Spikeout Fanart

So…interestingly enough, this game is quite sparse in fan-art despite its apparent relative popularity in Japan during the height of Spikeout Final Edition…though with how that never got ported home for over two decades and the rest of games based off it were either not well regarded or likely not well known to Spikeout fans, as the only home port in the form of Battle Street was on the Original Xbox, likely not the most popular console in Japan at the time, it mkinda makes sense.

I think I even had found a handful more of results for Last Bronx when looking for that even when that’s another obscure, one-game-only fighting game from SEGA than Spikeout stuff. Though knowing that it was relatively popular in Japan back in the day to the point that it has a sound drama, manga and live-action play, it makes sense there’s more people that remember that even if it isn’t one of the games seen in recent Like a Dragon games (also there’s a handful of Lisa cosplays floating out there).

For that reason, I thought in making this little page to document the few pieces of fanart from these characters with how finding them can be hard due to scarcity and results of game pictures if you just try looking it up on Google.

yok_mola did a really cool thing

https://twitter.com/yok_mola/status/1409829400472821766
I’ll start with an extra rare one: Panels of each of the four in Team Spike PLUS a full-sized art of Linda, which might not be surprising when you keep scrolling down…but also a full-sized art of White.

With how the rest of the fan-art I’ve found and linked below is either mostly Linda, with a few Spike art as the main face of the game, and very few pieces of other characters…this might be at the moment the only visibly polished, if not the only fan-art of White and Tenshin at all, for some reason.

The only one you might have found at first [and more Spike]

Axel and Spike by JoeAdok on DeviantArt

Because not only it is one of the few in DeviantArt, but also is made by a non-Japanese artist so it is easy to find when looking up the english name and he’s paired with Axel from SEGA’s older beat-em-up classic Streets of Rage.

But the fact that its basically SEGA’s two classic beat-em-up protagonists before the rise of Kiryu Kazuma together in one piece of art, and one that looks good, is super coooooool!

There’s also what I call an anime-fied Spike:
spike / 拳獣 / July 21st, 2011 - pixiv
Checking the artist’s other work and to see it mainly consists about 90-style chibi anime girls, it does explain the particular choice of artstyle for him. But hey, fan-art’s still fan-art, and its still neat.

And finally, there’s what this artist did. Regardless of how you feel about the polish or style…he clearly got the spirit, the pose, and even a handful of other older SEGA characters drawn.
https://www.deviantart.com/speedway66/art/Spikeout-Spike-1015449437

Whoops, it’s all Linda

There’s something ironic about how there’s way more fan-art of specifically Linda than of the rest of the cast, not just because she definitely has got the most from her design as a female character in an obscure game (for another example, try digging up fan-art of Honey from Fighting Vipers…and then try finding more than a few pieces of fan-art of anyone but her), but because even then, there isn’t THAT much.

More than the other fighters get, but still not much at all.

Zan Zanryu on Twitter: "Linda from Sega’s 3D Beat’em’up “Spikeout"Now colored! Hope you like it! ❤️#スパイクアウト #Spikeout http”
SPIKEOUT - ニコニコ静画 (イラスト) (nicovideo.jp)
COOKY* on Twitter: “@LordBBH linda from spikeout sure is a looker https://t.co/tLB9lxvgyq”
Linda (Spike Out) | IN Wario (ameblo.jp)
Spikeout: Linda by Speedway66 on DeviantArt
Post-Human Wanderings — Linda from Spikeout (AM1 - Sega Model 3 - 1999) (tumblr.com)

That last one isn’t even a full illustration, but instead a collage of two of her official models and one chibi art in the corner that definitely must be fan-art…but no idea where to find the source of it.

And there’s the lesser known ones

Because finding fan-art of spin-offs/sequels of an already relatively obscure game is doubly difficult, so here’s ONE rare fan art for Spike Jr., Min Hua, Slash, Kamui and Luna. And there’s also a fan-art of one of the female mooks in Spikeout too.

And yes, I know it’s all very different artstyles, but you take what you get. The two SlashOut guys happen to be the luckiest to have got art from yok_mola, but I’ll admit that its cool that someone tried to do Spike Jr. as sprite art.

https://www.deviantart.com/cuine/art/CM-12-Min-Hua-548021245
https://www.deviantart.com/jettmanas/art/Sheryl-892053873
https://twitter.com/yok_mola/status/1437628894853484549
https://twitter.com/veil8801/status/1621097244123623425
フクＤ on Twitter: “#ドットの日だからお気に入りのドット絵貼る　#pixelartスパイクアウトBS移植してくれー https://t.co/8j3ydhmoBP”

Leaving a special highlight to the one below that reimagined the four new Spikers Battle characters as SONIC characters, in the same way that Honey from Fighting Vipers appeared in Sonic The Fighters as a cartoon cat. Its interesting that this is likely the only fan-art three of those four ever had.
https://www.deviantart.com/joeadok/art/SpikeOutDudesFun2-884674114

And the one that had at least ANOTHER piece of fan-art would be Hikaru, from the hands of SACHartworks, who still uses this art as a profile picture to this day

Hikaru by SACHartworks on DeviantArt

BONUS: Spikeout Battle Street wallpapers

Sure, these are official, but they are illustrated, there’s variants for both old and new teams plus Neo Inferno, and on the note of illustrated…this is also probably the only official illustrations the old Team Spike has if we ignore that they are redesigned. I have not found a single high-quality of official hand-drawn art of them with their old designs, only their chunky Model 3 shots.

SPIKEOUT Battle Street OFFICIAL SITE (segakore.fr)

The only, and I mean the only trace at all I’ve found of that so far, and might not even be official as I can’t confirm if the book is official or not, is from the SpikeOut Bugfix book which is supposed to contain…data of some sort? Most I know is that the datasheet in Lazy_35P’s guide names this book so it likely had health data and a few tips.

But from the minuscule screenshot here, it had at least one or two illustrations for the boxart, and as far as I’ve got to see, there are no higher quality scans or screenshots of this…
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