post pictures like this NOW
Post pictures like this NOW
you mean pictures with soul?
yes!
not sure if this counts
Sonic Jam quite literally has an entire section of Sonic screensavers, just like this picture OP. Practically about.... 100 or so. This exact, nostalgia old way.
Who was it who drew American Sonic? I always found it interesting that up until Adventure there was a distinctly different artstyle in the west.
What is happening in this picture?
What demonic energy did Whitehead and Mania Team channel into to somehow recreate old soul and channel it to 2017? What dark fucking passage was summoned to do this? This is not an easy feat.
Passion. Genuine passion is the only thing that can create it.
SONIC WITH A BOW TIE!!!!!!!!!!
I've literally got you, OP.
Modern Sonic truly was a mistake.
so as you can see tails these were my boys when I was on the inside. this was my crew and we had to get out. These were mah niggas
Sonic on his way to work.
I love the Screensaver artstyle so much, it's a shame that much of the artwork included in Harmony or in Japanese merchandise is really obscure and wasn't included.
Sonic saw the brightest star
Tails waving at him is unironically the cutest fucking shit in the world, that is kino.
Not screensaver style artwork but still very nice
God I forgot how much I loved this old Sonic artstyle. Wonder where the guy who did 'em is now.
Post THAT picture Yea Forums
Here's another rare screensaver artwork that wasn't included, unfortunately the quality is pretty bad
Some more rare screensaver style artwork
Does it have to be Sonic?
Nope, just soul. It just happens that there is a lot of soulful old sonic art work.
Capcom always had great illustrators
we're hitting levels of soul that shouldn't be possible captain
Dragon Ball II
One of the few recent illustrations that sort of resembles the old spirit of things instead of gritty realism
Thank god whitehead went for japanese sonic design, not the abominations we got here in the states
This image always reminds me of the KH1 box art, which is also dripping soul.
Toei Sonic is peak Sonic.
Hey check this out then
*unzips pic*
That grid layout they insisted on for all subsequent covers was a mistake
I really miss these massive shots with all the characters
Yeah and if you don't have the actual PS2 box, the thing is translucent. It's really quite stunning
Absolute madman
Grey Wray did the artwork for that magazine cover and the cover artwork for Genesis Sonic 1, and Grey Martin did pretty much everything else.
STOP
Guys, I'm getting scared...
This is why we need public bannings
> tfw she was supposed to be sonic's sister
Someone post mohawk sonic
Shame about the actual game
Die.
She's sometimes drawn blonde but the concept art shows that she was just Claire with a biker suit. Which one is it?
aw, here we go again
>He's actually fully posting it
Someone stop this madman
I will never understand what compels someone to become this degenerate.
Holy fuck, that's based. What the fuck is that? I want one.
Elza was blonde user
STOP
These are the pics I was looking at. Maybe they were a late design that would later turn into Claire?
I SAID STOP
A Sega calendar from 1998, good luck finding one though: instagram.com
HOLY FUCK, JANNIES, DO YOUR WORK
CEASE
About to edit this
>just in time for national gay pride month guess whom is coming out
STOP POSTING YOU INBRED
why ?
>DOG
Here's the artwork on its own if it helps
I miss gaming magazines, internet is no fun
I think this artist is coming back again to do the cover of Doug's comic or whatnot
GOOD DUCKING JOB JANNIES, YOU LEFT ONE UP
Boy I sure do Love Java Tea™ and Virtua Fighter™
You have goddamn Umihara with a knife attack, doesn't get more retarded and less soulful than that. Might as well just give her an M4 to be completely contrary to her character. And the way they're insistingly parading around the Cave Story characters in every single Nicalis game is getting so annoying. Just give Pixel the money to make Cave Story 2 and stop parading these characters around for games nobody cares. The game doesn't particularly look good either.
is there an archive online about them?
yeah but does it play well
> my favorite game on the saturn as a kid was a compilation of mega drive games
SOULFUL ASS
Why doesn't Slayers get a new game?
Isn't the series still going?
i miss old capcom so much
the artists and programmers clearly loved their jobs
Oh janny, why has thou forsaken us
Thanks for letting me finish up jannies, see you again at e3. Or you can just give me another little slap on the wrist like the betacucks you are.
You can thank Conman for ruining Capcom for almost 10 years
For you
> japan gets this
played the SNES umihara kawase upon recommendation the other day and it was pretty good. i think yume nikki might've swiped some art influences from it, a lot of the tiles reminded me of that game.
based and moarpilled
ugly soul
I'm in the minority but I prefer the PS1 game. The graphics unfortunately don't look so good on a modern display, you really need a CRT for it.
