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Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:45 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
I came across an arcade flyier some days ago in internet (and can't find it now), from Nintendo's
Puch Out. One of the characters looked very similar to this guy:
Rocky loading screen
In fact, the game might be considered an unnofficial conversion of the Nintendo game.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:26 pm
by redballoon
Nintendo Punch-Out!! flyer
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:40 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Yeah, that's it!
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:26 pm
by Ralf
Dude from "Butch - Hard guy" is also obviously copied from Sylvester Stallone as Rambo:
Butch Hard Guy loading screen
Rambo (1985) movie poster
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:12 pm
by utz
Nonsense. Rambo is clearly copied from Butch Hard Guy.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:53 am
by Wall_Axe
The boxer in street fighter 2 was supposed to have been called Bison and looks like Mike Tyson
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:00 pm
by Ralf
The boxer in street fighter 2 was supposed to have been called Bison and looks like Mike Tyson
Yes, many Street Fighter characters are inspired by some real or fictional person.
A quick Google search gave me this article where it is described in details:
http://fightingstreet.com/folders/vario ... page1.html
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:22 pm
by Ralf
I remember reading somewhere that dude in loading screen for Trantor is copied after... Jon Bon Jovi
But I lack the definite proof here. that's the closest I found:
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:13 pm
by Rorthron
Photograph of Lisa Lyon
Athena cover
Possibly also the Legend of Kage cover, but I'm not so sure:
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:55 pm
by Rorthron
Bruce Lee, The Game of Death (1978) movie poster
Yie Ar Kung Fu II cover
There is also a hint of Ming the Merciless. See this Flash Gordon poster:
Flash Gordon (1980) movie poster
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:40 pm
by Rorthron
Frank Frazetta, The Destroyer
Gauntlet cover
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:43 pm
by MatGubbins
Psssst, Rorthron..... the images in your last 3 postings have failed to appear. Probably on a tea break and extended loo session.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:51 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
[mention]Rorthron[/mention] , I can't see them either!
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:56 pm
by R-Tape
Images work fine for me. In fact the Conan the Barbarian art looks like one of Oliver Frey's denied Crash covers.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:03 am
by Rorthron
I think the problem is with Chrome. The images work fine in Firefox and Edge. Chrome seems to be blocking vgy.me: it even blocks the URL when typed in the address field: "You cannot visit vgy.me right now because the website uses certificate pinning."
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:03 am
by MatGubbins
Ah, but I'm using firefox....
The strange thing is that all of the images that I could previously see from you in this posting have also gone. Images from other forum members are ok though.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:58 am
by Rorthron
Odd.
Can you see Morkin's images of Balachor's Revenge in this thread? (He also used vgy.me.)
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=182&p=1766#p1766
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:17 pm
by MatGubbins
Nope, just the words image image. I can see Dave's graphpaper artwork though.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:26 pm
by Rorthron
MatGubbins wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:17 pm
I can see Dave's graphpaper artwork though.
Oi, that's my graphpaper artwork!
It makes even less sense that you can see one, but not the other, as they are both on vgy.me.
To add to the confusion, I can't see R-Tape's images in that thread and they are not on vgy.me.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:34 pm
by MatGubbins
To add to more confusion, I've fired up the other PC with Windows 7 and Chrome browser and the pictures are there...
The Firefox browser is with XP...
And to add even more confusion to the normal confusion, yes I see your Balachor graphpaper graphic with Win7 + chrome and I also see Dave's graphpaper wonderchars designs (the ones you don't see). And it's snowing outside!
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:45 pm
by Ersh
Win 10, Firefox and no pictures here either.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:37 pm
by R-Tape
It's my fault - I set the forum's buttock count to a maximum of 3 per post.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:19 pm
by Ralf
Not copied by plain stolen
Viper 3 - the original loaging screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5584
and Polish board game "Gwiezdne Imperium" loading screen
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=21539
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:05 pm
by Pobulous
Issue with the images is to do with HPKP pinning.
An error occurred during a connection to vgy.me. The server uses key pinning (HPKP) but no trusted certificate chain could be constructed that matches the pinset. Key pinning violations cannot be overridden. Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_KEY_PINNING_FAILURE
see:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ce ... ng-reports
I've used the report button, in case it's a Firefox issue, but it looks like it's a problem with the website vgy.me screwing it up.
Re: Game art copied from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:21 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
US Gold released Flak in 1984.
Flak loading screen
One year after, they released Raid Over Moscow. It seems they made the most of the Flak screen to made this:
Raid Over Moscow loading screen