Spectrum Computing

Frank Frazetta, The Frost Giants



Ramparts cover

Clyde Caldwell, Dragon's Despair:



Heroes Of The Lance loading screen:

Movie still of Eddie Murphy in Another 48 Hours



E-SWAT advert

Imperial Shuttle in a Star Wars toy advert



Cover of The Guardian (PSS)

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

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

I disagree. It can be Josef Stalin!

Sly Spy: Secret Agent cover



Licence to Kill (1989) movie poster

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

1. Shao Lin's Road



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



This looks like another Lisa Lyons copy to me.

3. Renegade III



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



Both figures look to me like copies. Any ideas?

Am I the only one who see the guy in this loading screen is Clark Gable?

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.)

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.

That's makes more sense

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

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



Frank Frazetta, 'Dinosaurs'



Details:





(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!)

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:44 pm (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!)

The problem seems to be that PostImage has changed its domain name. In all the links ".org" needs to be replaced with ".cc". Would an admin or moderator be willing to amend the posts (a fun job for a Sunday afternoon)?

Ralf wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 6:52 pm The archer from Frank Frazetta:

Land of Terror, by Frank Frazetta

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:12 pm I'm not quite sure about the archer. The pose looks a bit different to me.

Actually Ralf is quite right: the archer (third from the right) is from the Frazetta image. (I got confused which figure Ralf was referring to.)

Legend of the Amazon Women cover

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 7:12 pm I suspect the woman on the top right is based on Raquel Welch from the same film [One Million Years BC], but can't point to the source image.

I've found the image:

Raquel Welch in promotional photograph for One Million Years BC

I'm fine with the buttocks, but speaking as a Geologist, I'm concerned by the sexual chemistry between Frank's T-Rex and Triceratops.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:39 pm I'm fine with the buttocks, but speaking as a Geologist, I'm concerned by the sexual chemistry between Frank's T-Rex and Triceratops.

Now that I've got your attention, any chance of fixing the links?

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:00 pm Now that I've got your attention, any chance of fixing the links?

Apologies. I'm on mobile. I've done a couple of pages and will do the rest tomorrow.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:16 pm

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:00 pm Now that I've got your attention, any chance of fixing the links?

Apologies. I'm on mobile. I've done a couple of pages and will do the rest tomorrow.

No need to apologise. Thanks.

The Steven Seagal image in IK+ was traced earlier in this thread, but I've also tracked down a Chuck Norris image in the cover.

IK+ cover (Hit Squad release)



Cover of 'Black Belt' magazine, September 1988

Well spotted!

By the way, does anyone know how the artists copied the art in a predigital age? Did they use a pantograph to produce a sketch, then paint over it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph