Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition
Tag: Swashbuckling
Crusader Kings II: Way of Life key art (2014) 🔗
An unusually recent example for this collection, and yet it goes back to the same source than many of its predecessors in crime from the previous millennium. The brooding king on the key art for this Crusader Kings II expansion is no lesser monarch than Arnold Schwarzenegger as old King Conan at the end of Conan the Barbarian.
Sherwood cover (1993) 🔗
This Slovakian-made Robin Hood game sure tries to cover all the Robin Hoods. Besides Kevin Costner on the title screen, the cover adds Patrick Bergin's interpretation from the British production that amazingly came out the same year as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and even reaches all the way back to 1938 to bring Errol Flynn from The Adventures of Robin Hood back from the dead. The smaller scenes at the bottom are a bit harder to determine, but the Sherriff of Nottingham in the sword scene clearly shows features of Alan Rickman's portraial of the villain. The (presumably) Maid Marian is unidentified so far, but she definitely isn't from any of these films.
Sherwood title screen (1993) 🔗
I know. I get it. If you're making a Robin Hood game, you'll probably end up borrowing from iconic Robin Hood movies here and there. But just digitizing Kevin Costner's mug from the poster of the most recent and most famous of them all, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as the makers of this ZX Spectrum title from Slovakia did, might be a bit much. And this isn't even the only Robin Hood this game has stolen: The cover art features several more.
1001 Spikes key art (2014) 🔗
This being a recent indie game with a clear 1980s retro flair, I'll grant that this is mostly an intentional homage to the poster for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom that you're supposed to recognize, but it's still really darn close to the original.
