What is the worse box cover art in the history of video games, Yea Forums?
What is the worse box cover art in the history of video games, Yea Forums?
Owen Gomez
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Charles Martinez
phalanx's boxart kicks ass you fucking mong
Jack Ramirez
Hudson Clark
Don't worry, you'll change your mind once you get past your ironic phase, zoomer.
Noah Morris
Yeah that probably takes it.
Gabriel Richardson
The "Phalanx has bad art" meme seriously needs to die, it's been at least 20 years now
Austin Bell
Zoomers don't know anything. There was a shit load of jet fighter arcade scrollers in the early 90s. A lot of them were forgotten. Old banjo dude is still remembered to this day. Great marketing plan to differentiate the game from the generic genre.
Grayson Ward
Owen James
Henry Brooks
>Great marketing plan
Not really. Everyone knows the cover because of internets but nobody bought the game. It sold like shit.
Jordan Thompson
Obligatory. I would say this has become a venerated classic, but still counts as terrible box art since it originally wasn't made with any sort of irony in mind. Someone at Capcom of America drew this thinking it was the shit, and then someone else saw it and said "eh, good enough, let's put it in the cover".
Jacob Torres
Any of the European releases of the 6th Generation Mega Man games
Easton Myers
More like, it was a nice but failed try.
Kevin Nelson
Hahahaha I haven't seen this one yet
My vote would probably be that megaman one
Mason Gray
I remember seeing previews for the show when I was a kid. Had to get up at like 5:30 on Saturday to watch it. Stopped getting up at 5:30 after two weeks.
>Lost my SUBTLE folder when hdd died
fuck
Landon Gomez
I wonder who drew that.
Colton Green
People shit on the european box art too but I think this is pretty neat. European 2 was horrible though.
Andrew Nguyen
Iirc in an old g4 interview they said they only had a couple hours to make the box art.
Jayden Green
This is a fucking masterpiece compared to the American one.
Actually, no kidding, this is not half bad. I would hang this artwork in my wall.
Luis Edwards
lmao that explains it. Then I can truly imagine some indeed saying "eh, good enough".
William Wright
>European 2 was horrible though.
I think it's neat.
Andrew Phillips
Canada has a lot to answer for
Jaxson Price
I only just noticed the actual handgun.
Is that really how they think all Americans are?
Asher King
that boxart was made by american, m8
Noah Wright
...
Julian Cox
James Cruz
No court will try us. You're going to have to fucking kill us.
Please.
Hunter Scott
Jonathan Green
Caleb Ramirez
What the... what is this?
I don't know if postmodern, purposely done poorly boxes, using the tired instrument or irony, do count.
Bentley Wilson
please say sike
Jackson Phillips
>JP cover
Creepy fuckin hands
>US cover
Spooky eye staring out at you
>EU
Kid playing peekaboo
Gabriel Torres
You don't get it at all. The guy on cover is former pilot of experimental aircraft that retired after turning the tide of interstellar war against alien invasion. Government thinks it was destroyed in final battle but in fact he hid it in his barn since he ended up attached to it. So, in long, cold nights, he sometimes pull it outside barn, look at the skies and play his guitar, recalling all the memories from his prime years.
Luke Gutierrez
all american box art for jap horror is fucking abhorrent
Ryder Foster
Welcome to the crazy world of old mail order game cover art done by the same guy who also did the programing and distribution in his bedroom.
Sebastian Cooper
Liam Robinson
Fuck you Phalanx is KHNO you zoomer cuck!
Brody Rodriguez
Hi.
Noah Foster
RIP Birdman.
Noah Reed
nothing is worse then being boring, generic and forgettable, so it`s probably some EA game that has a head shot of a guy holding a gun as the cover.
Nolan Thompson
>state of the art
Yeah, the state of it!
Gabriel Perry
Julian Lee
>Based on a True Story
The true story of Japanese schoolgirls taking photos of ghosts in their underwear?
Wyatt Wilson
Here, I felt bad for
Jace Kelly
>left: gay and pretentious, you have no idea what to expect of the game
>right: straight forward and to the point, based on it you can come to the conclusion that it is a horror game and even gives a fair representation of the games gameplay
David Smith
Dude, this looks rad. I would've liked this as a kid.
Christian Hill
Because Americans have no concept of subtlety and nuance. They're the most glib race of people on the planet
Kevin Brooks
I assume the top right is Luc, and cape boy is Tir since he's featured twice, maybe top left is Mathias?
Luis Thompson
Why was this a thing?
Lucas Martin
Any game that has a faceless protag with his back to the viewer.
You guys are making fun of things that are silly but made an effort but that shit I just mentioned is truly terrible in terms of describing the game, artistic quality and originality, it fails on all fronts as any form of art.
Jason Anderson
Asher Gutierrez
I'm pretty sure I had seen this game before and the box art put me off of it.
Sad, because it was a pretty good JRPG.
Adrian Long
You'll never convince that this wasn't drawn by a child.
Thomas Scott
snes street fighter 2
Holy fuck these are awesome
Jacob Taylor
>Whole point of the game is never having a clear image of the monster
>Let's put the monster on the cover
Reminds me of this.
>Gee wiz, I wonder who the killer is? I wonder if it's the guy with a gun looking menacingly in the background of the american cover.
Dominic Stewart
Hunter Evans
That's surprisingly good. Gets the buster right, ominous Willy in the back, gets the bosses drawn right. 10/10, I'd buy a poster of this.
