/vr/ - Retro Games

Is the music country and or banjo at least?

I like it. It's like a contrast between the old world and the future. You've got this hillbilly with a banjo sitting in his rugged shack while this super high tech spaceship goes by. It's like when Picard goes back to his home in France and you get that contrast of all the futuristic shit in the background.

>He's a kid
>Who can change into many different forms

NOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS TOO HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND

I wonder how much money that one arbitrary decision by one random dude cost them

>>6409942
Apparently it actually helped them. If you've ever played Phalanx saying it's generic is a understatement.

Image would be typical as an ad in a games mag.

>>6409832
Why name it that? It reminds me of phallus/phallic when I see it and that's how I say it in my mind

>>6410054
Stfu coomer

Imagine if this game was really about an old man with a banjo who discovers a spaceship at night

>>6410081
you never say it like that in your mind... right

>>6410054
>he’s never heard of a phalanx tactical manoeuvre
I can safely say I don’t think of dick when I see this word
>>6409832
Did no one look at the back of boxes?
I feel like a lot of people that say they only relied on the cover for a game are bullshit
I looked at the back and I also rented the games before buying

>>6409832
but kinda weird is barelly noticeable.
why they did that to the game?
why american are so retarded?
pic related the cover used on the world

>>6409832
Is the wiiware remake any good? It was only released in japan.

>>6410551
Promotional video:

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

>>6409878
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WERE ARE THE FUCKING CHAMELEONS GODDAMN SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>6409871
No, but here's a shooter with actual banjo in the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527b_GGipsY&t=193

>>6410172
Ok now that really looks like penis

>>6410172
man we really changed it for the better

>>6410551
>>6410556
Thanks guys I had no idea, I’ll check it out, I like the Konami rebirth games

>>6410172
lol it should be called "phallus" instead

>>6410172
>Large benis about to throatfuck you

Nice cover you got there, eurocucks

>>6409832
Phalanx is still the reigning champion in retarded packaging. It's nostalgic, but it's not clear that's a ship, and even thought there's text mentioning that it's a shooter, kids back then were too concerned that an old fart was on a video game cartridge and mostly avoided it like the plague.

>>6410172
>PHALLUS
>THE HYPER SPERM SHOOT ON YOUR FACE
Yeah, okay, no one can make fun of the NA cover anymore. I always liked it to begin with.

>>6411034
Seek help.

>>6411052
Seethe harder, eurocuck. And wipe off your chin.

>>6411034
>>6410947
>>6410930
>>6410827
Why?

>>6411059
They're sexually confused. Imagine being triggered by video game art.

>>6411072
Imagine being triggered by people having a laugh at a hilariously phallic image. Don't take it so personally, Hans.

>>6411072
>They're sexually confused. Imagine being triggered by video game art.
Come on bro, are you serious?

>>6409832

https://web.archive.org/web/20120415043123/https://www.destructoid.com/the-top-25-best-and-worst-snes-box-art-of-all-time-208947.phtml

>>6409832
I played this game as a kid and I liked it. Phalanx, Gradius 3 and R-Type 3 were the big 3 SNES shmups for me back then.

I remember seeing this game at my local rental store but thought it looked stupid. As a kid I was a sucker for anything with swords, knights or ninjas on the box.

>>6409832
They probably thought it would help it stand out and make people at the very least pick it up and check out the back of the box in toy stores and rental shops during the days when box art was very important for advertising obscure 3rd party games without established franchises or hot licenses to attract the kiddies.

>>6409832
>Premise was also spelled out on the cover in simple English, but admittedly it's hard to find someone who could spend his time playing videogames and know how to read
Video games were primarily marketed towards little kids back then, especially young boys. What do you think is more likely... Do you think an average 10,11,12,13 year old boy that is going out to buy a video game is going to read and put great thought into his purchase? Or do you think they might just buy the game with the coolest pictures on the box?

>>6412294
Like >>6410154 said, I always looked at the back to see what the actual game I would be playing was like.

All japanese games have a disgusting cover in USA.
All american games have disgusting cover in Japan.
They sabotage each other.

>>6412051
You couldn't pick up the box, you had to go on laminated pictures and that's it. If you wanted to handle the box, you had to buy if first.

>>6410104
That would be unironically great, imagine the levels being the farm and town late at night, you delve into the woods fighting off wolves and exploring caves, you finally get to the spaceship at the end and fight some cool alien boss.
Secret ending is the old man uses his banjo to power the space ship
TLDR fuck you I want this game now about an old man finding a spaceship at night.

>>6409878
>+100 levels
>+1850 secrets
Uhhh

>>6410172
Someone posted a marketing explenation from an interview. They did it to make a generic shmup stand out.
Considering this thread exists and we are still sorta talking about the cover they did a downright superb job

>>6410104
>random snes shooter gets brought up throughout the ages up to 2020 Super Baseball era solely because of the cover
>"I wonder how much money they lost because of it"
Come on niggo

>>6416154
Meant to quote >>6409942 but yeah that would be a top tier idea, and I can't believe no one ever thought of making a game with that theme.
Just imagine beginning a shooter in a farm stage, with the spaceship blasting off a barn. Pure kino.

