Sam Derboo

@samderboo.com

2425 Followers 783 Following

Sometimes doing solo game dev sometimes writing about games at samderboo.com

Screenshot of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. Cloud standing in front of a forklift in a dark mako reactor hall.
Video showing part of the cover of the game Breach 2 overlaid with an element from a Boris Vallejo painting to show the influence.
A scan of the cover of the PC Engine game Sindibad, overlaid with elements from several paintings by Boris Vallejo to show the influence.
A video showing the cover of Sindibad for the PC Engine overlaid with several paintings by Boris Vallejo, showing the influence.
Section of a screenshot of Duck King's stage in Fatal Fury, overlaid with the cover of the box set CSN by Crosby, Stills & Nash, showing the similarities.
Video overlaying the cover of Metal Morph for the SNES with elements from two drawings by Frank Frazetta, showing the similarities.
Closeup of a keyboard with novelty designs on the special keys. The key where Alt would be reads POOR GUY (with Chinese characters in between that I don't know).
A video showing the cover of the game Garrison by Rainbow Arts overlaid with elements of Frank Frazetta's cover painting for A Princess of Mars, showing the similarities.
Video showing the cover for the Amiga game Thunder Boy overlaid with elements of several paintings by Frank Frazetta, showing the differences.
Screenshot from the game Pit-Fighter, showing the player character lifted on a pallet by a forklift, surrounded by a cheering crowd.
A video with a screenshot of the Japanese fantasy strategy game Duel, featuring a collage of various fantasy warriors in different scenes, overlaid with pieces of many different paintings and drawings by Frank Frazetta, showing the similarities.
Image from the Japanese PC game Duel, showing five panels of fantasy illustrations, most copied from paintings by Frank Frazetta.
Video showing a screenshot from the arcade game X-Multiply overlaid with the album cover for Straight Between the Eyes by Rainbow, showing the similarities
The cover for the game Carmageddon overlaid with a Panel from the comic The Yattering and Jack, based on the Clive Barker story with the same title.
The cover of Jim Power for the Amiga, overlaid with still photos from an American Werewolf in London, Robocop, a promo photo of Jean-Claude Van Damme and a painting by Peter Elson, showing the influences.
A video showing the cover of Exciting Boxing for the Famicom, overlaid with a picture of Captain America from the cover of Captain America #111, showing the similarities.
The cover of Jim Power for the Amiga, overlaid with a photo of Jean-Claude Van Damme posing with his muscles out, the scene from Robocop where thug Emile gets doused in bad chemicals and starts melting, and a painting of a guy in a space suit with a rocket backpack by Peter Elson, showing the similarities.
A little rocket man from the cover of Jim Power for Amiga
Cover of Jim Power for PC Engine CD, overlaid with Arnold Schwarzenegger from the poster for Raw Deal and Lesa Ann Pedriana from Playboy, April 1984, showing the similarities.
The Japanese and European title screens for the Sega Mark III / Master System game Ashura / Secret Commando, overlaid with photos of Sylvester Stallone from Rambo: First Blood Part II, showing the similarities.
Artwork from the promotional flyer for Sega's Golden Axe, overlaid with photos from Sandahl Bergman and Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Conan movies, showing the similarities.
A video overlaying the cover of Adax for Atari 8-bit computers with the photo of Sylvester Stallone from the poster for Rambo: First Blood Part II, showing the similarities.
A screenshot of Black Mesa featuring the environmental forklift model.
Two character portraits of muscly dudes with big guns from the Capcom arcade game Mercs, overlaid with photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger from the movies Commando and Raw Deal, showing the similarities.
Part of the cover of Double Hawk for the Sega Master System, overlaid with various photos from Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando, showing the similarities.
Part of the Japanese arcade flyer of SNK's Ikari Warriors, overlaid with two photos of Sylvester Stallone from the shoot of Rambo: First Blood Part II
The food circle by social class thing. Upper classes low score, middle~lower classes high score
A Japanese advertisement for Metal Gear for the Famicom/NES printed in Famitsu, showing a presumably naked dude from the shoulder up, with bright blue eyes and his skin painted in pitch black camouflage. On the right there's a big font that reads "strategy RPG." (戦略RPG.)
