/vr/ - Retro Games

Also: The US box art for everything, ever.

>>3156346
Yeah why we keep doing that btw?

>>3156346
>>3156359
With a few exceptions yeah the US boxart for things is unreasonably bad

>>3156359
ICO IS NOT RETRO

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>3156369
>mom

lol

I think we can all agree that America needs to be nuked

>>3156321
>inb4 someone post this
I did it so no one else could. And no, this is not a "awesome /vr/ Cover Art" thread

Mandatory euro Breath of Fire III cover. I own it and hate that crappy render.

>>3156365
>>3156401
Kinda found the CG box arts annoying thanks to re-boot having shitty animation and me associating that with everything CG.

Because of emulation I have not seen boxart in a while, but I remember sega games had these terrible grids and a shitty drawing with the game name in times new roman or some shit.

>>3156414
>grids
You know I kinda like it. It looks like a math book for kids or something if you don't know what you're looking at.

>>3156432
That's actually really good

Left: Standard Amiga.
Right: The later CD32 port.

What the fuck happened?

>>3156353
Crash is Dreamworks knock-off in any region

>>3156456
Why does a frog have a navel?

>>3156480
It's what makes him super. Without it he is just a frog.

>>3156369

>>3156414
Agreed, CG from the early-mid 90s is ugly and the animations are stiff.

Early Master System games had the clip art-tier drawings, then they switched to half artworks using the same font, and finally to square artworks with varied typography.
So the later releases look decent.

>durr American box art is bad
It's easy to cherry pick "grass is greener" comparisons but it's even easier to just go through microcomputer ports for poor countries.

Check out those cassette games for C64's covers for some interesting game related art.

>>3156392
That cover is great. It gets your attention, which is ultimately the whole purpose of box art.

>>3156523
Nah, m8. When there's regional box-art the US version is worse in virtually every single case. Comparing like for like.

Cherry picking would be using the fact that some knock-off budget cassette games had bad art to try and deflect the fact that the US routinely gets shit on when it comes to art.

>>3156414
There's something strangely endearing about these clip-art covers. They're awful, obviously, but I can't help being fond of them.

>>3156541
idk sometimes its dope in the us

I can't decide whether this is awful or amazing.

>>3156541
>glorious nippon so refined

>>3156414
>the ninja
>the mega cartridge

did these people decide spaceballs was a reliable advisor for marketing?

>>3156570
Nobody said that. It's just what usually happens. Rarely I prefer the US box over the original. It happens though, like this example. The Japanese cover is a mess with a whole bunch of characters carelessly tossed onto the panel without any composition or though, mimicking a shitty comic book cover. It's the marketing over here who usually would do that shit, but sometimes they did it too. I gotta say I don't dislike the cover you posted.

>>3156587
Funny you mention comic books and genesis, as Comix Zone is another example where the US boxart is way better than the JP one.

>>3156353
Way better CG thand the american one. Looks more natural.

>>3156634
>smuggorillaface.jpg

Clapistan BTFO yet again.

Okay.

>>3156321
It's much better than official Pac-Man character

>>3156662
>neil de grasse tyson shoots himself in the stomach while a sad disembodied head snorts a japanese street sign

>>3156359
I prefer the US version here.

>>3156359
Poor design decisions made by the team.
Shit western artists that also happen to draw comic books, so they're good at drawing terrible shit at incredible speed.

>>3156384
Lol@ the laser gun even in the Jap release.

>>3156390

kek, he looks like fucking Chico Bento from Monica's Gang what isn't so surprising for brazilians as Tec Toy release hacks based on this comic using Wonderboy games as base

>>3156392
This one at least tells a story.
the story of the terribly built x-wing fighter model

>>3156384
Come on man, Megaman boxarts were awesome for how bad they were.

It's like they reached a point of ugly where it actually starts to look good.

>>3156669
Whoa there. Keep it worksafe, pal.

