I wanted to share this post my best friend and console collector of my game room did. He did an expose on the difference of covers between the U.S. and Japan. Well worth a read. He produced and designed my custom covers for Famicom and Game Boy which I’ll be showcasing in another post later this month.
Greetings! This month I’ll be doing retrospectives on one of my all time favorite franchises Mega Man / Rock Man. Look for images from my collection, a book review, custom cover art, game reviews and more! I won’t be going past the X series there’s just to much to cover plus to this gamer Mega Man was started 2d and will always be a platformer / run ‘n gun to me! So stay tuned for a month full of Mega Man!
So here I sat browsing my tumbler feed and came across this picture of a robot called Newton. It looked like a trashy R2-D2 and I have no idea what it does. So I tried to find more information on it. While what I found wasn’t very helpful. I became more and more curious about this craze. Having discovered there were dozens of home robots but none had the charm and visual appeal of newton the rest looked like something Mr. Peltzer from Gremlins would have invented. Remembering when I was a kid “Punchy the Robot” was a big thing at a mall my dad managed. He made arrangements with the school to have it come to the school and I was the lucky kid that got to ride into the assembly on it! There’s a pic below of my friend Punchy!
Did these illustrations back in 1998 in art school using Adobe Illustrator at the time.
My Video Game Collection
