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Interesting! Good catch on the credit on the back of the OST

I've also seen the box art credited to Peter Morawiec. Tony probably makes more sense, but how were you able to confirm this one?

@peachflavor3d.bsky.social, thanks to Dom's great research, it appears that Shinji Kubota is the artist for this Gunforce piece that we discussed a couple weeks back vgdensetsu.net/shinjikubota...

Box of the Japanese version of R-Type for Game Boy. In the foreground, the player's spaceship. In the background, one of the game's bosses.

R-Type for Game Boy illustrated by former Irem in-house artist Shinji Kubota / 窪田シンジ.
Note that this box art is actually made of 2 different illustrations.
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In case you were wondering: Kazuyuki Hoshino drew this Sonic held by the late David Rosen.
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Amano fans are a different breed!

This art appears on the back of the Atlas game Majin Tensei for the Super Famicom. While Kazuma Kaneko was the art director for the game, I'm not sure if he did the package illustration. The illo has also been credited to Yasuhiro Kagami but I understand that he may have only painted the horned head

Heh, gotta be NHL Stanley Cup, which was Nintendo published 😉

Ha, oh no! Now I'll always see that

Larry Jost is the artist for both of these images and luckily the paintings themselves haven't been lost and are collector owned. It's just the brochures that are so obscure! We are finalizing an OVGA bio for Larry Jost and are just working out a few last details like this

Yeah, the treatment for the US box (for Zelda 1 and 2) is not at all unexpected and I'm familiar w/ Girvin, whose goal was getting good on-shelf placement/presence for Nintendo's games. I just hadn't seen anyone upset abt the Japan Zelda sword, contrasting the general disdain for US box art "errors"

Makes sense that there would have been freelancers involved (and accordingly it would be less likely to come up in interviews, as so much outside help remains anonymous). More than anything I get irritated to see the pitchforks come out for US box art even tho inconsistencies happen everywhere

Has anyone documented or scanned these Nintendo brochures? Were probably aimed at retailers rather than direct consumers. Not sure if the images are fronts or interiors. SNES one saw additional use in international Nintendo mags (Chile, Sweden) but I'm looking for info on the actual brochures

US box art gets a lot of flack for characters & details deviating wildly from the actual game but what's up w/ the sword in Japan's first Zelda game logo? That intricate hilt looks a bit conspicuous... @historyofhyrule.com? Big Zelda fan but haven't played the first entry. Hope I'm not too off-base!

Our recent podcast episode talked a bit about Justin Carroll and John Hamagami who together formed Hamagami/Carroll Inc., a graphic design consultancy w/ significant work in the video game industry. In 1992, John did the Sega Genesis box art for Parker Brothers' Monopoly (full image seen on poster)

Here's a quick one cause I already had these guys lying around: Metal Morph for the SNES. Another one where the center figure is still a mystery. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

The box art for Pac-Man (Atari 5200) is signed but I don't think the artist has yet been identified. The same initials also appear on the unused box art for Pac-Man 5200 on page 169 of Art of Atari but the artist also isn't named there. The initials look to me like 'PL' or 'AL'

Really great find, Pedro! I never knew about Ultra Fighters. I don't think there is much supporting an association with Raiden Trad, other than perhaps a comment on David Schleinkofer's Flickr, which could very well have just been a collector guess that David repeated www.flickr.com/photos/38157...

Those are the initials of Dirk John Wunderlich (DJW). He did the SNES box art for Super Troll Islands and confirmed he did the NES Europe art for ASC's The Trolls in Crazyland. He is credited in the manual for Snow White in Happily Ever After SNES but said it wasn't his (though perhaps he forgot)

Art from this BurgerTime arcade cabinet is actually coming to Heritage as part a Pinball and Arcade art showcase in February. The description isn't as clear as it could be, but I think this is the original ink rendering seen on the side of the cabinet: entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv...

Also not one I have any info on, though a Katsuya Terada image did just come up in one of my feeds and I see some similarity there (though Artelius is probably not his work and that's just an off-the-cuff remark). Normally I would look at other titles from the same publisher with the same style

A shame this one doesn't appear to be signed!

I'm sure it's more of a situation where the signature was toward one of the edges rather than in the center and that it just got cropped. It's also an earlier work I think, but I haven't looked too deeply. It could be that his signature was more central starting a couple years later

Given that this is a Konami flyer, I agree with @vgdensetsu.bsky.social that the artist is likely Akira Nishimura: vgdensetsu.net/akiranishimu...

I don't know the artist, but I know that is not Susumu Matsushita, as others suggested. I'm familiar with his catalog of works and his execution is much sharper. This airbrushing is really just average.

Yasushi Torisawa is the artist. This was done for Telnet Japan. In the same period, Torisawa did other works for Telnet like Death Bringer, Andorogynus, and Final Zone II

For the 1994 World Blockbuster Video Game Champion, but if you see the Sonic in isolation you might not realize it was digitally painted (and poorly). I'm sure Dismukes repainted the Animaniacs logo at some point for some official purpose. But no way he did the original.

Gaming Art - JOHN TAYLOR DISMUKES

Beyond the Animaniacs logo not being on Dismukes' current site, I think what gives me skepticism of him having done the original logo, is seeing other repaints of his, like of Sonic jumping (directly mimicking Greg Wray's work) that I know was done for Blockbuster: www.dismukes.com/library/gami...

I don't think it's disputed at all that Larry Grossman did the Animaniacs logo. He also did the logo for Tiny Toon Adventures and the box art for Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout NES. Larry did quite a bit for Warner Bros in that era: www.retrovisions.com/logos.html

I don't think I've yet properly identified "C. Buxton" but here are two additional illustrations they did: Defenders of the Earth and Death Trap. Death Trap was published by Anco. I haven't been through their catalog much yet, but I suspect they worked on other Anco boxes