FunFactor Podcast @funfactorpod.com · Feb 19

EGM 146 reporting on why Phalanx had that weird old guy banjo cover. “We wanted to create some shock value so someone would have to pick the game up,” said art director Keith Campbell. “I’d used him before as Santa Claus.”

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Handsome Ralph · Feb 19

Burying the lede here, the guy had a stroke in-between his Santa and Phalanx photoshoot, which helps explain why he looks a little more strung out on the Phalanx cover. But yeah, this cover lives rent free in my head 30+ years later. So well played, Keith, well played.