Navy Seals (1991) 🔗

One of the things British micro shovelware publisher Ocean specialized in was movie licenses (they might be a major contributor to the bad reputation of games based on movies in earlier years), another was copying stuff. The cover simply recreates the variant of the Navy Seals logo from the film, but at least for one of the still images in between stages they went to one of their favorite sources, namely Marvel's The Punisher. The whole composition with the hero hanging on front of the window is swiped directly from Mike Zeck's cover, except the crime going on inside is a different one. There are several other human poses in these intermissions that might or might not also have famous sources.

Discovered by kjn from the Hardcore Gaming 101 forums.

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.