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434 Original Artworks

  1. Description: Alien Storm is one of a few games I remember playing with my cousins growing up and I was glad to acquire the painting for the game! I just love the blue USPS mail box and it always kind of makes me laugh  Alien Storm got an international (non-US) Sega Master System release, and the European, Australian, Korean, and Brazilian SMS releases all use Lee MacLeod's art! Year: 1991 Medium: Acrylic on board Image Area: Width x Height IN/CM Image Source: Original Condition: Excellent
    In the Collection of Sanford_US
  2. Description: A fantastic preliminary cover sketch for the Konami Game Boy title Double Dribble 5 on 5 from Tom Dubois!   Year: 1991 Medium: Pencil on vellum paper Image Area: 14 x 14 inches (on 14 x 17 page) Image Source: Original Condition: Paper yellowed with noticeable wear
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  3. Description: The final published image for this Flintstones GBA game was slightly rearranged, presumably to accommodate the game's title/logo. Given the small, square shape of the GBA boxes that meant flipping and moving around a few elements from the final inked image. Included below is an early image of the game's box prior to publication. It also shows Fred with a slightly different facial expression. Changes from that pre-publication image were made to Fred, accomplished by using new lines o
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  4. Description: Famous for not looking like Bruce Willis, McGinty's artwork for Die Hard Arcade is the result of Sega not having the rights to Bruce Willis' image, and thus McGinty was asked instead to capture the essence of John McClane instead. I'm very happy to have a McGinty game art painting in my collection! Year: 1997 Medium: Acrylic airbrush on illustration board, and the image area measures 26.5" x 13" Image Area: 13" x 26.5" Image Source: Original via Heritage Auctions Condition: Excellen
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  5. Description: Ad art for Beyond Oasis from Ken Steacy that appeared in gaming magazines. The published ad actually uses the eyes in the sky from Greg Winters' box art. Year: 1995 Medium: airbrush and inks  Image Area: 10.75" x 16.25" Image Source: Original Condition: excellent
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  6. Description: Paul Kidby's box art painting for the European release of Takara's Battle Arena Toshinden. Paul shared that he had very little art direction for the assignment and was not provided any screenshots of the game, resulting in his more abstract take on the box art for the game. While the background of the painting appears to be airbrushed, the entirety of the emblem that makes up the main box art image is hand brushed and with quite a bit of fine detail. Year: 1995 Medium: Acrylic on bo
    In the Collection of Anonymous
    • 2 Comments
  7. Description: Bill Hall's paintings for Accolade were a rare example of video game box art done in oils on canvas. Bill's painting of Jack Nicklaus is big and bold, with an image height just under 3 feet and utilizing wide, loose brushstrokes to capture the dynamic motion of the scene. Its truly beautiful in person! Year: 1993 Medium: Oil on canvas Image Area: 25.5" x 33.5" Image Source: Original Condition: Excellent
    In the Collection of trsteve87
  8. Description: Paul Kidby created this art for a feature article in the December 1993 issue of Edge magazine titled "Game Over." The article argued that game genres had led to stagnation in game design, but Paul's captivating painting more or less depicted the popular games of 1993. More than 30 years later, many of these characters remain instantly recognizable! Characters/games depicted: Goro from Mortal Kombat, Chun Li and Ken from Street Fighter, Indiana Jones, Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, a
    • Edge Magazine Issue 3 December 1993 Feature Art - Star Fox, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Star Wars

      Edge Magazine Issue 3 December 1993 Feature Art - Star Fox, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Star Wars

