/vr/ - Retro Games

...and Japanese art.

Mega Man would have been too obvious.

>>1590262
dem fucking thighs

Timegal was so ripe and delicious in body compared to modern moestickfigures.

I think the American box art is better just because it's so ridiculous.

I really like the American Zelda I & II boxes. Very simple and classy. How'd those nitwits from NoA get so tasteful?

I like Japanese Mass Destruction

>>1590308
I always loved the EU and JP Final Fantasy covers.

>>1590280

Ryu Schwarzenegger aside it's pretty faithful too.

Not the same game but the same character.

>>1590317
I like it when game series has a recognizable title that is altered each game, Like the Naruto Storm games

I feel the Jap box art captures the feel of the games better than the USA ones, the games are fun and light hearted. Makes me think of the ads that Future got when the PS3 came out with that song.

>>1590308
I CAN'T BERIEVE ANON PREFERS YANKIE-DOODLE'S BOXART TO MINE

Fucking CGI cover art

>>1590324
>captures the feel
>yet slaps Groucho Marx eyebrows on Ratchet

>>1590321
>What are proportions?

Japanese...

>>1590391
American

I missed this game as a kid, I distinctly remember skipping it because the box was so ugly

Does anyone know where I can print out replacement sleeves for the japanese boxart?

>>1590321
>dat JP one
>dat US...
WHY!?!?!?
goddamn it man I swear...

>>1590324
Unretro post aside, the series is an American creation. American box art should be cannon here. I prefer grolious nihon berushon when it's a grolious nihon game but as this happens to not be one, I prefer Amelican berushon.

>>1590357
Also the placing of the logo almost makes it look like he has a crotch rocket launcher.

They take an early Japanese shoot'emup release on the psx and release it as...

... this, nearly a decade later. Pretty bizarre.

>>1590595

Who did they think this would appeal to?

>>1590615

Charlies Angel's fans.

>>1590618

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305357/

Came out the same year, so yeah it was probably this. Pretty slimy transparent cashgrab we're showcasing here, heh.

Imagine being a kid with your shiny new 32x (hey, I said imagine) and popping this game in, expecting some kind of Battletoads or something.

And the first thing you see is this little dude dancing around to a funky theme tune.

I'm not sure if this is real or not

>>1590701
>ESRB rating on Russian game
Bootleg most def

>>1590694

Has anyone else ever noticed what ridiculously detailed sneakers all these westernized mascots always wore on these boxarts?

Always loved this one

>>1590718

What did they think the original didn't look badass enough?

>>1590718

I'd love to be at one of the marketing meetings when these games were being evaluated by the game companies.

I can imagine a group of suit wearing office workers sitting at a round table, staring drearily at a large print of the Japanese cover art plastered on the board. One of the workers pulls down a silk cloth from the board, unveiling an even larger print of the newly designed American cover art. Everyone stands up in unison, applauding the new design, some of them misty-eyed. Meanwhile, right outside one of the windows, an American flag can be seen flapping vigorously in the wind, along with the boom and crackle of fireworks being set off in the distance.

>>1590750
>forgetting the screech of the eagle and the statue of liberty applauding in the distance

>>1590759

>>1590856
This is probably the first instance I've seen that I actually enjoyed all three. Japan's is still the best one though.

>>1590794
I love those comics.

>>1590872
>kawaii ass bullshit vs edgy horror bullshit

They're both so good, I just can't seem to choose one!

I was looking for the Japanese covers of the Wonder Boy/Monster World games and came across with the cover of Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap.

Holy christ this is actually an improvement in comparison with US cover.

>>1590728
The non-Japanese covers do a better job depicting the actual style of the game, though.

I still regret not buying Shadow Dancer (Sega Genesis) as a kid because I thought the ninja on the cover had boobs. Ironically, I ended up buying Dick Tracy instead. Great game, although not as good as Shadow Dancer.

>>1590945
Loved that style of figurine-based illustrations. That's one trend that isn't coming back, since it actually takes skill and time, and not just using random photoshop brushes until it looks artsy enough.

