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>Konami artists thought that the Havok from Metal Warriors was some kind of beetle creature

Even ad departments can misinterpret spites from their own games!

>> No.4947516
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4947516

>>4947513

>> No.4947643

RED ALERT

>> No.4947682

2 player vs in this game was fun as fuck

>> No.4948241

>>4947513
American ad departments are notoriously retarded.

>> No.4948273

>>4948241
European are worse.

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>>4948273
No.

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>>4948302
Actively harms the game.

>> No.4948330

>>4947516
Havoc looks suspiciously like a buffed up Briareos

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>>4947513

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>>4948419
this is my favorite for all time

>> No.4949263

>>4949192
>stil no movie that looks like this

>> No.4949314

>>4948302
to be honest, how the fuck do you advertise a game as bizarre as earthbound?

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>>4948302
literally no proof this marketing strategy "hurt sales" and gross-out humor was extremely common in 90's video game ads

>> No.4949501

>>4949192

Don't think that was comcept art, rather it was promotional art. It's bloody kick ass too. It makes Zelda look like a hard, scary, sorta horror series, rather than the cutesy shit we've been seing since 64.

>> No.4949552

>>4949330
Except for it selling poorly while other similar titles of lower quality sold more.

>> No.4949624

>>4949314
As a coming of age adventure, like the Goonies. You've reeled people in so then when the wackiness kicks it's a lot more memorable. And of course Giygas's fight.

>> No.4949631

>>4949501
ALttP is more cutesy than OoT, MM, or TP.

>> No.4949641

>>4949624
i always thought that they should have focused on the americana setting for advertising and give it a tagline like "not your mother's rpg"

>> No.4950605

>>4949552
How about the fact they packaged it with the strategy guide and made it more expensive all towards the end of the SNES' lifecycle?