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.