>>1590915
I always loved the American cover for this game. That Japanese one is pretty badass, though.

>>1590705
>esrb rating

nah, that's just so glorius russian product can be resold to poorfag foreigner.

real rating is in top right. Rated wolf for za rodinu

>>1590945
>>1591035
Plok got the cool 3D cover on the western releases and the cheesy airbrushed one on the japanese one. I think it was a british game, though.

>>1590868
The EU one uses stock licensing art also used in
kid's clothes and candy bars.

ITT: weebs acting as arbiters of good taste

Anime is a generic artform. Deal with it. There's more variation of style in the morning funnies than there is in your whole manga collection.

>>1591130
Nice b8

These japanese covers are better because they were often drawn and designed by someone who worked on the actual game. It's why they actually look like them. Simple stuff. That being said, American covers of games made in the USA are generally good as well.

Japanese Super Castlevania is so bad looking though.

Kendo Rage - US

As a child, I remember grabbing this off the shelf, renting it, then playing it and being blown the fuck away by the diffrence in art styles between box and in game.

>>1591148
JP back and front

>>1591139
> These japanese covers are better because they were often drawn and designed by someone who worked on the actual game.
Nice assumption, but most of these games had small development teams that did not include in-house illustrators.

>>1591139
More like some Japanese covers are better because they match the style of the game.

>>1591157
>Nice assumption, but most of these games had small development teams that did not include in-house illustrators.
>most
Okay, and who are you?

That's funny because small development teams often take on lots of roles. Why do you think the team is so small? It's a top notch team that was put together for the sole duty of completing the task. Look at the Hyperstone Heist art here >>1590856 and tell me it doesn't look just like the character portraits in Tournament Fighters.

>>1591170
I'd like to assume everyone here is astute enough to pick on this without you having to say it.

>>1591130

>Trying to start an east vs. west shitstorm

Fuck off back to /v/.

Hot diggidy damn.

>>1590692
>awful part 5 style for Jotaro

ewww

This is the PAL one, the other one you should all know it.

>>1591741

>>1591750

>>1591753

>>1591741
>>1591742
And the SFC box for reference.

Gonna have to go with 'Murrica on this. That cover is fucking art. They had a lot of balls to market it like that. You can tell they were in it for the love, not the money.

>>1590268
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs

>>1591151
>Thighs for days

All my hnnnnnnnnnnnnngh

Japan

>>1591841
USA

>>1590915
Came to post this. Dat Nihongo art

>>1591732
EU is way more eerie.

>>1591842
Chef Boyardee looks pissed off. The Japanese version has just a plain guy as your character, also removed most of the plot

>>1590915
I was hoping based on the German text in the European art, it was an official German version

U.S. version with commander Fatits McDubblechin wielding his mighty thunder thighs...

Uguu~ version; looks like the person that actually designed the characters may have drawn it. Aesthetically pleasing but kind of "busy" if you catch my drift

>>1591750
>>1591753
From Grouchland to Strassendassenbewohnerland.

>>1592337
>looks like the person that actually designed the characters may have drawn it
Yeah because all nips draw exactly the same.

>>1591151
>>1590262
I was just thinking about Time Gal for some reason other than her thighs the other day and I can't remember why.

>>1590856
Never forget

>>1592597
>What am I looking at OH. JESUS

>>1592645

>>1592649

>>1591742
I had no idea it was a space shooter when I first saw it in stores.

>>1592659
It says so right there on the cover.

>>1590321
I sadly have to say that the Gundam Jap one beats the flamboyant robocop one.

>>1590868
Just barely in this case. If the U.S. version showed them fighting it would be a different story.

>>1590856
The Jap cover fucked up on the color of the turtles.

>>1590684
It gets better; they gutted the game of anything resembling a plot, and renamed the characters(the robot was renamed MILF2000, somehow adding an I in the process of what was obviously supposed to be MLF2000). And, in case that didn't seem egregious enough, they did the same shit with another game unrelated to the Gunbird series, Shikigami no Shiro, used the same exact boxart, gutted the plot, and called it Mobile Light Force 2 for the PS2.

