The Video Game Bestiary

Before my focus shifted almost entirely to Flash Animation, a lot of my spare time was spent playing classic horror, fantasy and science-fiction games for the sole purpose of collecting monster graphics. Over 3,000 creatures (and occasionally robots) can be found across the following pages with over 6,000 individual sprites.    Did I really spend that much of my life compiling this nonsense? Wow.

Super Nintendo

Cosmo Police something something - can you believe this beat-em-up only has FOUR enemies?!

Skyblazer - a simple, fun action game with adorable death-graphics for practically everything!

Actraiser II - it's Heaven versus Hell with titanic ants, terrified peasants and the seven deadly sins! What more could you want?

Hyper Iria - Based on an anime and loaded with gooey, icky mutants! Shame about the gameplay, though...

Kishin Douji Zenki: Rettou Raiden - an okay game based on a very cliche anime/manga. It has lots of eyeballs, though!

Psycho Dream - A dominatrix and a musketeer fight killer fetuses and giant insects. I love this game.

Zombies ate my Neighbors - One giant monster movie tribute, and one of the coolest games in history.

Ghoul Patrol - As it turns out, a shortened, relatively humorless "Zombies ate my Neighbors" is still an okay game, but just okay.

The Adventures of Dr. Franken - It's Frankenstein (the doctor here is also the monster) versus a bunch of random crap that wants to stop him from building a wife. He only wants to be loved, you bastards!

Majyuuou - Like Castlevania with guns. It's demon-slaying fun with fairies and full frontal nudity. Giant eyeball boss!!!

Mizuki Shigeru no Youkai Dotyuki - I don't know what the hell is going on in this game, but I DO know what a YOUKAI is, and if you don't, it's high time you find out...

Super Return of the Jedi - What, you don't remember that part in the movie where Chewie battles his way through tatooine's giant, killer lizards and centipedes?!

Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou - The less said about this game, the better. Come on in and hear all about it!!!

Musya - Interesting enemies and bosses (I dig those slug-people), but I definately don't reccomend playing this game. Ever.

Gegege no Kitarou - A modest little game based on a franchise you'd best learn about via the Gameboy Advance game...check that out first!

Super Metroid - You wouldn't be reading this far if I had to tell you what "Metroid" is. This is the "super" one!!!

Demon's Crest - This "Ghouls n' Ghosts" spin-off is just too badass for its own good. The monster designs are spectacularly wicked, and for once, that includes the game's hero!

Super Ghouls n' Ghosts - Sir Arthur drags his polka-dot underwear through six stages of pure hell and then has to do it all over again for absolutely no logical reason, as usual.

King of the Monsters II - Not much in common with the classic arcade title, but it does have a monster named "Sack Eyes"...

Ghost Sweeper Mikami - Japanese ghostbuster rides a giant cat, whips a bunch of comical spooks and demons into submission.

Ultraman - A single page showcasing the monsters from *both* major SNES Ultraman titles! ........  (\/)oVo(\/)  .......

Not-super Nintendo

Ghoul School - Widely criticized, and not entirely without reason, but it'll always have a place in my heart...and my heart is an Admiral.

Monster Party - Catch my javelin! Watch my dance! Face the music! PLEASE DON'T PICK ON ME!!! ...Oh, sorry, I'm dead.

Abadox: the Deadly Inner War - What begins as a ripoff of "Lifeforce" ends up one of the most gruesome shooters, ever.

Godzilla: Monster of Monsters! - It's amazing just how tedious and dreary this game happens to be, but hey, it has GEZORA!

Sega Genesis

El Viento - an okay game with some surprising cameo appearances by H.P. Lovecraft's monsters.

Earnest Evans - the prequel to El Viento has terrible controls and only moderately interesting enemies.

Altered Beast - The transition from arcade to home console significantly shrunk most of the enemies and stages, but the bosses made it through okay. Rise from your grave!

Ghostbusters - With plenty of neat-looking ghosts, this is one of the better Ghostbusters games, though certainly not the best.

Mystic Defender -  Bland by today's standards, but once fairly popular as one of the first hardcore fantasy-action games on the Genesis.

Bio Hazard Battle - Hop aboard a living spaceship (I bet that smells pretty nasty) in the war against vicious armies of flying squid.

Alien Soldier - An action-packed adventure with a baffling storyline and an insane number of boss battles. Features a gruesome, phallic mutant named "Sniper Honeyviper", who shoots bees from his ass.

Draxos - There isn't much to say about this Ghouls n' Ghosts wannabe, but you may as well check out the bosses.

Splatterhouse III - The third installment in what is very likely the greatest and goriest horror series in videogame history.

Decap Attack - This originated as a completely different game, which I don't care about, because it didn't star a headless corpse.

Ghouls n' Ghosts - A port of the one and only, original arcade version with some updated graphics. Way better than the SNES sequel.

Beast Warrior - The monsters are worth a look, but do not, under any circumstances, attempt to play this game.

Arcade

Quiz Chikyu Bouei Gun - Question of small thing, the answering which blasts enormous monster out of japan! Beware the wicked aggressor!

Nastar Warrior - The god-awful sequel to the renowned "Rastan Saga". Only here because some of the enemies are well-designed.

Chimera Beast - The only side-scrolling shooter that puts you behind the jaws of a ravenous, ever-changing space monster! One of the best games I have ever played. EVER.

Best 50 Fantasia - Battle savage mutants in a never-ending quest for fuzzy pornography. This is another game to stay the hell away from.

Bubble Bobble 2 - I'm afraid this is one of my only incomplete sprite pages, as it lacks bosses and possibly a handful of later enemies, but you'll take what you can get and you'll like it because I say so.

King of the Monsters - The original! Finally featuring Poison Ghost and some other monster left out of the SNES port! I love Beetlemania!

Metal Slug 3 - Let's hear it for one of the craziest, coolest, ludicrously fun games ever made! My most text-heavy videogame page, but still featuring a thorough collection of boss and enemy sprites!

Nightmare in the Dark - An obscure, very short, but surprisingly fun horror-themed clone of Snow Bros.

Magician Lord - This fantasy platformer has plenty of interesting monsters, and some classic dialogue...download the sound bytes!

Nemo - Based on a comic from times of yore. This is another rather bare and straightforward sprite page.

Gameboy Advance

Demikids Monsters A-N and Monsters N-Z - This monster-hunting spin-off of the japan-only Shin Megami Tensei games has so many monsters (over 360!!!) they had to be split into two separate pages.

Gegege no Kitarou: Page One (storyline and characters) *AND* Gegege no Kitarou: Page Two (enemies and bosses) In my opinion, one of the greatest additions to this site, ever.

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Pumpkin King - sprite-based prequel to my all-time favorite movie, added in celebration of Halloween in 2005!

Other Websites

Dragon's Den - an extensive Dragon Quest fansite, including monster graphics from across the series (remember to look under "bestiary", rather than game-by-game!)

Mr. P's Castlevania Realm - the largest and most thorough website ever devoted to a single game series.

RPGclassics - a collection of subsites (shrines) for numerous console roleplaying games, many with illustrated bestiaries.

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