Jeremyamoto

The assembled in Mexico versions came with black and white manuals as far as I'm aware.

11 minutes ago, Mydogsrule said:

Tribes Aerial Assualt PlayStation 2 original painting used for the box cover, manual, and disc

Awesome painting!! One of the very few traditionally illustrated covers during this era.

2 minutes ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

This is my wife's favorite game! Looks great

 

Any chance any one had ever heard of aquiring original Pokemon card art? It seems like there should be an excess of it given the total amount of cards but I can't find any anywhere. 

Uniracers is a great game for sure! Pokemon card art is all likely owned by the company. It’s a little impossible to get any Japanese art as illustrators do not sell their published work. I know Christopher Rush did a Mewtwo promo card for them back in the 90s, but that’s the only American pokemon art that I know of.

Here’s another piece I acquired a few months back from Archon1981. This is the original cover painting for Uniracers, SNES!

NOTE: The artwork on the box appears a bit different due to some digital editing after the painting was submitted. The track above the unicycle is line art on vellum and was coloured and inserted digitally.

1 hour ago, ApebitMusic said:

Did this one a few years ago, called it Nostalgia...

 

Do you mean you created this? Pretty neat!

8 hours ago, DoctorEncore said:

This Hitman piece is amazing. It's too bad they went with such generic art for most releases in the series.

Yeah, the rest are some generic, 3D-modelled garbage. Products of their time for sure, but this was a nice change of pace and I’m glad Square Enix went this route. 

10 hours ago, Bronty said:

For my entry, I’d like to share Bride of Pinbot, which is a pinball piece. 

Awesome piece. Wonder who uh... led ya onto that...

I figured we could use an original art thread to show off some special pieces in our collections! Whether it's box cover art, magazine cover art, or advertisement art, I want to see them! Only one-of-a-kind's allowed

Allow me to kick things off with one of my favourite pieces: Hitman HD Trilogy Xbox 360/PS3, Square Enix, by Jason Edmiston! This cool artwork, done in acrylics on heavy watercolour paper, is the only traditional box cover artwork for the entire franchise. I've always loved the series and I was very happy to add this to my collection.

Hey all,

I recently acquired a couple pieces of vintage Nintendo advertising artwork for Super Mario Bros. 3, done in the same commission circa 1989/1990.

The first piece is a bit of an iconic one and can be seen in many places from magazine ads, a TV commercial, official signage, and the back cover of the 1990 World of Nintendo Buyer’s Guide.

The second piece is the one in question. It’s a group piece featuring the gang and even the transformed water land king (who was also used in official magazine promotion of Super Mario Bros. 3). I suspect it might advertise the game within the early Nintendo comics from Valiant due to the bowser design, but I’m not certain. Has anyone ever seen the published version of this piece before?

This baby is up for auction on eBay! It is a very cool example of the game, sealed by Nintendo's Latin America distributor, Gamela. This game is NOT a repack or a reseal. The box flaps have never been opened, and WATA will only grade reseals as CIB. I confirmed this with Kenneth Thrower before grading. We also decided to leave the sticker on as it is part of the history of this unique copy. May not be another one like it!

The first grail I ever got was my sealed Wild Guns a few years back, but now that I'm collecting game art, every piece is a grail to me. The Turok Gameboy art is one of my favourites, and the alternate cover art to X-Men 2: The Clone Wars is just stunning to look at in person.

On 11/14/2019 at 11:32 AM, Rman said:

Just curious... 

why leave the sticker on?  
 

I have seen others from Spain like that with the sticker.  

 

Sorry, double post.

On 11/14/2019 at 11:32 AM, Rman said:

Just curious... 

why leave the sticker on?  
 

I have seen others from Spain like that with the sticker.  

 

Kenneth and I agreed that it was part of the history and good to leave on. Also not good if there is seal tear underneath and you make things worse by removing it.

On 11/14/2019 at 12:28 PM, Romiked2689 said:

Post your best from Nintendoage then eBay then the wild  

 

very nice art I’d take Turok  over this one Personally 

Haven't had any NA or eBay pickups that have come anywhere close to this!

Just got this back. Nice grade!

I think my best find thus far was stumbling upon the artwork for the unreleased Lobo SNES/Genesis game.