Konami & NEC cover artist Hideaki Kodama's paintings for sale

[ccovell]

Here's an interesting bunch of auctions: original art for some Konami games and NEC ads.

Link:
http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?p=35371#35371

[Winniez]

Looks ace. I hate how little anything illustrated we have these days. Just generic CGI or fonts on black background devoid of any character or human emotion. Looking back I really love how even the old Popular Mechanic covers looked (btw they have complete archive on google books, highly recommend checking it out) Or scale model covers and of course game covers.

[CrackTiger]

Thanks for the heads up. I had a couple printed as posters. Should look nice from a distance even with the small size of the pics.

[Winniez]

Thanks for the heads up. I had a couple printed as posters. Should look nice from a distance even with the small size of the pics.

I have also pondered about having some classic gameart in printed form on my walls. Mainly NES, DOS, PCE and SNES. Where did you find high quality/high resolution source pictures? I have thought about doing some HD retouches on the best quality images I have found.

[Digi.k]

That stuff is fantastic

[CrackTiger]

Thanks for the heads up. I had a couple printed as posters. Should look nice from a distance even with the small size of the pics.

I have also pondered about having some classic gameart in printed form on my walls. Mainly NES, DOS, PCE and SNES. Where did you find high quality/high resolution source pictures? I have thought about doing some HD retouches on the best quality images I have found.

I used the small sized pics in the link.

They're going to be 18" x 24" and be partially obscured by the monitors on my desk.

I had a large (3' x 5'?) banner made of the artwork from the cover of the Famicom version of Guardian Legend when we moved into our permanent home. I bought a couple art books by the artist and scanned a page I cut out.

[turboswimbz]

Looks ace. I hate how little anything illustrated we have these days. Just generic CGI or fonts on black background devoid of any character or human emotion. Looking back I really love how even the old Popular Mechanic covers looked (btw they have complete archive on google books, highly recommend checking it out) Or scale model covers and of course game covers.

I couldn't agree more.  also thanks for the google books tip.  and for clogging up my night huddled up over the computer screen.

[NecroPhile]

Sweet art; thanks for sharing.  Is that a real game being depicted on the GT?

[xcrement5x]

Very cool, took a bit of digging around to find the original auctions but the sale prices are much lower than the BIN prices on them.  Hopefully they don't get relisted.

[esteban]

That's awesome!

I'm on train and rushing to bring kids to soccer, but I'll try to find all the ads I remember from PCE mags:

GAMES FEATURED ON JUPITER...▲

The same advertisement ran in four successive issues of Gekkan PCE (July, August, September, October), with only slight differences concerning the featured CD-ROM titles...

JULY 1990: Ultra Box. Super Darius.
AUGUST 1990: Ultra Box. Valis III.
SEPTEMBER 1990: Last Armageddon. Valis III.
OCTOBER 1990: Last Armageddon. Valis III.


The selection of games featured in this advertisement suggest that NEC was not simply playing to its strengths (Super Darius was a desirable arcade port in the very popular shoot-em-up genre; Valis III was a solid platformer with extensive cinema scenes to flesh out its story) but attempting to highlight unique entries in the CD•ROM2 library as well. UltraBox, for example, represented a new breed of software for video game consoles. Each installment of Ultra Box (six were released in total) offered an eclectic collection of exclusive mini-games, multi-media experiences, and a digital catalog of all licensed HuCARD/CD games. This catalog of games was updated with each subsequent release.
Last Armageddon was originally released for PC-88 and MSX computers, but later ported to many platforms.

https://archives.tg-16.com/Gekkan_PC_Engine_1990_07.htm#p02

https://archives.tg-16.com/Gekkan_PC_Engine_1990_08.htm#p02

https://archives.tg-16.com/Gekkan_PC_Engine_1990_09.htm#p02


SOURCE: October 1990 PCE GEKKAN
https://archives.tg-16.com/Gekkan_PC_Engine_1990_10.htm







SOURCE: November 1990 PCE GEKKAN
https://archives.tg-16.com/Gekkan_PC_Engine_1990_11.htm

Deserts of Mars Poster
features a magnificent, if menacing, skeleton-wyvern soaring in a bleak, barren world...
 Deserts of Mars Poster (2600x1636 .jpg) ▼

MENACING: The CD•ROM2+IFU+CoreGrafx hardware easily evades the fearsome skeleton-wyvern...
Valis III was an obvious choice for promoting the CD•ROM2 format, since it was well-received by critics and players alike. Surprisingly, NEC featured Power League III, a HuCARD game, in this month's advertisement as well. This marked a break with tradition, since all prior ads promoting CD-ROM hardware featured CD-ROM software. The decision to include Power League III in the ad is a testament to the sheer popularity of baseball in general—and Hudson's Power League series in particular—with Japanese gamers.

NOTE: I wrote the commentary several years ago and will gladly fix/revise/update it...so feel free provide feedback. Thanks. Yes, I liked this stuff, but I got corny when I wrote about it.

[johnnykonami]

These would all be wall-worthy.  I would buy repro posters of some of these for sure.

[Psycho Punch]

The Konami Hulk Hogan / Andre the Giant painting is one I'd like to have framed on my office. Shame there are so little painted cover arts for games/movies these days.