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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Mike Ditka, October 18, 1939 – October 9, 2026. Mike Ditka: Ultimate Football box art by Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell and ad art by Stephen Gardner

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hi Rolf, did you do the package art painting for this Porsche game?

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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...

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eternal life provides plenty of time for investments to compound!

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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 · 24/08/2026

Great! The artist for the Mega Drive release isn't known, is it?

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Your page for Noriyuki Moto has an entry for "Hydlide" under to be confirmed. I can confirm that he did the MSX box arts for Hydlide and Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness, the painting for the latter of which is collector-owned.

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

10 years later Stephen Gardner did the cover art for the Resident Evil: Code Veronica novel adaptation

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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 · 19/08/2026

Not an area I know too well myself, but I became aware of the elite fourum thread via conversation in the Original Video Game Art Collectors Facebook group

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes, I'm sure the actual uncredited artist was hired by or contracted/freelance by Bandai (where these originals came from), and wouldn't be a known name. That doesn't change that the illustrations saw publication/use on early Pokemon products, but the Ken Sugimori misrepresentation isn't good

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I suspect that Bill Ulch did the artwork for this U.S. ad for Iron Storm for the Sega Saturn

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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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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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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/

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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 displayed

A snap of Wing Commander's rotatable box

A 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/

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I like your thought process of this one being similar to Mike Bryan's Sub-Terrania box art

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This Nintendo Power cover is by Larry Jost, the same artist who did the US Super Metroid SNES box art as well as Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Alan Craddock did the art for this Europe box art!

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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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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thank you! I hadn't seen that before now. I'll be curious to see which pieces are in which lots at HA and whether I consider bidding on any of them

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I saw those auctions a day or two ago at HA but my quick searching didn't pull up prior scans online. Can you share a link?

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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 Ishioka

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Looks like there were some digital edits to the flag as well as the symbol on the character's armor

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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 · 12/06/2026

Stan Watts also did the US box art for Datasoft's Time and Magik (1988) for home computers including Atari ST, C64, and Macintosh. He snuck his name "S Watts" onto the center of the clock (also confirmed by the artist)

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Another Stan Watts piece that was shared with me, the cover art for a Broderbund Software catalog, which appears to be from around 1990, as the cover mentions Broderbund's 10th Anniversary Celebration and the company was founded in 1980

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Up until today, Outlander was Stan Watts' only game box art that was aware of, but thanks to @vgdensetsu.bsky.social, I also learned that Stan Watts did the Atari 7800 art for Missing in Action, which was first a film poster (auctioned in 2021 for $19,200) www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/202...

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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/

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