There's an unappreciated art to adventure game backgrounds. They need to be pleasant backdrops to walk in front of multiple times while you're trying to figure out what to do with the custard and ...

Backdrops from films including ‘North by Northwest,’ ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ are artworks in their own right, sometimes even upstaging the films themselves.

A new mod for the PC version of Final Fantasy IX on Steam replaces the classic role-playing game’s backgrounds with ... in case anything goes wrong or you want to revert to the original art.