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Post by freegamer on Sept 10, 2013 12:23:26 GMT -5
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Post by Weasel on Sept 10, 2013 14:42:19 GMT -5
It looks like your image links don't work right unless I copy the links out of your post and load them manually. Any chance you could re-host them on a service that allows hotlinking, like imgur?
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Post by drpepperfan on Sept 10, 2013 15:09:08 GMT -5
Girl from the Mean Streets boxart also appears with the exact same pose on the similarly titled Dangerous Streets. This means she's almost certainly not Drew Barrymore, unless someone can find a picture of Drew Barrymore with the exact same pose somewhere.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 10, 2013 15:55:34 GMT -5
That is one heavily stylized Chris Jones. Wonder if he actually owned earrings like that...
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Post by derboo on Sept 10, 2013 16:42:52 GMT -5
Girl from the Mean Streets boxart also appears with the exact same pose on the similarly titled Dangerous Streets. This means she's almost certainly not Drew Barrymore, unless someone can find a picture of Drew Barrymore with the exact same pose somewhere. Not necessarily, Dangerous Streets came years after Mean Streets, so it may just as well have stolen from that cover.
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Post by barbarus on Sept 10, 2013 16:43:44 GMT -5
hello to everyone onboard! Kalidor (Scharzenegger) from Red Sonja (1985) : vs Wizards & Warriors X aka Fortress of Fear (1989)
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Post by barbarus on Sept 10, 2013 16:57:18 GMT -5
This Death & Glory box art seems to be lifted from the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie, as a mirrored version (left and right reversed) :
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Post by barbarus on Sept 10, 2013 17:19:36 GMT -5
More Schwarzenegger as Kalidor (from Red Sonja 1985) madness (on the right) VS Fabio as Nintendo/Acclaim's hero in Wizards & Warriors II aka Ironsword (1989) on the left : edit: Palace's Barbarian game from 1987 predated Ironsword (89), so Acclaim & Nintendo ripped both the 87 Barbarian box art and Kalidor/Conan/Arnie's pose :
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Post by Weasel on Sept 10, 2013 18:18:29 GMT -5
Except that's a photograph of famous male model/actor, Fabio.
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Post by barbarus on Sept 11, 2013 1:06:13 GMT -5
Except that's a photograph of famous male model/actor, Fabio. Exactly, Fabio was all over the place in the late 80s early 90s, he was the 'romantic' version of Arnie , for the ladies of course: hence they made him pose in Arnold's movie Conan stance. Some dudes over at Nintendo thought Fabio the cheap pulp novel cover model would be appealing to the young players but they were wrong, Fabio was appealing for the ladies ONLY, he never posed for any other console game photo; to worsen things up, the hero in the game never had the muscular barechested barbarian look, he always came fully armor-clad with steel from head to toe, unlike Golden Axe or Rastan which had their heroes being very close to the promo/box/flyer art. Fabio's photoshoot(88-89) was taken a few years after the release of Red Sonja(85), that is why I think my comparison is valid. I'll make things more clear in my second post then.
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Post by Jungyin on Sept 11, 2013 1:47:49 GMT -5
I'm curious, why do you keep mentioning Nintendo as though they played a part in developing or publishing Ironsword? I can only find mention of Acclaim, Zippo Games, and Rare.
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Post by barbarus on Sept 11, 2013 1:50:05 GMT -5
Very similar pictures, except the Conan the Destroyer pic with Arnold was taken a few years before the shoot for DeathSword (aka Epyx's version of 1987 Barbarian). I do not know the name of the guy who's posing for "DeathSword".
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Post by barbarus on Sept 11, 2013 2:08:53 GMT -5
Rastan Saga II's hero on the bottom right of the Taito poster/box art is lifted from Frazetta's Norseman (as stated on www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing2.htm ) , but the one on the high left corner is also taken from another Frazetta painting showing a barbarian hurling a flail, a fact that wasn't revealed in the original article: so finally we have +=Notice that the "barbarian with the flail " position imagined by Frazetta is ripped off a second time by Taito in the form of a -blond- Rastan for MSX:
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Post by barbarus on Sept 11, 2013 2:41:47 GMT -5
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Post by barbarus on Sept 11, 2013 2:46:27 GMT -5
I'm curious, why do you keep mentioning Nintendo as though they played a part in developing or publishing Ironsword? I can only find mention of Acclaim, Zippo Games, and Rare. I guess you're right, Nintendo probably wasn't responsible for the choice of model and so on, but they had a lot of control on what was being sold with the Nintendo "official seal". I guess you'll have to ask Fabio himself!
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