What happens when digital art studio Cook & Becker enlists talented artists - working in the fields of Sci-Fi, gaming and comics - to create original art for their favourite Sega titles? Awesome happens, that's what.
Kilian Eng, Gerald Parel, Julien Renoult, Roman van der Haven and Emmanuel Malin tackled Jet Set Radio, Phantasy Star, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and Shinobi respectively. The prints were created under the art direction of Cook & Becker and Sega, and are officially licensed. Each one is limited to 200 prints.
You can see the results below, and if you've ever been a Sega fan at any point in your life, they should trigger a pretty strong feeling - something along the lines of "Why don't Sega make amazing games like this any more?"
Ah well, at least we have the amazing Sega 3D Classics range to keep us busy. Remember, 3D Thunder Blade is out this week.
[source gameinformer.com, via candb.com]
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They all look Awesome! Specially Phantasy Star, Streets of Rage and Shinobi!
Sup, Tyris.
Golden Axe, Phantasy Star and Shinobi are my favourites, especially that gorgeous Golden Axe artwork.
All that amazing wallpaper, yet I only have room for one of them... Guess it'll be Shinobi, then.
Phantasy Star looks great
Must have Phantasy Star!
Oh sega. .
What happened?
I miss you
Is that a Pikachu at their feet in the first picture!? (jk)
oh that Shinobi one is great! I miss that franchise.
@Patapon11x - It was Pikachu before Pikachu was...IDK, I never played that game. But it was the first thing I noticed in that pic...
In the Golden Axe poster, it looks like the Amazon was modeled after the store clerk in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Only, blonde.
You're making me sad, Nintendo Life, you're appealing to my classic Sega and especially Phantasy Star nostalgia way way WAY too much here. Modern Sega just makes me very sad...
@All That yellow cat-like creature is a Muskcat, an entire race of intelligent beings in the classic series. They were generally of the cleric archetype, and while many of them had limited tech energy abilities related to healing or boosts of Agility, they generally have no electrical abilities. Their iconic, wavy "elflike" thick fur was originally meant to help them survive a range of climates on the Earthlike goldilocks planet Palma, until they escaped to the eternally frozen tundras of the planet Dezolis to escape persecution at the hands of the Mother Brain supercomputer/life regulator during the events leading up to Phantasy Star 2.
I miss Phantasy Star series. The best one was Phantasy Star 4 and 2 was so hard. They don't make them like they used to. Then Sega change there focus to Phantasy Star online which was not a bad game . I own them on GameCube, DS, and PSP. Then they were never localized. Sega can totally do something with that series.
I wouldn't want the Golden Axe one on my wall... I'd... be recieving some questions from my parents since I'm a girl... o_o'
I don't like the JSR one much, Beat looks really weird there and it loses all of the charm of its visual style, I love the rest though.
Wish we had new Wii U iterations of all these games
I immediately thought " @EllenJMiller would love this" when I saw the headline xD
That SoR one tho. So cool!
Wish there was a Shining Force
That Jet Set Radio one is great, love the Phantasy Star and Shinobi ones too but that Streets of Rage one creeps me out!
Phantasy Star was such a classic.
Such fantastic Shinobi art.
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