Celâl Kandemiroğlu

[Sanford_US 88]

I've added a bio to OVGA for Celâl Kandemiroğlu. With permission from box=art, I was able use an existing biography as a strong starting point.

European releases are not at all my specialty, so I'd appreciate any additional input on Celal's box art catalog. For now I have referenced box=art and added a few that were on Mobygames but I know extensive work has been documented for Celal, so I want to make sure I don't miss anything.

I'm also struggling a lot with the release date information. Certain games may have been released in one year, say Volleyball Simulator having a 1987 release, but maybe not had Celal's art until 1988 or 1989? I'd love input or corrections on release year information.

The numerous "home computer" releases add to the complexity. If a title was just released on Amiga, I might be inclined to just record it as Amiga. But when a title was released on every home computer under the sun (Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST,  Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum), it might make to just shorten it to "DOS, Home Computers."

Anyway, here is my rough, unpolished list of Celal's game art (broken up roughly by year):

Detector (Time Warp Productions | Amiga | 1988)

Katakis (Rainbow Arts | Amiga, Commodore 64 | 1988)

Spinworld (Axxiom | Amiga | 1988)

Volleyball Simulator (Softgold | DOS, Home Computers | 1988)

Zero Gravity (EAS Software | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |1988)

 

Berlin 1948: East vs West (Rainbow Arts | Amiga, Atari ST, DOS | 1989)

Black Gold (reLINE | DOS, Home Computers | 1989

Conqueror (Rainbow Arts | Amiga, Atari ST | 1989)

Hard ‘n Heavy (reLINE | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 | 1989)

Rock ‘n Roll (Rainbow Arts | DOS, Home Computers | 1989)

Spherical (Rainbow Arts | Home Computers | 1989)

X-Out (Rainbow Arts | Amiga, Atari ST | 1989)

 

Air Supply (Magic Bytes | Amiga, Atari ST | 1990)

Battle Stations | Magic Bytes | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS.

Big Business | Magic Bytes | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS.

Crime Time | Starbyte Software | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS.

Domination | Magic Bytes | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST.

Dragonflight | Thalion Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS.

Dyter-07 | reLINE Software | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64.

Leavin’ Termanis | Thalion Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST.

Legend of Faerghail | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS.

Lords of Doom (Starbyte Software | DOS, Home Computers | 1990)

Masterblazer | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS

M.U.D.S - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, MS-DOS.

Second World, The | Magic Bytes | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS.

StarTrash | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64.

Tie Break (Starbyte Software | DOS, Home Computers | 1990)

Turrican (Rainbow Arts | Home Computers | 1990)

U.S.S.John Young (Magic Byes | DOS, Home Computers | 1990)

Wings of Death | Thalion Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST. (7)

Z-Out | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1990 | Amiga, Atari ST.

 

Atomino | Psygnosis | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, MS-DOS.

Fate: Gates of Dawn | reLINE Software | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST.

Lethal Xcess: Wings of Death II | Eclipse Software Design | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST. (3)

Monster Business | Ascon GmbH | 1991 | Amiga, Atari ST.

Turrican II: The Final Fight | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1991 | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, CDTV, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum.

 

Elysium | Magic Bytes | 1992 | Amiga, MS-DOS.

No Second Prize | Thalion Software GmbH | 1992 | Amiga, Atari ST.

Stone Age | Eclipse Software Design | 1992 | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS.

 

Turrican 3 | Rainbow Arts Software GmbH | 1993 | Amiga.

Football Limited | Software 2000 | 1994 | Amiga, MS-DOS.

Biing!: Sex, Intrigue and Scalpels | Magic Bytes | 1995 | Amiga, MS-DOS.

Ocean Trader (Software 2000 | Amiga, DOS | 1995)

Software Manager (Kaiko | Amiga, DOS | 1994)

Talisman | Software 2000 | 1995 | MS-DOS.

 

Panzer Elite (Psygnosis | Windows | 1999)
Revenge of the Apes | Retrodesign | 2003 | Atari 2600/ VCS.
I Project (another 2600 title)

He did work on "Sacred" but not sure which work is his, whether it is traditional/digital, and how (or if) to capture it on OVGA.

For the box art lists on OVGA, I usually record separate entries for "different" games, even when the art is repeated. For example, missing from my list above is that I will add a NES entry for Super Turrican (same art as Turrican II but a different game) and then have an additional entry for Super Turrican for the SNES (different game, same name) and yet another for Super Turrican 2 (same art, different game).

[Ibrahim_UK 89]

I like seeing the listings for all the different Home Computer systems the artwork was used for.

Regarding Celâl's Volleyball Simulator, from what I have researched, they used a different box art for the 1987 release on the C64 in Germany.

MobyGames has listed a 1988 release; I could not find the packaging to confirm if Celâl's artwork was used for that.

I would stick with crediting him from 1989 for now, maybe there is a 1988 box out there, but we will need to confirm it.

 

[Sanford_US 88]

Nice job pulling up that 1987 box! Yes, that was my concern that the earliest release of a game might not correspond to the release that actually featured Celal's art. It stood out to me as I read the box=art profile that considered Volleyball Simulator his first box and from 1987, but Celal himself talked about 1988 being his start for computer games.

I found an interview but I wish someone had asked him the simple question: "What was your first box art?"

For release year information, I'll stick to the years on Mobygames that have his credit (versus the earliest year a given game was released), which is consistent with your 1989 year for Volleyball Simulator. And that methodology keeps it simple.

Likewise, I can list the different specific home computer systems (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64) versus a catch-all of "Home Computers," but I think I will limit it to whichever systems actually have photo examples on Mobygames. If "Spectrum ZX" or "DOS" is listed a system but a photo of that box isn't included, I won't list that system. If someone that uses the "Suggest Info" option or responds on this thread, we can update information further.