Nice, didn't know that there was a higher quality version.
somehow I doubt that early 80's Sega paid any licensing fees for this game as it was a mere SG-1000 release, but then OutRun is Ferrari-licensed so what do I know?
NO
Would vidya be better if Sega didn't fall and kept making consoles?
not soul, just hearkens back to it, there's pretty much nothing genuine about the sonic redesign. Knuckles adding green bands to his spines is the only thing in this cover with heart.
Yes
I recognize that font
>this is the only time Lost Planet has received any representation outside of its own series
>people just hate on the hardballer in this game for being OP
shame
Post it you fucking coward
Yeah. Sega aimed for the cool kids while Nintendo aimed for a more toddler audience.
The sheer amount of burger pandering was so obnoxious. Street Fighter's art style was ruined, Resident Evil became spectacle shite, Mega Man suddenly ceased to exist because they couldn't westernize him, linkin park Dante happened, etc. And it's not even over, they're already in the process of botching RE3.
Don't forget the tragedy of Lost Planet and how he raped Ninja Gaiden. I'm still mad to this day.
MEMPHIS MOVEMENT
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I don't have any data for this but I highly doubt they had a Ferrari license on the first release considering they used a Ferrari Testarrossa coupé that didn't actually exist, and we all know how Ferrari is anal about their brand. SEGA probably made amends afterwards and since the game became sort of a big cultural success it helped with further negotiations. It's just speculation though, I know nothing. The market back then even though was exploding it was still relatively small in the number of players so they could just go crazy and do shit they weren't supposed to do. Wouldn't surprise me if Suzuki just used the Ferrari on a whim and didn't even considered he needed a license. It was still Asia in the 80s, you know how they were like, not too different from the chinese at least in business dealings. They only became sort of more legit starting about that time.
Sega was always going to fail. Sega games were either obviously shit or decent but clearly inferior to a nintendo offering. Good marketing can only take you so far.
> they actually used Tails' Sonic Drift car in racing transformed
Well, the Dreamcast was way ahead of its time but the Saturn was the cancer that put them on life support. The Genesis also had the superior ports on multiplatform games such as Mortal Kombat.
Man, regardless of this annoying ancient fucking console war of hurr who is better sega or nintendo. You'd have to be retarded if you don't like SEGA's game. SEGA's fault absolutely never lied with their games, it was with the business side of things that always shit the bed and the devs had to deal with it
To be fair they did the same thing with ikachan before cave story got all popular.
These are great.
My intention wasn't to crap on any games in particular, there are some god-tier sega games. But for every one of those, Nintendo/Sony had 5. They just couldn't keep up, and that's mostly not even their fault.
Cave Story was popular before Nicalis even existed
>Lost Planet
please don't remind me user, I am trying to enjoy some LP2 right now
REMAKE COMING OUT WHEN?
I don't really agree with that but it's such an ancient debate I rather not have it yet again. Let us just post comfy art and enjoy all viddy gams
It's more that Sega was about pushing the limits, they were the Japanese id Software when it came to arcade. It's just that home games overtook arcades completely, and Sega had no recourse because they had never bothered much with really trying to do well in the home market (Sonic and Phantasy Star are arguably exceptions given how much of their fame and grandeur is wrapped up in arcades).
Sega was an arcade god whose market died and whose business heads were never mindful enough to realize it was a problem. That was a major failing point even ignoring the other gaffs they made.
>when Sonic wasn't a laughing stock
I miss it bros
dunno if this counts, but i like it
how is lizuka not fired yet
he had the ability to stop most of this shit
If it was knuckles in the bushes of Sonic 3 cover, who's this?
In the modern age of minimalist design and super-ironic everything, an image like this which is so obviously made from the heart, it just hurts to even look at, as if I had been a happy child here, making friends and treasured memories, even though I've never seen this image before. It's incredible how much real love is in this picture.
I'm guessing these images are from 1998 or so? Anybody recognize the anime brands being advertised on the catcher machines?
My favorite VB game and high on my list of most underrated Nintendo classics. Truly an aces game.
living bush
just looks like a fuckup to me
Yeah and ika Chan was made before Cave Story by the same person.
The medal you get for beating the shark like boss and taking no damage has ika Chan on it. Actually all squid sprites in cave story is just a reused asset of ika Chan.
You fucking pleb.
>coming soon to Switch
Fuck. Is it really worth getting the Switch just for this?
Why is he crying
Mecha sonic.
