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    Great job picking this one up! I'd love to find Mutant Wars
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    Randy also appears to have done artwork for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) game Death Jr., however the usage of Randy's art isn't entirely clear, possibly as a magazine interior of some kind. The piece shown is posted on Comic Art Fans: https://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1848288&GSub=12387
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    Wow! This looks incredible
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    Celâl's signature can be seen on the box art for Mystery of the Mummy from Rainbow Arts, released for the Amiga, Commodore 64, and DOS in 1988
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    Here's a recent interview Takaya Imamura did in July 2023 with Video Games Chronicle (VGC): https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/interviews/takaya-imamura/
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    Keith’s box art paintings for EverQuest were often more expansive scenes than what the fronts of the boxes showed (see hover images in Keith's box art catalog). Additional portions of his paintings would adorn inside covers or find bonus usages such as on the actual game CDs used for installation. Keith also created additional EverQuest images beyond just the front box art. For example, for The Shadows of Luclin expansion, Keith painted a standalone image of Firiona Vie on a horse. This image was used on the back of the game box but was also published as the cover to the December 2001 issue of Computer Gaming World magazine (issue 209).
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    With credit to @VgDensetsu, OVGA has removed the Sonic & Knuckles logo from Greg Martin's box art catalog. That logo was the work of Tom Nikosey, working for designer Garrett Burke:
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    With credit to Bitmap Books' Art of the Box (2023), OVGA has added two additional titles to Paul's box art catalog: the Mastertronic re-release of Legend of the Amazon Women for the ZX Spectrum (page 244) and the PAL European release of Battle Arena Toshinden for the Sony PlayStation (page 249). As it happens, these titles would just about bookend Paul's box art career, with Legend of the Amazon Women being among a small handful of titles done in 1987 and Battle Arena Toshinden being Paul's final box art in 1995. Paul's interview in Art of the Box additionally includes an appreciative mention of OVGA's own @Ibrahim_UK: "We have people who collect the artwork I did from back then, which is wonderful. There's a chap called Ibrahim who's a big collector of what I did, and he's trying to put together a catalogue of the work; a more comprehensive list than the one I've sat down and done. He's keen that it's documented. He's building a website [OVGA], and it all helps with the prestige of the work."
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    The explosion in "Starmada" that became Thunderhawk appears to have additionally been flipped upside down to serve as a significant element of the Sega Genesis box art for Dune: The Battle of Arrakis. The rest of the box image appears to be early photo manipulations with a strange filtered effect.
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    The monotone orange rendering here is killer, especially on the teal background!
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    Keith Parkinson also created art for Diablo II. As documented on Keith's website: "I was originally approached by Blizzard to do a poster for the Diablo II release, but I couldn’t take the project because my schedule was already booked. The next time they approached me was the the expansion that followed. Again, there were scheduling problems on my end. That was unfortunate too because not only did I wanted to do the project, buy my kids were ready to meltdown. They were big Diablo fans and wanted me to do the cover so they could get in on the beta! They were incensed the first time I had to pass, but the second time they were fit to be tied. The guys at Blizzard understood the scheduling problems, but they did want the poster so they said, 'Okay, we won’t have it for the expansion release, but go ahead and paint it when you can. We’ll use it somewhere.' So I did, and had a great experience working with them."
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    A blog post on sonicretro.org following the sale of the Night Trap artwork provides a little additional information on the Sega of America employee that saved and later auctioned that painting as well as his role at Sega.
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    Description: Here is the original art for an internal Sega holiday card given to employees from Sega Enterprises, Ltd. The art depicts Sonic and Tails in silhouette in a sleigh by night over San Francisco's Bay Bridge and the hills of neighboring Marin County. This is the artwork for the front of the card. There is a separate, double-wide painting for the card interior that similarly depicts Sonic and Tails on the sleigh but in full color where they can be more clearly seen distributing presents and dressed for the season—Sonic in a Santa hat and Tails with reindeer antlers. This is not licensing art created for use by third party company to sell on their products. Based on the timing of Bud Thon's other work for Sega, this card was likely created for the 1991 or 1992 holiday seasons. Printed and distributed cards read "Happy Holidays" on the front and would have been signed by Hayao Nakayama, President and CEO of Sega Enterprises, Ltd from 1983 to 1999. The art itself was among a few pieces saved from Sega offices by an employee in Sega's facilities department, who years later listed the original painting for the Sega CD game Night Trap on eBay. At the time it was first sold, this holiday card art was taped directly onto old printed material and fit into an existing mat that had surely been used to display something else. Apparently, this kind of makeshift framing was the norm at the Sega offices, layering one thing on top of another to be able to reuse a mat or frame. Year: 1991 or 1992 Medium: Acrylic on board Image Area: 9" x 13.25" Image Source: Original Condition: Very good
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    Steinar's signature can be seen in this advertisement for Power Pyramids
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    The following titles have not been definitively identified as Bob Wakelin’s work but based on publisher, year, and style could be his work. The QuelleSoft game with the title “Eine Handvoll Dollars” corresponds to the 1985 Ocean game A Fi$tful of Buck$. Searching for other QuelleSoft games, I identified the box for the game Das Spukschloß, which corresponds to the game the Secret of Kandar.
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    A known comic fan, Bob's box art paintings for Green Beret and Cosmic Wartoad—both 1986—draw clear inspiration from some of Mike Zeck's cover art for the five-issue The Punisher comic book limited series that debuted in January 1986.
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    In 2013, the Ocean game Firefly was included among a list of missing Bob Wakelin art for which Bob sought help obtaining printable quality images of his work. The published box art appears to bear a two-name signature of an artist other than Bob and has not been included in OVGA's list above.
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    A fuller image of the Mutant League Hockey artwork can be seen to bear the signature "Craddock 93" below the mutant's elbow. Alan Craddock confirmed by email that he illustrated the European Sega Mega Drive releases for both Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey. Separately, a VGDensetsu profile for Alan Craddock includes a few additional examples of his 1980s work: http://vgdensetsu.net/2_AlanCraddock.html
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    This was a really great buy! I like Scott's rendering across the box art he illustrated, and Irem was quasi-first party for Nintendo at the time, or something like that, which is an added bonus. That said, the US title of the game is completely baffling. I'd never heard of Major Title either, but at least that appears to have been the name of the arcade release.
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    Mark Fredrickson also painted the box art for Off-World Interceptor for the 3DO in 1994. Mick McGinty would illustrate the box art for the enhanced port Off-World Interceptor that released in 1995 for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
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    @VGDensetsu on Twitter put together a comprehensive thread on Frank Cirocco's video game work, including pictures (some of original art and prelims) for a lot of the material in this OVGA bio:
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    Chris created art for at least two Sega games that were ultimately unreleased: Baby Boom (Genesis/Game Gear) and B-Bomb (Genesis). Baby Boom was signed Dellorco and shared by the Twitter account SEGA Forever. For B-Bomb, the art had sold on Heritage auctions in 2020 without being properly identified. VGDensetsu identified the intended usage of the art and shared the information on Twitter. The owner on Heritage has the "Make Offer to Owner" option enabled.
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