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*** THE ARCADE TRAIN***
Time taken: Over 60-65 hours
Tools: Wacom Tablet + SAI Paint (for the entire drawing, plus PS CS4 for the final retouching and filters)
Author note: At last! I have finished the drawing that took my time during this summer that is sadly about finish. The idea appeared suddenly and I felt like having to make it now or it would never come true. But after a lot of sketches, searches, arrangements and, over all, hours of careful pen-making, effort worth!
Description: As you can see, the idea was to collect so many as possible of the most emblematic arcade characters that have been in our tablets for the last years. Specially, the tribute is dedicated to the App Store, since all of them can be found there, but also a wide majority is at the Android Market as well. It wouldn’t be weird to assert that in the recent times, arcade app-games (or casual games) have been achieving an important place in the videogame world nowadays. Needless to say that some of the games belong to well-known sagas ideated by the leader videogame companies, with graphics and gameplays at a very high level. But besides, the magic of this new kind of playing is due to these little studios that never had the opportunity to develop that title they were longing, and finally that first game came true, and many of them have become a reference in the Store. Because of that, the drawing it’s also an acknowledgment to all those indie studios with truly clever and potential ideas.
DRAWING REFERENCES:
In the following list I will mention each one of the references included in the drawing.
≫FRONT FLYING: “Madcoaster” bird, “Angry Birds”, “Glow Hockey”, “Meon”, “DoDonPachi Resurrection” ship, “Bad Piggies”; on the iPad: “Tank Hero”, “One Tap Hero”, “Fruit Ninja” watermelon, “Pacman” Mr.Pacman, “Mikey Shorts”, “Pizza Guy”, “Chu-Chu Rocket”, “Mr. Oops”, “The Secret of the Crystal Portal” book; “Rally-X” car, “Soccer Rally” Spanish car, “Head Soccer”, “Soccer Superstar ‘12”, “Bike Race”, “Slide Soccer” chip; on the controller (inspired on Megadrive pad): Rayman, Sonic the Hedgehog and Bomberman.
≫LOCOMOTIVE: “Sparkle” sphere, “Plague” logo, “Doodle Fit” sketches, “Aqueduct” pipe, “Home: A Unique Horror Adventure”; “Bejewelled” icons, “Candy Crush Saga” icons, “10 Talismans” icons, “Zoo Keeper” talismans, “10000000” icons, “Pac-Chomp!” icons, “Solitaire” symbols, “Alchemy” symbols, “Cogs” wheel, “Gears” ball, “Orba” color balls, “DOT Space Hero”, “Glass Tower 3” cubes, “Angry Words” showing DRLM, “Logo Quiz” showing my blog logo, “Cryptica”, “Eyes: the Horror Game”, “iChess Pro” horse icon, “Clash of Clans” machinist, “Great Little War Game” assistant, “Mushroom Age” robot sketch, “Puzzle Portrait” boards, “Cartoon Wars”, “Alex Panda”, “Burn the Rope” flame, “Arkanoid” stick, “Pinball” flipper and style bell, “Hangman” sketch and “Cute the Rope” candy.
≫FIRST WAGON: Wagon itself: “Survivalcraft” (or “Minecraft”) wooden blocks, “Atriviate” wheels; “Find it Pro” bee sticker, “Brick Roll” block; “Mage Gauntlet”, “Cute the Rope”, “Ruzzle” & “QuizCross” monster avatar, “Ice Rage”, “Flick Champions”, “Crate the Box”, “Scribblenauts”, “The World Ends with you”, “Ninja Jump”, “Where is my water?”.
≫SECOND WAGON; Wagon itself: “Tetris” blocks, “Minesweeper” wheels; “Swordigo”, “Stick Tennis”, “Arcade Jumper”, “Pictureka” penguin, “Banana Kong”, “McPixel”, “Lego” generical guy, “Blockheads”, “DeBlob”, “Ridiculous Fishing”, “Flick Kick Football”, “Devil’s Attorney”, “Ninja Pong”, “Minigore” John Gore (also in “Ice Rage”).
≫THIRD WAGON; Wagon itself: “Scan the Box” blocks, “Letris Power” power-up icons wheels; “Stupid Zombies”, “Call of Mini: Zombies”, “Plants vs Zombies”, “Zombie Smash”, “Zombie Tsunami”, “Minecraft” zombie, “Age of Zombies” zombie dinousaur, “Minigore” monster, “Oceanhorn”, “Jelly Defense”, “Project 83113”.
≫ RAILWAYS; Railways itself: “Draw something” pencil, “Charadium” brush, “Mahjong” boards, “Boost 2” boards, “Cross Fingers” boards; over the railways: “Subway Surfers”, “Pou”, “Temple Run” monster; under the railways: “World of Goo”, “Cado”, “Contre Jour”, “Last Rocket”; “Slice it!”.
≫BACKGROUND FLYING; over the other railway: “Madcoaster”, “Bumpy Road” and “Bike Baron” rider and cat (also appearing in “Ice Rage” and “Minigore”); “Tiny Wings”, “Infinity Field”, “JetPack Joyride” guy (also appearing at Age of Zombies); on the iPhone: “Soosiz”, “BadLands”, “Plants vs Zombies 2” (although the Egyptian helmet is only actually worn by zombies), “Doodle Jump”, “SlingShot Racing”; “A Ride into the Mountains”, “Angry Birds Space”, “LostWinds”.
Note1: As you can see, I have not included references to all the games belonging to a famous saga of a well-known company (NFS, Fifa, GH, Sims, COD, Dead Space, Prince of Persia, etc.) because I wanted to focus more in the independent studios. However, you can actually see reference to classic arcade games I did want to draw just for the history they represent (Tetris, Arkanoid, Pacman, Pinball…). Moreover, I have also avoided drawing characters from films (Spiderman, Despicable me, Disney, Star Wars…) spite of having released their own popular games at the Stores. Finally, the inclusion of the control pad was another blink, this time to three beloved characters of videogames history (Rayman, Bomberman & Sonic) who have known how to adapt their titles to these new markets.
Note2: I have tried to include references to the most popular games at the market nowadays and for the last two-three years, but also I have included some of the games that I most enjoyed at its time, some of those little jewels that, though they are not so well-known, I would recommend to everyone.
Note3: I know the original meaning for "Arcade" term refers to the old entertainment machine, but here I have used the other meaning refering to those games that remind us of the arcade original games, or those ones which focus on a progressive difficulty and an easy gameplay (and more fun in many occassions) instead of in the graphics, the storyline or the characters depth. Anyway, there is a bit mix of many of the games you can find at the Stores.

