Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition
Tag: When Hell Laughs
Breach 2 cover (1990) 🔗
Breach is a series of hardcore tactics game by Omnitrend Software. Publisher Mindraft brought artist Bruce Eagle on for the cover art, who is no stranger to borrowing from Boris Vallejo. His alien seems quite original to me, but the poor space man it shoots down holds a quite familiar pose.
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...?
