/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9453260
so as a kid in the 90s, how would you know what the game was about?
for all you knew it couldve been a racing game. The boxart would make you think the game is centered around minecarts when there are like 2 short minecart rides iirc.
Keep in mind we had no internet and while magazines did exist, most people didnt buy them.
So all a kid could go by was the boxart and maybe small screenshots on the back of the box itself.
In contrast to pic rel, that shows something entirely different from the actual game, the example in the OP shows something plausible that absolutely could be in the game but isn't.

>>9453260
and why not show them on DK Island or the treehouse in the start of the game or in the Angry Aztec level in the desert or in a boxing ring. Instead they specifically chose to depict a scene that simply isn't in the game. This amongst other examples misled kids and made them think things were possible / achievable in-game when they weren't at all.