Always had that gold tint to it all!

Wow just wow, this is amazing Neo.
I like the tune of the colors you've used.
Things like this should be streamed, I can learn alot from it :)

well,
I started streaming it, but then
I kept at it off and on and thought,
this would be hard to keep 4-6 hour stream
sessions and most of the time would involve
me getting up to cook or forgetting that I'm
drawing.

I'm very casual when I draw and nothing is
ever very orderly when I do a project.

but really it's all a matter of learning how to use the
brush density in SAI, that's really all it is.

Ach! I remembered THAT boss well from my childhood days. Heck of a fun fight.

asfsad how did I not see this.
I have the original game~ Came with the Megadrive I bought on Ebay about a year ago~ <:3
Amazing music, graphics, and tough game! Love it and love this!

thanks a bunch,
yes, this one of my favs growing up,
it's sad how this one is not on any Sega or even
any Konami collection games.

I know...but we can still enjoy it! Sparkster was released on Megadrive and SNES but I prefer the former~ :P
The "remake"? Mmmm...it was okay...ish...

no way,
the first Genesis game was the best,
of course it was a game of itself,
the people that did the sequels were different
thus the all the sequels were not as good
as that first one.

Hell even the Japanese version had extras added in- ....and let's not forget the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Tg.....5F35EB2E565B37
If I had more talent and better playing skills I would do this in a heartbeat! XD

oh of course,
which is why i posted this with the boss song in the description.

You just made my day!
I love this series.

wow,
really glad to hear you enjoy.
thanks a bunch for your comment.

This is amazing! I loved Rocket Knight and this pictures just brings up the coolest aspects of it!

This picture is freeken amazing^^

I always enjoyed all these boss battle and even the battle music was amazing in that game.

When that train starts flailing his arms is the best part

oh yea,
I always loved this boss,
it had a certain edge of scariness to it.

Also loved that Robot in the airship that jiggled so crazily parts of the ship would start falling on your head.

I think the giant robot Sparkster was always so creepy looking,
I mean it was cool, but just a bunch of steam pipes and wires
in and out of all of the wrong places on that thing, the first
time I saw it I didn't realize it was suppose to be Sparkster,
and then when I did see...wow...creepy awesome.

whoops, I think it was the second sparkster game:
http://www.gamefabrique.com/storage.....arkster-03.png
still weird....and also kinda cool.

http://www.electricblueskies.com/wp.....e-4-8-BOSS.jpg

Yeah, I remember that one two. Kind of like the Pig Boxing robots in Adventures

something about those steam punk robots on the genesis were just the right kind of awesome.

This is my favorite shit for real.

Is there a way I can fave this like seven more times so that it's the only thing that shows up on my profile?
Because dude.
FA devs get on it.

thanks a whole bunch for that,
I'm really glad you dig this image.

I love this on a level I can't even convey

Epic game, epic music, epic period and epic drawing :), this series deserves more love, fingers crossed sparkster can get into smash bros as dlc and a hd remake of the original (or re-release) can happen.

5 years and nothing after rocket knight...wth konami.

yea, I felt like there wasn't much for him in konami's hands after
the new rocket knight was released on PS3,
that game seemed so unfinished and half assed, such a poor
excuse for such a creative and iconic character.

I'm sure he may have a good return someday, but you would
have to find a way to make a new element with his game mechanic,
that's most of what made that game so great for it's time, it
was trying something vastly different.

controlling him was almost like shooting pool, that's part of
the fun of rocket knight, if they want to get creative,
re-use this same element with a 3D environment or
come up with some more interesting ways to use this.

yea, everything about that first game was just perfect,
music, characters, plot, gameplay...all of it, sometimes
jewels just happen.

but the best part is I think he has aged like fine wine,
people do still go back to play his games and they're still fun.

True, the old game is brilliant and it's good more are playing but damn I wish konami would even acknowledge his existance even just once :(.

I had some great ideas for moves for sparkster and metroidvania style game for rka (still plays like rka one (arcade roots) and has an rpg element (upgrading spaksters rocket pack and swords, elemental swords, even thought of a new move recently where he rockets off the wall and causes structural damage at points, another one where sparkster stabs his sword into the ground, chargers rocket pack, hangs on to the sword and spins around and creates a rocket wheel attack that clears the area of a bigger group of enemies, even giving sparkster capoera style moves incorporated with his rocket pack would be cool.

I'm not a game designer sadly but I have plenty of ideas but meh, I even think sherry could make a good playable character as she uses magic, making her and sparksters gameplay very different.

there ya go, new fun ideas to try.

that's the reason the PS3 version was so bad,
it was just regurgitated and was really poorly done.

but exactly,
try something new to play with his bizarre mechanics and
of course that would be fun.

Sounds like a fab idea you have

I am a graduate in games design and you got the right elements as all it takes to become a games designer is having imagination and quality game play that has its own style. Ideas is what begins foundations
If I had my own company which I will build up on eventually after I finish more training
I would hire you and you could work from home as a lot of video game and art companies do that these days.

Memories at its golden age of gaming

lol,
glad to hear you dig it.

Cheers ^w^

My mate is also a huge fan of Rocket knight
I might see if can commission you a rocket knight as christmas or birthday present for my mate

Sparkster is a gem and a forgotten legend. I felt he deserved more than he actually got. Think of the successes of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise as a whole; the same thing should have happened with Sparkster/Rocket Knight.

I totally agree,
it's not all his fault though,
at least with Sparkster, even in the sequels people did
try although they didn't go over well there was at least
still heart put into them.

it mostly had to do with teams splitting up and licensing
going in all directions.

like I say,
Sparkster never turned bad, he just got a bit dissolved with time,
he's a character and theme with so much potential anyone could
pick him back up and make it awesome again.

but it would take heart,
unlike that weird ps3 game...it had an idea, but was
poorly executed.

Well, at least it did tell a bit more of the story.

yea, that's true.
but usually with video games sequels are typically better,
but in sparkster's case his entrance was the best.

Indeed.