blomkaal - thanks I was trying to keep it simple and rely on the texture to do the hard work. The concert was great, boogied down and listened to some fab music

Jay - cheers the body was fun but my inexperience on heads meant that I had to restart it (hence the try at a spherical head). I'm back to enjoying it now though.

utpal - might not have many screenshots but this site lists most of the NES releases:
https://www.nescentral.com/games/

One noobie question I have is - can you use bump maps in game characters? If so would it be good to bump up his hair area instead of modelling it all? (not including the ponytail/topknot as that will need modeliing).