Where have all the original videogame artworks gone?

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Where have all the original videogame artworks gone?

Anyone have an answer to this? I'm not just talking about arcades, but home console stuff too. Wouldn't it be cool to own the original piece of paper that the Mega Man 1 labels came from? Or the canvas for the original painting on the Super Breakout cover (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqk4svgKco1qzgna5o1_500.jpg)?

There has to be some collector or art gallery out there that has this stuff...or some archive in the basement of the Atari HQ or something. I know I'd love to see this stuff in a museum or something. Anyone else?
 
I would think they went away with the rise of computers. Why make a hard copy when you can design the image in a computer and put it on a screen?

If your talking older stuff like that breakout box, then its either finding the artist, the printing company, or the developers company and maybe they were packrats/kept all the old stuff they worked on. Hopefully it was not all tossed when companies was sold/closed.

Now if your talking about megaman, you probably need to be looking in japan.
 
The Pacific Pinball Museum has some of the original art for some pinball machines. Here's a photo I took of one piece.
 

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