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ITT: Laughably terrible box art

>> No.1323735
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...was there a need for this thread? Sure, why not!

>> No.1323736
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>> No.1323740
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>> No.1323741

>>1323721
>>1323735

This flet like such a slpa in the face considering the at the time (and actual) state of the franchise.

Fucking Crapcom

>> No.1323745

nes games in general

>> No.1323757
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>>1323735
At least they realized the huge mistake of their shitty box cover. And chose to poke fun at it.

>> No.1323762
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>>1323745
>turbographx games in general

FTFY

>> No.1323767

People always make fun of the MM1 box art, but I kind of "get it." It's like Boris Vallejo doing covers for sci-fi novels...it's just one artist's interpretation of a work, but you're free to come up with your own. I know that books and video games are apples and oranges, but come on, in the 8-bit era we were still using our imaginations a bit when we played the games. The sprites in Zelda looked nothing like the manual art -- but in our minds we embellished them so they did. I realize that this particular interpretation looks really goofy today, but it's not bewildering to me that an artist interpreted the sprites and level design this way.

>> No.1323773
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Mandatory

>> No.1323774
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>>1323767
You literally compared something that was slapped together in the span of a few hours to artwork by Boris Vallejo. I want you to think about what you've done for a few seconds and let that sink in.

>> No.1323784

>>1323773
At least this one actually resembles the game's art style.

>> No.1323790
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oh god. just pick one from the sega master system. most of them are pitiful.

>> No.1323914
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>>1323721
How about confusing?

>> No.1323931

what is pretty much every atari and cd64 game ever

>> No.1323949
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I Swear everything about this covert art is made of nonsense. The mispelled title indictae high testosterone action but the car looks like it belongs to penolopie pitstop and for some reaosn is all blurry and out of focus. And what is up with that mans face? He looks like he's just woken up from a 3 sleepless days bender at an anime convention and is seriously dehydrated and someone punched him in both eyes. I imagine he's saying "Oh please god somebody help me, penelopie Pit stop is after me!"

>> No.1323960
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>>1323790

>> No.1323986

>>1323960
IN THIS CORNER! HAILING FROM IRELAND! THE DULLAHAN!

>> No.1323981
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>>1323757

>> No.1323987

>>1323981
I don't get why people do this and honestly I don't even know if this meme has a name.

>> No.1323996

>>1323987
Kornheisering

>> No.1323993

>>1323987
le description face

>> No.1323994

>>1323987
It's called Kornheisering. Sometimes they're funny.

>> No.1324001

>>1323996
>>1323994
Should've guessed, but I didn't know the name of the guy who was on the originals since I don't keep up with sports.

>> No.1323997
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If this isn't the funniest and laziest fucking box art in the world, then I dunno what is.

>> No.1324002

>>1323997
Well, as far as retro goes. There's those "greatest hits" Nintendo (DS?) games that have a picture of the gamebox inside a frame as the cover. Undoubtedly the worst ever.

>> No.1324013

>>1324010
What was the logic behind those?

>> No.1324010
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>>1324002
Agreed.

>> No.1324015

>>1324013
Nobody knows. They're fucking hideous. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they were part of a scheme to drive up the price of the original releases, but I doubt that.

>> No.1324016
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This might look like cool boxart at first glance; a knight in gold armor saving a princess while fighting a fire breathing dragon. However, pay close attention to the art, and you'll see it's crudely drawn. The fact that many boxes for this game are worn to hell might have something to do with it. Cool music though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fDZ06cFNUs

>>1324013
Maybe a dose of "Yo Dawg, I heard you like".

>> No.1324034

>>1324002
>>1324010

Wow holy shit, those aren't even funny. It just hurts. (great game though)

>> No.1324039
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>>1324037

>> No.1324037

>>1324002
>>1324010
>>1324013

It's like a game within a game

>> No.1324048

>>1324037
I actually saw a pic a while back that was showing a mario bros game being unlocked in another, and it was being run on an emulated wii, which was running in WINE on Linux. Forget where I saw it.

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>> No.1324097

>>1324079
I don't think that's that bad. I mean yeah, it's Americanized, but at least it's decently drawn and is actually relevant to what the game is like.

>> No.1324114

>>1324097
It looks a little goofy, but its hardly laughable. Next thing you know, some faggot is going to chime in and claim that the Breath of Fire box arts are bad.

>> No.1324131

>>1324079
I remember reading good reviews of this and going out to buy it. I didn't think the art was so bad. The clerk at the store just kept saying "Pocky & Rocky?" and chuckling while he rang me up. I told him it was supposed to be a good action game. Of course I was right. That guy missed out on a great game because he couldn't get past the art style and the name.

>> No.1324139
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Honestly not a terrible one, but the face always makes me chuckle.

