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Mick McGinty, the artist behind iconic video game covers such as the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 and the Mega Drive’s Kid Chameleon, has died following a battle with cancer. <\/p>\n

McGinty passed away peacefully surrounded by his family, his son Jobey wrote<\/a> in a post which shared numerous memories of his father (thanks, VGDensetsu<\/a>). <\/p>\n

“My Dad was an incredible artist, as everyone knows,” he wrote. “And in true artist fashion, he was also never satisfied with his final work. Just a couple weeks ago, he said he needed ‘just one more hour on a few pieces’ in order to ‘really finish them’. We all knew that just wasn’t true, though. Dad would always come visit our house, see some of the paintings he did for us over the years, and would put his nose about an inch from it and say, ‘y’know, Jobe, I wish I would have made those blues a little deeper’, or ‘you know I’d love to just splash a little more shadows on that tree’, or ‘that really needs a fresh coat of varnish on it’.”<\/p>\n

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Mick McGinty, the artist behind iconic video game covers such as the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 and the Mega Drive’s Kid Chameleon, has died following a battle with cancer. McGinty passed away peacefully surrounded by his family, his son Jobey wrote in a post which shared numerous memories of his father (thanks, VGDensetsu). “My Dad was an incredible artist, as everyone knows,” he wrote. “And in true artist fashion, he was also never satisfied with his final work. Just a couple weeks ago, he said he needed ‘just one more hour on a few pieces’ in order to ‘really finish them’. We all knew that just wasn’t true, though. Dad would always come visit our house, see some of the paintings he did…<\/p>\n

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