>>6410054
Same.

Holy shit, the europenis was so booty blasted he reported all the people making fun of his dick space ship. Fucking gold.

>>6416149
It can't be overstated how many space shmups the SNES had by that point. The only console more flooded was the TurboGrafx.

>>6410172
>PHALLUS
>the hyper sperm shoot on your face

>>6413565
not true

not true

>>6413565
not true

>>6413565
>All american games have disgusting cover in Japan.
No.

>>6416149
>>6416154
You're talking about it but did you buy it? If it sold ok I guess I'll have to take the marketing guy's word for it.

>>6416149
The explanation given in that interview has never made any sense.
>We did it because we wanted the cover to stand out.
Okay, so then how the hell did that line of thinking lead to an old hillbilly playing a banjo? There a thousand different ways to make the cover stand out that aren't incomprehensibly bizarre. Was it a completely random suggestion that was accepted for no reason? What the fuck was the process for that decision? Who approved it, and why?

>>6409832
>Whoa I never even noticed the old man, cause the spaceship is so prominent and the first thing you see

said no one ever, gtfo you tard

>>6410947
the hyperspeed shoot out on your face

>>6409832
I owned this as a kid and it was a really solid shooter. Too bad most people will just remember it for it's meme of a cover and never play it.

>>6409832

The old hillbilly
Surprised at the starship's sound
Turns his head to hear

Phalanx's cover
Tells a story in a way
Not often seen now

>>6409832
I bought this as a kid thinking it would be something like a beat 'em up set in a Deliverance type universe. I was extremely disappointed.

>>6410054
>>6416236
I wasnt trying to be funny I was being serious. Phalanx is an awkward sounding word. I guess I had heard of the word phallus in school another awkward sounding word. Nobody uses these words because they sound stupid. Hey, lets play Phalanx!...Suck my phallus! Just sounds awkward.

>>6409832

>>6416149
we only talk about the cover
i couldn't pick this game from a screenshot, i have no idea what it actually looks like

>>6413565
true

>>6421921
A X-wing ?

>>6421921
Target audience...elementary/middle school age boys...expecting them to read the fine print on a video game box.

>>6421991
the fine print? it's the whole top right corner of the artwork!

>>6410172
Back then there was a lot more stigma around religion and sex, it's likely it was just changed in America because the ship looked like a dick.

>>6410172
>today I found out that the horrible and nonsensical old man banjo cover for Phalanx on SNES is actually the superior version as the original literally looks like a cock going into the views face
>Phallus, Phalanx, etc

>>6421991
You zoomies do realize that video game boxes were a physical object a person could lift up and look at in three dimensions right?
>what the heck that game looks weird it has Banjo Bob on the front
>pick it up and flip it over to the back
>Oh it's a space shooter game, this looks neat.

>>6422394
>You zoomies do realize that video game boxes were a physical object a person could lift up and look
Toys R Us used to keep the games in a separate area. They front and maybe back covers were just laminated and hanging against the wall at various heights. Other places kept the games locked up as well.

Bump

>>6422617
They had things like in this picture. "Flip up for game description"

>>6410172

>>6424484
Fuck I miss this...
I remember taking the little paper tag up to the cage to pick up my game. So nice....

>>6424484
>>6425376
the fuck
is this how to buy games in prison?

>>6424484
>>6425376
Exactly.

>>6411860
You think a spaceship looks like a penis.

>>6409832
Or you could have just used the Japanese box art which clearly shows the ship as designed by the Japanese staff engaging in future war shenanigans and they even did so in the European release. You're literally bringing /v/posting contraianism not becuase you think you're making a legitimate point, but because you want to see people react to you.

>It looks like a penis hur hur hur /v/ reaction images

It doesn't, but in that case, use some more of the art made for this game.

>>6422394
>Banjo Bob
His name is Phil Links you philistine.

>>6425798
Is he very famous at the trailer park?

>>6416147
The levels part is actually true; Kid Chameleon is fucking HUGE in terms of level count.

>>6410104
I've thought about that myself recently. Rather than an old man living on Earth and discovering a spaceship I'd rather it be something like a colonized planet in the far future with rustic, antiquated for its time but still space-age compared to present technology, and the old man has spent years repairing a crashed spaceship as a hobby. Aliens suddenly attack, the old man decides he's lived a full life and he flies off to defend his world. Give it quick interludes between levels showing snippets of the man's life and a bittersweet ending where the man sacrifices himself to defeat the final boss and life just goes on with only close friends and family remembering him, the rest of the world just continuing on as they would.

>>6425458
really it's not the penis thing that gets me, it's how unsafe that cockpit looks. one space pebble and you = dead.

>>6426659
yes

>>6426659
He is a god among swampfolk and farmhands none of that trailer park nonsense, friend.

>>6425376
>>6425398
Yea back in the day they had the games locked up and caged like filthy animals. You had to get your nan to take the ticket to the cashier and after paying the cashier would direct you past the warden to the cage.
80's were Lit.

>>6409878
>Samurai kabuto and manchira
>European sword
>white T-shirt

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