Noir Futures

John Alvin, 1982
[ Warner Brothers, The Ladd Company ]

~ BLADE RUNNER ~

The Code Monkeys, 1989
[ Access Software ]

~ MEAN STREETS ~

Dragonslayers

Yuji Hoori, Akira Toriyama et al, 1986

[ Chunsoft / Enix Corporation ]

~ COVER ART ~




Yutaka Hirata & Yoshihisa Shimizu, 1991
[ Westone Co. Ltd / SEGA ]

~ TITLE SCREEN ~

I live in the gut

Brad Anderson, 2001
[ USA Films ]

~ SESSION 9 ~

Kazuhide Nakazawa, 2003
[ Team Silent / Konami ]

~ SILENT HILL 3 ~

From Barcelona to Santiago

Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu & Edmundo Bordeu, 2009
[ ACE Team / Valve Corporation ]
&
Antoni Gaudí, 1852-1926

~ PATTERNS, VOLUMES & COLORS ~

To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream

Arnold Böcklin, 1883

~ DIE TOTENINSEL ~

Fumito Ueda & Kenji Kaido, circa 2001
[ Sony Computer Entertainment ]

~ ICO ~
game manual concept art

Knight-errant

Rare, Ltd, 1987

[ Acclaim ]

~ WIZARDS & WARRIORS ~
Nintendo Entertainment System




From Software, 2009
[ Sony Computer Entertainment Japan ]

~ DEMON'S SOULS ~
Playstation 3

Art, Inspired by - III

Masahiro Ito, 2001
[ Konami / Team Silent ]

~ THE MANNEQUIN ~




Hans Bellmer, 1902 - 1975

~ LA POUPÉE ~

Art, Inspired by - II

Steven Lisberger, 1982
[ Walt Disney Pictures / Lisberger-Kushner Production ]

~ TRON ~

Intertextuality

SEGA, 1986

[ SEGA ]

~ QUARTET ~

Akiman, Akira Nishitani, Noritaka Funamizu, Kihaji Okamoto, 1988

[ CAPCOM ]

~ LOST WORLDS ~

Natsume, 2008

[ Hudson Entertainment ]

~ OMEGA FIVE ~

Of swift horses and roaring earths...

Being a young game, SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS still has a long way to go. Because of this, I believe many other games will follow it (...). The depth of the impact that a game generates is measured by the amount of subsequent games inspired by it – now which other games will follow its footsteps, or merely make use of its qualities, we are still to learn. (...) that they’ll eventually do so is imperative and inevitable.

(by the blog's author) in Antagonism and Continuity, 2006

Reutersvärd, au contraire

Oscar Reutersvärd, 1934

~ THE PENROSE TRIANGLE ~

Jun Fujiki, Tatsuya Suzuki, 2008
[ Sony Computer Entertainment]

~ 無限回廊 ~
ECHOCHROME

Gynoid

dieubussy 2008

Art, inspired by

Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849

~ 神奈川沖浪裏 ~
The Great Wave off Kanagawa(1832)


Vanillaware, 2002-

~ 朧村正妖刀伝 ~
Oboro Muramasa Yōtōden (2008, Wii)