Ikari III: The Rescue cover (1989) 🔗

This was not the first time SNK's Ikari Warriors series borrowed famous templates, but the sources they went to this time are a bit surrising. I guess the logic would have been Arnold Schwarzenegger played a lot of muscly military dudes, he also played Conan the Barbarian, so go to fantasy illustrators who also drew Conan.

The Boris Vallejo reference discovered by Trickless from the Insert Credit forums.