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    In the Collection of Chris Redfield
    • 1 Comment
  9. Description: This is a preliminary sketch by Greg Hildebrandt for a poster included with Civilization 4: Gold Edition. The game was published by 2K Games for Windows in 2007. The foreground of this sketch has a few sections that were drawn separately and taped onto the main page to form the final composition, a process Greg often used to work out and hone various compositional elements. The sketch is signed at lower left. Greg talks about the creation of his poster painting in a series of three
    In the Collection of Anonymous
    • 1 Comment
  10. Description: Cover art for issue 20 (August 1994) of Games Master magazine in the UK featuring new characters added to Mortal Kombat II. Year: 1994 Medium: Acrylic on board Image Area: Width x Height IN/CM Image Source: Original Condition: 
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  11. Description: Pete McDonnell is responsible for this rather infamous ad art for The Combatribes in the form of a single-page comic that declares "Cyborgs Ain't Ladies!!" The final inked comic art does not have appear to have survived, so I'm glad to have this detailed pencil prelim in my collection!  Year: 1992  Medium: Pencils on vellum (transparent paper) Image Area: 11" x 14"  Image Source: Original Condition: Very good
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  12. Description: Steve Chorney's concept art for Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, an action role-playing video game published by Atari in 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and Steve's preliminary art features each of the game's three playable characters (Rannek, Illius, and Zhai) both as the primarily image and as a vignette at the bottom; however the final box art does not appear to resembl
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  13. Description: Bud Thon box art for Rolo to the Rescue for the Sega Genesis. Published by Electronic Arts and developed by the same guys that made the James Pond games, Rolo to the Rescue is a fun platformer known for its hidden secrets and play design built around swapping between Rolo and his woodland pals to leverage their unique abilities. An overlay has a notation to remove the tail of one of the critters (it is written "Scitek tail out," a likely reference to the Scitex imaging workstations,
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  14. Description: Preliminary box art for the NES release of Rolling Thunder, published by Tengen. Art by John Zeleznik, whose's name is signed at bottom right. This prelim includes a partial title at the top and has the notation "If you like this one, I can shorten the gun barrel and move the figure higher into the picture." Year: 1989 Medium: pencil on vellum tracing paper Image Area: 5" x 7" (on a 7" x 9.25" page) Image Source: Original Condition: 
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  15. Description:  Year:  Medium: Oil on canvas, Acrylic on board, Mixed Media Image Area: Width x Height IN/CM Image Source: Original, Transparency, Online, Etc Condition: 
    In the Collection of Ibrahim_UK
    • 1 Comment
  16. Description: Box art painting by Patrick Ho for Battletoads / Double Dragon, released for the NES, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, and Sega Genesis. Year: 1993 Image Area:  19" x 16.5" image area on 22"x20" Crescent cold press No. 100 heavy weight illustration board Image Source: original Condition: excellent
    • Battletoads / Double Dragon Box Art for NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Sega Genesis

      Battletoads / Double Dragon Box Art for NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Sega Genesis

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    In the Collection of Sanford_US
    • 1 Comment
  17. Description: Mike Butkus designed a number of packaging concepts for Sega's Alien Syndrome for Nintendo Wii and PSP (2007). This concept art by Mike Butkus informed the design of a pre-release promotional poster insert (illustrated by Tyler Kirkham) for the game that was included in issue 214 of Nintendo Power in April 2007. Year: 2007 Image Area:  7" x 11" (on 17" x 14" tracing paper) Image Source: Original Condition: Excellent
    • Alien Syndrome (Nintendo Wii) Nintendo Power Poster Issue 214 Concept Art

      Alien Syndrome (Nintendo Wii) Nintendo Power Poster Issue 214 Concept Art

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    In the Collection of Sanford_US
  18. Description: Famitsu Weekly Issue 240 (July 23, 1993), featuring Susumu Matsushita’s artwork of Street Fighter II’s Chun-Li alongside Famitsu’s mascot Necky the Fox dressed as Ryu. Year: 1993 Image Area:  13.5 IN x 18" IN Image Source: Original Artwork Condition: Excellent
    In the Collection of Anonymous
  19. Description:  Year: 1991 Medium: Rendered in airbrush on a thick acrylic plastic sheet Image Area: 19" x 7" Image Source: Heritage Auctions Condition: There is a minor amount of color rub on the entire piece. Taped to a board with a paper overlay.
    In the Collection of OVGA Database
  20. Description: Steve Lang painted this art for Beeline Group to be the box art for Bug Blasters: The Exterminators, a Sega CD game intended to be released in 1995 by Sony Entertainment. The game was an on-the-rails shoot-'em-up game paired with many full motion video cutscenes, in which the Bug Blasters—Ghost Busters-like exterminators with a highly specialized weaponry—combat monstrous insects mutated from a chemical spill. The game was cancelled late in development after this box art had already
    In the Collection of Anonymous
    • 1 Comment

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