>>3156570
Is this supposed to be an example of a bad drawing? Far from it. Everything is drawn well in its children's book style, the characters look like they have the correct proportions, and the whole box art is pleasing to the eye.

>>3156392
It doesn't look bad, i mean, the quality of the photo is pretty good.

The problem is that it doesn't have anything to do with the game, at all.

>>3156963
It's the same concept as the tipical weird playstation comercials, and these are considered genius marketing.

>>3156952
>I've never played Ghosts n Goblins in my life

Terrible American box art on the left, glorious European master race art on the right.

Shame PAL a shit.

>>3156321
That box art isn't bad at all.

>>3156660
this is pretty awesome in a goofy way

kind of looks like clip art though

>>3156785
I thought they were just sprite edits, are they actually original games?

>>3156321
That is fuckin amazing

>>3156764
you clearly dont

>>3156660
Captain Stern?

>>3156747
Might be the worst box art I've ever seen. That is saying quite a lot too

>>3156747
That's fucking creepy.
I love it. It looks like some sorta demon.

>>3156321
The box art in your post is pretty cool though.

>>3156634
tfw no one rustles your jimmies

Columns III. Great game.

>>3160778

>>3156660
>>3159742
Nice, I thought about this too.
It doesn't help that I thought this segment was pretty bad.

>>3156523
Shooped. That's the boxart for "Mr.Do's Castle".

>>3156456
Holy fuck! This amphibian is even more smug than pepe.

Why is there a bulge? I looked around for anything else I can find retarded and it seems Pac-Man has melee Ganondorf syndrome.

>>3156378
WELL HELLO EDGY

>>3162249
He's packing a mega dick. All that dick has to go somewhere.

>>3160634
quite a contrast to the game inside. The publisher made that one fail

Worst Turbo.

>>3160634
the early 00's were a special, special time.

>>3160634

>this isn't a troll post that's the actual game cover

lmao

>>3156634
Someone beat me to the punch. This is still my favorite box art for a video game period.

>>3156764
This. The one on the right just reeks of some pretentious kid on deviant art trying to make "minimalist" art and failing miserably. No thanks.

>>3156764
>>3163378
and that's why they do different versions. Burgers don't get the concept of the japanese original, so they get a dumbed down variant they can more relate to.

>>3156541
The Japanese box art for Gungriffon was pretty shit especially compared to the American one. Only thing I really prefer over the American one is the logo.

>>3163383
>dumbed down

Says the kid preferring stick figures over state of the art computer generated graphics.

>>3163387
your comment is not reflecting well on you. Oh well, enjoy your cover, you deserve it

>>3163392
I don't know how I can make it any more obvious that I was joking.

>>3163398
⸮

>>3163387
literally a retard

>>3156952
Fresh off the set of Hot 'N Horny Teenage Bad Boys 6

>>3156569
That ape has seen some shit.

>>3163158
This looks like clip art.

>>3157632

It's only sprite and text hacks to fit to the comics

>>3156570
>OP said post bad box art
>posts good box art

:|

>>3156321
>pic unrelated.
>>3156359
American Ico predates the other versions though.

>>3157369
>A cute boxart is unfitting for muh grim dark platformer about a bearded knight who fights demons in his undies.

>>3156378
>salty yuropoor detected

>>3156353
Crash Bandicoo?

>>3156346
>US box art for everything, ever
This. Look at these cool UK covers for RE2 and 3 compared to the US ones.

>>3165949
RE3 US version is definitely better than the UK one

>>3156963
Phalanx is a space western. The old man is the pilot, regaling tales of when he saved Space Texas from the illegal aliens

>>3165856
no, this is supposed to be in the "best box art" thread.

>>3165949
Yeah no. RE2 US cover is almost iconic with how they integrated the title into the menacing zombie render.

The PAL cover is a lazy low res black and white scan with the default title slapped on it.

>>3156585
Just wait till you see the next big thing, the TWO MEGA cartridge!

>>3156392
It was intentionally made to get customer's attention and it did.

Also Jaleco probably couldn't show the original PHALLIC cover from Japan in US stores.

