And a great game, despite the cover.
Sorry for being off-topic, but it also makes a great pendant:
http://m2grzegorczyk.deviantart.com/art/Beneath-a-Steel-Sky-Pendant-269693926
(yes, they put it on the wrong way, tsts)
Also an interesting pendant:
http://toenolla.deviantart.com/art/Nur-ab-Sal-89908041
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For some reason I did not notice thatâŚ
Sorry, but I couldnât resist to add this late-breaking one, which is also gloriously kitschy:
The 80s are still alive!
And a total rip-off!
Albeit from a very unlikely source:
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Okay I think I now found the ultimate collection of examples on the topic, of game designers and box art artists copying images from various real life sources. It´s 6 massive pages and possibly covers everything that can be covered, and is a fun read to boot!
Here:
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During the Amiga days a friend of mine and me started developing a beatâem up game. Its title was âCombat Remixâ and it was practically made of rip-offs from famous beatâem up games, like âStreet Fighterâ.
Iâm very, very happy that we stopped working on it.
Pics or it didnât happen! 
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Iâm perfectly OK with a reality in which none of this happened and I have not any data/file from that period, but Iâve just found a few images in an old website of my friend:
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Why? These images are looking good!
I recognize Ryu and Ken and the backrounds are fine, but that âgermanicâ green vampire looks awesome! Though I´d guess it´s mostly an overdrawn Sagat sprite?
Because lawyers of several companies would have sued us.
I have no idea. He was the graphic artist and I remember he saying that he drew everything from scratch.
Why? Because ârip-offsâ means: We have taken the graphics? There were several âStreet Fighterâ clones at that time and no one sued the developers. 
If the characters are pretty much identical to those of already published games, I assume that somebody in a legal department could become nervous.
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Seems like you missed your chance to leave your mark in the rich history of the italian rip-off genre, then.
As @milanfahrnholz noticed, the characters look like Street Fighter 2. Maybe your graphic artist was inspired by them?
The entire project was an intentional attempt to develop a shootâem up game that cited famous games of the same genre. The âRemixâ in the title meant âwe are remixing other peopleâs IPâ.
We were completely insane and Iâm glad that we didnât continue to work on it.
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