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Comic book artist Jackson Guice (also sometimes known as Jackson "Butch" Guise) did the cover for Skyfox. The original Electronic Arts release on other platforms apparently came with a mini comic and he's credited on there (as Butch Guise). http://www.mobygames.com/game/skyfox http://www.m...

I had a quick look and couldn't find the exact source image that was used but I can't help but think that the cover artist for Kosmos may have relied just a tad on Marvel's "Rom: Spaceknight" comic for inspiration here. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/k/Kosmos.jpg

Definitely agree on the multiple roles being recorded separately. It's pretty common if you watch the credits on a movie to see people getting namechecked tons of times if they've worked on several areas during the production. I'm not sure if it's what you're suggesting but I think trying to categor...

I may have skimmed this thread a bit quickly so apologies if I've misunderstood anything but I pretty much agree with Rorthron. The people who worked on the game should be in one group (programmers, graphics artists, sound/music, etc) and people who worked on the cover art or in any other capacity s...

And of course there's European Vacation too...

The Shard of Inovar cover



National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) movie poster

Sorry, I edited my previous post whilst you were posting yours Juan. I don't think Ultimate would ever re-release their games in cheaper packaging. They only came out as re-releases when they'd sold out to US Gold and the quality thing I mentioned very much took a hit as well! Also, if they had rele...

I'd agree. I'd say that the one Neil has posted is 99.9% likely to be a fairly good looking fake but it's hard to tell how good the print quality is as the scans are a bit blurred. It'd be interesting to see the tape as I think that'd be the clincher. That "no.2 inlay" in the archive, howe...

That's really handy - cheers!

Ah, right. I think I'd seen the purple authors section before but forgot when doing a quick test search. I think the fact that you can click on other things towards the top - such as release year, publisher etc - where the author/s is/are mentioned (but aren't clickable) threw me off a bit. I'd stil...

Is there any way of just displaying an author's name (or list of authors that match a search) and then being able to see everything they're attached to? Currently search results just seem to spew out software titles... unless I'm doing something wrong? It's not ideal if you don't search for an exact...

I get what you mean but shouldn't there be some consistency with how he's credited to games in the sense that his "proper" name is always first? Maybe I'm wrong but if I didn't know any better then when I skim through the list of games and artists it looks like Fantasy World Dizzy and Rock...

0009335 Fantasy World Dizzy Code Masters Ltd Alistair Graham This should be Alastair Graham, as per Rock Star Ate My Hamster (and a load of other Codies ones) His name is confirmed on his website: http://alagram.co.uk I recently read this article about Skool Daze and pretty much all of the artwork f...

1 = Ghosts 'n Goblins
8 = Operation Wolf

I was watching this crime documentary series the other day and it taught me a valuable lesson about how different people perceive situations. It really made me think hard about my ability to process information and discern fact from fiction. Basically, the kids and their talking dog proved that it w...

Sorry, Mark, but the "Lee pays for the server" thing isn't really a good argument and it certainly isn't an excuse for some of the unforgiveable things he's done recently. People have offered to pay for hosting but Lee wasn't interested. Besides which, it's hosted on the same server that h...

This is my view regarding WoS. It may not be yours but I've tried to keep it as level-headed as I can. I've tried to keep mud-slinging to a minimum but it's hard to not name names since they (in my opinion) are at the heart of the issue. I'm not trying to troll/attack/slag off whatever - seriously -...

I was going to say Renegade before I'd even read the first post! :) I remember buying it for the Amiga when I'd [temporarily] moved on from the Spec and was utterly disappointed at how bad it was in comparison. It's been years since I played it but I think it was more like the arcade version, which ...

Hi,

I'm Rich and the odd one or two of you may know me from that other site.
I don't post all that often but hope I'm bordering on being rational when I do

Is there an updated list of what is actually MIA still? I know several things have turned up since that other site last had any proper updates. Unfortunately, the people most closely associated with preservation don't seem to really post much on there any more so it's not clear what the current stat...