River Raid artwork needed!

[Mef]

Hi Atarians!

 

I'm looking for a nice (read: hi-res) digitalised version of the

River Raid box art. Something like this one:

 

 

Uncle Google is only giving me some dirty scans/box shots.

If any of you has a good looking copy, please share.

 

I only need the picture that is inside the thin green frame,

everything else is irrelevant. Vectorised version would be

almost too much to dream of.

Edited March 27, 2013 by Mef

[Skarro]

Sorry Mef, can't help you with the box-art, but I just had to pop in and say how much I've always loved Activision's old box-art. The way they would always work the Activision "swoosh lines" into all their game art was terrific. I always loved the simple but "exciting" artwork and colour schemes... It's too bad that so few companies put out such nice artwork as this nowadays.

 

Good luck with your search! (and if anyone does want to scan in vectorized versions of the other Activision artwork, feel free to post them here!

[kennetzel]

I had he box, it got ruined in a flood. But before it bit the dust, I scanned the box art and though it is the same size, I saved it at 300 dpi.

[Mef]

I was about to call you my Hero, but then the image loaded and has shown its horrible jpeg artifacts.

 

Any chance to upload uncompressed version onto some hosting service?

[kennetzel]

I put it into Photoshop and it looks just as bad when enlarged probably because I saved it as a jpg. sorry...best I can do.

[kennetzel]

I found this one on line and it was scanned HUGE. I tried to clean up the pic in Photoshop the best I could. But here is the link. This will be the best you are going to get. All anyone can do is scan the box they have which is what this guy did already...unless someone has the original preproduction art. http://www.atarimani..._hes_cart_2.jpg

RiverRaidArt.bmp

[kennetzel]

Does this help? I was bored and put it in Corel Draw where I traced it out. I now have a vector drawing of this. If acceptable, I can send you the EMF file.

[Vond]

Did you do that manually or had the program do it? Either way, it looks absolutaly brilliant!

[kennetzel]

I did it in Corel Draw. I had to draw it all by hand. I traced over the actual art matching line thickness and trying to get as close to color as possible. But between the different scanners, box age, and various files out there, it's tough to nail that down. So I came close.

[Mef]

I've finally found some time to reply in this other thread.

Thanks again mate, much apprecieated!