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I wrote an article tracing the career of Yōichi Kotabe, a former animator who worked with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and then helped define many of Nintendo's flagship characters and shape them in 3D. Part 1/5: vgdensetsu.net/5_YoichiKotabe dispo en VF : vgdensetsu.net/5_YoichiKotabe

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Street Fighter 6 in-game illustration by Kinu Nishimura:

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Mick McGinty's son just announced on Facebook that his father has passed away. He had made several video game-related illustrations in the 90s, including for Street Fighter II, Streets of Rage 2 and 3, Kid Chameleon and Shining Force. Thread:⬇️ website: web.archive.org/web/2015020115

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Ad for Super Mario Advance 3, the GBA adaptation of Yoshi's Island.

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You may not know his name, but you're probably familiar with some of his illustrations: today it's Larry Jost's turn to have his own little presentation thread:

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After noticing that you could cause a bug in the saves from Dragon Quest III by increasing the temperature of the cartridge and start at level 99 at a specific temperature, a player has made a speedrun of the game with his console resting on a hot plate.

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Hitsheegame＠ホットプレート使い

RTAinJapan ドラクエ3出走準備完了！あとはホットプレートの温度をキープしながら待つだけ。かなりシビアなので事故ったら許して、、、、　#RTAinJapan

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Hinanana / ヒナナナ is an artist who joined Capcom around 2016-2017 and has created illustrations for Street Fighter V Arcade Edition and a tarot deck for the e-Capcom edition of Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection. They also created artwork for Rockman Unity.

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In a few months, it will be 10 years since the passing of one of the most prolific illustrators of the first half of the 90s: Greg Martin. I've talked about him many times before but never made a thread worthy of the name. It's time to fix that mistake.

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Fuli Culi by Breath of Fire illustrator Tatsuya Yoshikawa / 吉川達哉. Featured on Gainax homepage in April 2012.

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Chun-Li turns 50 today!

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New Vampire / Darkstalkers illustration by Kinu Nishimura created for e-Capcom to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the series: e-capcom.com/sp/vamp/

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Illustration made by denQ / 電Q for the Street Fighter X Onitsuka Tiger exhibition (2019):

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Concept art of a 3D Sonic game commissioned by Famitsu in 1993. Via

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The people who lent their voices to the characters of Street Fighter II - a thread.

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Early PlayStation logo designs by Manabu Sakamoto / 坂本学. kanakokikaku.com/sony-ism/sony_

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Original production cels from the opening of Sonic CD, partially animated by Hisashi Eguchi / 江口寿志 videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/159538795

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New illustration drawn by Kinu Nishimura for goodies on sale in the Capcom Stores. capcom.co.jp/amusement/capc

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Illustrations created by Hiroyuki Nishimura / 西村博之 for the PC-88 version of Popful Mail.

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You suddenly come across an archive of over 11 GB of concept art, articles, photos and screenshots of cancelled games or versions in development. archive.org/details/archiv

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More pictures from the anatomy guide made by Capcom staff in the mid-90s, for internal use: game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column

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Strider Hiryu Sound Chronicle cover art by Tamio / たみお:

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The SEGA logo in Arabic, used in the late 80s-early 90s in Saudi Arabia:

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Prelim artwork of the Western version of the NES game Kirby's Adventure:

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Final Fantasy Tactics illustration created by Tomotake Kinoshita / 木下ともたけ for the July 11, 1997 issue of The PlayStation. archive.org/details/the-pl

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Dragon Quest 25th anniversary illustration by Katsuya Terada.

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It's time for a big thread about Yasushi Yamaguchi / 山口恭史, AKA Judy Totoya (Sonic, Phantasy Star, Sakura Taisen, etc.)

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Excerpts from the book 'The Art of Super Mario Odyssey' released today in Japan, via

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Eri Nakamura / 中村会里, the graphic designer in charge of Honda from Street fighter II and SFZero 3, Psylocke from X-Men and Chun-Li from SFZero. She co-animated Mai-Ling/Tao from Warzard, Bulletta from Vampire Savior and R.Mika from SFZero 3.

