Monday, 29 August 2022

Video games lifting likeness - Act I

Cover art

Please note, nothing is representative of actual game.

Majik vs Donald Sutherland


Psyborg vs Kevin Costner


Special Agent vs Humphrey Bogart


Elemental Master vs Jean-Claude Van Damme


Delving into the more obscure.

In 80 Days Around the World vs Tom Selleck


Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire vs Clancy Brown


Pulsoids vs Ghostbusters


Phantom F4 II vs Double Impact


Guess they didn't like Chad.

Film scenes

To be fair, artists did a good job.

Fire! vs Platoon


Outlaw vs The Outlaw Josey Wales


Stars and characters

Devs were obviously devoted fans.

Chief Mendez - Resident Evil 4 vs Sid Haig


Casey Tarell - Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic vs Sigourney Weaver


Samchay - Fighter's History vs Wes Studi


Queen Bee - Operation Wold 3 vs Pris - Blade Runner


Andrea - Remothered: Broken Porcelain vs Annie - Misery


Kevin Ryman - Resident Evil Outbreak vs Tom Cruise


White - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind vs Alex - A Clockwork Orange


Goon - Shadow Warriors (1988) vs Lord Humungus - Mad Max 2


The Kingpin - Kingpin: Life of Crime vs Marsellus Wallace - Pulp Fiction


Combinations

Inevitable.

Laser Squad

John McClane - Die Hard


Lobot - The Empire Strikes Back


Sword of Sodan

Hero vs Christopher Lambert


Heroine vs Sharon Stone


Ax Battler - Golden Axe vs He-Man - Masters of the Universe


Jesus Christ.  That film was BAD.

Regardless, Dolph Lundgren inspired others.

Rogue (1988)
Metamorphic Force - arcade flyer
Wannabe 70s porn star Claude is depicted differently in game.
Comad cloned the erotic 'uncover image' subgenre Kaneko created with Gals Panic, which ironically raped the gameplay of Taito's Qix.

Anyway.

Fantasia
L-R: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hudson Hawk, Michael Jackson, Robocop, Rocky and Indiana Jones, specifically The Last Crusade.
New Fantasia
Ignoring repetition, Uncle Fester, Toys, Salman of Saudi Arabia and Saddam Hussein.
WHY?

I will must be a winner!

Big Rigs eat your broken heart out.

Shadow of the Comet

In his quest to witness and photograph the passage of Halley's Comet, here are some of the residents that protagonist John Parker will meet in H. P. Lovecraft inspired point-and-click.

Andrew Arlington - Glenn Shadix
Curtis Hambleton - John Hurt
Doctor Cobble - Vincent Price
Gypsy - Katy Jurado
John Parker - Robert Redford
Jonas Hambleton - Robert Shaw
Jonathan Matthews - Walter Matthau
Mary Matthews - Sharon Stone
Mr Underhouse - H. P. Lovecraft
Nathan Tyler - Jack Nicholson
Obed Hambleton - Willem Dafoe
Thomas Bishop - Robert Mitchum
W.B. Griffith - Charles Laughton
Tobias Jugg - Paul Scofield
Until next time.