This is gonna be a tough one to explain, but I'll do my best... Let's get the easy part out of the way first!

It's my buddy  chaos99 's birthday, and I wanted to do something special for him :) However, it turns out I wasn't the only one! Chaos is a big video game fan, and he has an appreciation for games old and new alike! He's also a bit of a Mega Man, and Mega Man's classic stage select format just so happened to lend itself well to showing off his friends (and favorite tickle victims)

The characters here (From top left and going counter clockwise because I like to be complicated) :

CheeChee :http://shinypika23.deviantart.com/:
MagicGuilmon  Scoutter
Rick & BH  chameleonice ;)
Rodney  dj-rodney
Ray  seraphon
ChuChu :ihttp://shinypika23.deviantart.com/:
Barry the Charmander :http://lechensko.deviantart.com/:

Chu's characters got double spaces because it was his idea in the first place :) Without him, this would have never come about!

This was actually a ton of fun to do, too! I really like working with sprites, and it was neat to see how close I could get them to the actual characters without just turning my own drawings into pixel art. Also, this marks the first time I've ever done sprites for Rick and Ben... I feel like I'll need to use that elsewhere.

Anyways, happy birthday Chaos! From all of your friends :)

Choose wisely ;)

Also, Chu suggested the perfect music to go along with this, but I'm going to have to be lame and post the song that kept going through MY head rather than the stage select theme from the actual game :P

MM3 Stage Select (Gameboy) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98qWYNMxjM8

Characters are © Their respective owners :)