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In June 2000, Sega announced several Sonic games for the then new Motorola phone. archive.org/details/comple

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Hideo Minaba designed Geno and Mallow (short for Marshmallow) for Super Mario RPG, based on ideas submitted by the dev team. Some of their ideas were used for the NPCs. Each employee had a Mac LC and it was only in the last few months that they got 2 Silicon Graphics stations.

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Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry: vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817 La création de graphismes en 2D dans l’industrie japonaise : vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179039509

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Final Fantasy IX by Yusuke Murata / 村田雄介 (Eyeshield 21, One Punch Man):

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Ranma and Shampoo by Wild Arms V character designer Tomomi Sasaki / 佐々木知美, AKA Hideaki Fujimoto, 藤本秀明: ssktmm60.tumblr.com/post/119922304

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Naohisa Yamaguchi / 山口直久, AKA NaoQ confirmed to me that he was in charge of the illustrations for the original version of the first Metal Slug. If you're not familiar with his work, here a thread for you:

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Concept art for Sakura from Street Fighter V: game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column

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Early preview of Sonic the Hedgehog shown at the Tokyo Toy Show in June 1990. Via

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Illustrations created by Take / 竹 (World's End Club character designer) for Capcom: _Street Fighter V - Arcade Edition _Street Fighter IV - Volt Battle Protocol _Capcom Girls Calendar 2011

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, former YMO member who composed the music for many films and released numerous solo albums, has passed away. He also composed music for the first Tengai Makyō, Seiken Densetsu 4 and the Dreamcast startup sound. news.livedoor.com/article/detail

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In the mid-1980s, Nintendo of America signed a contract with Timothy Girvin's agency to produce illustrations and packaging for its games, consoles and accessories until around 1995. Larry Jost was one of the illustrators hired to design some of the illustrations.

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Kirby's Dream Land cover sketch instagram.com/p/CKpkWxBHTyi/

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Cover art for the first Super Famicom episode of Kiki Kaikai by Yoshitoh Asari / あさりよしとお.

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Rannie & the mermaids, a Dragon's Crown illustration by Emika Kida / 木田恵美可, featured in the OST booklet and based on Hylas and the Nymphs, a 1896 painting by John William Waterhouse.

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The Zelda logo designed byLarry Jost was used unchanged for Link's Awakening, while the font became the standard in the West from that episode onwards, and in Japan from 1998 with Ocarina of Time. Note that the Dr. Mario logo uses a very similar font to that of Zelda.

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Illustration for the Autumn edition of the Tokyo Game Show 1997 by Katsuhiro Otomo / 大友克洋.

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Yukihiro Takahashi (on the left), one of the 3 members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, has passed away. YMO is a group which, like Casiopea and T-Square, influenced countless composers (of video game music or not) in the 80s and 90s.

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Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 promotional illustration by Miho Mori / 森美保. capcom-unity.com/lets/browse/ma

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Art Box, a graphics software used by SNK during the Neo-Geo era: neogaf.com/forum/showpost

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The more I look at this cover illustration for the European version of Mega Man, the more I think that it seems to have been painted by Ryō Nakamura. Now I have to find a way to contact him.

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Some of the cover proposals drawn by Larry Jost for Dr. Mario.

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Robocop movie poster painted by Mike Bryan and reused for its numerous video game adaptations:

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Sonic the Hedgehog / ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ (Mega Drive - Sega - 1991) Opening animation

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It's time for a long thread on Greg Winters, one of the most prolific illustrators of the 90's who worked on series such as Mega Man, Sonic, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, Shinobi and Star Wars. ⬇️ List of his works + sources: vgdensetsu.net/2_GregWinters.

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Tatsunoko VS Capcom illustration by the late Toyoharu Yoshida / 吉田豊治, AKA Ippei Kuri / 九里一平 (1940-2023):

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For Super Metroid, Larry Jost used a composition very similar to that of the cover illustration for the Japanese version.