>> No.1324138
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Some guy posted about this game in the other thread, and wisely didn't post the box art. Yes, that's what it really looks like, I have it. babby's first photoshop?

Good game, though.

>> No.1324145

>>1324138
I remember seeing that and thinking it couldn't be real. I had to look it up on Wikipedia. Game is pretty good, though.

>> No.1324142
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[insert any US release of any Valis game here]

>> No.1324160

>>1323767
No, it's just bad art. Perspective, anatomy, posing, color design, layout all of that on top of inaccurate design. I mean... just look at this arms for quick example

>> No.1324167

>>1323997
That can't be real. That shit is genius level shit. Savant meta art at it's finest.

>> No.1324169
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>>1323762
Why can't you have a little anime boy piloting a robot?
Artistically it isn't that terrible but the whole content changes are laughable.

>> No.1324180

>>1324169
Same reason games like Dragon Power and Decap Attack had to be changed. License issues due to being based off an anime.

>> No.1324181

>>1323997
>>1324010

While it's true I did not study graphic design in college, I question the point of doing this. What was wrong with enlarging that picture of the bats and using it as boxart? Did we really need the hand holding the card? Why couldn't they just use the boxart for DoS and slap that ugly red banner on the bottom?

Sometime I think people who are in charge of these things like to have a giggle.

>> No.1324186

>>1323790
>>1323960
>>1323997
I wonder what the logic of this shit was. Who thought this was a good idea? It wasn't like they were the first ones to come up with video game box art and just didn't know what they were doing.

>> No.1324189

>>1324186
>who thought this was a good idea

We're talking about Sega here.

>> No.1324190

>>1324186

It's weird as shit to think about considering Atari boxart was so badass.

I know Atari games set the bar kinda high, but that's no reason not to try!

>> No.1324201

>>1324145
Game is pretty good, the music is orgasmic.

>> No.1324210
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>>1323949
this is what happens when your art director is on drugs.

>> No.1324231
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>> No.1324304

>>1324181
>Did we really need the hand holding the card?
Cards were novel at the time. Maybe?

>> No.1324309
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This is just a WTF box cover.

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>>1324181
>Sometime I think people who are in charge of these things like to have a giggle.

lel

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>> No.1324340

>>1324332

in b4 that pic of the game in the genesis

>> No.1324367

>>1323773
thats a huge filename m8

>> No.1324387

>>1323914
Not too bad for standing out on a store shelf though. How many Super Nintendo games have a strange old country bumpkin playing the banjo on their box?

>> No.1324389

>>1324387
Well it certainly had the opposite effect on me. I never even picked it up to look at it, much less rented it.

>> No.1324391
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>>1323949
This shit is so Jaleco.

>> No.1324393

>>1324010
Somebody post the one where it's just an infinite spiral of game boxes.

>> No.1324402

>>1324231
Looks fine to me, what's so bad about it?

>> No.1324403

>>1324389
Same. I remember seeing it in the rental store as a kid and thinking it looked stupid, so I never even looked at the back. Kind of a shame because the game isn't half bad.

>> No.1324405

>>1324338
Those damn faces at the bottom do it for me.

>> No.1324410

>>1324403
I don't think it was a good execution, but it was not a bad idea at least.

>> No.1324412

In other boxart-related news, Greg Martin, the man who drew all the actually GOOD retro boxarts, died the other day.

http://www.destructoid.com/greg-martin-the-artist-who-drew-your-childhood-passes-268491.phtml

>> No.1324429

>>1324402
2rad4u

>> No.1324467
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Localization apparently equates to making everything gritty and boring.

>> No.1324482

>>1324467
>Nondescript anime character collage
>Tactfully drawn and colored action scene depicting combat and actual sci-fi action theme of the game

Rules have exceptions and this is one of them.

>> No.1324493

>>1324482
Those aren't anime characters.

>> No.1324494

>>1324493
Sorry, "stereotypical Japanese manga art style". Happy?

>> No.1324519

>>1324467
US version is obviously superior.

>> No.1324739

>>1324412
This was sad to hear. I loved that guy's work.

>> No.1324743
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>>1324338
>>1324405

>> No.1324865
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This one always cracks me up

>> No.1325007
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No mention of Raiden Trad? While it isn't bad, the color choices and design are just offensive to the senses.

>> No.1325025
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>> No.1325031
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>> No.1325038
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>>1324405

Pic

>> No.1325056

>>1324180
But it's still recognizable as Ryujinmaru. Not to mention they didn't change the in game graphics and the kid in game doesn't look like the guy on the cover.

>> No.1325058
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>> No.1325063

>>1324013
it's a game within a game...

>> No.1325605

>>1325604
holy shit what a headache

>> No.1325604
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>>1324393

>> No.1325810

>>1323767
I have no idea what happens inside of your head.

