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Post by Snarboo on Nov 24, 2015 0:32:40 GMT -5
I was a watching a friend play through Gaia Crusaders last night when I noticed that the second stage (and possibly a few others) heavily lifts from Zdzisław Beksiński, a famous Polish surrealist. I'll try and dig up screenshots with direct comparisons soon, but I'm bumping the thread now so that I don't forget this later. :p Edit:Given the size of some of the comparison images, I've opted to create an imgur gallery. Let me know if you cannot view this! Some of these are tenuous at best, but it's hard finding an exact match in some cases because of how prolific a painter Beksinski was. It's also possible that some of the stage's imagery was borrowed or inspired by other famous surrealists, such as Giger. |
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Post by moran on Dec 8, 2015 18:30:53 GMT -5
 This was posted in the Box Art thread. The guys are a mash up of stuff I can't pinpoint. The guy on the bottom left is a modified Stormtrooper. And the Baphomet is another's mash up that I can't figure out, but know I've seen before. |
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Post by Snarboo on Jan 14, 2016 13:13:08 GMT -5
Not sure if this has been pointed out before, but the weird skeletal villain on the cover of Phantasy Star III is none other than New Adventures of He-Man Skeletor! Edit:In fact, it seems to be based specifically off the Deadly Disks Skeletor Figure: |
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Post by Neo Rasa on Jan 14, 2016 15:39:47 GMT -5
This was posted in the Box Art thread. The guys are a mash up of stuff I can't pinpoint. The guy on the bottom left is a modified Stormtrooper. And the Baphomet is another's mash up that I can't figure out, but know I've seen before. I can't speak for the two guys (I assume they're just from whatever 80s war flick hit Japan at that time like Strike Commando or Robowar or whatever) but the Baphomet seen here is based on a famous wood carving from the 1600s of a guy selling is soul to the devil. It's been imitated A LOT in various movies/comics/games/etc. Two immediate examples that come to mind are in the 1989 Italian horror movie The Church and IIRC in one of the documents in Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare. |
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Post by BdR on Jan 16, 2016 10:57:59 GMT -5
The in-game title screen of Laydock (MSX, 1985) looks fascinating. It's probably based on the trench from Star Wars or maybe Battlestar Galactica. I can't think of any other game of that era having such a sophisticated 3D image. So I wonder how they made this, because 3D modeling software wasn't as widely available back then.  There's definitely similarities with the design of Starfighters (1984, MSX laserdisc), see movie below at 50:40 |
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Post by BdR on Jan 20, 2016 17:14:45 GMT -5
Sorry in advance if I'm going a little bit off topic here; The game Blood Money (1989) used a painting by Peter Andrew Jones, which was initially used as the cover of a sci-fi novel "Protector" (1973) by Larry Niven. It's not really traced, more like just copied with permission&credits btw. Psygnosis used a lot of these kinds of beautiful boxart in the 80s. Although weirdly they usually did not reflect the actual games at all, see more here.   |
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Post by lurker on Jan 22, 2016 22:35:21 GMT -5
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Post by MelvanaInChains on Jan 24, 2016 1:58:32 GMT -5
popping back on here (after like 3 years? what the hell) to add another thing to Metal Fangs that a friend of mine spotted; namely the clone guys (and by extension the bald guy who's an edit of the clone guys)   he bears a very noticeable resemblance to Ryuichi Sakamoto from Yellow Magic Orchestra, although the eyes seem a bit off, the rest of the features seem to line up |
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Post by Neo Rasa on Jan 24, 2016 11:47:35 GMT -5
It's definitely him. Among the special features of the PSN release of House of the Dead 4 there's an interview with one of Sega's character designers and he's really specific about how any time Sega makes a character throughout history the process is just to take ___ celebrity's face and move the eyes slightly further apart or closer together (Metal Fangs was developed by Sega itself even if Victor ended up publishing it, with Victor publishing I wonder if it was originally meant to actually license the likenesses of all of the people we see in it).
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Post by barbarus on Apr 5, 2016 20:16:56 GMT -5
Ambermoon (on Amiga, by Thalion Software, 1993) has almost all its enemy sprites blatantly ripped off from Dungeons & Dragons illustrations although it had officially nothing to do with AD&D, TSR etc : Jeff Easley (this creature is also present , but officially this time, in TSR's "Slayer" fps rpg on 3DO, 2 years later in 1994)  just for comparing the rendition of the same monster based on the same artwork by Easley, ambermoon (1992 amiga) vs slayer (1994 3do) :  dragons by Keith Parkinson (clearly the one on the left by Parkinson has been traced over for the game, without wings and with a slightly different left arm. ) Dragon on the right is just to show an alternate version by Parkinson, in a similar position.  "Orcus's Doorman" by Keith Parkinson 1987 :  this same artwork by Parkinson is also on the AD&D game "Slayer" box art (3DO, 1994) :   I suspect this character is ripped from a promo shoot of Vohnkar in Willow (the movie)  |
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Post by drpepperfan on May 1, 2016 0:18:27 GMT -5
Willow Pattern for C64 and Frank Frazetta art.  |
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Post by drpepperfan on Aug 23, 2016 17:35:21 GMT -5
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Post by The Green Herring on Aug 23, 2016 20:03:45 GMT -5
And of course, Ninja Master is about to kick Vallejo's The Magnificent down there:  |
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Post by The Green Herring on Aug 26, 2016 16:27:53 GMT -5
A quick browse through L.K. Avalon games on MobyGames and I found a possible Rambo trace on the cover art of Adax:   |
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Post by drpepperfan on Aug 26, 2016 19:34:06 GMT -5
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