Tracing the Influence - Stolen Images in Games

[barbarus]

Universal's "Magical Spot" (1980) art heavily borrows from Esteban Maroto's art for Creepy (#105 1979) as shown above, but how about the INSECT fiend in Galaga'88 ( 1988, Namco ) maybe being inspired by the iconic cover art by Neal Adams for Savage Tales #4 ( 1974 Marvel Comics) ?

not traced, "inspired".... what's your opinion?

[Woody Alien 2]

It's not mentioned in the game's review here on HG101, but the horrible Cyberdillo references the painting "La Mort de Marat" by Jacques-Louis David in its game over screen. Why? Who knows.

[hitchhikr]

Hi,

Regarding "Murder on the Atlantic" : link

Considering this game is French and was released in 1986, I think this one (Laurent Fabius):

is probably this man:

who was prime minister in France in the beginning of the 80's.

And this one:

is probably this man (Jack Lang):

was also was a French minister during the same era.

[barbarus]

'Kid Niki - Radical Ninja' (1986) US cover art :

...borrows heavily from Frank Frazetta's "Egyptian Queen" (1969) on the left  and Boris Vallejo's "In the Underworld" (1978) on the right :

details:

..pretty sure the executioner and the troll have been lifted and or traced as well

[lurker]

Ran into this AI art approximation of Timothee Chalamet used for a Switch shovelware Mahjong title.