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A View to a Kill is by Dan Gouzee, so the David Rowe mention seems to be another error.

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

OK. I have checked the David Rowe mentions in the "dodgy post" and have found no further errors. All bar 4 are on the author's website. Of the remaining four, two have David Rowe listed as the cover artist at Moby Games. That leaves two unconfirmed: one has already been corrected (Delta Charge); the other is Licence to Kill

Bounces CONFIRMED
The Sentinel CONFIRMED
Flying Shark CONFIRMED
Soft Aid CONFIRMED
Way of the Exploding Fist CONFIRMED
Frenzy CONFIRMED
Glass CONFIRMED
Dandy CONFIRMED
Infodroid CONFIRMED
Prodigy CONFIRMED
The Centurions: Power X Treme CONFIRMED
https://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spect ... me/credits
Delta Charge ALREADY CHANGED TO OLIVER FREY
Dogfight: 2187 CONFIRMED
Hybrid CONFIRMED
I, Ball II CONFIRMED
Chubby Gristle CONFIRMED
Licensed to Kill ALREADY IDENTIFIED AS POSSIBLE ERROR
Continental Circus CONFIRMED
Tank Attack CONFIRMED
https://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spect ... ck/credits

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:36 am

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 12:43 am Does everybody agree?

In the official webpage of David Rowe A View to a Kill isn't included:

https://www.davidrowe.net/davidrowe-games.html

So I think it should be replaced.

What do you mean by "replaced"? There was no inlay credits for "A View to a Kill" in the archive, and nobody mentioned this game before you did.

Did I miss anything?

I've been checking the Steinar Lund covers in the "dodgy post". Most can be confirmed definitively by the signature, the artist's website or the artist's Instagram. The only ones on the list that I have been unable to verify in this way are the following:

Gyron
I, Ball
3D Pool
Classic Adventure
Dragonsbane
Smugglers Cove
Blood 'n' Gutz
Gatecrasher
Cop Out
Scramble Spirits

These I have been able to confirm with reference to other sites, so they also seem correct.

The full verified list is below:

Starglider (poster) + @
Gyron @
I, Ball $ @
3D Pool (1990) $ @
QS Defenda * #
QS Asteroids * #
Classic Adventure $
Dragonsbane $
Smugglers Cove $
Xadom * # $
Boulderdash +
Blood 'n' Gutz $
Gatecrasher $
Fighting Warrior +
Gyroscope +
Codename: MAT II +
Riddlers Den #
Battle of the Planets *
Dynamite Dan *
Terror of the Deep +
Cop Out $
Frost Byte #
Stainless Steel #
Orbix the Terror Ball +
Mermaid Madness +
Jahangir Khan World Championship Squash +
Knuckle Busters *
Redhawk +
Kwah! + (blurred on SC can; visible on other scans)
Moon Strike + (only S visible; rest obscured)
Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix +
Armageddon Man +
Mega Apocalypse +
Terramex +
Live and Let Die +
Hellfire Attack +
Pac-Mania +
APB $
Space Harrier II +
Total Eclipse +
Thunderbirds * #
Lords of Chaos + (signature partly covered in SC scan; visible on other scans)
Scramble Spirits $
Stunt Car Racer +
Manchester United +

* CONFIRMED ON ARTIST'S WEBPAGE
http://steinarlund.com/videogames-airbrush-artwork
# CONFIRMED BY ARTIST'S INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/steinar_lund/
+ CONFIRMED BY ARTIST'S SIGNATURE
$ CONFIRMED BY http://www.boxequalsart.com/steinarlundartistpage.html
@ CONFIRMED BY http://birdsanctuary.co.uk/artists/

I can help with Scramble Spirits. Here's the bottom left of the manual...

You can sort of make it out on the actual cover of the game but they slapped the SEGA logo over it. Likewise, it's slightly visible (when you know where to look) on the adverts in the mags too but they slapped a transparent text box over it.

Still checking the "dodgy post"....

Susan Rowe:
Jewels of Darkness (internal art)

CONFIRMED at http://birdsanctuary.co.uk/artists/ that she did the cover for the novella The Darkness Rises, but I have been unable to find any other evidence, or even the image itself.

Further "dodgy post" checks....

