蛇METALさんのイラストまとめ

@Exalted_Speed After the comic was canceled Malibu started advertising Gold editions of the issues in game magazines (this particular ad being from EGM#51) and they seem almost proud that Capcom canceled them. The art they used for the ad isn't half-bad though (it's signed by a "Tim Shiro")

According to Hiromoto himself, he designed many characters and scenery for Parodius Da! that include stages such as the candy maze, the Mt. Fuji stage, the Moai warship, the graveyard, the north pole base, the Bacterion Base and even the title sequence.
https://t.co/DU7eHonpu2

@VGDensetsu I always thought that Crono and Marle from Chrono Trigger looked like redesigned versions of Randy and Primm from Secret of Mana. Could that have something to do with Kameoka's early involvement with the Toriyama Project?

The canceled Japanese version of the Konami arcade game Special Project Y was going to be titled Espionage according to the service manual, but unused graphics also suggests that the title Secret Agent was considered, which happens to the Japanese title of Data East's Sly Spy.

@VGDensetsu It seems Reijiro Kato had a career drawing art for magazine articles and guides, since he also did this Rockman 2 artwork for a certain issue of Beep! (before they became a Sega-only magazine), as well as Tokuma's guide to the Famicom Contra.
https://t.co/wKbRkibN19

@VGDensetsu Likely not the first time a Fatal Fury character is named after a manga character. I suspect Joe Higashi might had been named after Jō Azuma from the Genma Taisen franchise. Azuma and Higashi are spelled with the same kanji (東 丈).

which way, western game developer?

The Policenauts Official Guide by NTT (published on 1996/9/20) features a newly drawn art for its cover, as well as for a two-page spread. You can see the rough sketches of both of these drawings on Kojima's desk in the TGS 1996 trailer for MGS (recorded on 1996/4/1).

@spumshot Case in point: the design of the Dark Queen in the new Battletoads reboot. I'll let the images speak for themselves.

@Neo_Vinter Same logic behind the US packaging art for the Mega Man Legends and Street Fighter EX series. Apparently Capcom USA didn't think people would know they were polygonal games if they didn't stick a CGI render on the cover.