The images are from like 2014 or something, the arcade is from the 90s but it's still open today.
tempo.sega.jp
I know this you pea brain but there is no "they", the only "they" there is, is Nicalis. If you're saying "they" as in the guy that made Cave Story, it's just a guy. He wasn't pushing his property on some bizarre forced Nicalis Universe, he was just putting some references in his own game.
I don't know, I just wish the franchise wasn't managed poorly. Now it's just shitty memes on twitter and people only looking at garbage (Shadow game, 06, 2020 movie).
Where do you search for box art of Sonic CD + Mega CD/Sega CD bundle? I remember that was the first time i saw Amy ever.
It's also coming to PC
oh look, the last good capcom fighting game
Is this shit ever coming out?
Of course not don't be silly
That's unofficial, so it's another Knuckles. S3&K didn't have a physical release until Sonic & Knuckles Collection on PC.
the two knuckles mode in mania is canon, guys
het
Peak Yoshi design here,
CUTE
Who was the artist who drew all these classic sonic art?
Milton Knight
This picture is adorable
doesn't really fit the thread but fuck it i use any opportunity to post it
Rankles, it was always Rankles.
Chris wears his pants tight
They really made a bad crop choice on the top left. Looks like she has a nip showing with huge tits
user...
Some OC for future use.
It always bothered me that Capcom has way less than 50% of the real estate in this picture. Compare the Tatsunoko one for reference, here it just looks like they are being pushed out of frame especially with Hulk.
kek
>Kid Trunks School Shooter Simulator
Has anyone translated the japanese blurb in that boxart? Does it say another Sonic life lesson?
will it be based off of the saturn or psx version of grandia though?
Where do you guys get these promo images from? Is there a good source somewhere?
sweet, guess I gotta take a trip to Nakama next time I'm in Japan
This entire thread makes me want to kill myself. The innocence and fun will never return. We are walking corpses slowly grinding ourselves down to the nub.
what's the left frame from? the same ova?
From Sonic Mania's opening animation. The one on the right is actually from Sonic CD's opening animation, not the OVA.
>コルロの森のジョゼット
What is コルロ supposed to mean here? I don't see it in my JP dictionary.
Because he is about to drown
ah nice.
thingken of post-98 Sega
proto cream the rabbit?
Viewtiful Joe is the epitome of soul
Sonic R's album cover was weird in that it kept the soulful English statements but slapped modern Sonic onto it. I guess because Adventure was coming out?
saved
Just enjoy the maybe twenty years we have left of sticking our fingers in our ears and pretending before it all collapses.
Agreed, Heese is a hack biting off their design.
I wouldn't say bringing back the greatest design of Sonic is him being a "hack" user, more so he's just bringing back the best design of Sonic, which worked, seeing as how Mania Adventures has got millions of comments on each video saying how much they prefer this version of Sonic, and wracking up something stupid like 60m views.
Dear god that is the greatest fucking shot of anything Sonic the Hedgehog related. How can one moment show off exactly what Sonic is meant to be so well? How do they fuck up and turn him into what he is today?
The people who did that animation, were the same people who did the original dragon ball anime animation, which is peak soul stuff. Sega quite literally, hired MASTER anime artists to do an animation, and that is obviously what we got.
It's the one thing I wanted more of in the Mania Adventure animation, when Sonic blasts off and runs in CD intro, little stars come off him, it's aesthetic as fuck. I do believe it happens a couple of times in the Mania intro, actually.
Took awhile...
This was a Toei staff room poster when making Sonic CD
But that's just it - he's not bringing back THAT design, he's mimicking it. And now everyone else is pushing that as the de facto classic Sonic design. The original design from Jam and Naoto Oshima are great, Toei Sonic brought that design in an animated form and Heese perverts it with his LOL WACKEE FACES XD. I don't give a fuck about how many views his shitty shorts got.
That cannot be fucking real.
If mirrors aren't real, how can we be real?
most soulful image of all time
>tfw no 3d game based off Toei
let's face it, in the hands of ST they would fuck it up.
OVER SOUL
Based
That render makes me cry, every time.
>have the literal rights to cool mickey mouse
>the defacto mascot of the 90s, which all were based on, the person who dethroned Mario for a while
>choose to turn him into this
Let us not even begin to bring up the movie design kek
one of the best art styles a franchise has ever had
Forgot pic.
Any more like this? I love them.
