Game art copied from elsewhere

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She is losing her smile as she loses color.

[Lee Bee]

LOL yeah, losing her smile, losing her colour, yet other parts of her increase in size.

[luny]

LOL yeah, losing her smile, losing her colour, yet other parts of her increase in size.

One of 'em looks like it is falling off. Ouch!

[Nitrowing]

One of 'em looks like it is falling off. Ouch!

She's 72 years old now... to be expected

[Ralf]

Oh my, the Spectrum version is really ugly. Which is the shame as Amstrad version is really nice.

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She is losing her smile as she loses color.

Hmm, I think this can be a good title for a terror-mystery text adventure.

[4thRock]

Here's a 30 minute conversion of the Arcade image, with minor retouching:


Looks much better than the original I think!
Sure, modern tools help a lot, but there's no reason for bad looking Spectrum graphics.

[equinox]

The girl of the speccy version seems an alien!

Wait until you see "Samantha Fox Strip Poker". Some of her poses make her look like an actual chimpanzee.

Then again I was photographed at a mid-90s demoparty and the scroller cruelly described me as "hydrochloric acid ate my face". (Who can name the demo? lol)

[equinox]

Here's a 30 minute conversion of the Arcade image, with minor retouching:


Looks much better than the original I think!
Sure, modern tools help a lot, but there's no reason for bad looking Spectrum graphics.

Nice... Definitely much better, but it has the grainy, speckly look of "16-bit downconversion". Not as good as something drawn for the particular platform. (Now I'm thinking of that hellishly ponderous rotating Earth globe in "Nigel Mansell"... which actually slowed down the music)

[Lee Bee]

Inspired by 4thRock's awesome attempt, I couldn't resist having a go at this myself! Ended up putting in a bit of time and changing the entire screen, drawing the SEGA logo etc! What can I say, I'm a sucker for a pretty lady!



Here's a comparison of our three Speccy versions



I guess mine's a bit more cartoony, but I think all 3 styles are cool. (I work in Photoshop so there may be minor colour errors.)

[8BitAG]

It's not exactly the same image, but it's clear the cartoon was the source.

Some of the other Compass screen and box art has elements inspired by, or taken, from elsewhere including Fighting Fantasy and a fair amount from the Lord of the Rings movie. The working title for The Blood of Bogmole was The Blood of Smeagol.

[Rorthron]

Some of the other Compass screen and box art has elements inspired by, or taken, from elsewhere including Fighting Fantasy and a fair amount from the Lord of the Rings movie. The working title for The Blood of Bogmole was The Blood of Smeagol.

Wow, you're right. I think that red inlay is made up of straight photocopies from Fighting Fantasy.

There's another Bakshi-derived loading screen, too:

Demon from the Darkside loading screen (1986)



Black Rider from Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings (1978)

[Rorthron]

Hobble Hunter loading screen



Weirdly I think this comes from an image of Sam Gamgee related to this one:

Sam and Frodo from Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings (1978)

[Rorthron]

The Lost Tomb of Ananka loading screen (1993)



Egyptian frieze of Pharaoh Akhenaten

[8BitAG]

There's another Bakshi-derived loading screen, too:

See also Shadows from the Past, I think.

[Rorthron]

See also Shadows from the Past, I think.

Yes, it looks that way. I haven't found where in the movie, though.

The title itself is perhaps inspired by the book The Lord of the Rings. 'The Shadow of the Past' is the title of the second chapter.

[Rorthron]

Crack Down (1990) cover



Still of the devil in The Devil Rides Out (1968)



I think the two men in the middle are copied from stills of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando (1985). The right-hand figure seems to be copied from this image (or a very similar one):



I haven't found the exact frame for the left-hand one, but this shows Schwarzenegger posing with the same gun:



(Note the cover seems to have flipped the image left-to-right, as the figure is firing left-handed.)

The small figure in the bottom left seems to have been copied from the front stormtrooper in this image from Star Wars (1977):

[Rorthron]

Pheenix (Alternative Software) cover (1986):



Sabre Wulf cover for C64 (1985):

[Rorthron]

Olympic Challenge (Century City) cover



Seb Coe winning 1500m gold in the 1980 Olympics

[StooB]

Silversoft covers taking a little inspiration from Peter Elson.

[Rorthron]

Silversoft covers taking a little inspiration from Peter Elson.

Great spots. Weirdly I was looking at the first one the other day and thought it looked like a copy, but couldn't place it.

[Vampyre]

Inspired by 4thRock's awesome attempt, I couldn't resist having a go at this myself! Ended up putting in a bit of time and changing the entire screen, drawing the SEGA logo etc! What can I say, I'm a sucker for a pretty lady!



Here's a comparison of our three Speccy versions



I guess mine's a bit more cartoony, but I think all 3 styles are cool. (I work in Photoshop so there may be minor colour errors.)

With added camel-toe I see

[Rorthron]

To return to the subject of the Firebird logo's typeface, it seems someone has made a typeface from it, called Hirosh:

https://www.dafont.com/hirosh.font

I'm fairly confident the typeface is derived from the logo, not the other way round, given that the font includes the dots that were not apparently part of the logo's original inspiration.

[Lee Bee]

Silversoft covers taking a little inspiration from Peter Elson.

Geesh, just a little! You could not get away with something like that these days!

With added camel-toe

Not intended to be tacky, only to add beauty by defining the body's centre line. I would have preferred a much softer colour but our good friend Mr Attribute Clash forced me to use magenta.

[R-Tape]

Seb Coe winning 1500m gold in the 1980 Olympics

...and a split second later, hearing that the license has gone to The Power House.