>>1590268

Censorship sucks but the EU version is kinda awesome

>>1593580
PS2 is not /vr/

>>1593587
I actually like the Probotector version of the NES games better. It is more fun to run around as killer robots than two shirtless guys with bandannas. My suspension of disbelief buys that two robots could stop an entire invasion without being killed, while two shirtless guys that have no armor does not. '80s vidya logic

>>1593606
And it's my belief that a robot won't die with a single bullet while two shirtless guys will. And with them, you don't get that "Fuck yeah I'm powerful as fuck" feeling until you finish a level, which feels amazing as opposed to being robots, where you figure you're really powerful from the getgo, so it's not as big a surprise.

>>1593614
Seriously, a robot would be able to take multiple hits, so it's more amazing being the two protaganists from awesome 80s movies and kicking ass.

>>1593595
Thanks for contributing some great content to this thread.

>>1593583
Some of the failures were just silly
>that scene where the cavemen catch her
Then you get doujin material that I'm sure was never made

>>1593815
Are you talking about that almost rape scene?

>>1593819
Yeah

US

>>1593829
and PAL.
A fuckhuge improvement.

>>1593834
How is it an improvement? They are both good

>>1593835
Don't get me wrong, there are worse comparisons out there.
This is just something that I found a few weeks ago. The colorfulness really gets to me, in contrast to the notably blander US version.

>>1593834

Not really. The US one depicts an action scene with unique artwork, the PAL one is just a generic lazy collage of character art with garish colors.

>>1593840
Which is usually the truth for most of the JP covers.

They didn't even try with this one.

>>1593891
kek, I think the JP cover barely represensts the game as well. It's still better than a dwarven viking.

>>1592597
>>1592602

Serious question: What is so bad about the artwork?

>>1593958
diarrhea

>>1593958
It's not the artwork being bad that they are reacting to.

>>1593963
Enlighten me. What are they reacting to?

>>1593971

twin towers

>>1593973
You mean a game made in the early 90s has an accurate representation of early 90s New York? No way!

>>1593973
kek. Leo must of been in on it.

>>1593982
>>1593983
>>1593973
>>1593971
between Leo's legs

>>1593983
The foot behind Leonardo looks like his massive hanging ballsack, okay? Did you really need that spelled out for you?

>>1593987
I see the foot, but it just looks like a foot.

>>1590280
>Boy, I wish I was Jim Lee.

>>1593993
>>1593992
IT'S NOT A BALLSACK

IT'S A SHITTY DUMP

GOD

>>1593992
Jackass, it looks like a foot.

I will always wonder why they kept switching Billy and Jimmy's outfit/hair colors between versions.

>>1593994
Jim Lee my ass. That style is more consist with what Image Comics was doing at the time, which was a more modern style. Jim Lee is more of a classic style comic artist.

>>1594002
It doesn't look like a foot I've ever seen. Feet typically have about 5 toes. On the front.

I really hope your foot doesn't look that.

>>1594009
Jim Lee was one of like, the major dudes of Image at that time- half the books the company put out were him or wannabe him but yeah that doesn't really look like Jim Lee art.

>>1594005
>Famicom art looks like it came straight out of Fist of the North Star
This pleases me

>>1594018

>Thinking Turtles anatomy = Human anatomy

>>1594034
I think he's referring to the Liefeld era.

>>1594160
Guy is just being a jackass.

>>1594160
>Thinking Turtles anatomy = TMNT anatomy

>>1590718
The US and EU ones are more honest, that game looks like shit
SNES' 3D games were hideous unless they were about spaceships or cars with cartoon eyes.

>>1594351
NO. NO WAY.

My cousin and I always thought this was a silly cover when we were kids.

>>1594351
Wasn't this an example of a shitty cover spilling into the game, the original Ranma sprites replaced with crappy 90's cyborgs and other donut steels in translation? It's baffling really that they would go to such lengths to remove anime. Oh, the kids wouldn't understand a japanese girl with red hair and large eyes! Let's put a flame-breathing Nazi cyborg on a skateboard into the game instead!

