Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition
Tag: The Eternal Champion
Sindibad: Chitei no Daimakyū cover (1990) 🔗

Sindibad is neither the fanciest nor the most high-effort of RPGs on the PC Engine. As the game jumbles together elements from many different stories from the tales of 1001 Nights, the cover art jumbles together various works by Boris Vallejo. It’s funny to see the closest thing of Vallejo as an anime character, as I believe the center piece was one of the paintings he posed for himself.
The spear boy was identified by Trickless from the Insert Credit forums.






Moulin Rouge Senki: Melville no Honō (1992) 🔗

I don't know the name of the artist who painted the cover for this Japan only Famicom strategy game, but I know for a fact that they're Boris Vallejo's biggest fan on earth. Somehow they managed to fit bits and pieces from no less than nine of the master's paintings on the box. (Well, they're a bit cropped on there, actually, but luckily Famitsu printed the full image in their coverage of the game.) From popular pieces such as The Eternal Warrior to obscure erotica like the Snake Women and Vallejo's dreamy painting of a demonic hookah, it has just about everything. I feel the central woman character's hair (and possibly facial features) might have some other source, and maybe the castle...?