>>3167259
>phalanx
>phallics
I see what they did there

>>3156952
Hey, don't diss rival turf, fucker.

>>3156634
With a face like that, looks like he's out to rustle some jimmies of his own!

>>3156660
Oh shit he's gonna get you!

>>3156761

>>3165949

The US boxes are better

>>3165949
This is one of the examples where the us version is better.

>>3156616
My ass. The eyes, eyebrows, hair, and ears all look terrible, and the shape of the pants is unbelievably stupid. Not to mention, it's off-model.

>>3156392
how has no one posted this yet?

>>3156456
Why is he so realistic yet keeps the cartoony head?

>>3156523
>>3160814
doesn't help that much

>>3167535
I like this better than the US release

>>3167535
Dude, this looks awesome. Better than the PAL version and waaaayyyyy better than the US version.

>>3156392
Phalanx isn't so much awful, just weird for all kinds of reasons.

>>3163158
I actually kind of like that one. Like an attempt to resemble a medieval painting.

>>3171192

>>3165856
It's like the artist paused whatever porn he was watching and drew the guys' faces.

>>3156510
Ah classic bd erawt=tware games. MOOM, ekaake, rednnder neen. Good times.

>>3167237
>a lazy low res black and white scan with the default title slapped on it.

Less is more. I personally think the NTSC RE2 art looks likesome stupid fantasy book cover (especially because of the overdone font), while the PAL RE2 art has the feel of a gritty, scary action flick.

RE3 is harder to choose from. I love the high contrast of the NTSC art, but PAL once again has way better fonts and composition.

>>3163631
I bet they had some simultaneous four player action before posing for that photo

>>3167535
That looks so awesome I could actually be disappointed by a game like Perfect Dark

>>3171234

The game is worse than the box art.

>>3156634
>>3160774
>>3167530

>>3157434
Holy shit Plok. Haven't thought of that shit in years. Was that game even any good? Can't remember for balls

>>3173572
its great! recently went through it

>>3172432
I had these games. Good times

>>3163631
Huh?

>>3163158
>priest and noblewoman finally notice the masturbating adventurer who gets off on THICK TOWERS

>>3172175
le monkey face memes never die/

>>3173732
He should put the sword down if he's gonna do that, that could end badly.

>>3165949
I never understood why Capcom USA went with such ugly stylized logos for RE2 and RE3.

>>3175489
But that cover is absolutely perfect for doubles posting.

Obligatory

>>3175570
Was that really the title of the game? Wtf?

>>3156669
>This game is like...WELL CRUCIAL MAN.
Fuck dude, that back cover knows what's good.

>>3177777
holy quints

>>3177543
In Japan. Everywhere else it was "Oh shit!" Despite the title the game isn't actually shit.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-ohshit.htm

nice covers

>>3156392

I had Phalanx as a kid and I never thought the cover was out of the ordinary. I thought it was pretty good, but that's probably because I hadn't played R-type or Gradius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqvyzdDHpCs

>>3156414
Did the changed the title and artwork in Europe due that ninjas are banned?

>>3156384
These ones are actually a lot better than the rest, since with 3-7 they settled with annoying cartoon-looking version of megs.

>>3180845
I think only Nintendo banned the word Ninja in the UK. Sega didn't care.
http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Ninja-SMS

>>3172064
The game is awesome.

>>3175489
>grown men moved to tears by the PlayStation logo

>>3171143
hamburger simulation

>>3160634
Not surprising given Jaleco has a long history of horrible boxarts

>>3167535
fantastic way to say 'what the fuck is this game'

I guess it would stick out on a shelf next to Yoshi's Story and Goemon though.

This robot sould not be allowed in the women's restroom.

>>3156378
Abu Haajar, what is wrong with you?

>>3156392
Wow, so wrong you are. If not for the hillbilly on the box, I would never have even picked it up to look at. If they just did generic shmup artwork, it never would have gotten a second glacé.

