Game art copied from elsewhere

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Good find!!!
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Golden Axe II cover, by Boris Vallejo

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Fear Tales loading screen

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(The loading screen footer does actually say Golden Axe II. Presumably the screen has been reused.)
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I had a quick look and couldn't find the exact source image that was used but I can't help but think that the cover artist for Kosmos may have relied just a tad on Marvel's "Rom: Spaceknight" comic for inspiration here.

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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:49 pm Good find!!!
Actually I stole that one (and a few others) from this article (and the associated discussion thread):

https://hg101.kontek.net/tracing/tracing.htm

This is a thread about plagiarism, after all....
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richl wrote: Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:56 pm I had a quick look and couldn't find the exact source image that was used but I can't help but think that the cover artist for Kosmos may have relied just a tad on Marvel's "Rom: Spaceknight" comic for inspiration here.
I had never heard of ROM: Spaceknight before, but you are absolutely right. The resemblance is uncanny.
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Three Robin Hoods in one...

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) movie poster

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Sherwood loading screen

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Patrick Bergin in Robin Hood (1991) movie poster (see the cameo in the bottom left)

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Photograph of Errol Flynn as Robin Hood

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Sherwood cover

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Title drawing for Chapter Eight of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

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Drawing of Spider-Man in How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way*

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Flash Gordon cover

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* This looks to me more like someone's copy of that image than the original, but I don't have a copy of this to check.
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Yet another copy of this...

The Magnificent, by Boris Vallejo

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Draconus cover

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Pencil sketch of Tarzan and a gorilla, by Frank Frazetta

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Dynasty Wars cover

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Boris Vallejo, The Eternal Champion

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Bionic Ninja cover

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Frank Frazetta, The Frost Giants

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Ramparts cover

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Clyde Caldwell, Dragon's Despair:

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Heroes Of The Lance loading screen:

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Movie still of Eddie Murphy in Another 48 Hours

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Imperial Shuttle in a Star Wars toy advert

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Cover of The Guardian (PSS)

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I can't find the exact source image, but the cover of Eagle clearly shows Vipers from the original Battlestar Galactica movie (1978).

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The loading screen of Graeme Souness Soccer Manager is quite clearly based on an image of Freddie Mercury. :D

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I disagree. It can be Josef Stalin! :lol:
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Sly Spy: Secret Agent cover

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Licence to Kill (1989) movie poster

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There are a few cover images I have been struggling to place. Can anyone else help?

1. Shao Lin's Road

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The figures in the green and white shirts look as though they are based on Bruce Lee. My best guess is that they come from The Way of the Dragon, but I can't find a matching image.

2. Psycho Soldier

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This looks like another Lisa Lyons copy to me.

3. Renegade III

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The image of the high-kicking figure appears in at least one other place, so is probably copied from somewhere.

4. Where Time Stood Still

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Both figures look to me like copies. Any ideas?
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Am I the only one who see the guy in this loading screen is Clark Gable?

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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:07 am Am I the only one who see the guy in this loading screen is Clark Gable?
Yea it looks like one of his promo shots. (well as much as a spectrum screen can of a real person..)

Lol I can't find it but definitely it is out their. (unless there is a Mandela effect incident going on now.)
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On the Spectrum the character looked more like Clark Gable maybe, but he was supposed to be Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. I played the coin-op quite a bit back in the day, and was really appalled at the mess Sentient Software made with the Spectrum conversion, even more so given their respectable record. The game was in fact originally called Guevara in Japan, but was renamed to Guerrilla War in the West, out of fear of offending Americans due to the friction with Cuba etc.

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That's makes more sense :)
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From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla ... ideo_game)

As the original title indicates, the game is based on the exploits of revolutionary Che Guevara, and the defeat of the Batista regime in Cuba in the late 1950s. In addition, player 2's character was Fidel Castro ;)
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I think in the Legend of the Amazon Women cover the woman nearest the dinosaurs is based on the figure in a Frank Frazetta picture of a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex (though oddly the dinosaurs are not copied from this image).

Legend of the Amazon Women cover

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Frank Frazetta, 'Dinosaurs'

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Details:

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(BTW what has happened to all the PostImage links in this thread? I switched to PostImage because vgy.me links stopped working, but now vgy.me works and PostImage does not!)
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