Herman Serrano:
Weird Dreams
Carrier Command

CONFIRMED at http://birdsanctuary.co.uk/artists/ which attributes to him "co-designing Weird Dreams (as well as doing all the in-game graphics, the title screen and the box artwork)" and says he "contributed a number of other paintings, including Carrier Command"

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... rId,29043/ lists slightly different credits for Serrano on these games:

Weird Dreams: co-conception, programming
Carrier Command: graphics

On the basis of all this, I would suggest the following changes to cover art credits since the last update:

A View to a Kill - ADD Dan Gouzee
Licence to Kill - DELETE David Rowe, ADD Robin Behling
Short Circuit - ADD John Alvin

One other thing I unearthed:

Jewels of Darkness - James Horsler (internal art, literally "pictures"). Listed in the instructions.

Per Moby Games he also contributed internal art to:

Silicon Dreams
The Price of Magik
Red Moon
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
The Worm in Paradise

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... Id,101313/

Some of these seem not to have been included in the update, eg:

Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:52 am Dark Sceptre

Cover by "Franklin" (signature in bottom right)

Rorthron wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:27 am Battlecars

Artwork for the Summit re-release (but not the original Games Workshop release):

"Artwork by Farnell Hinsley Design Ltd" according to the instructions.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:50 pm

Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:41 pm Heroquest by Gremlin Graphics

Cover art by Les Edwards and David Gallagher

http://www.lesedwards.com/galleries/vin ... quest/1024

https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 1/mode/2up

To clarify: the front cover is by Les Edwards, and the back by David Gallagher.

I haven't checked them all.

Kat Trap - Oliver Frey

(Crash 35)

Road Frog - Bob Wakelin

(Crash 18)

Some more names, all from Reaktor games, and all taken from the credits section on the rear of their respective inlays:

Challenge of the Gobots - Eddy King (pic below from my own scan)
Deadringer - Richard Edington (inlay is in the archive if you want to check! )
Mountie Mick's Deathride - Johnny Johnstone (retrogames.co.uk, cropped version below for convenience)
Out of This World - Jim McCarthy (retrogames.co.uk, cropped version below for convenience, taken from C64 release but same artwork)



Richard Edington has come up before on another Ariolasoft title (Bride Of Frankenstein) and I think Eddy King is going to be the same guy credited as Eddie King on Triaxos (again, from retrogames.co.uk) but who knows which spelling is the "correct" one?:

Napoleon at War - Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

The inlay attributes the painting to "Mauzaine after Gros", but I think this is a typographical error.

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse painted the image, as a copy of Antoine-Jean Gros' original

https://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/Na ... HKV8Z.html

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of- ... uary-1807/

Cromwell at War 1642-1645 - Samuel Cooper

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_ ... Cooper.jpg

Zulu War - William Henry Dugan

Per the inlay.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sie ... ift-181818

Further verification of the "dodgy post":

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:22 pmDragonsbane
Smugglers Cove
Blood 'n' Gutz

Crash 14 confirms these are by Steinar Lund, as already recorded in the archive.

http://www.crashonline.org.uk/14/oncover.htm

The Drive-In - Boots Hill

Per inlay.

Chaos - Julek Heller

Per the instructions:

Cover by Julek Heller
Production Artwork by Brian Cumming

Dark Star - Dave De Leuw

There is apparently an Easter egg with this information:

There is a hidden message in the code: (c) Design Design Software Awful game concept & coding by Simon Brattel Awful pictures by J.P.Ritman and Inlay by Dave De-Leuw

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/equinox/ ... design.php

Shakespeare - Henry IV Part One (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

Per signature

Shakespeare - Julius Caesar (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

https://www.bookogs.com/book/192368-julius-caesar

Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice (Penguin) - Paul Hogarth

https://www.bookogs.com/book/192392-the ... -of-venice

Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:38 pm One other thing I unearthed:

Jewels of Darkness - James Horsler (internal art, literally "pictures"). Listed in the instructions.

Per Moby Games he also contributed internal art to:

Silicon Dreams
The Price of Magik
Red Moon
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
The Worm in Paradise

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/she ... Id,101313/

What's "internal art"? Does it mean in-game graphics?

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:56 pm What's "internal art"? Does it mean in-game graphics?

No: inlay art that's not the cover (I think). The inlay credit just says "pictures", though, so it's not entirely clear