Game art copied from elsewhere

[Ralf]

Speaking of The Legend of Amazon Women



Dinosaurs taken from the film One Million Years B.C.,

One Million Years B.C. movie still



The archer from Frank Frazetta:

Land of Terror, by Frank Frazetta

[Rorthron]

I'm not quite sure about the archer. The pose looks a bit different to me.

Bang on about the dinosaurs. I suspect the woman on the top right is based on Raquel Welch from the same film, but can't point to the source image.

[Rorthron]

Looking at the Legend of the Amazon Women art again, you can really see how it was cobbled together from disparate sources. The woman in the top right is levitating in thin air (and doesn't seem to have a left foot). The woman immediately to the left of her is twice the size as the woman standing next to her in the water. (The size difference is not due to perspective: look at the positions of their feet in the water). The allosaurus' tail disappears half way (behind one woman's hair).

[Rorthron]

Rygar and Frank Frazetta's art:

Swords of Mars, by Frank Frazetta

The same Frazetta picture is also copied in Galivan (no fewer than three times):

Galivan cover

[Ralf]

The same Frazetta picture is also copied in Galivan (no fewer than three times):

Also in some obscure game called Kentilla:

Kentilla inlay (Mastertronic release)

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6527

[Ast A. Moore]

Mmmmm. Mmmmm! I mean, mmmmm!

[Alessandro]

Also in some obscure game called Kentilla

Obscure for you, maybe Kentilla was a well-known text adventure back in the day, written by Derek Brewster of Codename MAT I & II fame. I played it on the Spectrum as well as on the C64. Ah the good ol' days...

[Rorthron]

I wasn't sure if Ralf was being ironic. I thought Kentilla was one of the best-known text adventures.

[Ralf]

Well, actually I didn't know about Kentilla till now and just found it by googling for inspired inlays. So you say I missed something important? Well I'll have to give it a go I guess

And going back to inspired art...

Rerelease of International Karate +



and Steven Seagal:



The beardy guy looks a bit like Chuck Norris too

[Ralf]

Today I spotted:

La Cueva del Tiempo loading screen

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27409


"borrowed" from Master of Magic loading screen

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3054



Unfortunately they remembered to replace the signature but didn't care to correct this guy, he looks quite badly deformed

[R-Tape]

To be honest Ralf, I think this one is a coincidence.

[Rorthron]

Of all the loading screens you could copy, why on earth would anyone choose thst one?

[Juan F. Ramirez]

To be honest Ralf, I think this one is a coincidence.

Sure!

[Rorthron]

Boris Vallejo, The Magnificent (again)



Anaconda cover

[Rorthron]

The Lap of the Gods cover also copies The Magnificent:

Lap of the Gods cover

[Rorthron]

It's not quite an exact match (the arms are slightly different), but it's very close.

Frank Frazetta, The Norseman



Black Tiger cover

[Rorthron]

We've already had The Shard of Inovar, but I've found a second Vallejo source image.

Boris Vallejo, National Lampoon's European Vacation



Boris Vallejo, Heavy Metal



The Shard of Inovar

[Kweepa]

There's got to be a Vallejotron that clamps various figures together randomly... if not... crap game material?

[Rorthron]

The Vallejotron is at it again...

The figure in Anaconda is also from Vallejo:

Boris Vallejo, The Broken Sword



Anaconda cover

[Rorthron]

And another one from.Vallejo:

Boris Vallejo, In the Underworld



Amaurote cover



I strongly suspect the other figures in the Amaurote cover can be traced back to Vallejo, too, but since R-Tape's buttock-o-meter is hitting red, I'll stop there for now!

[Rorthron]

The right-hand figure in the Amaurote cover closely resembles the one in the Rebel Planet artwork.

Rebel Planet advert



Amaurote cover



Amaurote (1987) might have been copied from Rebel Planet (1985) or both might have copied another source.

[R-Tape]

I wonder if the Specventure inlay is based on anything well known. Something like The Flash, or maybe a speed skater.

[Rorthron]

The third Amaurote figure is also from Vallejo:

Boris Vallejo, Tarnsman of Gor



And yes, the buttock-o-meter is now off the scale, and R-Tape's yelling "she cannae take no more!"

[Juan F. Ramirez]

This thread shows me how many cover games were inspired by Boris Vallejo. Incredible!

[diver4d]

Third figure from Amaurote and Rebel Planet is from Vallejo too ofcourse:)

Boris Vallejo, A Private Cosmos