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Hi! I talk about video games (History, illustrations, graphic design, cancelled games, sales figures, etc.) By @Dom_Auffret https://t.co/iCDVbOrcVb
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Most if not all the illustrations used for the cover, manual and ads for the SNES/SFC adaptation of Batman Returns come from the 1992 style guide art for the movie, drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez: More Batman Returns artworks by José Luis García-Lopez:
Mar 14, 2023 • 25 tweets • 13 min read
It's time for a big thread about Yasushi Yamaguchi / 山口恭史, AKA Judy Totoya (Sonic, Phantasy Star, Sakura Taisen, etc.) ImageImageImage Yasushi Yamaguchi is one of those multi-tasking artists who briefly worked in the animation industry before joining the video game industry in the late 1980s. After studying at the Osaka University of Art and working as an intervalist on the film Honnéamise no Tsubasa, Image
Jan 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Greg Martin, Part 3.
Part 1:

Part 2:

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.
Jan 13, 2023 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
Greg Martin, Part 2.
Part 1 available here:

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. ImageImage Greg Martin also did the cover art for 2 more Sega games: Toxic Crusaders and Woody Pop. ImageImage
Jan 13, 2023 • 25 tweets • 16 min read
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.
Aug 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
4th episode of the History of the Mega Drive told by Yosuke Okunari, focusing this time on the year 1992.
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Thread⬇️ 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.
Feb 3, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jan 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
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.
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Nov 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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. Image
Sep 28, 2020 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
For the past few days, Osamu Muto has been posting on Twitter some of the cover illustrations he has created in the past, starting with Ragnacenty, the Japanese version of Soleil / Crusader of Centy:
Osamu Muto did a lot of cover art for Sega in the late 80s-early 90s, including the Japanese exclusive Tatakae! Pro Yakyū Twin League
Aug 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
A short thread on some of the first MMORPGs released on console, starting with Dragon's Dream (Saturn, 1997), the first known representative of the genre.
videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/142740794… The need to buy a modem, the costs of online gaming in those days and a timid press coverage make it a rather obscure title, although a video recorded around 1998 is available on Youtube :
Jun 11, 2018 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Eri Nakamura / 中村 会里, the graphic designer in charge of Honda from Street fighter II and SFZero 3, Psylocke from X-Men and Chun-Li from SFZero.
She co-animated Mai-Ling/Tao from Warzard, Bulletta from Vampire Savior and R.Mika from SFZero 3. Image Eri Nakamura / 中村 会里 also designed Juli & Juni from Street Fighter Zero 3.
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