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Katsuya Terada / 寺田克也 just posted a picture of an original Zelda illustration created for the 1993 guide book "The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening - Nintendo Player's Guide" facebook.com/photo.php?fbid

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Hitoshi Nishio / 西尾仁志, the graphic designer in charge of Guile, also animated Cyclops from X-Men COTA as well as Ibuki from Street Fighter III. He's the one who came up with most of the special move names from Street Fighter II.

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Naoyuki Katoh / 加藤直之 - Part 1: 1988-1993 (Super Aleste, Guardic Gaiden, R-Type, Gdleen, Ginga Eiyū Densetsu II, Laser Squad, Legion, Moon Dancer, Chō Gojira) videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/173763420

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A thread about the creation of Tails by his chara-designer: "An image of him when he was just an admirer of Sonic. He's not chasing him yet. He imitated him and wore gloves and similar coloured shoes, but they were too big and he tied them up with a belt."

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ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ2　30周年記念　第1弾マイルス”テイルス”パウアー生誕イラストソニックに憧れているだけの頃の彼のイメージ。まだ追っかけはしていない。彼の真似をして手袋と似た色の靴を履いたが大きすぎてベルトで縛っている。（多分このネタはまだ言ったことがないはず）続く↓

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Mick McGinty had also done illustrations for Sega games such as Streets of Rage 2 (cover art + an unused cover art proposal) and the US version of the 3rd episode:

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Ryūichirō Kutsuzawa / 沓澤龍一郎, sometimes credited as 沓沢龍一郎 (Panzer Dragoon, Front Mission Alternative, Dinosaur Resurrection, Rasetsu, Wachenröder, Clockwork Knight, 3x3 Eyes: Seima Densetsu) vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/178315277

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Some of the characters designed by Ryō Hirata for the original Advance Wars episodes.

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From chara-design to graphic design: the artists behind Capcom's 2D fighting game characters vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/178414835

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Takayuki Nakayama mentions in the book How to make Capcom Fighting Characters that the person who animated Makoto (I heard it was Keigo Chimoto) also was in charge of Dudley from Street Fighter III and Menat from Street Fighter V. twitter.com/GhelsxD/status

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Virtua Cop 1&2 character illustrations by Akihito Hiroyoshi / 広吉明人. character designer on the Virtua Cop series, Arabian Fight and Virtua Fighter 3.

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Two possibly previously unseen Saturn prototypes just appeared on a Facebook group. (Take it with a grain of salt!) segasaturno.com/portal/posible

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This is how Eliza's sprite from Street Fighter II was originally designed:

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Sonic Drift cover illustrations by Yasushi Yamaguchi / 山口恭史, AKA Judy Totoya:

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When graphic designers from Taito, SNK and other companies used a joystick to draw dot by dot: videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/160230210

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Mizuho Kageyama / 影山みずほ designed and animated Vega from Street Fighter II shortly after joining Capcom. She then animated Zhang Fei from Tenchi wo Kurau II, Victor from Vampire, co-animated Mukuro from Warzard (with Kaname Fujioka) and helped a bit on Donovan and Bulleta.

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 3rd anniversary celebration illustration by Vanillaware in-house artist Emika Kida / 木田恵美可:

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Street Fighter IV by Yusuke Nakamura / 中村佑介 (The Tatami Galaxy, Night is Short, Walk On Girl) Illustration featured in Pen Plus' mook Street Fighter ga sukida!, as well as in Street Fighter V Arcade Edition.

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Mick McGinty also did the cover art as well as a promotional illustration for Kid Chameleon (for which his son posed).

