Ikari III: The Rescue cover (1989) 🔗

This was not the first time SNK's Ikari Warriors series borrowed famous templates, but the sources they went to this time are a bit surrising. I guess the logic would have been Arnold Schwarzenegger played a lot of muscly military dudes, he also played Conan the Barbarian, so go to fantasy illustrators who also drew Conan.

The Boris Vallejo reference discovered by Trickless from the Insert Credit forums.

Ikari Warriors flyer (1986) 🔗

The entire raison d'être for SNK's Ikari Warriors series is to let you play at Rambo in a legally (barely) distinct manner, so it would be weirder if the original artwork for the Japanese arcade version didn't rip off several publicity photos from First Blood Part II. The artist tried to draw one of Sylvester Stallone's arms in a different pose to have him appear ready to throw a hand grenade, with rather mangled results.