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Building a hub and community for video game art collectors! Posting original art and artist attribution linktr.ee/ovga (what we're up to!) www.fb.com/groups/ovgacollectors (collectors FB group to chat and buy/sell art)

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 16h
Here's a curiosity, it seems Kaz Aizawa did a 2nd painting for HAL's Kabuki: Quantum Fighter for NES. Both are full paintings around 15" x 20". While the one on the left doesn't appear to have been used directly, the scene is incorporated into the background of the published box art as a thumbnail
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kaz Aizawa, River City Ransom preview in Nintendo Power #8, September/October 1989 comics.ha.com/itm/video-ga...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also new to me that Kaz Aizawa did this Blaster Master spot illustration in Nintendo Power #3 (Nov/Dec 1988), which appeared on page 34 and as a small portion of the pack-in poster
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bullfrog's original DOS box art for Magic Carpet makes pretty clear reference of Boris Vallejo's Conan the Magnificent painting
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Rolf Mohr @rolfmohr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#Lifestory 15 "Hellraiser" Acrylic. One of my early freelance jobs, my first ever video game art! (I did them a cool logo too but they chose to go with this ugly title instead). #Atari #AtariST #retrogaming
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Rolf Mohr @rolfmohr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#Lifestory 27 Curse of Enchantia cover art Acrylic / airbrush. This was the original wraparound cover art. #Amiga #Retrogaming #Illustration
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Syndicate preliminary/concept art for Bullfrog by Scottish artist Richard Fox (confirmed in comments below)
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Among the Kaz Aizawa pieces coming to auction at Heritage, this one is completely new for me! Done for the December 15, 1992, edition of the Chicago Tribune's KidNews section. Published with the feature "Video Game Wars: You Win with a World of Choices comics.ha.com/itm/video-ga...
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most, if not all, of the illustrations created by Kaz Aizawa for Nintendo and HAL between the late 1980s and early 1990s are set to be auctioned off. comics.ha.com/c/search/res...
Adventures of LoloJoustKabuki Quantum FighterMillipede
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This ad art for Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold features Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' painting "Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718," painted in 1920
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Mike Ditka: Ultimate Football ad art for Accolade (DOS, 1991) by Stephen Gardner
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Moon Ball Magic for the Famicom Disk System (FDS) by Moto Noriyuki, 1988 — the game was released exclusively through the FDS's "Disk Writer" service, so while the game had art commissioned and used in advertising, it never had traditional retail packaging
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
These early Bandai Pokemon illustrations are not the work of Ken Sugimori, but unfortunately, Mandrake doesn't appear to have taken feedback or been willing to revise its titles and descriptions: www.elitefourum.com/t/many-of-th...
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Many of the cards in Carddass 1997 (potentially even the entire set) were very likely not drawn by Ken Sugimori
Bandai Carddass 1997 part 3 & 4 is widely believed to be illustrated by Ken Sugimori. This is due to sources like Bulbapedia and other community members saying this. Recently this topic has been broug...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Bill Ulch appears to have done the art for these two ads from Working Designs for Cosmic Fantasy 2 (signature at lower right corner) and Exile. Bill Ulch is also credited on MobyGames for "Additional Art" on other Working Designs titles: www.mobygames.com/person/10848...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Steve Lavigne did the box art for TMNT II: Back from the Sewers for Game Boy. The final painting is privately owned by a collector but Steve and his wife actually turned up a prelim last year and sold it via the Shellback Artworks Facebook page
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Phantasy Star Memorial Drama CD & Fanbook original cover art by Hitoshi Yoneda: xcancel.com/Brise_Marine... vgdensetsu.net/hitoshiyoneda/
Phantasy Star Memorial Drama CD & Fanbook original cover art
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've just been having a noodle through a lovely site: Big Box Collection. There, you'll find scans of big box microcomputer and DOS/Win PC games that you can rotate around and have very high levels of detail. You can also see what came inside them, too. bigboxcollection.com/Shelf
A screencap of the shelf presentation with front-facing game boxes displayedA snap of Wing Commander's rotatable boxA photo of the contents that came with someone's CD-ROM deluxe version. A CD sleeve and schematics of ships in the game.
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I can’t find any information about the cover art for Zaxxon’s Motherbase 2000, but the art style reminds me of Mike Bryan’s, with a sort of mix of photographs and digital painting (as with Sub-Terrania, for example). vgdensetsu.net/mikebryan/
front box of Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000
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LI Retro @liretro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Expanded and more extensive than ever, art collector Steve Reid will showcase original pieces and seps used in the creation of the most iconic and historically significant game boxes, magazine covers and conceptual designs in a special @ovga.bsky.social Exhibit this Aug 7-9 at LI Retro. LIRetro.com
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Does anyone have the instruction manual for the Game Gear game Buster Fight on hand? I'd like to see a clearer photo or scan of that page so I can identify the signature (I assume it's Jun Satoh's). archive.org/details/bust...
A scan of a page from the Buster Fight manual featuring a cropped illustration and an indecipherable red signature.
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I assume the artist behind the Japanese box art for Bloody Roar took inspiration from one of these Dracula posters (probably the Japanese one designed by Eiko Ishioka and painted by Haruo Takino).
Japanese poster for the 1992 movie Bram Stocker's Dracula painted by Haruo Takino and designed by Eiko IshiokaInternational poster for the 1992 movie
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm not too familiar with Gerald Brom's box art catalog, but this was a new one for me: Emperor of the Fading Sun published by SegaSoft in 1997. Credited to Brom on an archived website from the game's developer Holistic Design web.archive.org/web/19970206...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Outlander box art for Genesis and SNES by Stan Watts. Mindscape released the game first for Genesis in 1992 and then for SNES in 1993, but Stan Watts is only credited in the SNES manual: archive.org/details/outl...
