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1434790 No.1434790 [Reply] [Original]

Look at this Zork 1 poster produced by the Zork Users Group. Just look at it! A copy of this poster sold recently on eBay for almost $500 - For a poster! But here I'm sharing it with you in the highest quality I'm able to post on this board.

What have you got for the thread?

>> No.1434796
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I don't know who the artist is but everything he did for psygnosis is great.

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Here's one for Zork 2. It's easy to download these games, you could download every Infocom game in about 30 seconds. When you see art like this, though, it helps to appreciate just how deep these games were to the people at the time - something it's easy to forget when "lol this game is only 32k"

>> No.1434812

>>1434796
Yeah those Psygnosis covers are all awesome. Is it the same guy who did those Yes album covers? I know at least one of those video game covers got re-used as an album cover. I guess those fan bases didn't overlap much back then.

>> No.1434810

>>1434790
Wow, that's cool. Has an M.C. Escher sort of vibe. And so many little things going on.

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>>1434796
Roger Dean you asshat

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>>1434812
>Is it the same guy who did those Yes album covers?
Yes
>I know at least one of those video game covers got re-used as an album cover
He was a prog rock album cover artist and designer foremost, the album covers came well before Psygnosis and video game covers

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Here's some Darkstalkers stuff by Bengus.

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All done for now
Maybe later i'll post sci-fi futuristic stuff

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>>1435002
What a misleading flyer.

>> No.1435047

>>1435035
Weren't they all?
It was mostly overcompensating from the lack of actual visuals

>> No.1435079
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Also a Judas Priest album cover

>> No.1435081

This takes me back to being a kid at the video store, looking at an impenetrable wall of games I know nothing about, and picking one based entirely on the awe that struck me looking at the cover art. It's a very warm feel.

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>>1434815
>>1434823
>>1434796

I've always been mesmerized by Dean's work.

Since I was a kid and played Psygnosis games on the ST, I always wanted to reach in and touch his designs.

They always seem so... velvety.

No homo

>> No.1435152

>>1435035
It looks pretty spot on. You play as some babe in bikini armor and kill monsters.

>> No.1435157

>>1435081

Please remember when you got home and popped that game, with an amazing cover showing alien worlds with floating islands and other amazing things.

Into your Spectrum.


And after a couple of seconds, looking at the box again.

That wasn't a warm feel.

>> No.1435159

>>1435157
Sure it was. It fueled the imagination. Those graphics were just a representation of the amazing fantasy world that actually would have looked like those covers.

I wish developers of today would examine this concept when creating new games. A game with the solid mechanics of a classic PC game plus the graphical style of its supplementary illustrations would be a smash.

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>> No.1435208

>>1434978
i love simon bisleys art

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>>1435018
hah

>> No.1435235

>>1434963
>soon to be a motion picture
Really is a shame that it never actually went into production. You couldn't even do it now without everybody saying that it's a rip-off of the Matrix

There was also an unreleased Neuromancer game by Timothy Leary that was centered around the script for the movie. Apparently what's left of it is in the Library of Congress now

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>> No.1436092

wow awesome thread. some really great artwork posted here. does anyone have any dragonquest/warrior concept art done by akira toriyama? i've always wanted to see some of the early art in the first few games (mainly the first game) but have had trouble finding anything that great.

>>1435035
why does miss athena have 4 toes...?

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Obligatory Metal Slug art. From the (?) SNK/Metal Slug Facebook page. They've got some pretty cool stuff.

Shoe/Karn, the heavy tank. Appears twice/thrice in the first game, once in MSX.

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>>1436113
Mini-Bata. Stage 2 miniboss from the first game, with a mysterious railcar.

Also I just now realized I'd taken the version of Shoe/Karn with an ugly ass watermark thing. Oh well.

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>>1436118
D. Morden.

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>>1436120
A rebel(?) with a flashlight.

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>>1436121
A rebel about to do a hadouken. Kinda like Hyakutaro.

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>>1436125
SV-001 firing its vulcans. Something similar to this appears in MS6 at the very end, but it's a 3D render or summat.

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>>1436127
Tarma.

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>>1436132
Marco.

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>>1436135
A wrecked Slug out in the jungle.

The entire photo gallery is on the "Metal Slug World" facebook page. It has some good stuff in it in a higher res than usual for Metal Slug art, so check it out, willya? I dunno. If someone could point me to a good resource with Metal Slug art in a good resolution, it'd be nice to get a link.

/METALSLUGWORLD/photos_stream

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Here's a mashup someone made.

Feels bad that nowadays all we get are DeviantArt/photoshop covers.

Gone are the days of hiring professional artists to illustrate interpretive covers.

>> No.1436712

>>1435025
The SNES version really got fucked over when it came to covers...

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>>1436706
>Gone are the days of hiring professional artists to illustrate interpretive covers.
The interpretive covers sure are gone, but there are way more professionals working these days.

>> No.1436748

>>1436706
>Feels bad that nowadays all we get are DeviantArt/photoshop covers.

That's not even close to being true.

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http://www.panic.com/blog/panic-retro-art/

>We commissioned local artist Lukas Ketner to try the impossible, and work in a lost art style that literally nobody in the world does anymore.

>The concept: what if Panic was around in 1982, and our apps were early Atari 2600 games?

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>>1440036
http://www.panic.com/blog/candybar-2600-found/

>TIGsource had an inspired contest: A Game By Its Cover. The idea? Take a fictional, funny game box, and make an actual, genuine game for it.

>Jason Santuci wanted to enter this contest. So he Goog’d around for ideas, and somehow came upon our fictional Atari 2600 boxes. Then he made an actual Atari 2600 game. Then he made a manual. Then he somehow made an actual Atari cartridge for us.

>To summarize: a real app became a fake retro artwork joke which became a real retro game based on the fake artwork for the real app.

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>>1440036
Same artist, commissioned to create poster art for the text adventure documentary Get Lamp.

http://www.getlamp.com/