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Maybe it was 2001 colors mixed with the proportions in this piece of Alien concept art?
Speaking of throwback, I forgot to mention: when Broderbund did get rid of the banner-style logo in 1994, suddenly an animated version of the 1993 logo showed up in several games (between 1994 and 1996)! They couldn't even be consistent in that regard!
- Getting rid of the red lines makes the image confusing.
- Making her hair brown when her face is still silhouette is only more confusing.
- Making her scarf white makes her look like she has a weird monster mouth.
- Adding a tiny smile the same color white doesn't help.
The detectives on the outer edge of the Carmen Day sticker first appeared in the manual for the first game. These illustrations by Gene Portwood were reused as design assets throughout the '80s.
If you ask me to picture Superman's face, this is my first mental image every time:
I also kind of co-edited it. You mostly won't know I'm there, but occasionally something snuck in, like this choice of vintage ad, which my caption describes as "possibly the greatest Apple II ad ever created."
Tell me I'm wrong.
Did you know:
When people do a "Steranko" style illo, they're really doing a "Bob Peak" style illo? True story.
Define your childhood in 4 games (I assume this means pre-teenage years). https://t.co/q7qNIUY0dt
It weirds me out how much this looks like FOX went back in time and planted a tie-in to the X-Men: First Class universe with '70s Mystique and haired-Xavier.
(Though if you look really closely, haired-Xavier has a goofy mustache painted on.)
Bradford/Cout enjoyed doing game-like things. They created a magnetic shuffleboard game called Shove-It that I can't find images of. Below are Tennis Anyone?, and pages from a travel activity book.
Do the little tennis guys look familiar to you?