>>1594005
>ゐ截龍

Does anyone know how you're supposed to read this and why it uses the character for "wi"? Japanese Wikipedia says the series is called 双截龍 and doesn't even even reference the name on the box art.

>>1594351
Wrong SFC cover. This is the correct cover art.

>>1594351
The one you posted was the cover for Hard Battle

>>1594369
That's actually not bad for both covers.

>>1591139

Speaking of Castlevania covers, I always prefered the US cover of Bloodlines, even though the evil shadow that supposed to be Dracula looked kind of silly.

The Japanese was still great in its own way however.

>>1594386
It's not even Dracula, it's a werewolf. I have no idea what it's supposed to be.

>>1594365
It's not exactly a ゐ, it's a heavily stylized 双. Maybe the logo artist just had poor calligraphy skills. The Double Dragon creator wrote a commentary explaining meaning of the kanji chosen for the logo.
http://happy.ap.teacup.com/page02/

>>1594406
Huh. I thought that might have been the case but it looked too far-fetched. Never seen that before.

>>1590701
I'm amazed amerilards even allowed that cover, jesus

>>1590718
JP covers looks like something out of WH40K

>>1594351

WOW, i thought the dude on the us cover looked like ken from street fighter 2010, but when i decided to look up the box art i realized even the enemy is like the same dude as the one on the SF 2010 cover

>>1594361
Bison and Cody look weird on that jp cover

>>1590856
>Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles

>>1590915
The Japanese art looks gorgeous, but I'm a sucker for that kind of crap.

>>1594959
It used to be illegal to market products advertised as "ninja" to children in Europe

Hell for all I know, it still is

>>1590595
The also released Castle of Shikigami 2 as a sequel to that.

With the same boxart.

>>1594974
Here you go.

>>1590945
All the Wonder Boy games had decent packaging art in Japan. I don't know why Sega screwed up with their Master System covers.

Japan

>>1595356
Ewwwwwww.S.A

>>1594362
It's possible that the game was originally going to be more like the US release and they just slapped Ranma characters on it because they got the license.

Like a reverse Donkey Kong/Popeye thing.

>>1595381
Irem has nothing to do with the original Ranma game though. Masaya developed it and Irem just did a very poor localization of it. I'd like to be able to make heads or tails of what happened but there's no credits in the game.

Here's the tipper though. All the original sounds and music from the Ranma game aren't present. The game goes from sounding like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDC_b61jWSM
to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQufxrblyMM

Street Combat happens to sounds a lot like Rocky Rodent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oei-LOuKezI
Same instruments and everything. I don't know if Irem JP gave tools to Irem USA to localize the game or if they did it and published themselves. It's just odd.

>>1595063
>Sega screwed up with their Master System covers
Not that I've researched the issue in any detail, but I blame the fact that Tonka was handling everything in the US.

>>1594362
>Oh, the kids wouldn't understand a japanese girl with red hair and large eyes! Let's put a flame-breathing Nazi cyborg on a skateboard into the game instead!

To be fair, that's fucking awesome. Silly, but awesome

This one always kills me because of the progression from Japan to EU to US.

>>1595986
>Murica cover has the cyclist pushing a random businessman for no reason whatsoever.
Sums up the country's entire attitude.

>>1596012
>/pol/shit

Leave.

>>1596028
What does that have to do with politics? Stop shitposting and leave.

>>1590716
sneakers back then where pretty banging compared to now.

>>1590325
Man, wielding that shield looks impractical as fuck

>>1590915
All three are beautiful

>>1590728
>>1590750

Vortex is a European game.

>>1590915
First one would've been better if the star fighter was visible, as if it's going to fight the guy in the distance.

>>1593829
>>1593834

This is one of the very few grimedgy US covers done right

>>1590856
Those turtles are gonna kick that tiny city's ass!