Maybe not Megaman but it's a great Aerosmith album cover.
Anthony Reed
Hey man, sometimes it's the Euros that fuck up. Americans seem to be learning their lesson.
Grayson Scott
William Jackson
Nolan Wright
That's a classic.
Asher Edwards
"SEE GUYS, OUR GAME IS PERFECT, THE ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE. BUY IT. BUY IT FAGGOT. BUY IT OR YOU ARE A MASSIVE FAGGOT CUNT"
Jackson Foster
EU cover is something you would expect from luigi´s mansion.
Henry Ramirez
Mason Perry
Unironically the Last of Us 2 cover. It looks horrible and it wouldn't surprise me if it results in less sales.
Landon Long
Sounds like good material for a drawfag thread.
Ian Adams
How did it take so long for this to be posted?
Asher Edwards
Cooper Miller
Nah, that old man was the ship pilot.
Ryan Bailey
It's no wonder Megaman Legends didn't sell well. This doesn't even look official.
Also I never liked the official cover for Team Fortress 2.
Thomas Collins
All Phoenix games "games". Stuff of nightmares
Michael Martinez
looks like David Bowie roleplaying Dirty Harry
Carson Lewis
This one should've resulted in a lawsuit. It's the worst aspects of localization taken to such an extreme that it shouldn't exist.
Hunter Cox
why is the US princess girl changed here?
Austin Reyes
Oliver Campbell
Megaman covers are always fucked up in some way. The EU covers for most megaman games are fucking lazy for example
John Brown
The pattern seems to be having a drawing or render that doesn't look particularly good with a boring background.
Brody Garcia
The original cover of Dark Colony, a forgotten strategy video game for Microsoft Windows developed by Alternative Reality Technologies (now known as Rockstar Toronto) and published by Strategic Simulations.
Anthony Collins
The reason I posted this is to show what was the cover of the Italian release of Dark Colony.
Jonathan Phillips
Camden Price
>bosses drawn right
All except Fire Man, he has hands on this cover.
Luis Cook
I wish someone strangled the retard that decided Americans wouldn't buy cute covers.
Noah Bailey
Nice catch. I'm guessing they were going off of the sprites which made it difficult to see whether he had hands or a buster like Megaman.
Angel Walker
The worst thing is that they used the same kind of boring background on the cartridges labels. They look so bad that anyone would think they are chink aliexpress bootlegs
Adrian Martin
Connor Smith
>US cover is Duckman with tiny arms sneaking up to Daniel, who seems to be having a really bad trip
Liam Gomez
>>Whole point of the game is never having a clear image of the monster
???????????? did we play the same game?
Elijah Johnson
If it weren't for the cover people wouldn't give a shit about this game.
Easton Torres
I'm starting to wonder if this is why I never bothered with Megaman games growing up. I'd see the covers and think it's some shovelware tier.
Aiden Fisher
>It's the worst aspects of localization taken to such an extreme that it shouldn't exist.
But it's based?
Adam Sanchez
Say what now? It pretty much removed everything.
Joseph Lee
Maybe in the home ports.
Levi Torres
Daniel Russell
Daniel looking like he remembered he left the oven on
Parker Thompson
Did we? As I remember the second you'd try to see the monster the screen would go blurry and your sanity would deplete, making it harder to ever get a good image of what the monster even is. The second he's put on display as clear as day it removes that fear, specially for how silly he looks.
Kayden Phillips
Dylan Hughes
To be fair, the game is pretty good
Joseph Lewis
Oh wow.
Charles Phillips
I'm not talking about Gunbird untouched, I'm talking about the horrible localization port Mobile Light Force which is a butchered version that removes just about everything.
Bentley Campbell
Want some rye?
Evan Davis
Jesus christ. What the hell Italy?
Mason Rivera
I'm talking about that guy calling that fag a faggot.
Oliver Lee
this cover is disgusting
Eli Walker
Oh, okay. If I'm not mistaken that's just a fan translation from the original game. Or it's just an edit, I'm not sure. I was talking about how the localization company took the game and removed all the plot, all those characters, all of that and placed on the cover a Charlie's Angels ripoff that was never part of the game.
It'd be like Mario being localized into Rambo.
Grayson Ortiz
I think you meant best. That old man is clearly the grandfather of the pilot playing his grandson off as he journeys forth to protect the Earth.
Jonathan Mitchell
It's clearly the crazy old coot who swears he sees shit in the sky but no one listens.
Except this time, he's vindicated because we see it too.
Jose Brooks
>midway
that explains everything
Jose Jackson
The title doesn't make it any better
John Thompson
Looks great to me, are you a tranny by any chance?
Jose Morales
there was also game where they completely redraw assets as well, but i forgot title
Josiah Harris
Alexander Smith
princess on ice
Luke Johnson
find the 5 faces
Bentley Moore
boo! haunted castle
Lincoln White
This is the EU Blazblue Calamity Trigger box art.
Thanks NeoFAG.
Nolan Young
This is one badass cover, fuck you talking bout?
Blake James
To be fair, it's not bad per se, just inferior.
Zachary Jackson
>princess on ice
jesus christ
David Morris
Lmao
Ian Wood
Both are basically the same cheap style from two different cultures.
Kayden Jones
Leo Walker
>Left: PC release
>Right: Switch port
Josiah Clark
Really bad ass
Adam Cruz
does it count if it's just the logo from an incredibly shitty tv show?
