A lot of mass-market paperback SF cover art is literally generic, like clip art or stock photography. An artist paints a robot or a spaceship or a space barbarian and then years later an editor picks out a piece that vaguely fits the book being published. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the same thing happened with lower-budget games, at least back in that era. Nowadays you can probably get competent custom work done from a kid on Deviantart for a few hundred bucks.
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