Tkat5200 Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 Final version...happy printing. I can upload a PNG or TIFF if that is better for you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Here's a higher quality JPG of my Spectar box front. I stepped it down majorly. Everything you see here is drawn from scratch in Photoshop or Illustrator. No copies of anything. It prints brilliantly. Every piece of the image, including the "Player 1" and "Player 2" icons on the video game cabinet, were done in 600 dpi and squeezed down to create an image. I put together the arcade cabinet by finding various pieces of it, as well as from several photos I could find around the web. The SPECTAR logo was completely redrawn with vectors. Every bit of text is font-correct to go along with an existing collection. I love doing this stuff, but as many here know it's time-consuming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 I give credit to Opcode Games and Team Pixelboy for their incredibly talented, perfect likenesses of 1980s video game box art. I drew a lot of inspiration from them and their design teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkat5200 Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 damn that is amazing that's my next stop...the arcade covers. this rocky one was a pain in the ass. and I didn't even hand draw a lot of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 The biggest challenge there is to find high-quality photos of arcade cabinets on the internet. And the second thought would be to find anyone with a cab in excellent condition for us to snap pictures. Even then, you'd have to have some really nice gear and know precise lighting and positioning of the cabinet to take fine photos. It would be difficult... Coleco just took the stock photos supplied to them by the video game manufacturers. Most (if not all) of their photos are exactly like the images you'll find on the technical manuals that were delivered with the cabinets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkat5200 Posted September 27, 2015 Author Share Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) that's what i am going to hit...all the manuals and flyers that I can find online that are the highest quality...so for now it will be slow going until I amass all this stuff...then it will be easy to put together. if you have a high res version of that Ribbon graphic on the front of the box i'd love a copy. also if anyone knows the proper font used for HIGH RESOLUTION bit...please let me know even more points...the font they used for the back of the box copy. Edited September 27, 2015 by Tkat5200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) It's the same font for almost all text on ColecoVision boxes. It's "ITC Avant Garde SWA". EDIT: I used AvantGarde LT Medium for the fine print (copyright). There are a few variations that match up perfectly with those that Coleco used. Edited September 27, 2015 by phattyboombatty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Coleco just took the stock photos supplied to them by the video game manufacturers. Most (if not all) of their photos are exactly like the images you'll find on the technical manuals that were delivered with the cabinets. Uhh... what? Those cabinet tech manuals were usually in black & white, weren't they? They didn't bother to do color covers for those kind of documents. I'm sure you mean the arcade flyers, where the cabinet often appears on the back of the flyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phattyboombatty Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Uhh... what? Those cabinet tech manuals were usually in black & white, weren't they? They didn't bother to do color covers for those kind of documents. I'm sure you mean the arcade flyers, where the cabinet often appears on the back of the flyer. Yes you're right about those being mostly in black and white. In fact, they all might be. I know for sure that I did get many of them from the video game flyers at KLOV, now that you mention it. Thanks for pointing that out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crapahute Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) Nice work. I've taken the file from my site and cleaned it a bit. It might help you. http://colecoboxart.com/coleco_rocky.htm http://colecoboxart.com/temp/Rocky-SuperActionBoxing.jpg Edited October 5, 2015 by Crapahute 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkat5200 Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 KICK ASS I will use this and update this tonight. more boxes coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkat5200 Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 updated and final/ next up is Victory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crapahute Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 next up is Victory Maybe you will find this quick file useful too. It's not as clean as it could be but I haven't got a better source scan. http://www.colecoboxart.com/temp/Victory.jpg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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