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An advantage to vector and 3-d graphics
Someone ran a old PS2 game through an emulator that let them raise the video resolution. It went from looking like a mid-1990s game to a mid-2000s remake.
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How much '80s video game art was ripped off?
Hardcore Gaming 101 tracked down the origins of a whole bunch of video game artwork. Schwarzenegger and Stallone are an entire section, and Frazetta was a big influence as well.
From the same site: The European box art for The Guardian Legend is much better than the American box art, and the Japanese box art is a work of art.