Kayden Wright
>blocks your path
Andrew Perez
yeah great marketing plan if you intended on rolling in memes 20 years down the line
retard
Daniel Russell
well yeah it was fucking garbage point and click where the whole 'mystery' is that they never existed and was just a wild goose chase
Luke Flores
Bad and ass but not badass.
Brayden Rivera
Are you blind or don't like reality
Kevin Johnson
Doesn't explain anything. The person who drew this has no idea how to draw a human body, but the face is detailed and everything is rendered with great effort. This person has spent years, possibly decades drawing without ever learning how to draw. It's amazing.
Josiah Ross
10 OUT OF 10: 5 OUT OF 5 ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE. PERIOD. has one of the greatest box art covers ever made.
Nolan Morales
Opening cut scene was kino as fuck
Xavier Smith
>Ryu bridging back mid orgasm
>Blanka spinning towards Chun-Li in full murder mode.
Whats not to love?
Ian Martinez
In the same vein.
Kayden Russell
It's a bad box art, but it's marketing genius. Think about it.
It's October of 1992. There's already dozens upon dozens of space shooters on the market across consoles, arcades, and even PC and a good chunk of those come from recognizable series/companies. You're tasked with selling a game no-one has ever heard of from a Japanese-y-named company no-one has ever heard of (the Japanese-y bit is VERY important as the US was still in the grip of anti-Japanese-ism hysteria idiocy thanks to Japan starting to invest in America), with a Japanese cover that, while great """Japanese""" art, is so generic you can't do anything with it (and so phallic as to cause issues, the least of which are the obvious "phallic phalanx" jokes) and also so Japanese stores refuse to stock it as they believe it won't sell (Mega Man didn't get a Japanese art cover in America until 8 for this very reason, recall).
What are you gonna do to differentiate this game from all the other space shooters on the market & make people want to touch it just to find-out wtf it is, while also making it palatable for stores to stock?
The slapping of a dude who'd had a stroke at some point in his life who was in the waiting room to see if there was a quick buck to be made as a model (that's directly from an interview years ago with the marketing dept. for the game, mind), put him in farmer clothes, slap a banjo in his hands and dump him in a rocking chair...was utter genius.
Bad box art? You betcha.
Yet it's been nearly 30 years, and we ALL still remember that cover.
Anthony Ortiz
How the fuck did this happen? It feels like you'd put the cartridge in your DS and it would just play a recording of someone else playing through the whole game.
Isaac Rodriguez
At least half the box isnt covered in ratings
Mason Reed
This one reeks of Soul though
Isaiah Lee
The artist was interviewed by EGM I think some 15 or so years ago. Apparently he was only allowed to read the game description used on the back of the box & see only a few slightly blurry screenshots of the game for reference. He never saw any of the original art & never realized that Mega Man's eyes wasn't a face plate.
Mega Man got shit on so much. We won't even discuss his Captain N green version because the art guy had the hue on his TV wrong.
Chase Moore
"marketing genius" would imply that'd make the game sell well, spoiler: it didn't.
It was exceptional at the time and funny still but ultimately not a very effective move to push sales.
Brody Price
My best guess is that it was just completely incompetence and such an automatic process that no one said "This doesn't look right"
>Random guy in company A sends a request to random guy in company B if he can send a copy of the cover for the DS cover
>Random guy in company B didn't realize he wanted the actual final art of the cover and instead sends the first result from google images
>Random guy in company A now thinks that this image is what the company actually wanted as the new cover
>Everyone in the process is so low level and don't want to cause any waves that it ends up being printed like this without anyone once saying anything
Jeremiah Wood
Still, despite all this, the art itself is very low quality.
Levi Murphy
I get what you're saying but let's be honest, it's not good just because we remember it. The druid is a sort of Yea Forums's mascot and it's not because it's good.
Owen Ward
This is very accurate to what Street Fighter 1 looked like
Levi Allen
That would be Walmart. America in the 80's to mid-90's was a truly Japanophobic place. Just watch The Mosquito Coast if you're too young to remember.
Lincoln Nelson
Still, the artwork is pretty bad, even if he didn't have a clear reference. Why wouldn't he be allowed to see that stuff though?
>Captain N green version because the art guy had the hue on his TV wrong.
Seriously? I haven't laughed this hard in a while.
Blake Lee
>High Resolution Graphics
I'm pretty sure the resolution of the NES wasn't impressive even for its time
Jackson Sullivan
When the previous option was Atari graphics, I'd say it's an improvement.
Easton Perez
Hudson Phillips
stuff like commodore computers existed too
Aaron Rodriguez
Still, it's not like those were super advanced either. Every new generation advertises high resolution graphics simply because the previous one had less.
Ian Peterson
An alleged """true story""" of familial occult activity some decades-centuries ago also allegedly resulting in their deaths and their mansion/grounds/complex being abandoned, which the game was very loosely based on, if I remember right.
I'd have to look it up again.
Luis Peterson
Jose Nelson
kek, every Sega master system game was drawn like this.
Asher Collins
Thomas Evans
Brayden Powell
It's almost like a parody of the bad US covers of the time, I love it.
>everything has floating heads, looking slightly to the side
Benjamin Parker
Ayden Butler
The more defined "anime" style with the more defined lines and sharper colors was/is more popular & eye-catching than the more artistic "manga" style.
