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Box art by Michael Koelsch

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

RIP Drew Struzan

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Yeah, probably not the most effective approach. The above ad (with 6 figures) appeared in GamePro 58 (May 1994). I'm realizing that there was a 7th illustration (surely also by Barry Jackson) that appeared in the following month's issue that continues the gag (GamePro 59, June 1994)

Thanks for being a sounding board! I'm gonna delete the post

My understanding is that the box art for The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang was done by Dan Harto, who also did a variety of work for Nintendo Power

I've been trying to identify the intended usage for this Assassins Creed Origins artwork. I believe it was done for merchandising and the artist Kerry Gammill has also done sculpture designs. The artwork is ultimately preliminary, so despite the differences maybe its this? Any other ideas?

Advertising art by Barry Jackson (of Cool World fame) for the Super Nintendo title Equinox, an action adventure puzzle game and sequel to Solstice. Barry confirmed for OVGA that the six figures were all done on separate illustration boards

Here's the original line art for Katsuya Terada's #PrinceofPersia piece. I'm not sure its ever been scanned. This is from my copy of Rakuga King 寺田克也ラクガキング which I've been meaning to de-bind for better scans anyway. This is at 600dpi but I did it at 2400dpi & will upload it later
#Nintendo #Famicom

Kevin Eastman Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Poster Illustration Preliminary Original Art (Konami, 2022) comics.ha.com/itm/original...

I don't believe the artist has been identified. The original image is by a Japanese artist (I think Kazumi Kakizaki) and then the image you asked about I believe was redone by a UK artist with the design firm Khartomb. However the specific artist that Khartomb hired remains a mystery

I don't know how it's only 1k! I hope it picks up from here man, so more people see your great work

Thank you!

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with the man behind the Psygnosis logo – and so much more!

Me and @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social had a chat with Roger Dean a couple of months ago, and today we published our interview. Among many things, we spoke about the cancelled Black Onyx game he was working on with Henk Rogers.

Power Blade II NES box art prelim for Taito (1992) by Paul Faris comics.ha.com/itm/video-ga...

Ha! A comical sequence

The Neverending Story II: The Arcade Game box art by Italian artist Renato Casaro

I'd add @vgdensetsu.bsky.social

Poster for Conan the barbarian

Poster for Flash Gordon

Poster for Dune

Poster for Rambo

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

Preliminary box art for Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge for Super Nintendo (LJN, 1992). Even though the final was done by John Romita, Sr. this prelim rendered in inks was done by comic book artists Tom Brevoort and Alex Saviuk comics.ha.com/itm/video-ga...

I doubt it ever was planned to have different art than this. If you have the license and your game is leaning on that IP to make sales, using the iconic imagery with Arnold makes sense (to me)

Unused NES box art for Sunsoft's Super Spy Hunter, as seen in a Sunsoft 1990 CES sales kit

Agreed! And Ken's work is frankly a much better painting

Prince of Persia clean artwork by Katsuya Terada used on the cover of the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo (PAL territories) releases. Image depicts the prince wielding a sword with the princess by his left side along another woman holding a dagger. On his right side one of the bosses can be seen. Jaffar is on the background, left side, with a menacing look, while at the bottom a skeleton can be seen, and our little white mouse friend right in the middle.

My restoration of #PrinceOfPersia's artwork by Katsuya Terada used on the cover of the #SuperFamicom and #SuperNintendo (PAL) releases. This is a v2 of my previous work adding missing bits at the top/bottom using different sources, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch combo.

Figured it out! Those initials are MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin. I reached out to Mark and he confirmed. Mark also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest

Mark Duffin has also been credited for illustrating the box art for Speed Hawk and for Jeff Minter's Photon Storm

As a big Sega guy, I'd love for the original art for the game box or ad art to surface

Turns out those initials are actually MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin, who also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest, though Mark confirmed for OVGA that neither original painting was ever returned. Mark said both were a rush and had to be done overnight!

Ha, whoops! Good catch. The NES/GB Sunsoft release is indeed called Return of the Joker, and the Genesis game, which I believe is a port, is titled Revenge of the Joker