Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

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Jim Power Amiga cover (1992) 🔗


Sure was a choice from Loriciel to take a tough martial arts movie star like Jean-Claude Van Damme and stick him in the game protagonist's super dorky outfit. The game isn't even horror themed, but they complemented that with the body horror image of one of the thugs from Robocop grossly melting away after getting doused with toxic chemicals. The nasty face in the background is from another movie, An American Werewolf in London. The rocket powered guy to the upper right is from yet another kind of source, a painting by sci fi illustrator Peter Elson, apparently originally commissioned for Harry Harrison's short story collection Prime Number (but also published on a variety of other books). This is incidentally also the only element this cover has in common with the otherwise very different PC Engine version.

The Peter Elson connection was discovered by ‪'just hangin around' (that's the screen name) on Bluesky. An American Werewolf in London was identified by HyggeState on the Insert Credit Forum.

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