James Gutierrez
Gavin Diaz
Julian Allen
>Dongkey kong specia
>Dongkey
>Dong
Jace Thompson
The DONG was real all along
Jose Peterson
THAT should've resulted in the localizers being drug out into the middle of the street and shot.
Luke Smith
Camden Green
What bootleg game does this play?
William Cox
Jose Taylor
Seems like he caught hes friend fucking some dirty slag during the 90s in some clubs toilet.
And put hes face on there for keks.
Kayden Bell
I never played the game but this is pretty kino if true
Elijah Campbell
>europoors and japansies get a dildo
>americhads get grandpa
Stay jelly.
Anthony Gomez
Amazing
Brody Reyes
That SuperGames "logo" is a direct ripoff of Sonic Adventure/Heroes
Gavin Ortiz
There's something weirdly unsettling about saying "The Commodore is keeping up with you".
Cooper Rogers
>We knew the game didn't have a lot to offer, but we wanted to make the package arresting. Keith called this kind of thing the "heavy huh factor." If we couldn't do anything else, we'd try and get the potential purchaser to stare at the package and try and figure out what just happened. Today it might be called a WTF moment.
>So Keith could have done some predictable spaceship shooting bullshit that would have been like every other game out there. Or he could create a story that would make people stop and think about it. And I guess it's proof that was a good idea because people are still thinking about it.
>Phalanx was a very average game with an unexpected cover design. It needed a great/weird idea to stand out from the crowd.
Cooper Foster
You should admit it's a little weird, but it does kick ass.
Isaac Thompson
ASS-DA-ASS
Jayden Reed
To be fair, the original Mega Man did poorly in Japan (it wasn't even supposed to get a sequel at first) and they didn't expect it to do any better in the US so they probably didn't invest a lot of resources on it.
Parker Perry
The only thing that could've made this better would be if the cover for Felix Cat was actually a picture from Tom and Jerry.
Nathan Stewart
I dont even want to imagine what this game looks like on prev gen consoles
Nathaniel Murphy
the artist came out and explained they put him in a room with the game playing (And no concept art) and gave him just over an hour to make it.
He couldnt even get a close look at the sprites and thought he was using a gun
Sebastian Richardson
Do all canadian cartoon producers implement their fetishes in their shows?
Aiden Harris
that looks like some kino model castle though
Isaac Rivera
When you see it
Cooper Campbell
This dude gave us a very interesting headcanon on the old man in the cover.
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Hunter Young
BAM HAM CITY
Hunter Watson
no wonder they're all shitposters, they got fucked up hard as kids
Christian James
>mong
>internet tough guy act
>spaz
Yup it’s an anglocuck
Brody Gray
No-one expected the game to sell well, user. Shooters were almost literally a dime-a-dozen at the time. COULD it have sold better with better box art? More than likely. '
But also keep this in mind: The Japanese game released 4 months before the US version. Kemco didn't have an in-house marketing department; they outsourced for it. An outsource who had neither the time nor the artistic talent to Americanize the Japanese cover in a way that would catch peoples' attention.
And Kemco didn't care as they didn't believe it would sell anyway AND held veto power of the cover art besides. The fact they didn't veto that cover tells us everything.
Aaron Parker
Is she sharting cars?
Mason Evans
I'd be perfectly okay with a sequel making the old man canon. That or turning Phalanx into a Harvest Moon with shoot'em up elements.
Alexander Fisher
Seriously. Go find the interview somewhere. How they came up with what they all did to Pitt/Simon Belmont will both make you laugh and cry.
Jonathan Long
Yes, it's why you shouldn't drink and drive. Don't let it happen to you.
Benjamin Hall
I always imagined the old man's story is only canon to either "hard" or even "funny" mode.
Liam Ramirez
Thanks, user!
Landon Green
The unironic salt of megaman fans over him being included still tickles me.
Jackson Parker
the literal fucking gun always kills me
this one is dope as fuck
the designer obviously didn't actually look at the game, someone just told him sort of what it was about; but it honestly looks really good, it really nails the 80's fantasy art look
Kevin White
Also, see
Ayden Williams
>the blonde one is played by the VA for Ed
A paycheck is a paycheck I suppose...
Carson Cruz
>only canon to either "hard" or even "funny" mode.
What do you mean?
Gavin Bailey
It's good, unironicly.
Michael Torres
>5 faces
the fuck, i've always just seen three
first time i've seen top right and bottom left
Samuel Nguyen
The left isn't a good cover regardless of its attempt at subtlety.
Jace Miller
It's just a stupid headcanon of mine. Where I'm saying the old man's story is based around the harder difficulties of the game.
Eli Flores
Wouldn't that detailed face take way too long to make in that case?
Owen Gutierrez
The Asian one look like Samurai Jack
Bentley Robinson
>Harry, obviously
>on his neck
>bottom left looking up
>upper right, right glowing white eye underneath the word Hill
Not sure about a fifth though.
Jaxon Davis
>My ad agency had the Kemco account, and our task was to develop packaging and marketing materials for over 40 titles. Kemco would typically buy their games from 3rd party developers in Japan. Some were good, and some were not good. Weaker games needed more help graphically to get them to stand out on the retail shelf. We wanted people to pick up the package, get engaged with the story, and buy the damn game. The package was also used to help Kemco sell the game to retailers, so it had to make the buyers think the game would sell at their stores (i.e. Walmart, etc.). Most of the games back then were in a look-alike category: same genre, same kind of graphics. Nothing to differentiate them from each other. Keith was not a gamer, and, in fact, none of us were in our agency. But Keith was a brilliant idea guy and always was. We knew the game didn't have a lot to offer, but we wanted to make the package arresting. Keith called this kind of thing the "heavy huh factor." If we couldn't do anything else, we'd try and get the potential purchaser to stare at the package and try and figure out what just happened. Today it might be called a WTF moment.