>>1590259
>>1590262
I read something about this a while ago - I think it was a Tom Kalinske interview (SEGA CEO during the "sega does what nintendon't" years).

Basically, back in the early 90s, gaming had relatively little market penetration. You didn't have everyone knowing what Call of Duty is and so. You didn't have so many review sites, youtube, etc., only a handful of gaming magazines and the TV ads.

People just didn't knew what games were good or not, other than a select few hot-seller titles where word-of-mouth was big enough. They were actually buying things based on the covers instead, because when they went into toys'r'us, that was the only thing to decide upon which games were good or not. Often they bought games based on just the cover. So having a motherfucking rad cover often did help.

Also, you have to remember that back in the 90s, especially the early part, anime had very little presence too. The style as a whole was just not taken as granted.

With that context in mind, a cover with a gun-wielding angry bikini babe surrounded by GLADIATORS AND A PIRATE SHIP AND EXPLODING PLANES AND A MOTHERFUCKING PTERODACTYL would be very popular. A bug-eyed bikini babe running on an ice field with something blue/green behind it, not so much.

It was all about appealing for the market, you know.

>>1596047
im not him but, making huge sweeping negative generalizations about entire groups of people around the world is a very /pol/ thing to do.

personally as an american i think our cover is the best though, and hilariously so. i clapped a little when i saw it.

age

>>1596506
It's funny how weebs view anime as some radical artform that westerners just didn't "get" in the 80s and 90s. The fact is it just didn't stand out at all.

I grew up with Voltron and Speed Racer and there was nothing distinctive about them except for the fact that I realized in retrospect that they were clearly Japanese. They didn't, and still don't, look that much different than American shows like Thundercats or G.I. Joe or Masters of the Universe, especially compared to cartoons that did have radically unique art styles.

Unique character design has always been a constant in American cartoons and in the Nickelodeon/MTV era it had just begun bordering on bizarre. The thought that anybody would think Time Gal was "too weird" for American children is laughable. These kids were collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards. Try selling those to Japanese children.

The fact is that video games just weren't marketed in the US with ANY cartoon-style illustrations AT ALL. Japanese or otherwise. Sci-Fi/fantasy are niche genres in the US, so it makes sense that those games were marketed the same way as novels and tabletop games of the same genre, and it probably worked wonders. A cheesy animation cell of Link wouldn't capture the imagination of a kid playing D&D and reading LotR the same way a cool picture of sword and a shield would.

>>1599170
I think the bigger issue is that publishers thought Japanese covers looked "too cute" for American audiences. Look at Sonic. His American redesign full of edgy 'tude was an excellent contrast to Mario's wholesome cuteness, and, I think, a contributing factor to the game's success. To this day localization teams add subtle touches to Japanese covers to make them look more hardcore. Even freaking Kirby has been subject to this for years.

>>1596506
>Tom Kalinske interview (SEGA CEO during the "sega does what nintendon't" years).
Genesis Does was around before Kalinske. He continued it, but his signature ads were the Sega Scream.

>>1599170
>They didn't, and still don't, look that much different than American shows like Thundercats or G.I. Joe or Masters of the Universe

Well, GI Joe and Thundercats were animated in Japan.(Toei and Pacific Animation Corporation respectively), but Masters of the Universe?

You honestly didn't see the difference in style between MOTU and the style found in most anime of the time?

Also, if you think "true" anime didn't stick out in the 80s, you should probably do a bit of research on a little title known as "Robotech".

>The fact is that video games just weren't marketed in the US with ANY cartoon-style illustrations AT ALL

pic related

I love the Sega Genesis art work for Ys III

>>1593548
That's Masami Obari for you
http://vanishingtrooper.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/masami-obari-part-1-an-introduction/

>>1590872
>>1590898
Even better: the game is a Shin Megami Tensei spinoff.

