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Title: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: SysAdmin on May 15, 2014, 09:05:41 PM

News from wanderer via EAB.

Surrealist artist Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger passed away at 74. Widely known for his disturbing work on the Alien film series and of special interest to us: we all remember the creepy and extremely tough Amiga game Dark Seed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3dGvTaQjd8
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...es-74-23691669

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: Darrin on May 15, 2014, 09:18:48 PM

I've been mourning his passing for days.  Watching Alien in the cinema as a kid just blew me away (lucky for me our local cinema were never bothered how old you were and would let us kids in to watch anything) and I became an instant fan of his work.

I never managed to finish Dark Seed.

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: XDelusion on May 15, 2014, 10:50:13 PM

His Necronomicon collections were superb, this is sad.

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: commodorejohn on May 15, 2014, 11:30:17 PM

He also gave the world the second-best Emerson, Lake & Palmer album cover.

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: dammy on May 16, 2014, 02:10:06 AM

RIP, he will be missed.

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: trekiej on May 16, 2014, 03:09:09 AM

rip

Title: Re: H.R. Giger (1940-2014) RIP
Post by: Duce on May 16, 2014, 05:06:18 AM

Was always a big fan of Giger's artwork, starting from the fold out poster that came with Dead Kennedys "Frankenchrist" album, which was a reprint of one of his earlier works, the name I'll refrain from mentioning here, heh.

Dark Seed was a visually stunning game, but I recall buying it and playing it once then never touching it again due to the difficultly of it.

RIP