Computer Game Archive - Sci-Fi-O-Rama

Oct 2nd, 2008 | Categories: Computer Game | Illustration | Retro | Sci-Fi

Mercenary - Box Art

Some more 80’s nostalgia – Retro Game Box Art from 1985; Mercenary was a very early attempt at FPS Sci-Fi adventuring with 3d wire-frame vectors to describe the game world as shown above. The whole design is of course a stab at virtual reality using an ‘advanced console’ and HUD (heads up display) to explore an immersive game world, ok that console might only of been the humble C64 or Speccy, but that’s not really the point. There’s a pure charm with these early ideas of machine/human interaction mirrored in movies and tv of the time; Tron, Last Starfighter, Airwolf, Firefox etc – more on these soon…..

Image sourced from Mobygames.com, read more about Mercenary here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/mercenary

Roger Dean – Brataccas

This is Roger Dean’s first piece of commissioned artwork for the legendary 80/90s Games House Psygnosis, and dates from way back to 1986. In addition to Roger Dean Psygnosis also used other Sci-Fi-O-Rama Favorites Tim White and Peter Andrew Jones examples of which I’ve featured earlier. Not all of the games were that memorable but the artwork certainley was and although some of it had been used before as SF Novel covers I think it’s fair to say that it reached a much wider and younger audience thanks to Psygnosis. Read more about Psygnosis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psygnosis

Knights of the Crystallion

Sep 20th, 2008 | Categories: Computer Game | Fantasy | Illustration | Peter Andrew Jones

Another example of box art from the early 90s’s, Knights of the Crystallion (great title!) was a third person RPG mix of puzzling solving and exploring made solely for the Commodore Amiga in 1990 - so I think it’s safe to say, fairly obscure. Whats so appealing about this cover? it’s a smoke breathing Crystal Stallion hatching from an egg!

Knights of the Crystallion is an interesting looking Fantasy Game and one I’d never heard of until recently, read more at: http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/knights-of-the-crystallion

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