Barnett College basement from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. this one is part of the game's intro sequence, which doesn't have the verb interface and so uses the full 320x200 screen space. love the warm colors here, even though it's not a particularly cozy place.
Cavefish Lair from Full Throttle. Peter Chan was just sickeningly good at VGA backgrounds at this point, there's so much style and atmosphere here. almost hard to believe that this is still 320x200, the same resolution as the Maniac & Zak EGA backgrounds of 5-6 years earlier. i don't actually know what kind of tools and workflow Chan was using circa 1995.
the game wisely never really tells us what the cavefish's whole deal is; they're there to be a mystery from beyond the fringes of this world. going into their space is appropriately creepy, like entering a temple to alien gods.