NO
>"Why the fuck am I driving a car?"
fucking kek
Not really, Kishimoto has had a lot more control over the shitty Sonic games, and has most of his experience with shitty Sonic games. He was the lead game designer of Secret Rings & Black Knight, and the Director of Lost World and Forces. Colors is the only good game he has directed. Sonic Boom had very little involvement from Iizuka, the retarded decision to hand Sonic to a studio that was sitting on it's ass from 2008 until 2012 was Sega of America's doing. Iizuka isn't all that great, but he is far from the root of the problem.
Patrick Spaziante, his Sonic art varies depending on how he was feeling or what Sonic Era he was in
spaz is a god among men
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Oh neat, this was done by the same artist who did that Sonic CD PC artwork. Also reminds me of Sonic the Screensaver
Game is honestly way more fun than it looks.
It's a restoration in Hesse's style, here's the actual original
Man... the Mario Kart 64 graphics. I loved them. I remember the first time I saw Mario Kart. I wanted an N64 with it so badly but my parents didn't have the money. The art, the sounds, everything was great. But it was something about that Character Select screen that did it for me. Seeing Mario and Luigi in such great detail relative to the NES was awesome.
Marle has six fingers on at least one hand
That's easily one of modern Sonic's worst renders though. He can look good.
heres some later Spaz work
All Spaz' Sonics look retarded
Take this superior Sonic
DEFINITION OF SOUL:
>In a word, Soul shows Passion.
>Even if imperfect, artists or creators who fill their products with soul never give up or change what the vision is in order to make a buck
>Soulless is focus tested, clean and clear, cheaply made and mass produced art or design that is purely corporate function.
wtf when I post these threads no one ever responds
oh well im gonna post some gifs
Spaz's art with the new Sonic was really bulbous and awkward
But later he got a hang of it
GOD I love Sonic 2-S&K so much. So, so much. Keep em coming.
then he stretched sonic's torso
home
For those who don't know, there was a very brief, very strange period where Sonic and the others had their classic color scheme but the lanky Dreamcast proportions. The most notable instance of this transitional style is the manual artwork for 3D Blast's Japanese Saturn port.
How can y’all have a SOUL thread without posting dkc art
Too bad most of these comics have subpar interior art
Wish I had more sonic ones but I do have others
I'm overdosing on soul
Wow nice very good, excelent, amazing
GOD this was my PC screensaver waaaay back in the late 90s
BUNG!
hivemind
this is where I think his art experimenting hits a wall, coincidentally when the comics deevolved into teen drama
I like how the one cover implies Sheik ever actually fights anything. Such wasted potential.
Remember when Nintendo Power had art that looked like absolute SOUL?
Heres the comeback era of 2006
I don't get it. What's this emotion I feel and how come simple pixels can evoke such an emotion
This is a video, not a picture, but the Sonic Ride video in Sonic Jam has so much soul
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that's it. Spaz would later experiment with high volume renders that almost looked 3d, but personally he doesn't need to improve anymore than here. I wish there was a Sonic product in this style
I prefer Jack Bros but Mario Clash ain't bad. The Virtual Boy's library is much better than the terrible hardware would lead you to believe. Definitely something to emulate at least once.
never liked how he made the eyes cross like that. looks so weird, thankfully it didn't last long.
true soul entering your body, and in a society with none, it's not used too it
This had a PC-Engine port too? What wasn't Wizardry on jeez
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
The Japanese ads included in Sonic Jam are just brimming with soul, especially the first two Sonic 1 ads that have some really nice animations. They could have just used gameplay footage, but they went the extra mile.
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Isn’t that the dragon that was physically abused by her boyfriend?
>not the abominations we got here in the states
It's good without the mohawk and exaggerated eyebrows.
nostalgia, glimpses of when you thought everything would be okay, paradise
those days are long gone and it will never ever be so cosy again
I have mixed feelings about this particular Simon but the aesthetic in and of itself is wonderful. Kojima's a great artist.
I've just remembered that Platform Masters was a game that will never come to be. :(
sonic lookin like he just came outta tin toy
I really don't know, but it could be "call"
I have this one framed.
Cringe away pricks.
Cringe
I love this
This shit is so gay it looks like it was made for toddlers, which it was. I miss when games where edgy.
I'm really sad the Switch remake won't look like this. I don't hate the new look, but it feels like a missed opportunity.
Why do Americans always draw Eggman with completely black eyes, and have to yurn him into a slobbering ogre? He's a jolly mad scientist who gets beat by animals
Early Western Sonic media tired to portray him as a much more serious and sinister villain compared to in Japan (e.g SatAM, the comics)
americans have an obssession with drawing everything edgy