>So Keith could have done some predictable spaceship shooting bullshit that would have been like every other game out there. Or he could create a story that would make people stop and think about it. And I guess it's proof that was a good idea because people are still thinking about it. Phalanx was a very average game with an unexpected cover design. It needed a great/weird idea to stand out from the crowd.
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Juan Edwards
I feel like imagine party Babyz wouldn't be such a meme with the European cover. The American cover made people think the game was meant to be played by babies when it is actually just about babies.
Nicholas Morgan
At least he didn't have to look at them
Asher Barnes
why is akuma's face on his throat?
Charles James
why would an edited image of a real castle mean the cover is bad?
it's looks pretty good, not amazing; i have no idea what you're on about
Henry Gray
What were they fucking thinking.
There is a reason the game never really gives you a good look at the monster until kind of getting close towards the very end, it stops being scary once you are able to stop and realise how goofy it is.
Although the European box art is also kind of lame, doesn't tell you anything about the game at all.
Tyler Perez
Ah, alright. That could be a fun way to tell a story actually.
>Easy - Man is younger - tells the story of the guy from when he was younger. For reference, let's say the year 2050.
>Medium - Slightly older, more of a veteran, 2080. Story is slightly different.
>Hard - Full on man with the banjo. Brought back into the action because he's the best chance they got damnit, 2120. Story is of all the lost loves and woes.
Or if it was a Harvest Moon like game. Throughout the day you're living peacefully and at night you'd take the old gal' into some space flights, all while trying to avoid the government knowing you have the ship. OST would have to involve some banjos.
Andrew Gray
Yeah I think if the American one was the same as the European we would probably still see amnesia posted in these threads sometimes.
Jaxson Ross
Why do you act retarded?
Jeremiah Bailey
the DONG was the KEY to our hearts
Luis Anderson
All good things have soul but not all soulful things are good.
Carson Morales
Jace Lee
sorry, counted the kid cus i was thinking of 'people' not 'faces'
don't know if original poster meant the same or if there is in fact one more hidden face
Luis Fisher
Christopher Torres
It hurt my eyes
Caleb Morgan
Christian Kelly
>if one is better, it automatically means the other one is shit
no u
Julian Moore
Ok so you posted an edited image of a twink, same thing.
Isaac Cook
Chase Cooper
What would Funny mode be? Which is the hardest mode in the game.
Adam Torres
>nobody bought the game
I bought it around the time it came out so fuck your mouth.
Kayden Hill
>bringing race into an argument where it has no relevance
Yup it's a shitskin.
Lucas Cruz
Isaac Cook
Chase Clark
Wyatt Long
How many snes covers still got talked about today?
Lincoln Nguyen
Wrong thread.
Sebastian Bailey
Jackson Bailey
Julian Hughes
Michael Adams
It's not the old man flying, it's his dog. The plot would be similar but instead of characters talking to the old man, they react to the fact that the pilot is just barking.
Owen Ramirez
I grew into shit taste because it‘s the american version and the cover is just a random castle but hey muh europoor hehehxDdXd
dilate trannies
Jason Robinson
Anthony Green
That would definitely be funny.
Julian Hill
That looks like it'd make a great tattoo.
Zachary Torres
>literally the exact same box art
How did they get away with it?
Caleb Parker
embarrassing.
Caleb Taylor
>We've designed the fighter so the pilot will die GUARANTEED if it takes fire.
Robert Richardson
Diversity
Cameron Davis
I like you user, I'll kill you last
Jose Martin
Gavin Nelson
Zachary Morgan
This is one of the most based
Gavin Bailey
cool
Logan Rodriguez
Whatever you say Amerikek
Easton Russell
Leo Wilson
I like that aliens design
I like to imagine it sounds like an angry didgeridoo
Christopher Price
Why was late 90s early 2000s aesthetic so fucking bad bros
Asher Edwards
>the cover is just a random castle
and this is supposed to be terrible, how?
it's also an edited photo of a random castle, not just a normal photo of it
Samuel Ortiz
Jacob Reed
I bet most anons here don't even know what that is
Carson Perry
What the hell was up with that box art?
Carson Flores
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What the fuck was wrong with home computer game covers?
Ryan Brown
So did Western localizers simply hate the Japanese back in the 80's and 90's?
Kevin Butler
Kayden Allen
Super Duper Sumos is entirely American. I don't think it even aired here.
Leo Brooks
I mean tension was probably still pretty high from Pearl Harbor.
>god damn japs indoctrinating our youth but we have nothing else to run. Give them as little of a budget as possible and do your damn best to make kids fucking hate it
Juan Perez
Daniel Evans
But...why?
Ryder Fisher
Olen palokäyttäjä
Kierretty palokäyttäjä
Logan Miller
Said the anglocuck
Ian Jenkins
I'm American and never saw the right one until people started posting it like this. Was it only the physical release? The Steam version used the left.
Josiah Brown
Jesus Christ, seeing Luffy there is awful
Carson Russell
Tell me I'm wrong.