ALL OF THE CHARACTERS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVES OWNERS/CREATORS.
Anyway, the concept of the train can also be seen as a reference to the temporality of this emerging gameplay. Is it just the trend we all are following in these years (the train we take) or has it actually become a new reality for the incoming times, as the new most popular way to play, eclipsing in a certain mode the classic videogame systems?

By the way, are you missing some of your favorite characters? Don’t hesitate and let me know it in the comments; maybe in a future I could update a 2.0 version with a new round of forgotten and upcoming characters‼
THANKS FOR WATCHING, FAVING, SHARING OR/AND COMMENTING. 

Description
*** THE ARCADE TRAIN***
Time taken: Over 60-65 hours
Tools: Wacom Tablet + SAI Paint (for the entire drawing, plus PS CS4 for the final retouching and filters)
Author note: At last! I have finished the drawing that took my time during this summer that is sadly about finish. The idea appeared suddenly and I felt like having to make it now or it would never come true. But after a lot of sketches, searches, arrangements and, over all, hours of careful pen-making, effort worth!
Description: As you can see, the idea was to collect so many as possible of the most emblematic arcade characters that have been in our tablets for the last years. Specially, the tribute is dedicated to the App Store, since all of them can be found there, but also a wide majority is at the Android Market as well. It wouldn’t be weird to assert that in the recent times, arcade app-games (or casual games) have been achieving an important place in the videogame world nowadays. Needless to say that some of the games belong to well-known sagas ideated by the leader videogame companies, with graphics and gameplays at a very high level. But besides, the magic of this new kind of playing is due to these little studios that never had the opportunity to develop that title they were longing, and finally that first game came true, and many of them have become a reference in the Store. Because of that, the drawing it’s also an acknowledgment to all those indie studios with truly clever and potential ideas.
DRAWING REFERENCES:
In the following list I will mention each one of the references included in the drawing.
≫FRONT FLYING: “Madcoaster” bird, “Angry Birds”, “Glow Hockey”, “Meon”, “DoDonPachi Resurrection” ship, “Bad Piggies”; on the iPad: “Tank Hero”, “One Tap Hero”, “Fruit Ninja” watermelon, “Pacman” Mr.Pacman, “Mikey Shorts”, “Pizza Guy”, “Chu-Chu Rocket”, “Mr. Oops”, “The Secret of the Crystal Portal” book; “Rally-X” car, “Soccer Rally” Spanish car, “Head Soccer”, “Soccer Superstar ‘12”, “Bike Race”, “Slide Soccer” chip; on the controller (inspired on Megadrive pad): Rayman, Sonic the Hedgehog and Bomberman.
≫LOCOMOTIVE: “Sparkle” sphere, “Plague” logo, “Doodle Fit” sketches, “Aqueduct” pipe, “Home: A Unique Horror Adventure”; “Bejewelled” icons, “Candy Crush Saga” icons, “10 Talismans” icons, “Zoo Keeper” talismans, “10000000” icons, “Pac-Chomp!” icons, “Solitaire” symbols, “Alchemy” symbols, “Cogs” wheel, “Gears” ball, “Orba” color balls, “DOT Space Hero”, “Glass Tower 3” cubes, “Angry Words” showing DRLM, “Logo Quiz” showing my blog logo, “Cryptica”, “Eyes: the Horror Game”, “iChess Pro” horse icon, “Clash of Clans” machinist, “Great Little War Game” assistant, “Mushroom Age” robot sketch, “Puzzle Portrait” boards, “Cartoon Wars”, “Alex Panda”, “Burn the Rope” flame, “Arkanoid” stick, “Pinball” flipper and style bell, “Hangman” sketch and “Cute the Rope” candy.
≫FIRST WAGON: Wagon itself: “Survivalcraft” (or “Minecraft”) wooden blocks, “Atriviate” wheels; “Find it Pro” bee sticker, “Brick Roll” block; “Mage Gauntlet”, “Cute the Rope”, “Ruzzle” & “QuizCross” monster avatar, “Ice Rage”, “Flick Champions”, “Crate the Box”, “Scribblenauts”, “The World Ends with you”, “Ninja Jump”, “Where is my water?”.
