Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Going over some Atari papers and photos and found this one pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwalden Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) That looks like box art for the unreleased Sinistar arcade game conversion for the 2600. http://atariage.com/...wareLabelID=812 See the arcade game here: http://www.arcade-mu...hp?game_id=9553 Why label it "Sky & Rocks" ? "pretty funny"? I call it a pretty cool find. Edited June 7, 2013 by mwalden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 That looks like box art for the unreleased Sinistar arcade game conversion for the 2600. http://atariage.com/...wareLabelID=812 See the arcade game here: http://www.arcade-mu...hp?game_id=9553 Why label it "Sky & Rocks" ? It is common for the illustrator to name the art totally different than the game. Unlike programmers they didn't always play the games or even know the name of the game they were working on. For his assignment might have been given the image of the Sinistar boss and then asked to place the image "in the sky" and surround the ship with rocks thus we have "sky and rocks". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 How big are those and what's the other picture? Those are nice paintings. Could you do scan or a strait forward photo of them? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 How big are those and what's the other picture? Those are nice paintings. Could you do scan or a strait forward photo of them? Allan Nothing special. These are just standard sized polaroids someone at Atari took one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 the other is Atari 7800 Sky & Stars (Galaga) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Nothing special. These are just standard sized polaroids someone at Atari took one day. Actually that is pretty special. That might be the only copy of that piece of artwork. The others are obviously 5200 Asteroids, arcade Asteroids Deluxe, and like you said, 7800 Galaga. I know it's small but can you see who did it? Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 If you google 2600 Sinistar you will see this image on modern homebrew style release boxes. Perhaps advertising of some type was released with the same image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Actually that is pretty special. That might be the only copy of that piece of artwork. The others are obviously 5200 Asteroids, arcade Asteroids Deluxe, and like you said, 7800 Galaga. I know it's small but can you see who did it? Allan This is like a game of name that tune. How about this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Donald Duck's Speedboat http://atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=845 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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