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Author Topic: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?  (Read 2250 times)

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Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« on: August 12, 2008, 12:51:23 pm »
What are your favorite examples of classic quality sideart?

There's certainly no shortage of marquee art (and even CPO) to study for design, but good sideart pics seem to be few and far between...

So I'm putting out a call for everyone's favorite sideart.  What are the ones you feel really do the job and do it right? 

Great use of layout/color/branding?

Eye-popping?

Awesome character usage?




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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2008, 01:31:14 pm »

Pretty much all of the major Atari cabs from 1980+ to around 1985 had great art, especially the vector games, Centi/Millipede, and of course Star Wars.

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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2008, 06:34:39 pm »
Always loved the Xevious side art:

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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2008, 05:11:41 pm »
Great choices...

Some others I'm fond of in my search: (In no particular order)

Donkey Kong 3


Crystal Castles


Galaxian


Mario Bros


Ikari Warriors


Liberator



EDIT:

Centipede


Star wars (WOW)


Xevious


Can't find a good image of Millipede..
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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2008, 12:39:23 pm »
One of my favorite pieces of sideart...

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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 01:23:33 pm »
Ooo, I like that Star Wars one.

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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 02:29:15 pm »
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Re: Classic Examples of Great Sideart (or Your Favorites)?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2008, 01:09:45 pm »
One of my favorite pieces of sideart...


wow, Total Carnage was quietly one of my favorite games on SNES but I never saw it in an arcade. That sideart is fantastic!  :applaud:

Im guessing from the control layout that you played with 2 sticks? on SNES all 4 buttons were mapped to a different direction of gunfire.