>>1595370
lmfao is that cover real? In fact, is that a drawing by the worst comic book artist in the universe ROB LIEFELD? Holy shit
Pic related it's Liefeld's masterpiece

>>1601482
It's the real cover but I don't know if it's by Liefeld. If it's not it's clearly attempting to emulate his style, remember Liefeld and Image were huge around the time Tuff E Nuff was released so it makes sense

>>1601482
It's definitely not by Liefield, it doesn't look like his art at all

>>1591735
Could be worse.

http://a.pomf.se/mkewgm.jpg

>>1590728
>Michael Bay Presents: Vortex

Final Zone 2 Japan Cover
Would make a great poster if you ask me.

>>1602302
And everyone got fat in America.
Also, WTF is wrong with that girls gun?

>>1595356
>>1595370

Man, this fucking box art
>The original Japanese cover art to Dead Dance/Tuff E Nuff is taken from an issue cover of the UK gaming magazine Computer and Video Games. CVG created the artwork for their preview feature as there was none available at the time. Jaleco were so impressed with the design, they asked CVG to make it the official artwork for the game. It appears on the Japanese and European versions of the game. Jaleco USA decided to use their own box art instead for the American release which is often considered to be one of the worst designs for a video game of all time. It can be seen in the first level of the original arcade version of Jaleco's Game Tengoku.

Here's a pic from said game. The guys at Jaleco must have thought it was hilarious.

Jaleco USA sure had some funny ideas about how to market their games:
>>1594361

>>1602306
jesus christ now that's awful

>>1595039

yo this rules, thanks

>>1593891
Gaddamn that game was my childhood. Bearded viking and all.

>>1593834
>That bland shading with no action going on
I don't think so Tim.

>>1599673
I had this game. It was lame to play, but I like the cover a lot and I remember copying it in a drawing as a kid.

Video games were really the only resource for this stye then (not that I yet knew it was specifically Japanese) and I'd also try to draw in the style of game cutscenes like Ninja Gaiden as well.

/vr/ has introduced me to a great deal of game art that I'd have gone nuts over if it were actually was allowed to be shown here when i was a kid.

so what is it exactly? Do they completely change the artwork because they can't get the rights?
Some of these "revisions" are obviously horrible.

>>1593834
Confession: I'm furry for Grace.

>>1594351
I fucking love that classic style lighting on that left robot.

bumping

>>1605186
did /v/ hack the janitor or something?

>>1590259
>>1590262
I'd rather have the US box actually. Sure, it has the typical angry character, but I feel it gives a better idea of the whole time thing. It's not like it's unheard of for a game setting to contain strange creatures, mythical, extinct, or otherwise. I'd almost just think mammoths were part of normal world based on the JP art.

>>1607530
The master system boxes ....
What the hell where they thinking ?!
They were the lamest peices of shit ever !!

>>1607465
I thought the same thing.

The Japanese cover is just what appears an animation cell from some random cartoon I've never seen and don't know anything about. It's marketed towards somebody who's a fan of the character and fuck everybody else. Why should I care?

On the American cover, I see bloodthirsty dinosaurs, exploding WWII fighters, a burning pirate ship and dueling Spartan warriors. It's obvious that this is a game about a woman travelling through time, across the world, and kicking ass. That swirling background must be a time portal. The cover has captured my imagination and if the image was something that appealed to me I might buy the game.

If I was a weeb who'd buy the game on the strength of Generic Anime Girl #313 alone, I still to have to choose between other games on the shelf featuring Generic Anime Girls #1-312.

>>1607724
>The Japanese cover is just what appears an animation cell from some random cartoon I've never seen
It's a random cel from the game itself.

>>1607724
>implying Weebs existed back when the game first came out

Do you even know the history of the term?

So a picture of the character taken directly from the game is a bad cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5nLn2LLvAY

>>1607724
But what would stop you from just having a cover of Generic Anime Girl #313 with dinosaurs, Spartan soldiers, a WWII plane, a burning ship and a time portal in the background?

>>1596012
Businessmen are scum though.

>>1602302
reminds me of the Veela campaign of Votoms.

>>1607758
Not related, but I'd like to hear it if you're willing to share.

