Name that sprite!

What games are the following sprites from? (Ordered from easiest to hardest...)

1
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/d.gif

2
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/f.gif

3
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/a.gif

4
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/g.gif

5
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/e.gif

6
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/h.gif

7
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/c.gif

8
http://members.telocity.com/tehkao/b.gif

Thems is some nice looking sprites.

#4 = Suketoudara from Puyo Puyo. :)

1. Popful Mail
2. Snow Bros.
3. Aleste
4. ?
5. PS IV?
6. Truxton / Tatsujin
7. ?
8. ?

#1 is Mail from Popful Mail

#2 is from Snow Brothers

#5 is from Phantasy Star 4

#7 I think is from Mystic Quest or Secret of the Stars

#2 I think is from one of the Snow Bros games. I would name the exact one but the Ultracade machine screwed up my sense of which is which.

2. Snow Brothers
3. M.U.S.H.A/Aleste (?) fairly positive
4. Some Parodius game it looks like
6. Truxton/Tatsujin

#4 is from PuyoPuyo :)

#8 - The Minotaur boss from The King of Dragons (CPS-1/SNES)

#4 is Tara or something like that. He was my favorite PuyoPuyo character until I saw what they did to him in PP Da!

I have no idea. I am not hardcore enough, or something.