>>3175489
My God, that looks like North Korean propaganda artwork. Glorious Leader will now give us 6 ounces of rice! We are so happy we cry and point at his humble form!

>>3156321
>worst box art
>posts good box art

>>3165949
You guys really like the US versions that look like a crappy comic book cover art? Those logos are cringe

>>3160778
>>3160784
The presence of this balding weirdo as the cover model is the biggest retro gaming mystery ever. I've searched for years for an answer. Who the hell is this guy?

>>3175527
Thanks for the chenk em!

>>3165949
European box art for 2 is better, but the one for 3 is worse.

Here's RE4 by the way, inb4 >not retro

>>3167237
Really the pal one looks awful.

>>3167237
>>3184319
Horrible taste

>>3183517
Wow, the Euro boxart for RE4 is really good.

>>3171235
Thanks for the chuckle anon

>>3156384
>we got this
>japan got these gorgeous things
it's not fair /vr/

>>3185251
You forgot the pics. Here, allow me.

>Lets make the cover as generic as possible so no one will buy it. We dont want anyone to know there is a cute anime girl in this game.

>>3185343
>Cleopatra's Fortune
Let's put Tutankhamen on the fucking box

>>3185343
>"Quick, who's in the market for puzzle games?"
>"Errmm... hardcore gamers?"
>"Right, they're a given as a consumer, but who else is in the market for puzzle games, just in general?"
>"Well..."
>"Moms, girls and grannies. They eat these type of games up, even if they don't identify as gamers. And what tends to turn that audience off?"
>"S-Snakes?"
>"No... cutesy Japanese shit targeted at lonely men, such as yourself!"
>"Well, I-"
>"Right. You were the one that suggested this game, it's an easy port, it will close our contract with Taito, so how to sell it?"
>"By... advertising it?"
>"Heh, you're funny, but we don't have that kind of a budget. And we obviously can't use that scantly clad animu girl on the cover, it's too Japanese, especially for the grannies. So how what else can we do?"
>"Scantily clad... anime... boys?"
>"No, that would alienate the hardcore gamers! Haven't you been listening...."
>"S-sorry..."
>"Aww, to hell with it. The Mummy movies are still hot right? Just stick whatever inoffensive Egyptian themed stock art we can afford on the cover and call it a day, it's not like this whole PlayStation thing hasn't blown over already..."
>"And make up a catchy slogan to go with it, something like -Fun Fit For a Queen!- or some shit, that will surely hook in some sales"

>>3185417
cool story bro. Whats funny is that the same publisher put a cute anime girl on the cover of a different game they published.

>>3185441
Seems they just copied the agetech A1 game covers. Top shop is Top fun.

>>3185441
Maybe Mud Duck Productions had different management leading different projects, seeing that the two games had a near simultaneous release in North America (same month, May, 2003)
But yeah, I was obviously just shooting the shit.

>>3185307
meant to post these but those work too

>>3186123
what's bad about these?

>>3186127
nothing, they're fucking awesome.

>>3186130
got it, I need to learn how to context

>>3184453
No u.

>>3175570
jej

>>3156634
>>3172175

>>3175489
TINY
LITTLE
HANDS

>>3163617
Only retards enjoy garbage like this which is exactly what the Jap box art for Ico is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9bYQh9F7i0

>>3183517
I love the European version but I think wouldve felt more like the game if they had not just the chainsaw man but a line of the villagers in silhouettes . more intimidating.

>>3188009
and that's why you got the US cover, which delivers your hordes of enemies, at the expense of plain suggestion and head cinema. Some folks are a bit more simple minded and need their messages spelt out.

>>3156384
I met the guy who did the box art for MM2. The story for why it is like it is he gave was pretty funny, also bought a poster size art print of that box art signed by him. It's the original art without the title and border and such. He did art for lots of other retro games too, but I don't recall what they are off of the top of my head.

>>3175494
>hire contractor artist to do your cover
>assume he knows that "ninja" is a brand of scooter
>he does not
>use it anyway