Three beautiful cover artwork by Roger Dean

The English artist William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), better known as Roger Dean, is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960s. The artists for whom he did the most art are English rock bands Yes and Asia. And those who are familiar with these bands can see the resemblance of the artwork above. 

​Beginning in 1985 with the software company Psygnosis, Dean has been responsible for the cover artwork for several video games like the three we just got here but also Shadow of the Beast, Tetris Worlds as well as a redesign of the Tetris logo.

Here we take a look at these games individually

​Obitus is a role-playing video game developed and released by Psygnosis in early 1991 for Amiga, Atari ST and DOS systems. It was also ported for the SNES by Bullet-Proof Software. Obitus combines several graphics styles and perspectives in a labyrinth-base game. Though nearly every piece of a forest or catacomb looks indistinguishable from the next screen, this can be dealt with by the player making physical maps, using the compass. The game is heavily focused on the need to make maps. Without them, the player will die long before making it to the end. There is very little food and time cannot be wasted walking around trying to find a way forward.

​Terrorpods is a 1987 shooting game with simple business simulation by Psygnosis. Originally developed for the Amiga and Atari ST, it was later ported to the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX. It casts the player as an industrial spy in a science fiction future, assigned to halt an evil Empire's production of fearsome war machines called Terrorpods. To win the game, the player must manage colonies with specialised industries to produce a Terrorpod of their own, while fighting off enemy forces like in a traditional shooting game. ​The appearance of the Terrorpods was conceived from a rejected design by Psygnosis cover artist Roger Dean for the Martian fighters in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

​Barbarian is a 1987 computer platform game by Psygnosis. It was first developed for the Atari ST, and was ported to the Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. The Amiga port was released in 1987; the others were released in 1988. Like most early Psygnosis titles, the cover artwork (part of "Red Dragon" figure/landscape)  by Roger Dean.

The game spawned a 1991 sequel, Barbarian II, released alongside Leander, and Ork, other platform-based action-adventures from Psygnosis.

Both the Terrorpods game and Barbarian are still sealed in their original packaging and haven´t been opened for almost 30 years.