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Artwork signed Bud Thon.
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse main visual by Katsuya Terada vgdensetsu.net/katsuyaterada/
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse main visual
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A new exhibition dedicated to Takumi Yokooka opens today. He has created a huge number of illustrations for Namco over the past 40 years. I’ll have to update his profile. vgdensetsu.net/takumiyokooka/ xcancel.com/Area51_zek/s...
several illustrations created for NamcoMore Namco illustrationsa desk with a few Namco games
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Marc Ericksen art for the cancelled Sega Genesis game Battle Mission (1990), a WW2 rail shooter that was set to be published by Renovation. Marc's art got usage in a trade show flyer that doesn't appear to be documented online originalvideogameart.com/index.php?/h...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Infocom's Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989) included a Book of Hours insert, which explained the Canonical hours and contained a poem with lines used as passwords in the game. Ed Parker did the art for Book of Hours boards.cgccomics.com/topic/403640...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ryan Ottley, Invincible VS PlayStation 5 GameStop Exclusive box art variant, 2026 www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece...
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Before joining Data East, Yuichi Takagi created illustrations for Beep magazine. Around the same time, Beep also featured illustrations by Toshimi Sato (who presumably illustrated numerous Data East games). vgdensetsu.net/yuichitakagi/ Via @gamingalexandria.bsky.social archive.org/details/beep...
An F1 illustration for Beep's column 'Sega Game World' by Yuichi Takagi
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Turok Evolution video game tie-in comic for EB Games (2002) by Ron Adrian and Greg Adams www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The final color artwork for the 1981 Donkey Kong arcade flyer by Leslie Cabarga appears to have surfaced and will come up for auction at Landry Pop Auctions www.instagram.com/p/DYOQIPYjaL...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The Roger Dean Official Page on Facebook recently shared some of Roger's art for Brataccas, Psygnosis' debut project released in 1986. The post indicates may have done the art in 1985 www.facebook.com/share/p/18EG...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Drakan: Order of the Flame (1999) poster art for Psygnosis by German artist Timo Wuerz www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In addition to work for PSM, Mike Weiringo, with inker Tim Townsend, did the cover for this lone issue of PS Max (from the same publisher as PSM) featuring Croc, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Um Jammer Lammy, and Ape Escape
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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🍂👻🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The New Yorker Cover (1999) #retro #art #gaming #Pokemon
The New Yorker Cover (November, 1999) featuring Pikachu
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It looks like Eric JW Lee did indeed reference this Dolph Lundgren still from Masters of the Universe for his Phantasy Star III illustration for GamePro!
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Eric JW Lee did a trio of Phantasy Star paintings for GamePro magazine: for a "ProView" of Phantasy Star SMS in issue 3 (Sept/Oct 1989), even though the game had been out for nearly a year; a Phantasy Star II cover for issue 8 (March 1990); and a Pro Review for PSIII in issue 25 (August 1991)
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Julie Bell did art in 1994 that appears to have been intended to advertise the Sega CD release of Samurai Shodown (reportedly for a large cardboard cutout display figure in stores). I think this is Haohmaru in an alternate costume, which aligns to the EUR box art and this in-game image
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
These have got to borrow from the same reference -- haven't found it yet, though. Probably Boris Vallejo. Mattel's Bad Street Brawler for NES in September 1989 and Slaughter Sport for Genesis in December 1991 @samderboo.com
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Heritage has this undated Bill Sienkiewicz art listed as an unknown video game cover draft. Any ideas? comics.ha.com/itm/original...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
More Mario product advertisements! Disney illustrator Chris Dellorco painted this 1993 Super Nintendo Super Mario All-Stars ad art for Dominoes
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
While Jonny Kwan is most known for his Dick Tracy movie art (1990), I just discovered that he did this rendition of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie poster. As far as I can tell, the same image (with a color swap) was also used for the press kit. Steve Chorney painted the key art with this design
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Whoa! First time I've seen this ad or art. Very cool discovering new, painted Mario/Nintendo art from that era
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The N64 pack-in map for Cruis'n USA definitely appears to have been a traditional, airbrushed painting
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Jetsons: George Jetson and the Legend of Robotopia for the Amiga bears the initials "BLH 89" and is likely the work of Bonnie Long-Hemsath, who is credited (along with others) for Pencils and Painting. Bonnie passed away from cervical cancer in December 2020: www.linkedin.com/in/bonniehem...
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Two UK illustrations signed "Frank Moses": the "16 Blitz" budget release of Mastertronic's Pub Pool (1989) and Postern's 3 Deep Space (1983)
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This 1989 NES ad for Taxan's Star Soldier is initialed at the bottom right. The initials seem familiar but I can't place them, and I keep losing then rediscovering this image. Maybe EM or WB? The triangles on either end seem district. Hopefully someone will recognize the initials from other art!
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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Kazuo Ebisawa / 海老沢 一男 passed away on April 14, 2026. Although he worked primarily in the animation industry, he also did a few VG-related works such as the box art for the MSX2 and X1 versions of Road Blaster (AKA Road Avenger). vgdensetsu.net/kazuoEbisawa/ www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-04...
Road Blaster box art
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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Don Wieland did box art for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn releases of ASC's TNN Motorsports Hardcore 4x4. Don passed away on April 30, 2016, eight years ago today. A fine artist and commercial illustrator from the Detroit area, Don was known for his automotive work www.hemmings.com/stories/wiel...
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