From Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX, it's Zobio (the big lug in the back) and Zobiko (the little one at the front)! They're zombies who've fallen in love and are on the run in the arcade-only mini-game lightgun game. I've only played the game once myself, very briefly at a retro game expo, but I was reminded of them because they were unlockable characters in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, alongside the likes of Bonanza Bros. and Jacky Bryant & Akira Yuki. Sure, they're the living dead, but they make a cute couple, huh? The background's inspired by the main art used on the arcade flyer for the game, sadly the pair do cover the blood streaks I went to the trouble of adding... Oh well.

From Knuckle Heads (this week's Arcade Archives release, don't ya know, it's Christine Myao! She's the obvious Gaming Hell choice in the admittedly-small roster, but she is pretty fun to play as. There's not a lot of Knuckle Heads fanart to go around, so sometimes you have to make it yourself~

From Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior and based on her appearance in The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle, it's Kasumi Todoh! She's a favourite of mine from the AoF series, but it's surprising to see her AoF3 / KOF96 design is a bit different from later ones- her hair is in a more obvious ponytail in later games, for one thing. If you're wondering about the book and the caption here, one of her win poses in a few games has her whip out an English phrase book and say "Come back when you grow up!" to her opponent in English. That's dedication to trash talk, doing so in a different language!

From the Mega Man 6 sprite hack Roll-chan 6, it's Roll with the Tango Power Adaptor! I've decided that I'm gonna draw Roll using my favourite weapon from each of the six NES Mega Man games now I've beaten them. I've done HARD KNUCKLE from Mega Man 3 already so here's my favourite weapon from 6, the Power Adaptor. She doesn't fuse with Rush, she fuses with Tango instead, and it looks like she gets cat ears, so I decided to run with that. I guess I'm a fan of punching robots in these games, huh~