Roy Carnon was active in the early to mid-1960’s and also did the cover for the 1962 Four Square Books, Thuvia Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and recently posted to r/badscificovers
My stepson had a lukewarm reaction at first, being overwhelmed by all the weapons and the need to plan his moves. I was kinda bummed about it, and posted THAT'S IT, I'M THROWING HIM OFF A BRIDGE in the 4chan Worms multiplayer thread. Then, some based lad actually recreated the infanticide inside the game and posted this gif. I showed it to my boy, it reignited his interest and we played several games together where I indeed once fingered him off a cliff.
He then requested a Titanic map and there's indeed a beautiful sinking Titanic map for the series. Later he messed around in the map editor, making those empty maps with only platforms and building bunkers out of girders to airstrike them later. I guess it's the Minecraft influence.
We don't play anymore because he's just too young for competition: he cares about the worms too much and actually cried when I holly-'naded his last one to hell after he teleported the guy right next to me 👀