Zachary Long
I guess they thought it wouldn't sell with Japanimation-styled artwork on the cover. so they hired some schlub to make a bad matte painting instead.
Jack Perez
Cooper Young
>trick the moms into buying an anime game
Gotta admit that was pretty smart from the marketing team
Jaxson Bailey
You are wrong.
Xavier Rivera
Parker Anderson
Jesus Christ, is this supposed to be a video game cover or a pamphlet about addiction?
Luke Howard
Liam Smith
How the fuck has NO ONE posted this yet?
Jack Reyes
Isaac Myers
Pacman is the devourer of reality it seems.
Dylan Brooks
Carson Walker
I can only speculate, but I think the US publisher, DTMC, never bothered to obtain the rights to use the Rumiko Takahashi art when they got the publishing right to the game itself.
Here's the EU cover by Ocean, of all fucking companies.
Fun Fact! DTMC was slated to release the third SNES Ranma 1/2 game, "Ranma 1/2: Super Battle" with actual Japanese art, and had even ran adverts in magazines for the upcoming release within the next month, but they went out of business DAYS beforehand.
Gabriel Ramirez
They had legitimate cause to revoke the covers with twinks but beyond that it was idiocy.
Jose Stewart
This is what I expect the cover for "Fun In Balloonland" would look like.
Luke Scott
Carson White
I'm convinced all the art like this is when they US marketers thought we'd be too stupid to understand the original box art so they just use a fucking magazine ad as the actual damn art.
Jaxson Baker
what's the explanation for the europe cover again?
Ian Flores
Joseph Wilson
save it for a soul vs souless boxart thread
Isaac Anderson
Jaxon Morales
Excuse me
Landon Sullivan
Evan Anderson
Between this and picture related, what the fuck was wrong with Taito and their Puzzle Bobble marketing thought process in the US?
Ian Jones
Joshua Kelly
this one is kino tho
Brandon Cook
That's not the cover art though
Nicholas Rogers
eat ma period
Hudson Allen
You‘re not wrong at all. It‘s an ugly cover
Dominic Smith
No, it was even dumber. The reason for the baby is that someone (it may have been the US head, I can't remember) just had their first baby and wanted to put their new kid on a game cover.
I shit you not. Some fuckwit has a brat, and the world suffers.
Thomas Hughes
What does holding your eyes open with toothpicks have to do with illegal drugs?
Xavier Bailey
Why were westerners so against anime back then?
Henry Adams
I love SMS cover art.
Matthew Rodriguez
Cooper Stewart
we get it you feel inferior, get over it. so what you are the color of shit, excrement, and waste. own it. learn to love it. shouldn't be that hard when your kind has room temp iq. unironically just feel happy and it should work.
Jaxon Nguyen
Because it was girly and not American
Oliver Bennett
Matthew Thomas
Wtf
Thomas Morris
They were trying to be "edgy" and "kewl" while hiding the fact that the title was a single-screen puzzle game.
That's it.
Colton Green
seething anglocuck
Angel Torres
Oh my god, is he gonna cut my grass????
Jack Perez
This.
Hunter Evans
Henry Wright
Isn't that what the movie looked like though?
Easton Richardson
What
Charles Cox
Sunset Overdrive ca.1989
Jaxon Bell
In this case even the in-game assets were changed, I don’t think anyone outside of Japan knew about the show at the time so it makes sense that they changed it
John Rogers
Isaiah Cook
>keep the change ya filthy animal
Brandon Miller
Yeah, it's not good. The models aren't flattering and Mario looks psychotic.
Isaac Watson
the hideous western version has unused assets of earlier versions of the japanese designs, they started making it like the japanese version and then switched to the eye cancer for some reason.
Daniel Murphy
that's just your average /d/ thread
Parker Brooks
Lucas White
>fighting alongside washington, jefferson, roosevelt and lincoln. :D
Luke Davis
Evan Peterson
Right is obviously better but left isn't bad, just uninspired.
Luis Edwards
wtf is that tiny screen for ants lmao
Wyatt Green
Matthew King
Joseph Brooks
This is even better than the usual angry Kirby US edits. It's a perfect example of the two cultures.
Oliver Jenkins
If this is a thread about the worst, why did you post the best, OP?
Samuel Reed
Pokemon covers are usually pretty bad. They're just the official artwork of the cover mascot. Some of them offset this by having them in coolo poses, but there are a lot that are just boring static shots like SwSh.
Charles Gomez
Chase Turner
Old fag here. Japanophobia.
Back in the 80's and through to the mid/late 90's, some magazine (Newsweek or Time, maybe? I honestly cannot remember) ran a story about how Japanese companies were investing heavily in America and buying-up formerly American companies. SOMEHOW this translated into "zOMG JAPAN INVADING AMERICA!!!", and suddenly stores refused to sell shit if it "looked too Japanese" out of a (legitimate) belief that it wouldn't sell (because they didn't), and stations refused to air programming without it being altered (hence, "Rock the Dragon"). But, so long as it didn't LOOK "Japanese", stores would sell it, and racist parents wouldn't realize it.
It really was 15 or so years of racist retardation.
Jaxson Price
Dylan Ross
Reminds me of this.
Jacob Edwards
Lol, pretty good
Ethan Allen
kek
Henry Peterson
Lucas Lee
Colton Cox
50/50. It was the first time Mario was depicted in 3D in-game, it was showing off that the game was made using the same tech that created Donkey Kong Country, and it gave the idea to the player that both the Princess and Bowser were playable (which they were - a first for Bowser and only the second time for the Princess in an actual Mario title & not a sports game).
