Art Gallery
OVGA: Original Video Game Art
LI Retro Gaming Expo is very excited to announce the return of our Original Video Game Art gallery exhibition! Video game art collector and enthusiast Steve Reid will be sharing the highlights of his extensive collection of airbrushed paintings and other original illustrations. Come see the actual, physical art used in the creation of game boxes, magazine covers, and conceptual designs from 1980s and 1990s video games.
If you attended last year, we will have many different pieces to see this year as well as some returning popular paintings!
Gallery Curator: Steve Reid
Gallery Contributors: Steve Reid, Brendan Bailey
Have a piece to exhibit? Email us.
About OVGA
Original Video Game Art (OVGA) seeks to raise awareness and appreciation for original video game artwork and responsible artists.
OVGA’s website stores two databases, one for cataloging art and the other for indexing artist information. The site also features a forum for in-depth discussion on collecting as well as artist appreciation and attribution, while serving as a resource for questions on art conservation, storage, and framing.
The content on OVGA is compiled, created, and moderated completely free of charge by a group of collectors passionate about video games and original artwork. We do our best to properly attribute credits to all artworks and artists in our database. If you notice a credit is missing or given in error, or if you are aware of more accurate information, please let us know so that we can correct it.
As collectors and enthusiasts, many of us share a passion rooted in our childhoods, whether for the games themselves, our memories playing them, or even the ones we lusted after but never owned. Original artwork for something familiar, something we knew or grew up with, provides a nostalgic hit in a way that nothing else can. Original illustrations often offer an uncropped, fuller, and more vibrant image. Without obstruction from logos and copy text, original illustrations shine and entrance their viewers, just as the original boxes and package illustrations did so many years ago on the shelf. Images ingrained into us as kids. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing original illustrations for the games we remember.