≫SECOND WAGON; Wagon itself: “Tetris” blocks, “Minesweeper” wheels; “Swordigo”, “Stick Tennis”, “Arcade Jumper”, “Pictureka” penguin, “Banana Kong”, “McPixel”, “Lego” generical guy, “Blockheads”, “DeBlob”, “Ridiculous Fishing”, “Flick Kick Football”, “Devil’s Attorney”, “Ninja Pong”, “Minigore” John Gore (also in “Ice Rage”).
≫THIRD WAGON; Wagon itself: “Scan the Box” blocks, “Letris Power” power-up icons wheels; “Stupid Zombies”, “Call of Mini: Zombies”, “Plants vs Zombies”, “Zombie Smash”, “Zombie Tsunami”, “Minecraft” zombie, “Age of Zombies” zombie dinousaur, “Minigore” monster, “Oceanhorn”, “Jelly Defense”, “Project 83113”.
≫ RAILWAYS; Railways itself: “Draw something” pencil, “Charadium” brush, “Mahjong” boards, “Boost 2” boards, “Cross Fingers” boards; over the railways: “Subway Surfers”, “Pou”, “Temple Run” monster; under the railways: “World of Goo”, “Cado”, “Contre Jour”, “Last Rocket”; “Slice it!”.
≫BACKGROUND FLYING; over the other railway: “Madcoaster”, “Bumpy Road” and “Bike Baron” rider and cat (also appearing in “Ice Rage” and “Minigore”); “Tiny Wings”, “Infinity Field”, “JetPack Joyride” guy (also appearing at Age of Zombies); on the iPhone: “Soosiz”, “BadLands”, “Plants vs Zombies 2” (although the Egyptian helmet is only actually worn by zombies), “Doodle Jump”, “SlingShot Racing”; “A Ride into the Mountains”, “Angry Birds Space”, “LostWinds”.
Note1: As you can see, I have not included references to all the games belonging to a famous saga of a well-known company (NFS, Fifa, GH, Sims, COD, Dead Space, Prince of Persia, etc.) because I wanted to focus more in the independent studios. However, you can actually see reference to classic arcade games I did want to draw just for the history they represent (Tetris, Arkanoid, Pacman, Pinball…). Moreover, I have also avoided drawing characters from films (Spiderman, Despicable me, Disney, Star Wars…) spite of having released their own popular games at the Stores. Finally, the inclusion of the control pad was another blink, this time to three beloved characters of videogames history (Rayman, Bomberman & Sonic) who have known how to adapt their titles to these new markets.
Note2: I have tried to include references to the most popular games at the market nowadays and for the last two-three years, but also I have included some of the games that I most enjoyed at its time, some of those little jewels that, though they are not so well-known, I would recommend to everyone.
Note3: I know the original meaning for "Arcade" term refers to the old entertainment machine, but here I have used the other meaning refering to those games that remind us of the arcade original games, or those ones which focus on a progressive difficulty and an easy gameplay (and more fun in many occassions) instead of in the graphics, the storyline or the characters depth. Anyway, there is a bit mix of many of the games you can find at the Stores.

ALL OF THE CHARACTERS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVES OWNERS/CREATORS.
Anyway, the concept of the train can also be seen as a reference to the temporality of this emerging gameplay. Is it just the trend we all are following in these years (the train we take) or has it actually become a new reality for the incoming times, as the new most popular way to play, eclipsing in a certain mode the classic videogame systems?

By the way, are you missing some of your favorite characters? Don’t hesitate and let me know it in the comments; maybe in a future I could update a 2.0 version with a new round of forgotten and upcoming characters‼
THANKS FOR WATCHING, FAVING, SHARING OR/AND COMMENTING. 