>> No.1325813
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>>1323949
>penelope pitstop

>> No.1325820

>>1324131
not much worse than smug customer service people.

>> No.1325824

>>1324139
The guy's insane face was actually the reason I bought this game

>> No.1325834
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>>1324167
so 80s

here is a delicious one from BR

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>>1324338

>> No.1325913

>>1324139
I don't know about NES, but that guy's face is a perfect representation of this game, as well as the tag line. Shy Shark arcade was some hardcore shit.

>> No.1325915

>>1324231
Looks pretty awesome to me.

>tfw no drunken 80s vacation game genre

>> No.1325916
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>>1323997
What if this was the norm for box art?

>> No.1325919

>>1324467
The US cover is closer to the real game.

>> No.1325923

>>1325919
It's also a better cover in general.

>> No.1325924
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>>1324332

>> No.1325931
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>>1324231

>> No.1325939
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>>1325916
I'd love to see something like this just once on a modern console to see how it would sell.

>> No.1325941

>>1324467
Too bad the localized version is superior.

>> No.1325953

>>1324169
All comments aside about the cover artwork, Keith Courage is the worst pack-in game I've seen in my life. It probably drove more buyers away than it intended to bring in.

>> No.1325965
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>>1323757
Look at his face. He looks like posing for the cover is just to feed his family.

>>1323773
Better than the American one. Just look at Megaman's face as he callously shoots Sparkman in the balls.

>> No.1325967

>>1325953
I distinctly remember a Funcoland price guide listing with 0.01 as the trade-in value of KC. A fucking penny.

>> No.1325970
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>>1325965
>Megaman's face as he callously shoots Sparkman in the balls.
If it's nice, use it twice...

>> No.1325975

>>1325970
He looks like one of the Keebler Elves trying to be Robocop.

>> No.1325978

>>1325975
I don't know why they goofed his face. The MM3 cover is better and it's funny they lifted the composition for a completely different game.

>> No.1326008

>>1323773
>file name
>punctuation
>capitalization
>preform
>beastality
Are you ever going to fix everything, or are you just going to keep posting it like that?

>> No.1326012
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>>1323914
>>1323960

>> No.1326020
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>>1323914
>look at european/Japanese Phalanx art
>wow a dick ship
>suddenly
>Phalanx
>Phallus
>mfw

This is something that you'd see in Grand Theft Auto, considering their unnatural, almost Freudian obsession with dick and sex jokes.

>> No.1327610

>>1326012
8/10
Put the Kemco logo somewhere, or maybe rework it so an actual hand is holding the cartridge.

>> No.1327734
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>>1327610
I didn't make the original, but here goes

>> No.1327751
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his face looks so nervous

>> No.1327772

>>1327751
Maybe he realized that you can't really "win" and his short meaningless life will be over in the near future when he gets eaten by ghosts.

>> No.1327810

>>1324016
>I wish to be a golden knight with scoliosis and a 9 foot long leg

>> No.1327813

>>1327772
Maybe Pac-Man is a metaphor for the lives of men.

>> No.1327823

>>1327813
If you live long enough, the world ends?

>> No.1327826

>>1327823

Not just the world. The universe.

>> No.1327867
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Why the hell did all covers have a grid in the background? It makes me cringe because it reminds me of math. It makes the cover look boring and associate the game with something you hate.

>> No.1327924

>>1327867
I used to love mapping out games on graph paper, but I agree that it makes game covers look dull.

>> No.1327927

>>1326012
>>1327734
Genius. I love it.

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>>1325025

>> No.1327936

>>1327734
10/10
split a pack of big league chew
you guys are great

>> No.1327969

>>1325834
This game is good ? I found with box, game and manual

>> No.1328014

>>1323981
fukin saved

>> No.1328016

>>1324139
air force pilot ptsd the video game

>> No.1328326
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>>1327751

>> No.1328383
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>>1323981

>> No.1328508

>>1327867
Tonka was in charge of marketing and distributing the Master System in the US, maybe Britian? And they had no idea what the hell they were doing.

>> No.1328526

>>1328326
Lol hilarious if real

>> No.1328528

>>1328508
It's true, Tonka was pretty much the worst people that they could have partnered with. Kind of tangential, but I am curious as to how any Americans played Master System with how terribly they handled the release.

>> No.1328531

>>1328528
The Master System didn't do TOO terribly over here, from what I've read, but it was nowhere near how popular it was in Europe and other areas.

>> No.1328538

>>1328528
In my neighborhood, most kids had some combination of NES, SNES and Genesis. The only kid with a Master System or a TG-16 was the rich one who bought everything.

>> No.1328573

>>1327924
I mapped out the whole of pokemon red when I was a kid