{"id":110654,"date":"2020-03-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/final_fightrs_iconic_arcade_artwork_was_inspired_by_dragon_quest"},"modified":"2020-03-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:00:00","slug":"final-fights-iconic-arcade-artwork-was-inspired-by-dragon-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/22\/final-fights-iconic-arcade-artwork-was-inspired-by-dragon-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fight\u2019s Iconic Arcade Artwork Was Inspired By Dragon Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7bf99e061b60e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7bf99e061b60e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Final Fight\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7bf99e061b60e\/final-fight.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7bf99e061b60e\/final-fight.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Final Fight\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Legendary Capcom artist Akira \u201cAkiman\u201d Yasuda \u2013 famous for illustrating games such as <strong>Street Fighter II, Captain Commando, Power Stone<\/strong> and many, many more \u2013 has revealed the unlikely inspiration for one of his most iconic pieces of artwork.<\/p>\n<p>The arcade poster for Capcom\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/final_fight\">Final Fight<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 which was originally supposed to be released as <strong>Street Fighter \u201889<\/strong> \u2013 shows playable character Cody standing over a prone enemy lying in a pool of blood. His face is turned away from the viewer, eyes already trained on another incoming foe.<\/p>\n<p>If you are young enough to remember the arcade release of the game you may recall seeing this art in video game magazines of the period (we see to recall UK magazine CVG giving this away as a free pull-out poster), but it was later used on the North America cover for their Sega CD version. It\u2019s a brilliantly brutal piece of artwork that <em>perfectly<\/em> communicates the tone of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Yasuda has revealed his inspiration for the art \u2013 Enix\u2019s Famicom epic <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/dragon_quest\">Dragon Quest<\/a><\/strong>. He states in a tweet that he tried to copy the idea that the hero\u2019s face isn\u2019t clearly displayed because the player will be taking the place of the hero (it\u2019s worth noting that Guy, another playable character in Final Fight, also has his back to the viewer).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30ca\u30eb\u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30c8\u306e\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\u306f\u30c9\u30e9\u30af\u30a81\u306e\u300c\u4e3b\u4eba\u516c\u306f\u81ea\u5206\u306a\u306e\u3067\u9854\u304c\u308f\u304b\u3089\u306a\u3044\u300d\u3068\u3044\u3046\u306e\u304c\u30ab\u30c3\u30b3\u826f\u304f\u3066\u771f\u4f3c\u307e\u3057\u305f<br \/>\u305d\u3057\u3066\u6700\u8fd1\u30c9\u30e9\u30af\u30a81\u304cD\uff06D\u306e\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\u3092\u771f\u4f3c\u305f\u3068\u308f\u304b\u3063\u3066<br \/>\u3084\u306f\u308a\u4e3b\u4eba\u516c\u306f\u81ea\u5206\u3068\u3044\u3046\u30b3\u30f3\u30bb\u30d7\u30c8\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3093\u3060\u306a\u30fc\u3068\u601d\u3063\u3066\u611f\u52d5\u3057\u305f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cjH7IleUJf\">pic.twitter.com\/cjH7IleUJf<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u3042\u304d\u307e\u3093PLAMAX\u300cGODZ ORDER\u300d (@akiman7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akiman7\/status\/1241300767333421056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yasuda notes that Dragon Quest\u2019s Akira Toriyama appears to have been inspired by illustrations for the <strong>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/strong> tabletop game, which also adopts the same approach to showing the hero.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it \u2013 one of the most striking pieces of \u201880s arcade artwork was inspired by an RPG. Who would have thought it, eh?<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/captain_pixel\/status\/1241551399646679041?s=21\">James Wragg<\/a> for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Capcom artist Akira \u201cAkiman\u201d Yasuda \u2013 famous for illustrating games such as Street Fighter II, Captain Commando, Power Stone and many, many more \u2013 has revealed the unlikely inspiration for one of his most iconic pieces of artwork. The arcade poster for Capcom\u2019s Final Fight \u2013 which was originally supposed to be released as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}