Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
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A subsidiary of JVC, Victor Musical Industries, Inc. is a Japanese music, movie and video game company.
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Overview[edit]
In the early 1990's, Victor Music Industries released Japanese ports of the original 1989 MechWarrior game for the Sharp X68000 computer, the NEC PC-9801 computer and the Super Famicom. Since these games were primarily using licensed designs from Japanese anime, they opted to commission new redesigns of all the venerable designs as they did not possess the licenses for the anime they'd come from (there have been several Macross games released for PC-9801 at the time of Mechwarrior's release, which could lead to potential confusion of the customers).
FASA would later make use of the art VMI created in America, with the BattleMech art for the X68000 port becoming the Clan IIC 'Mechs introduced in Technical Readout: 3055, the unused concept art from the game's production getting redrawn and introduced as the non-IIC Clan 'Mechs in Technical Readout: 3055 and the new art developed for the Super Famicon game becoming the new 'Mechs introduced in the ComStar sourcebook. Despite being legitimately acquired, in the wake of the Unseen lawsuits FASA chose to treat all designs developed "out-of-house" as Unseen to try and avoid any future disputes. Ultimately all the affected 'Mechs would receive new Reseen art in Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade.
Visuals created by Victor Musical Industries, Inc.[edit]
MechWarrior (SNES)[edit]
MechWarrior I (Sharp X68000)[edit]
These designs appeared as the second set of color plates in Technical Readout: 3055, which credits its color plates to Dana Knutson, Noboyuki Ikigame and Atsushi Takeuchi. [1]. The pictures are taken from the back cover art on the game's case.
- Locust IIC
- Jenner IIC
- Griffin IIC
- Shadow Hawk IIC
- Rifleman IIC
- Warhammer IIC
- Phoenix Hawk IIC
- Marauder IIC
TRO:3055 Cover Art[edit]
Technical Readout: 3055 credits its cover to Steve Venters and Kazuhiko Miyake, without specifying how each contributed to it. [2]
Second-line 'Mechs[edit]
As with the IIC color plates, the footnote "BattleMech Design © 1992 Victor Musical Industries, Inc." appears on the individual entries for these units. [3] The pictures themselves match the style used by in-house FASA artists for other images in the same book.