Recycled Cover Art

[2d gamer]

Below is a cool pic of the game art for the 5200 version of Asteroids (which never officially came out). The pic came from an early Atari 5200 catalogue (probably around 1982).

 

 

 

 

And below is a pic of the game art for the classic Lynx game "Super Asteroids/Missile Command" which came out around 1995. Notice how the missiles are super-imposed over the original image. It's a cool cover. I am glad they used the original art work.

 

Edited September 21, 2014 by 2d gamer

[Lynxpro]

It's also been used on the "homebrew" release of 5200 Asteroids. I don't know if AtariAge has released it in the past but it's over at Gooddealgames.

[+5-11under]

_{It looks like Lucas added the missiles later on. That's how he originally meant it to be, but it just wasn't possible at the time.}

 

_{Sorry, anyway, very interesting. Any other examples of re-use?}