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Ha! They didn't even move it, just mirrored.

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I made them face the same way, and XORd them together. Not much car left!
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Rorthron wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:41 pm Game Over cover:
Helmet? Which helmet?

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Rorthron wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:13 pm Also I suspect Cavelon might have been influenced by the movie Excalibur:
Heh - nice one. I've got that film on DVD somewhere - got it for 50p in a charity shop I think.

I don't think I've actually watched it yet - in fact, I don't think I've taken the plastic covering off it...
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Smash TV loading screen (the inlay is different)
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and Boris Vallejo's movie poster for National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
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Dragonlance Game (TSR board game from 1988) box cover

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Corya the Warrior-Sage loading screen

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And of course there's European Vacation too...

The Shard of Inovar cover

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National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) movie poster

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Amazed how such a crappy film can inspire so many artworks! :lol:
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Aah, but it’s all due to the great Boris Vallejo!
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Can everyone see all the images again? They seem to have started working normally again on all browsers I use. I have tried Chrome, Firefox and Edge on Android and Windows 10. All six combinations are working fine now, where before only Edge was.
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Working all right in Firefox for me.

But I had some problems with images before. On my computer at work I couldn't see some image, at home I could although I was using Firefox at both places. Don't know what's the reason but can confirm the the problem exists from time to time.
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I think the problem was vgy.me. That site suffered some sort of outage on 16 Jan and was not properly restored. Users were reporting pinned-key problems like the ones we have seen here. On 23 Jan they announced they would revert to the old system. I guess that has just happened. Hopefully that should be the end of the problems.
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Aztec Calendar stone

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El Cetro del Sol loading screen

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Amazed how such a crappy film can inspire so many artworks!
There is even more :lol: Actually I found a great link about these inspirations but I'm not posting it to not kill the thread ;)

Stormlord loading screen
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Rorthron wrote: Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:07 am I think the problem was vgy.me. That site suffered some sort of outage on 16 Jan and was not properly restored. Users were reporting pinned-key problems like the ones we have seen here. On 23 Jan they announced they would revert to the old system. I guess that has just happened. Hopefully that should be the end of the problems.
It's not. I can't see anything.

Everything from the vgy.me domain is blocked by default for Chrome users.

This is what I see under Windows and Mac OS when looking at vgy.me on Chrome...
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Try IMGUR.com instead.
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To be more specific about vgy.me content not showing up for Chrome users, here's what the 'Advanced' details say...

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[mention]PeteProdge[/mention], this continues to be quite weird. The messages you mention were the ones I was getting in Chrome until yesterday. Since yesterday vgy.me links have worked fine for me in Chrome and all other browsers on both Windows 10 and Android 7.0 (Nougat).

I'll try to use another site for future links and maybe change the old ones if there continue to be problems.
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Rorthron wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:59 am @PeteProdge, this continues to be quite weird. The messages you mention were the ones I was getting in Chrome until yesterday. Since yesterday vgy.me links have worked fine for me in Chrome and all other browsers on both Windows 10 and Android 7.0 (Nougat).
Probably down to the DNS offering from whatever internet connection you're on. It seems that vgy.me may well have fixed their certificate-pinning issue, but that may yet to filter through across to all ISPs.
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Storm cover and loading screen

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4918

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and Boris Vallejo again (parody picture turned into serious picture)

Corkscrew (1983), by Boris Vallejo

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Despite owning that cassette I clearly never looked at it very closely before, I always thought that Mastertronic logo was a kilt.
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I thought that barbarian cover was really cool, and thought the game would be a bit more RPG like. Especially when I bought Journey's End and wasn't disappointed with that......
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Match Day 2 loading screen

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One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker (down, right)

Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer cover

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Masters of the Universe (The Movie) and Death Stalker, maybe?

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One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker
Good spot, definitely not a coincidence !
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And now, a Spectrum magazine copying game art for their own ends...

This is Gremlin's Impossamole...
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And here is Sinclair User's 'Specman' from Feb 1992, who closely resembles the subterranean rodent.
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Pretty brazen!
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thats a funny one
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