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Chun-Li drawn by Sunao Chikaoka / 近岡直, animator and character designer on many series: animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/p

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Super Mario World animation by Nintendo illustrator Yoichi Kotabe / 小田部羊一: videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/148510091

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Original sketch for the Western box art of Super Metroid: nintendoage.com/forum/messagev

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Tamio / たみお is a member of the Capcom design room who has made numerous ilustrations for the company over the last decade, in particular for goodies, collaborations and limited editions. I made a list of their work and posted a few more illus here: vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/638109777

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Naoto Ohshima and Yasushi Yamaguchi (who designed Sonic and Tails respectively) in 1993 during the development of Sonic CD. Via

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4 unused cover illustrations: EarthBound, Mario's Picross, Kirby's Dream Land 2 and the unreleased SNES version of FX Fighter: comics.ha.com/itm/video-game

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Alleged prototype of an unreleased Game & Watch version of Tetris.

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任天堂ゲームウォッチ幻の「テトリス」試作品のプレイ動画 #電子ゲーム愛好会

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Larry Jost began his career in 1983, creating illustrations and logos for companies such as Nintendo (which published Final Fantasy in the United States), Microsoft, Broderbund and Lucasfilm.

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Early pictures of Super Mario 64, found in the patent documents for the Nintendo 64: suppermariobroth.com/post/153949454

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Revolver Ocelot by Leiji Matsumoto / 松本零士. Illustration featured in the book included in the Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty premium package (PS2 - 2001)

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On December 18, 1997, Grandia was released. A long-term project initiated before the release of the Saturn, it became one of its most famous representatives. Illustration drawn by its character designer Toshiaki Hontani / 本谷利明:

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Mazin Saga artwork signed Go Nagai and used for the cover of the Mega Drive adaptation (also known as Mazin Wars in Europe).

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Kunihiko Tanaka / 田中久仁彦, character designer and illustrator on Xenogears, shares pictures of original sketches to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the game. twitter.com/search?f=tweet

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I almost forgot: Larry Jost also did the cover art for Super Mario All-Stars. (PPS: this thread is far from complete, I'll add more of his works ASAP)

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Early Super Mario World sprites by Shigefumi Hino / 日野重文: topics.nintendo.co.jp/c/article/cb34

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Sakura from Street Fighter Zero 2 by Akemi Takada for the cover of the November 15th, 1996 issue of Famimaga 64. Via

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Haggar turns 80 today!

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Kaori Fujita / 藤田香, mangaka, illustrator and character designer on the Suikoden series, has passed away on July 13, 2018. She was 47. www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~fs5/ mobygames.com/developer/shee aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/news/1/90.html

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Some of the characters Keigo Chimoto / 千本啓五, AKA Chimorin SHOGUN, animated or co-animated. He briefly worked as an animator at JC Staff (he is credited on the OAV Ellcia) before working for Capcom, Dimps (The Rumble Fish 2) and Access Games.

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Sonic Drift manual illustrations drawn by Yasushi Yamaguchi / 山口恭史, AKA Judy Totoya.

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Pictures of Gainax during the development of Princess Maker 2 (1993) swarm.tumblr.com/post/145858060

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Illustrations featured in The official art of Gradius II, a book sold with the X68000 version of the game. Artist: Hajime Katoki / カトキハジメ videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/170732567

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Poster for the upcoming "Capcom Vs Tezuka Osamu characters" exhibition illustrated by Bengus, (with for probable reference the promotional illustration he himself created for Marvel Vs Capcom 1). cinra.net/news/20200915-

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Other games illustrated by Mick McGinty: Shining Force I Traysia Chicago Syndicate

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Alone in the Dark 2 cover art by Greg Call web.archive.org/web/2012082611

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A thread on Tong King Show / 東京省, AKA Aquila Sasaqui / 佐々木晃, illustrator and character designer who regularly collaborated with Taito between the late 80s and mid-90s. web.archive.org/web/2005020509 ⬇️

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In 1994, SNK used a zeppelin to promote the second episode of the Samurai Shodown series, Shin Samurai Spirits. (The Super Famicom - September 16, 1994)

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Shin Waku Waku 7 / 新・わくわく７ (Working title), an unreleased arcade (Neo-Geo?) game produced by Sunsoft. videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/167621952 videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/167621937

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