Carmageddon cover (1997) 🔗

The box art for Carmageddon may not be one of the prettiest, but the driver with the murderous grin presents a striking image that tells you exactly what the game has in store for you. It also has a rather unexpected origin: The convincing look of evil comes courtesy of a comic book adaption of the Clive Barker horror story The Yattering and Jack, drawn by John Bolton

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Gryzor / Contra cover art (1987) 🔗

It's often assumed that the iconic Contra title art brings together facsimiles of Arnold Schwarzenegger from Predator and Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo, but don't let yourself be misled by the second guy's dark hair and red bandana: In reality, they're both based off stills from Arnie's movie. The art was originally drawn by the late Bob Wakelin for Ocean's European home computer releases under the title Gryzor. Bob doesn't seem to have enjoyed working on this one too much (source: exotica), but someone clearly must have liked it, as it ended up making its way across the pond onto the official NES cover in the US.