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Hello! I'm a pixel artist who makes Shadowgate-style games. I made the games, Infested, and Spectacle on itch(.)io. I also worked on #BeyondShadowgate (2024), the official sequel to the #NES cult classic, #Shadowgate, and I'm currently working on #TheUninvited2, the official sequel to #TheUninvited

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

when you're watching a video and spend an hour trying to recall the pinball back glass that's inspired by an old heavy metal magazine cover

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

"Grit can look a lot like pearls from the right angle." Got a new article for everyone to read on the importance of easy, official access to a more honest and less polished selection of gaming history: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/09/10/g...

マリオブラザーズ #ドット絵

Triumphant

I guest host this episode of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast to talk with the co-founder of Computer Entertainer to learn the inside story behind this magazine run by two sisters that has become one of the most important resources for video game historians. gamehistory.org/episode-137-...

Here's a new article everyone can read on Hudson's Dreamcast exclusive Hokkaido 'em up Kita e: White Illumination! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/08/20/k...

Recently grabbed the Sorcerian Art & Graphics CD, which has a whole bunch of high res (for the 1990s) images from the Falcom RPG, ranging from ads to packaging scans. Here's a few of them!

Earthion is finally out on Steam today! Thank you so much for your support from the very first teaser to this day. We poured our hearts into this game, and we hope you enjoy it. Get ready to fly and fight in Earthion! 🎮 Download now: buff.ly/1DrYi7m

Mashina is OUT NOW. Dig and mend the world in this chill stop-motion mining adventure. store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...

Since I did the Jim Power PC Engine cover, I might as well follow it up with the Amiga one. Probably all the elements are stolen, but here's what I got so far. (thanks to @dioerasabbath.bsky.social for the rocket guy source) #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

One for the files maybe @samderboo.com

Happy birthday, Arnie! For the last piece of Stallone/Schwarzenegger month on #TracingTheInfluence, here he is almost 40 years younger on the cover of Jim Power, alongside Lesa Ann Pedriana, Playboy's Miss April 1984. samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

You may be bored, but are you "drew a fake screenshot of Solitaire for Windows 95 in Mario Paint" bored?

This is an odd one: In the US this was actually the official Rambo game for the Sega Master System but the rights apparently didn't extend to other regions. Didn't stop them from still using John Rambo for the title. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?... (the JPN cover is also featured)

I think Arnie is more interesting for these comparisons than Stallone, cause a wider range of his movies were imitated by games. Here's some Golden Axe art featuring his second Conan appearance, together with co-star Sandahl Bergman from the first. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Bernband 👽

Paintover

I've covered all seven discs of Capcom's ambitious and untranslated Dreamcast RPG, Eldorado Gate! Click this way for a thorough dive into every single volume of this epic series: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/eldorado-gat...

Something really fucked up for video game media just happened... BKinG, the "NoClip of China", got his YT channel deleted twice and gave up on YouTube. His channel had dozens of documentaries on the development of all sorts of important Chinese & Taiwanese games - all posted with English subtitles.

Rough illustrations made during the development of Yie Ar Kung-Fu for the MSX (1985, Konami):

Here's an easy one (for me to make cause I already had the pose from another comparison): Atari 8-bit platformer from Poland whose cover is oh so close to the Rambo poster (which is funny cause in the game you mostly just punch and kick enemies.) #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Last day to preorder Now Playing, my book absolutely jam packed with licensed games based on 1980s and 90s movies! limitedrungames.com/products/now...

Forklift update! Now more than 70 video game forklifts on one page: samderboo.com/forklifts.php (@lanceboyle94.bsky.social‬ told me about two of these new ones) Someone also made a wiki now (linked in the article) featuring a bunch I don't have because I only use my own screenshots for this list.

Two not-Schwarzeneggers from Capcom's Mercs, sequel to the precariously named Commando (which actually came out before the movie). There's a third guy in the game that also obviously has the Arnie body, but I haven't found a matching pose for that. #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

FFC review: SUPERMAN (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

Today's Stallone/Schwarzenegger double feature: Sega's PAL-only shooting gallery Double Hawk. The poses are actually both from Rambo (and the exact same poses as yesterday's Ikari comparison). Faces might not be 100% accurate. samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence

Fnick li- Fnick la by KLON type in game for the MSX has been preserved by yours truly. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/07/f...

It's Sylvester Stallone's birthday, so from today until Arnold Schwarzenegger's birthday on July 30, I'll try to post as many game artworks ripping them off as I can. Starting of course with today's birthday boy samderboo.com/tracing.php?... #TracingTheInfluence (typo was too bad so I had to repost)

ATUEL is out NOW on Steam & Google Play for free! 🙌✨ 🌄 Explore dreamlike landscapes 🦊 Shapeshift into different animals 📻 Listen to real testimonies Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game about the climate crisis. Help us out with a RT! 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

I'll eat the rich, but not their weird ass food.

Tired: "The Legend of Zelda was an RPG, actually." Wired: "Metal Gear was an RPG, actually."

Wanna feel old? The kids from Splatoon? They're all squids now.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Bruce Lee poses on cover and title screen of The Kung-Fu / China Warrior are kind of a "well, duh" connection, but it's curious they kept using Game of Death stills with the jumpsuit as reference vs the (outfit-wise) more similar Way of the Dragon #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

ottoojala.itch.io/autopeli Autopeli's "final beta (1)" adds daily tracks! :--) This is probably the last beta for the game. I'll try to fix the remaining bugs, improve the menus and UI in general, and add some more polish to the game for the actual release. #Godot #IndieGame #SoloDev #Freeware

Turns out this was ALL from Boris Vallejo, only pieced together from NINE(!) different paintings. (The hair and possibly the face from the woman in the center might have a different source.) #TracingTheInfluence samderboo.com/tracing.php?...

Today we reveal a very early prototype of The Lion King for #SEGA #GameGear, dated April 1993. Glitchy, incomplete, and packed with placeholders (plus Lemmings music?!). A fascinating look at this work-in-progress Disney title. www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/06/the-...

Me when I discover another piece of gaming art obviously cobbled together from several different lifted elements.

Oops, took a bit of a (long) break with #TracingTheInfluence, but I'm back adding not one, but all the album cover rip-offs I know of: samderboo.com/tracing.php?... Featuring covers of Manowar, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Praying Mantis, and Greenslade. (Posted while listening to Greenslade.)

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Early concept screens of Final Fantasy Tactics from 1996, when the game was a RTS more closely modeled after Ogre Battle. Uploaded to X by Yasumi Matsuno last year.

The 2002 Spidey one immediately made me think of the similar one from Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin (Genesis), doubly so since it's also in a warehouse; it predates Contra Force's, too. (screenshot not mine, sourced from MobyGames)

Extremely goated box art on this early Jeff Minter game.