Game art copied from elsewhere

[Rorthron]

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.

[Rorthron]

Aztec Calendar stone



El Cetro del Sol loading screen

[Ralf]

Amazed how such a crappy film can inspire so many artworks!

There is even more Actually I found a great link about these inspirations but I'm not posting it to not kill the thread

Stormlord loading screen


Shard of Inovar cover

[PeteProdge]

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...


Try IMGUR.com instead.

[PeteProdge]

To be more specific about vgy.me content not showing up for Chrome users, here's what the 'Advanced' details say...

[Rorthron]

[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.

[PeteProdge]

@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.

[Ralf]

Storm cover and loading screen

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





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

Corkscrew (1983), by Boris Vallejo

[R-Tape]

Despite owning that cassette I clearly never looked at it very closely before, I always thought that Mastertronic logo was a kilt.

[Wall_Axe]

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......

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Match Day 2 loading screen



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

Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer cover

[Juan F. Ramirez]

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

[Ralf]

One of the footballers reminds of a famous pic of Gary Lineker

Good spot, definitely not a coincidence !

[PeteProdge]

And now, a Spectrum magazine copying game art for their own ends...

This is Gremlin's Impossamole...


And here is Sinclair User's 'Specman' from Feb 1992, who closely resembles the subterranean rodent.


Pretty brazen!

[Wall_Axe]

thats a funny one

[Ralf]

Rygar and Frank Frazetta's art:

Swords of Mars, by Frank Frazetta



Rygar inlay and loading screen

[Rorthron]

I think the tiger in the Rygar picture also comes from Frank Frazetta:

The Huntress, by Frank Frazetta



It appears elsewhere, such as the cover of Legend of the Amazon Women (reversed left to right):

Legend of the Amazon Women inlay



Actually, I think it is also in the Death Stalker cover, above.

[R-Tape]

[mention]PeterJ[/mention] we're going to need an increased buttock allowance, can you look for a plugin.

[Rorthron]

I'm about to increase the buttock count again...

One of the women in the Legend of the Amazon Women comes from this Frazetta picture (again reversed left to right):

Escape from Venus, by Frank Frazetta



(Clothes, especially women's, are in short supply in most of Frazetta's art.)

[R-Tape]

Frazetta's a fan of Robert Crumb by the looks of it...

[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