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Fire And Ice (Vintage Cover)
by SummonTheElectorCounts
Elector Count of Reikland
5 years ago
A while ago 
Bentayga and I decided we needed to collaborate on a retro video game cover of some kind. We found an artist 
fedya. who had a kickass style, and who blew us away with a piece so incredible that I pulled out ye olde Photoshop and made a few embellishments. (For the Back Cover click here)
Of course, that's ONE explanation for this. The REAL explanation is as follows:
The runaway success of Hot Zone(1986) and Miami Ice(1987) the following year led to all kinds of media and merchandising tie-ins. Sadly, the Hot Zone and Miami Ice standalone Super Famicom/Nintendo games were the kind of cheap, quick, cash-grabby titles one might expect. However, the two games (and associated action figures) sold well enough to warrant the creation of Fire and Ice, which turned out to be a much more polished and innovative experience and could be found in arcades all over the world.
The excellent console port of the game did not sell as well as the standalone titles, owing to the fact that it released on the Sega Genesis while its established audience owned a Super Famicom/Nintendo instead. That being said, the 1989 game was well-tuned, vividly colored, and had new gameplay features like an (admittedly iffy) destructible environment system and split-screen Co-Op sections where two players would have to simultaneously push buttons, pull levers, or stand on pressure plates to advance. These innovations, combined with a soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura (of Street Fighter II fame) made the game an arcade hit and a Genesis cult classic.
Asahi Tecmos, a video game studio and subsidiary of the Japanese Keiretsu Asahi, produced only a handful of games for the Sega Genesis, with Fire and Ice being its only fighting game on the console. The studio was sold to Konami, who absorbed the brand. Even now one can stumble into the occasional Fire and Ice-themed pachinko machine in Shinjuku.
Bentayga and I decided we needed to collaborate on a retro video game cover of some kind. We found an artist fedya. who had a kickass style, and who blew us away with a piece so incredible that I pulled out ye olde Photoshop and made a few embellishments. (For the Back Cover click here)Of course, that's ONE explanation for this. The REAL explanation is as follows:
The runaway success of Hot Zone(1986) and Miami Ice(1987) the following year led to all kinds of media and merchandising tie-ins. Sadly, the Hot Zone and Miami Ice standalone Super Famicom/Nintendo games were the kind of cheap, quick, cash-grabby titles one might expect. However, the two games (and associated action figures) sold well enough to warrant the creation of Fire and Ice, which turned out to be a much more polished and innovative experience and could be found in arcades all over the world.
The excellent console port of the game did not sell as well as the standalone titles, owing to the fact that it released on the Sega Genesis while its established audience owned a Super Famicom/Nintendo instead. That being said, the 1989 game was well-tuned, vividly colored, and had new gameplay features like an (admittedly iffy) destructible environment system and split-screen Co-Op sections where two players would have to simultaneously push buttons, pull levers, or stand on pressure plates to advance. These innovations, combined with a soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura (of Street Fighter II fame) made the game an arcade hit and a Genesis cult classic.
Asahi Tecmos, a video game studio and subsidiary of the Japanese Keiretsu Asahi, produced only a handful of games for the Sega Genesis, with Fire and Ice being its only fighting game on the console. The studio was sold to Konami, who absorbed the brand. Even now one can stumble into the occasional Fire and Ice-themed pachinko machine in Shinjuku.
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Any chance of your own characters getting a retro take?
Would this become a booster to Altered Beast or sumtin'?