Golden Axe flyer (1989) 🔗

It's no secret that the Golden Axe series owes a lot to Robert E. Howard's Conan character. For later installments, Sega got to commission one of the great Conan artists with Boris Vallejo for later installments, but for the original arcade game, they still had to settle for some imitations. The illustrator didn't go for any famous fantasy artists for references, though, but directly to the Conan movies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tyris Flare is based on Sandahl Bergman posing as Valeria for Conan the Barbarian, while Schwarzenegger Himself stands in for Ax Battler from the Conan the Destroyer set.

Discovered by barbarus and chaoticgood from the Hardcore Gaming 101 forums.