Welcome to Nostalgic Sprites! Here you’ll find poster prints featuring your favorite retro video games and movies from the 80s and 90s, including Atari, NES and SNES titles. These are the movies and games I grew up with, and I hope you did too, because they don’t make ‘em like they used to. Enjoy!

Sprite Collages

Collage-based posters featuring iconic sprites from some of the best NES and SNES titles. Great for exploring or playing a game of ‘I Spy’ with a friend.

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A collage of various Super Mario World characters, items, and icons from the video game, arranged in a grid pattern with the game title in the center.
A collage of pixel art graphics from the video game Contra, featuring various characters, monsters, weapons, and enemies, with a central label reading 'CONTRA'.
Pixel art collage featuring soldiers, weapons, vehicles, and explosions from the video game Metal Slug.

Movie Posters

A good movie poster reveals just enough to make you want to see it. Once you do, the same movie poster will bring you back to the experience of the movie.

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Silhouette of a boy riding a bicycle with a backpack in front of a large full moon, with trees at the bottom, from the movie poster for E.T.
Movie poster for 'The Goonies' featuring a group of kids and a large skull in front of a waterfall, with a treasure pile at the bottom.
Mortal Kombat logo featuring a dragon emblem with a tagline 'Nothing in this world has prepared you for this' against a dark background.

Mugshot Matrices

Grids of mugshots from your favorite NES, SNES and PC games. Mugshots are static portraits of game characters, usually used in menus and intros. The most famous are the Megaman robot masters from the original NES games.

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Pixel art depiction of 20 classic video game characters arranged in a 4x5 grid on a blue background.
A character selection screen from Mortal Kombat featuring various fighters with different costumes and masks, including Sub-Zero with a blue mask, Scorpion with a yellow mask, and other characters with distinctive appearances, set against a fiery background.
A grid of 20 pixel art fantasy characters, including humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, dragons, and monsters, arranged in four rows and five columns, with a snowy pine tree border.

Famous Game Moments

The first time you beat Ridley in Super Metroid? The first time you entered the Throne Room in Chrono Trigger? The first time you built an arcology in SimCity 2000? Re-capture those moments and more.

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A pixel art scene from a retro video game featuring a robotic character fighting a large dragon inside a dark, castle-like environment with purple walls, flames, and a barred gate.
A pixel art scene of a courtroom with a judge's bench at the front, surrounded by explorers in green uniforms, lit by tropical sunlight through large curtains.
Pixel art depiction of a robot with a house on top, resembling a droid with a glass dome containing a landscape with trees, mountains, and a lake, surrounded by forest.

Iconic Game Art

The best games usually have strong visual design behind them. This artwork helps craft the stories we remember, and provides a basis for rich character design and world-building.

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Close-up of a colorful, digital pixel art illustration of a mythical character with a large eye, a pointed hat, and a long, curling nose, set against a dark background with a small glowing light.
Cover art for the video game Duke Nukem 3D featuring a muscular man with sunglasses and blonde hair, standing in front of an explosion, with the game's title prominently displayed.
A detailed black and white sketch of a medieval knight in armor fighting a large, aggressive ogre-like creature with wild hair, sharp teeth, and muscular limbs. The scene depicts combat with the knight holding a sword and the creature wielding a club, set against a rough textured background.

Stadium Series

The best sports games have iconic stadiums to go with the gameplay. I can still hear the music and sound effects playing over each of these.

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Game Maps

Maps and wayfinding are crucial to understanding how certain games work. For others, they’re a way to establish a mood before entering specific levels.

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A map of the planet Zebes from the video game Super Metroid, showing different regions in pink, yellow, blue, green, and red, with labels for each area such as Crateria, Wrecked Ship, Tourian, Maridia, Brinstar, Norfair, and Super Metroid.
A pixelated map of the original Super Mario Bros. video game level with pipes, Mario characters, blocks, and a castle, set in a side-scrolling platform layout.
Pixel art image of a space-themed video game screen with various celestial objects and labels, including planets, asteroids, a black hole, a space armor, a meteor, and a galaxy, with a score display.

Box Art

Box art is the first impression of any game, and can make or break a game’s success. NES and SNES have some of the best box art of all time, immediately recognizable to anyone who lived through them.

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Cover art for Super Mario Bros. 3 video game, featuring Mario with a big smile, flying in the air, pointing forward, wearing his red hat and overalls, with a yellow background, and logos of Nintendo and Nintendo Seal of Quality.
Video game cover for Konami's Contra, featuring two muscular soldiers armed with guns, a skeleton-like creature with a helmet and a serpent tongue, and a large skull-like face in the background.
Pixel art image of a character riding a red and white motorcycle in space, with the title 'Excitebike' and 'Nintendo Entertainment System' branding, along with a red 'Programmable Series' logo and a gold Nintendo seal.