>>1607724
>If I was a weeb who'd buy the game on the strength of Generic Anime Girl #313 alone, I still to have to choose between other games on the shelf featuring Generic Anime Girls #1-312.

No you wouldn't. It is a Sega CD game. You'd have to choose between this, CLIFFHANGER, Night Trap, and the Legend of Tully Bodine. None of which feature anime babes on the cover.

>>1594005

>>1607758
> So a picture of the character taken directly from the game is a bad cover.
Well judging from the video, the American cover is more interesting than the game itself. So yeah, if you're game is that shitty, you probably don't want to advertise it on the cover.

>>1608890
I'm not sure what that has to do with anon calling them weaboos when weaboos weren't a thing back then.

>>1608854
>dominatrix turned into Robert Garcia in the EU version.

>>1607607

>>1594039
Tetsuo Hara did the art for the Famicom cover, which is why. So it literally IS straight (off of) FotNS.

So why do they redo covers?

Is it because they have to repay the artist? Costs could explain why they replace artwork that wouldn't seem out of place in an art gallery, with art that looks like it was drawn by children.

>>1609107

Because they think the Japanese covers won't attract sales in the west. That's it.

>>1609113

No

fucking

way

Who ever thought that, say the North American Master System covers would attract a sell? They look like they're drawn by children. Many examples in this thread.

Same goes for the PC-Engine covers. JP many times are either decent or really good. They give a good sense of what the game is. Then you have some 9 year old turn in their art for the Western release. Clearly done by amateurs.

>>1609120

The Master System was sold by some toy company in America that didn't really care about video games.

>>1609113
yes >>1602306

>>1591750
"Is elmo gonna have to strangle a nigga?"

>>1609123
>implying they look like toys

If it weren't for the little artwork on the cover they'd look more like fucking business software than games.

>>1590945
Speaking of which...

>>1608997

>>1609567

Fucking. Beautiful.

>>1609557
>Monica
Does a re-branding count as a different theme on the same boxart though?

>>1609618
It's just the same game with different sprites, though. That happened a lot when it came to other games localized in the west, so I'd say it counts.

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>>1592645
There's a development retrospective by some of the original team that talks about all the changes they had to do for the Japanese release. iirc, the music composer had to redo all the music in like, a week.

>>1593958
'Merican here...

Some other 'Mericans just reminiscing about the World Trade Center. I dunno, it's like some of us just get weirded out whenever they see old pictures or illustrations of it. Some other 'Mericans just have to make reference to it; they can't help it for whatever reason.

>>1613890
It's kind of funny because Red Alert 2 came out the same year and I think they redacted the WTC screenshot on later printings

>>1614452
Shame there were no engineers around NYC at the time. Dat gold wrench.

>>1614469
9/11 was really an elaborate plot to capture the WTC for al-Qaeda.

>>1609123
It was Tonka Toys that originally marketed the SMS, and they bungled it.

>>1590701
This image is wrong. I own the game. The one on the right is the American version.

>>1614452
The original artwork for Yuri's Revenge had some famous landscape in the backgrounds being trashed, that included the Manhattan skyscape, WTC included. They had to change the artwork and remove those backgrounds before production.

>>1614595
>No internal FM chip like the Japanese Master System

>>1600734
>Obari

He makes things look like shit

>>1596012
Did you even play the fucking game?

>>1609567
Yes.

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>>1590280
On one side you can see the characters simply posing for a photo meanwhile in the other,they are fighting

>>1590321
>EU most badass looking
>US having OUT OF PROPORTION pecs
>JP is a gundumb

>>1590595
>Mobile light force
>if the game was called Mobile intelligen light force,the acronym of the game could be M.I..L.F

>>1614620
>US releases removed FM support entirely
>including Phantasy Star

>>1609557
I beat this game and I can't recognize the four background characters on the JP cover. I'm also still confused as to how it's the 5th Wonder Boy game.

>>1618348
US is horrid, but EU isn't any better. At best it's an idiotic robocop.

Western producers hate anime.

>>1609567

Did you make this? Because if so, fucking beautiful.