The return of the old game box art segment. It's been over half a year since the last one, so it's about time, I tell you what. I noticed there is a common theme this time around, as all the artists here are known to draw buxom ladies from time to time.
Now, I don't have any connection to this game. I did, in fact, come by this cover not so long ago when I was perusing MobyGames for cool box art in my eternal quest in proving that modern game developers know shit about making cool looking box art.
The game itself is an 80s text adventure title, so a game that is constantly telling you that it doesn't understand what you are trying to make it do. The cover art is done by Wallace Wood or Wally Wood as comic readers know him. Wood, who died in 1981, is better known for the humour comics he did for EC back in the day, but he also did quite a few sci-fi comics as well as drew for Marvel and other comics publishers through the years.
Apparently one of his most notable contributions to the world of comics was increasing the bust size of Power Girl to the measurements she is known to have these days. This he did when he was sure the editors didn't give a fuck of his work, so he just started to increase the breast size and waited for someone to take notice. It took 6 issues before anyone did. God bless you, Wallace Wood.
I've never played this one either, but the cover art is cool. It is one of those sidescrolling action platformers, where you control a knight through a quest or saving some fantasy kingdom or other from the evil forces that be.
Alfonso Azpiri is the man behind this nicely done piece of cover art. He was a Spanish comic book artist, who began his career in the 1970s. His works were published in Heavy Meatal as well as in Penthouse Comix, as his heroines often were big bosomed women, who got into all kinds of (mis)adventures.
After the rise of the Spanish game industry in the 80s, he began doing work for the game studios as well along with other artists like Juan Gimenez and Louis Royo.
Alfonso Azpiri passed away in 2017. If you are up to reading French or know how to use Google Translate, you can learn more about him from his site. Or go to Wikipedia like everyone else.
Gauntlet was released on several platforms and with several boxes. This one is the best of the lot, I think, coming from its NES release.
As a series, Gauntlet still exists, the latest iteration is from 2014. The game itself has stayed relatively similar through the years: you enter into the dungeons as one of the warriors and kill everything you see while collecting treasures.
Personally, besides the 2014 version, I played Gauntlet a lot on Amstrad CPC 464. The case it came in had infinitely less intriguing art on the cover.
This particular cover was done by Joeseph Chiodo, who is still a working artist today. You can see more of his works on his webpage. He has gained fame from his illustrations that range from landscapes to pinups.
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