Elite Magazine Covers

Alexander R

Alexander R
Someone with more artistic talent than I created this edited version of the original Zzap!64 issue 1 cover, which of course featured the gold medal winning Elite.

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and here is the original :

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Source - llamasoft's YakYak forum :

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83539&start=465
 

Stachel

Banned
Stachel
I miss the amazing cottage industry of early video game box and cover art. Often the most awesome thing about a game was the sleeve art. Magazines used to actually support artists and we got some truly inspired scribbles over the years. :D Nowdays its just a still of whatever they are pedalling, all the mystery and magic sucked out.
 

bent

B
cgavin said:
I miss the amazing cottage industry of early video game box and cover art. Often the most awesome thing about a game was the sleeve art. Magazines used to actually support artists and we got some truly inspired scribbles over the years. :D Nowdays its just a still of whatever they are pedalling, all the mystery and magic sucked out.
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That's because back then the in-game visuals were so cruddy you needed to give gamers a good-looking seed for their imagination to work with.

These days graphics are so good there is no compelling reason not to just go all wysiwyg on the marketing.
 

Cosmos

C
The Cobra in that picture looks awesome.

I had a spectrum myself, but I will agree that the era of those magazines were great. Everything was very new back then, we are somewhat spoilt these days.
 

Crayfish

Crayfish
The cover artist for Crash and Zapp64 was Oli Frey and this definitely looks like his style. Really loved his work and he was a major artistic influence in my childhood.
 

PaoloMariani

P
There was nothing quite like scouring the newsagents' shelves, and then being rewarded with a new issue of Commodore User. It was the only computer games magazine available to me for a number of my formative years. Reading them now, they're actually pretty good, not least because of the artwork and the ads. Good times.
 

Darth Revan

Darth Revan
Slopey said:
I still have a pretty much full collection of Your Sinclair, somewhere!
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I used to collect those, I wrote to them every month in vain hope that one of my letters would get printed! (They never did).

This post does bring back some great memories! :smilie:
 

Stachel

Banned
Stachel
Crayfish said:
The cover artist for Crash and Zapp64 was Oli Frey and this definitely looks like his style. Really loved his work and he was a major artistic influence in my childhood.
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His style reminds me of the classic 60's and 70's science fiction paper back cover art. Stuff like Asimov and A. E. Voigt etc. :D Love it!
 

MikeSnos

MikeSnos
I 'think' I have a copy of MicroUser (the BBC Micro Mag), squirelled away somewhere, that had (from memory) a black starfield cover with solid, flat) colour renderings of various Elite vessels on it...

It was a long time ago so I can't be expected to remember every last detail.... can I?
 
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