Tom & Jerry: The Movie and Cheese Cat-Astrophe starring Speedy Gonzales, some of the many Looney Tunes games produced by Sega and illustrated by Greg Martin.
Greg Martin also did the cover art for 2 more Sega games: Toxic Crusaders and Woody Pop.
Another famous character of the video game industry has been illustrated by Greg Martin: Pac-Man. Previously illustrated by a wide variety of artists, with as many different styles, Martin temporarily took over the character for several games.
Pac-Man for NES, Namco version:
Pac-Man for NES, Tengen version, illustrated by Greg Martin:
Pac-Man for Game Boy and Ms. Pac-Man for Game Boy, Game Gear and NES, by Greg Martin:
Pac-Attack cover art by Greg Martin:
Pac-Attack promotional illustrations for the Game Gear and the Mega Drive versions by Greg Martin:
Greg Martin illustrated two other Namco titles released in the West: Marvel Land / Talmit's Adventure and Whirlo, AKA Xandra no Daibōken, a game from the Valkyrie no Bōken series released only in Japan and Spain.
Another publisher for which Greg Martin has frequently worked is Hudson Soft. Several episodes of the Adventure Island series were illustrated by Martin, whether on NES, Game Boy or Super NES.
Greg Martin also confirmed that he illustrated the covers of Super Bomberman and Bomberman 2, although there is some debate about the latter as well as with another Hudson title: Super Bonk (t's not impossible that his memory could have played tricks on him).
Speaking of Bonk, the illustration that Greg Martin made for Bonk's adventure is part of the works destroyed during a flood in 1995. Several originals were partially or totally destroyed in this incident.
Other games published by Hudson Soft and illustrated by Greg Martin include Atomic Punk (AKA Dynablaster / Bomber Boy), Inspector Gadget and Milon's Secret Castle.
Felix for NES illustrated by Greg Martin:
Some of the ads and promotional flyers illustrated by Greg Martin for Hudson Soft:
Throughout his career, Greg Martin has illustrated a number of products licensed by Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes or, to a lesser extent, Disney, and the video game industry is no exception. For Sunsoft, he illustrated two Speedy Gonzales games and a Daffy Duck game.
A few more works Greg Martin did for Sunsoft: the cover art for Aero the Acro-Bat 2 and a promotional illustration for the Mega Drive game Bubble & Squeak.
For Taito, Greg Martin drew the covers of the various adaptations of the Jetsons and the Flintstones on the consoles of the time as well as some episodes of Yogi Bear for other publishers.
A rare fact: his illustration of the Mega Drive episode of The Flintstones was also used for the Japanese version.
In a few months, it will be 10 years since the passing of one of the most prolific illustrators of the first half of the 90s: Greg Martin.
I've talked about him many times before but never made a thread worthy of the name. It's time to fix that mistake.
After a stint at the Hanna-Barbera studio, Greg Martin did his first work for the video game industry in the early 80's with a handful of Commodore VIC-20 games, the computer that preceded the Commodore 64.
A few more VIC-20 games illustrated by Greg Martin:
4th episode of the History of the Mega Drive told by Yosuke Okunari, focusing this time on the year 1992. mirai-idea.jp/post/megadrive…
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In 1991 alone, Sonic 1 sold 1.6 million units in the US, 400,000 in Japan and 300,000 in Europe, for a total of 2.3 million units. The Master System version of Sonic was a hit in Europe with 500,000 units.
Note: Okunari does not specify whether the units sold in bundles (with the Mega Drive or Master System) and sales in the US of the Master System version of Sonic, imported from Europe (Master System game production had already ceased in the US), are counted.
The people who lent their voices to the characters of Street Fighter II - a thread.
In the early 1990s, video game characters were often dubbed by the developers and their colleagues, and SFII was no exception. Where the game differs from some of its competitors is that a given character may have been dubbed by more than one person.
Akiman, who was involved in the recording of the lines, wanted as many people as possible to participate, even if the lines of some people were left. The voices weren't very clear on CPS1, so it was possible to do this without the players noticing.
A thread on the artwork created or reused for the covers of the Indiana Jones games, starting with the movie poster from Raiders of the Lost Ark by the late Richard Amsel (The Dark Crystal, Mad Max 3, Flash Gordon), reused years later for Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures. 1/6
The Atari 2600 adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, illustrated by James Kelly. theartofjameskelly.com
One of the poster illustrations from Temple of Doom, painted by Bruce Wolfe was reused for Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom. web.archive.org/web/2016022201…
BEEP announced a re(?)release of Ys I and II for X68000. Only the first episode was officially released on this computer, but a doujin version had also been developed. It is not yet clear which version will be released. game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1290…
The X68000 version of Ys developed by Dempa Micomsoft differs from the other versions on several points. The title screen takes the cover illustration made by Yoshitaka Amano, leaving the title screen originally created by Tomoo Yamane.
The logo was designed by Hiroshi Hirata, mangaka and famous calligrapher who also designed the katakana version of the Akira logo.