The protagonist from China Warrior doing a Bruce Lee style flying kick shirtless with typical kung-fu pants and shoes, opposite to Bruce Lee from game of death doing his flying kick in the yellow jumpsuit from Game of Death, in front of a black background.
A video showing the cover art of Moulin Rouge Senki: Melville no Honō overlayed with pieces of nine different Boris Vallejo paintings, showing the similarities.
The cartridge of the Famicom game Moulin Rouge Senki: Melville no Honoo
The GTA San Andreas Ah shit, here we go again meme, with the text extended to "Ah shit, here we go through the entire history of fantasy illustrations again."
Video overlaying the title screen of Turrican with the cover of Kings of Metal by Manowar, showing the similarities in the hero's pose and composition.
Box art of Ancipital for the Commodore 64. In front of a black background, a bipedal goat outlined by a red glow casually strolls to the left.
The Last Supper but all the heads are replaced with Mario characters.
Part of the cover of Jim Power in Mutant Planet for Amiga. Some dude with a space suit and jet pack firing a rifle.
Screenshot from the Game Boy version of Navy Seals, showing an angry guy with a gun. the text reads "Congratulations - you have found the terrorist hideout".
Screenshot of the game Navy Seals, showing a man sitting in what looks like a dark prison cell.
A screenshot of the game Navy Seals for the Amiga, showing a muscular soldier dangling from a supposed rope outside of the frame in front of a window, holding a big gun. Inside is a terrorist aiming a gun at a hostage. Overlaid with Marvel's The Punisher from a comic book cover, showing the similarities
Part of a screenshot from the game Cyberdillo, overlaid with the painting The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, showing the similarities.
Screenshot of the game Storm Master by Silmarils, overlayed with The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David, showing how they look almost exactly the same safe for a few details.
Jack Nicholson shouting in The Shining.
The Amiga cover of the tennis game Tie Break, showing a tennis player jumping in front, another holding a big trophy over his head in the background, and a third making a serve to the right. The video overlays the first two with photos of Boris Becker at Wimbledon 1985, showing the similarities.
Title screen of the game 3D World Tennis, showing a tennis player leaping after a ball. The video overlays it with a photo of Boris Becker from the 1985 Wimbledon tournament, showing the similarities.
Part of the cover for Dragon Power, the American release of Dragon Ball for the NES, overlayed with Joe Lewis doing a jump kick, showing the similarities.
Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, shouting.
The cover of Hawkeye for the Amiga, showing a bare-chested muscular dude holding a firearm in each hand. Part of his face is metal like The Terminator and he's shouting like Jack Nicholson.
A photo of Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in his space suit.
A screenshot of the Sega Genesis version of Prince of Persia, showing the profile of a woman's head and shoulders, wearing a veil and holding her hair up with her hand. The video overlays it with part of a sketch by Boris Vallejo, showing the differences.
A screenshot of the Sega Genesis version of Prince of Persia, showing a bare-chested man in chains, flanked by two guards that are only seen as silhouettes. The video overlays it with part of a painting by Boris Vallejo, showing the similarities.
A screenshot from the Genesis version of Prince of Persia. A man ponders an orb as it shows a muscular man with a blue turban and a red vest. The video overlays the man with part of a painting by Boris Vallejo, showing the similarities.
A screenshot of the Genesis version of Prince of Persia. A man with a mustache ponders an orb, in which the face of a woman is revealed. The video overlays the woman with part of the painting Transfiguration by Boris Vallejo, showing their similarities.
Pixel art animation of a fighter in traditional martial arts gear working one of those arcade machines where you punch and kick the targets. There's some other character all in green standing behind him.
A screenshot of Ace Attackers, a 2D arcade volleyball video game that's shown from a perpendicular birds-eye-view, with jumping players appearing twice as large as those on the floor.
A video overlaying part of the promo art for Crusader Kings II: Way of Life with a screenshot from the movie Conan the Barbarian, showing the similarities. A king sits brooding on a throne, leaning his chin on his fist.