On the other hand, Bowser's model looks like shit and Mario looks like his eyes are pasted onto his face.
Logan Adams
James Cruz
Anyone actually read that box?
>Monsteropolis
>robot masters are humans that Wily performed experiments on
>Mega Man himself is ambiguously human?
>Below icefields, [other thing], even under icefields. WOW!
>no mention at all of the main thing that sets it apart from dozens of other platforming or shooting games: playing the levels in any order and building your arsenal out of the same weapons that bosses had used to fight against you
Now I want to read the other boxes and see how wrong the lore gets.
Lucas Ramirez
Andrew Jones
>"Pinocchio, I've seen some shit. Shit you wouldn't believe"
Jacob Wilson
>it's a Wii game, make it look family friendly
Either that or the artist had no idea what Ju-On is and was so he just googled "Scared Person stock photo" and called it a day
Daniel Lopez
Jace Russell
>Holy fuck it's real
What the FUCK is wrong with the Brits?!?!
Tyler Hughes
Pickle Rick ?
Liam Rodriguez
>That slime
This might actually be the first time I've seen the slime unhappy. And with bulged out eyes.
James James
Jose Foster
>What the FUCK is wrong with the Brits?!?!
absolutely nothing
Ryan Gray
Christopher Martin
reminder that this is so common that their current queen is married to her own cousin.
Lincoln Gonzalez
haha imagine your dick in the middle haha yknow as a joke haha
Gavin Garcia
>Smiling is not American
It sure explains alot
Mason Cruz
*aehm* FUCK COMMODORE
Nolan Sanders
Fuck I want to cum inside there assess now
Ethan Garcia
I feel for the guy. No one believes him when he tells people that there's mice in tiny shorts running around his house so he takes matters into his own hands.
Eli Morales
Daniel Moore
Jayden Jenkins
You know, I just realized something:
-Three characters on the cover (Soun, Nabiki, and Kasumi Tendo) aren't playable (or even IN) the game.
-Two characters (Akane & Ryoga) aren't immediately recognizable (Akane has her long hair on the cover but short in-game, Ryoga is a pig on the cover)
-One character (Gambling King) is just MSPaint'd into the background of the Ranma 1/2 logo for the sole purpose of showing a character that IS in the game...even though he's a massively minor villain in the series and would've been better replaced with Pantyhose Taru (either form).
-Nabiki is sitting with her legs spread, which has all sorts of connotations considering she's a Japanese teen girl in Japan.
Benjamin Gonzalez
In case anyone wants to join the fun:
computinghistory.org.uk
WARNING: the site is MASSIVE and takes a long time to load.
Levi Ortiz
I think Left was trying to show-off just how detailed Old Snake is thanks to "The Power of the Cell".
Jace Green
Jose Ortiz
Cameron Campbell
>consider the following
Jackson Jenkins
Brandon Parker
Juan Anderson
Yup. It's actually from a scene IN the movie.
Landon Johnson
this is art
Owen Walker
Robert Bennett
can't seem to find this interview anywhere but it's referenced a lot on Reddit
Cameron Rogers
JP>US>EU
EU>US
EU>JP>>US
US>JP>EU
JP>US>PAL
PAL>US>JP
JP>US
JP>US
PAL>NTSC
=
1>2
2>1
1>2
Benjamin Evans
Ian Lopez
That's based though
Luis Wood
For the early 80's that's fucking rad.
Julian Martin
I hate the 2nd games box art to, a little more because it looks like they actually hired someone to do this one, unlike MM1 which was just done by some rando in the office.
I mean look at MM2
>he's still using a gun
>the helmet is 100% wrong
>that right foot
>Dr. light is the one commanding the robots to attack Mega Man
Joseph Wood
Jordan Morris
Good fucking lord. Why?
Charles Wright
I like this cover, he looks nice
Kevin Bailey
This is probably the worst and most pretentious one.
Ryder Roberts
you're based, faggot
Jordan Ross
This is unironically the most badass thing in gaming ever.
Matthew Rodriguez
>all of those weird inaccuracies
>but Quick Man is doing his actual pose
Landon Robinson
Blake Thompson
Thank you, retard
Brayden Reyes
Bentley Baker
That game is trash
Jordan Brown
Those damned gooks
James Ramirez
>Dude, watch me poke this helicopter
Oliver Scott
Eh, they got it mostly right after that. The "Wrongly robotisized humans" or whatnot are now just robots.
Though "the evil Dr. Wily (once the supreme power in the universe)" "has powers his creations did not" suddenly.
Zachary Gutierrez
Aaron Johnson
You know just by the color of the effect they’re probably mashing braps against one another.
Justin Jones
>no one has posted about how boxart megaman is a playable character in SFxT yet
Henry Hall
Also note that the ONLY screen shot on the back of that box is the boring level select screen. That's it.
No wonder the game sold like shit outside Japan. The cover was shit, the story on the back was utter dogshit that actually made the horrible cover art make sense, AND the only actual screenshot is the fucking level select.
Landon Brown
Kinda sounds like whoever wrote that knew about Alien Wily but thought he actually was one.
Thomas Torres
Well THAT'S something that never gets mentioned in the U.S.
Charles Martin
ayyyy lmao
Grayson White
>Smiling is human
>Americans aren't human
Mason Williams
Wouldn't know. I just remember reading the story in a magazine while shitting on the can.
