On this day in 1988, the home port of Konami's arcade game Gyruss was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. Tomo Yamamoto's cover art better captured the gameplay than the art from the earlier Parker Brothers ports and was later also used for the NES port.
There are countless Syd Mead artworks that could qualify for Space Crowd Saturday. Here鈥檚 one example of the type of inscrutable futuristic party he often created, from the buffets to the fashion and architecture.