Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition
Tag: Rainbow Arts
Garrison cover (1987) 🔗
Rainbow Arts was a prolific German publisher of “we have famous game X at home” products, from Katakis (we have R-Type at home) and Great Giana Sisters (we have Super Mario Bros. at home) to Thunder Boy (we have Wonder Boy at home). This one is “we have Gauntlet at home” with a cover presumably painted by “we have Frank Frazetta at home”.
Thunder Boy cover (1988) 🔗
This Amiga platformer is just a cheap knock-off of Wonder Boy, but the cover art sure tries to make it look like something more. Several works by Frank Frazetta serve as sources for the human characters, but I’m fairly certain the animals and the flame guy around them are not original, either.