David Kelly
this one is great
Hudson Moore
much less the timing of when the character showed up and a lot of the "jokes" they used him for
David Parker
The US really does have the shittiest covers.
Juan Johnson
Yep.
Kevin Johnson
Ryder Hernandez
Freedom ain't free
Gabriel Cox
That's a fun callback.
Hudson Reed
This looks like a propaganda poster from the USSR.
Tyler Thompson
Probably Emperor Barbarossa, due to the swoard and throne behind him.
Parker Davis
Is "you've never played a game like this before" the title?
Jaxson Turner
Based boomer
Ethan Kelly
2spookyForMe
Robert Bell
post thread pls
Mason Bennett
now that's what I call a proper videopeli
Julian Wright
LMAO
everywhere I see is a different laugh
Blake Lopez
Remember there was other factors like the influx of cheap japanese cars blowing the fuck out of american manufacturers and pissing a lot of people off. And theres the influx of cheap japanese electronics and devices too. Then the purchase of US businesses and land by japanese companies.
Japan was in full invasion mode. So while dumb, I guess it was a valid fear
Logan Gonzalez
I don't know anything about this game but I vividly remember seeing in rental shops and it makes me disgustingly comfy when I see it.
Owen Sanchez
It was Capcom telling fans of Legends to fuck off.
Julian Taylor
the art is beautiful beautiful user, handmade craft
what is wrong with YOU
Camden Powell
Seems like the localization was a success then. It's not like weeb purists were gonna buy a little girl's ballet game on the Nintendo DS, at least I hope not.
Isaiah Brooks
>ti994a
I though it was a calculator but turns out Texas Instruments did make a computer.
Juan Rivera
It was clearly the intent, due to what other user said, but it could have been executed better. I made it pretty far into the game with the insanity shit working as intended but somehow I got a straight up clear look at him at one point, and the game was immediately far less scary.
James Martin
>not being able to appreciate some goofy ribbing
Fuck megaman fans, deserve the drought.
Julian Cox
That's some Dendi shit right there
Ayden Martin
>Japan was in full invasion mode. So while dumb, I guess it was a valid fear
Not really. I mean yeah, while Japan was out-performing American companies due to being the first to use their localized cheap labor on the mainland and investing heavily in America, Brittain was FAR more heavily invested in the US at the time. Hell, BP alone was bigger than a ton of Japanese companies combined.
Adam Gonzalez
Zachary Morales
Who says I don't
Tyler Peterson
>talked about = good
based retard
Charles Cooper
Potato Knishes
Josiah Richardson
Blake Lewis
Not only is it great, it was effective. All sorts of kids had this game purely because of the cover. It was made purposely weird so people would talk about it and look at us talking about it now almost 30 years later. There isn't a single quantifiable metric that someone could rightly call it bad.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Fuck I never knew how high the stakes were in breakout. Look at the weight on his shoulders.
Jayden Phillips
Gavin Stewart
>oyy xonro
my fucking sides
Noah Turner
Adam Nguyen
>implying they dont still hate them today
Kayden Sullivan
It needs a screenshot of Skyrim in the middle.
Or the buy option for Skyrim from Steam.
Lucas Perry
based
Sebastian Green
Wasn't the japanese version subtitled something like "The Mystery of Dr.Wily"?
Dominic Gonzalez
I'm 29
Joshua Lewis
I remember seeing the PC box art in Target/Walmart back when they actually sold PC games and it was closer to the left art and definitely did NOT look like the one on the right
Daniel Sullivan
From what I can guess by looking at GameFAQs, it seems like the right cover was used initially but a few months later the US switched to the left cover.
Colton Kelly
Rolph is supposed to be 21, Nei is the equivalent of late teens. Not 85 and 60.
Samuel Jenkins
Same bro
John Young
What the fuck, my South American cousin had a system that played these carts. He always called it the “Family,” what is it actually called?
Jeremiah Williams
I remember seeing these as a kid on a family holiday to Spain at a market. They were selling the console in black with a white controller and 3 or 4 games that look exactly like in the pic. It all came in generic clear plastic packaging and I can't remember the name of it.
I asked my mum to buy it for me but she refused. I'm both glad and disappointed that she did.
Caleb Jones
Charles Evans
wow this is an old one
Kayden Jenkins
what the hell is that thing
Jaxon Cooper
It was made during a time when people didnt think much of games. They were still seen as toys by the vast majority of both the public, and the people who developed them. That combined with Capcom not thinking it would be a hit, it makes sense why they didn't care about the boxart.
Jonathan Lewis
nah it's Hover Bovver
Jaxon Cox
its not fair
commercials used to have soul
Brayden Bennett
Miniature model photograph covers are peak soul though.
Brayden Cruz
Believe it or not, there were actual licensed PC physical releases in China.
Julian Rogers
wtf are you on
although the jap cover is superior
Camden Russell
Famicom
Christopher Long
a 9/10 in Britain
Jacob Rodriguez
Frankly his use was based. The kind of people who were insulted by a billion dollar company not catering to them by making more games probably looked like BBM (lol) irl
Thomas Ortiz
I live just down the road from Heaton Mersey. Wonder if I ever saw this guy?
Brody Butler
Latino retards always post the same lies because their favorite YouTuber said so.
This is the original cover. It's not Bomberman.
Owen Bell
Page 10 bump.