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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Chat => Topic started by: Ninja Spirit on August 17, 2007, 08:24:40 AM
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I'd like to put a new twist to this topic.
VG box art that rips off movie posters
(http://games.for-robots.com/images/postimg/lookalike.jpg)
Snake vs. Kyle Reese
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GJ.png)
Goonies 2 / Jewel of the Nile
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GC.png)
Contra III JPN version / Raw Deal
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There is an AWESOME Japanese site that documents a crap load of these, but I don't know the address off hand! I think I might've posted it here before, but I'll try looking for it again because there are so, so many.
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wow, those are cool. I never even knew, haha.
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Holy crap, those are awesome.
I'd like to categorize them as "inspired by" instead of "rip offs" ... :)
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Bloody Wolf seems to also be inspired by Raw Deal-
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/bwp.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GC.png)
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I'd like to put a new twist to this topic.
VG box art that rips off movie posters
(http://games.for-robots.com/images/postimg/lookalike.jpg)
Snake vs. Kyle Reese
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GJ.png)
Goonies 2 / Jewel of the Nile
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GC.png)
Contra III JPN version / Raw Deal
Wow :shock:
Where did you find these comparisons?
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There is an animated GIF somewhere that shows the Contra box transforming back and forth between Alien, some Arnold move and a Rambo movie. It's awesome!
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Bloody Wolf seems to also be inspired by Raw Deal-
(http://www.superpcenginegrafx.com/img/bwp.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/GC.png)
Too me it looks a bit like the poster of the Dolph Lundgren movie Red Scorpion with the choppers in the desert background.
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m42/FlamingDave/red_scorpion.jpg)
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Ehh yeah but what I speak of, is when two different pictures have the same identical pose.
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/NAMFMJ.png)
NAM-1975/Full Metal Jacket
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I can't find the animated GIF I spoke of earlier, so here is a limited JPG of what I was talking about (Alien not shown).
(http://www.joeredifer.com/crap/ContraPredator-1.jpg)
I wonder why they did this so often? Did they lack creativity? Was it a form of subliminal advertising?
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Hah, interesting stuff for sure. And the ratio of Arnold movies that got turned into game art covers seem quite high.
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It looks like the artist Konami hired to do early NES covers loved to 'rip off' famous films.
Its not unusual to draw poses based on other images, but it is surprising just how much some of these artists tried to almost completely recreate some of these famous scenes.
There's an 'artist' doing covers for games like Call of Duty(?)and such right now who basically airbrushes over photos of celebrities like Russel Crowe an Pierce Brosnan very shamelessly.
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Just about any artist that does art like this (box art, fantasy book covers, etc) and is going for a realistic anatomically correct look is going to use a reference of some sort. Now, the more professional ones like Michael Whelan, Boris Vallejo, Rowena Morrill, etc etc will hire their own models, and either paint using the models as a reference, or shoot photos of the models, and use those photos as a reference. Its extremely rare to paint hyper real stuff from memory.
Now, in high school art class since nobody can afford any of that pro stuff, the class just usually goes to the library and finds photos in magazines and books to crib from. Obviously with these game box artists here that method never went out of fashion, or it could be just that it was the only financially viable way of doing this.
It certainly doesn't have anything to do with lacking creativity.
BTW, there is no way that Bloody Wolf cover used the Arnold pic as a reference. Other than the fact that its a strong dude in a tank top holding a weapon, there is no relation. It was probably stolen from one of the posters of one of the thousands of other shitty macho 80s action flics
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I can't find the animated GIF I spoke of earlier, so here is a limited JPG of what I was talking about (Alien not shown).
(http://www.joeredifer.com/crap/ContraPredator-1.jpg)
I wonder why they did this so often? Did they lack creativity? Was it a form of subliminal advertising?
I was about to compare, that even the ending for the japanese version of contra is like the ending to the predator.
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Outlaw Jose Wales
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t245/WastingOrpheus/TheOutlawJoseyWales.jpg)
Outlaw Atari 2600
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t245/WastingOrpheus/outlaw2600.jpg)
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Spotted another one...
"Dark Adventure" Japanese arcade flyer/Return of the Jedi theatrical poster
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/Majuujedi.jpg)
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wow..lol.. nice :lol: :clap:
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(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/Untitled-4.jpg)
(http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Super_contra.jpg/256px-Super_contra.jpg)(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PYREU/PP31426-EU~Rambo-First-Blood-Part-II-Posters.jpg)
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Check out this site my little bro found the other day, it lists a bunch of video game look alikes. http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/a-m.html
I love how there is a David Bowie page exclusive.
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Check out this site my little bro found the other day, it lists a bunch of video game look alikes. http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/a-m.html
I love how there is a David Bowie page exclusive.
Give your little bro a cookie, this site is AWEOME! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I really wish I could find this one Japanese site I found a couple years ago. It listed hundreds of these kind of similarities, it was incredible.
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Oh and here's another similar site I found a couple weeks back that deals specifically with Capcom rip offs. http://fightingstreet.com/folders/variousinfofolder/ripofffolder/ripoffpage1.html
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this is a great thread!!!... so many good comparisons !!! i am not worthy <<bows down>>
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Ninja already posted it at the beginning, but it seems to be a dead link now:
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g103/bluebrad1974/Forum Pics/snake_kylereese.jpg)
out of those i made this:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/3141/snakereeseff2.jpg)
:)
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Ninja already posted it at the beginning, but it seems to be a dead link now:
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g103/bluebrad1974/Forum Pics/snake_kylereese.jpg)
out of those i made this:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/3141/snakereeseff2.jpg)
:)
Dead on with that even when gametrailers had the metalgear retrospective it,was stated as so.