/vr/ - Retro Games

That's actually quite good. It depicts all the characters fairly accurately, just with another art style.

>>727340
It's not bad, but the "stereotypical superhero comic" look was just an odd choice. Instead of going the more tried and true Boris Vallejo route they did this and then had other stuff use word bubbles and stuff. It was odd.

>>727350
>the more tried and true Boris Vallejo route
That bulge in Chaz's pants.
But you're right, Boris made some good box arts back then (like Ecco the Dolphin).

>>727361

That doesn't even make fucking sense because Phantasy Star is futuristic.

>>727362
>That doesn't even make fucking sense because Phantasy Star is futuristic.
You can't beat robots firing lasers from their tits. That robot is supposed to be "male" too...

>>727353
WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THIS?! IS THAT JFK AND SADDAM HUSSEIN? WTF?!

>>727368
I meant Clinton, I have no idea why I said JFK...

>>727374
>welcome_to_japan.jpg

>>727374
But that's absolutely true to the game.

At least its better than Megaman 1's Box art.

>>727428

>Paßwort

That horrible old spelling

>>727469
>breath of fire
>squaresoft

>>727536

This

>>727561
And for comparison, the Japanese boxart

>>727561
Whose eyes are those even supposed to be?

Guys, do you want to know what modern gaming can offer?

>>727563

>>727594
Modern games can't compare with oldschool box art.
It's all just a big blurry mess of blue and orange now, there's nothing that truly makes you ask "what the FUCK were they thinking".

I prefer comparing box arts.

>>727636

>those sneakers

>>727561
>>727572

>>727701
>change the title of the game since Europe has that whole NINJAS ARE BAD thing
>keep the word Ninja Gaiden in the goddamn subtitle

obligatory

>>727709
Who at Sega was like "MAN, GRAPH PAPER IS PRETTY NEAT"

The Turbografx-16 had a penchant for bad box art.

>>727740
For comparison, the Japanese boxart.

>almost every single one of the covers posted in this thread are either good or reasonable in my eyes
I don't understand you people

>>727428
he's fucking the dog

>>727741
Master Higgins lost a lot of weight.

Megamen and Stormlord

>>727713
>8 mega memory


ahahaha, oh even my penis hurts from laughing!

God damn Adol have you been lifting

>>727428
>Megaman_commits_bestiality_while_Heihachi_Protoman_and_the_rest_of_the_robotmasters_watch_on_with_horror_except_for_Shadowman_who_is_clearly_aroused.jpg

>>727813
Strider is a very early Genesis game, from before games started getting very big.

>>727469
There is nothing wrong with that cover. Its actually pretty cool.

>>727741
>>727740
To be fair both of those kinda suck

>>727536
Squaresoft published it in North America

>>727328
BoFII was slap in the middle of the 90s American comic book boom. That was a strategic art choice that worked.
"Whoa, that looks kinda like Jim Lee art!"

>>727328
That's really not bad

I still remember feeling embarrassed while buying this.

>>727463
How is that bad?
>>727469
HOW IS THIS BAD!?

>>728008
Weeaboos who can't stand rad oldschool fantasy art.

>>728012
It's more that the boxart doesn't fit the artstyle of the games

>>728048
But it's not bad art. It's not hilariously distorted or amateurly painted. The character's don't have wildly inaccurate costumes. they are just competently drawn in a different style.

>>728007
The PAL boxart was a lot better.

The US boxart was made before publishers caught onto the fact that anime-styled boxart does not decrease sales.(after FVII, probably)

>>728068
Yeah, it's not objectively bad or anything
But you can kind of see why people don't like it because it doesn't match up with the actual game at all

This one is bad not because of the art(which is awesome) but because it was deliberately made to deceive buyers into thinking it's a straight port of Rondo of Blood.

>>728067
To me that's a lot more boring and not as visually striking, which is the point of box art in the first place.

>>728027
Morrigan what happened

>>728081

>>727368
>>727373
Someone doesn't know that the US invented Saddam.

>>728081
>>728086
On the other hand, Japan and Europe got a different boxart entirely to differentiate the two.

>>728007
HAHAHAHAHA OH GOD

>>727328

>mfw all those great japanese boxarts get exhanged for crappy american ones
here, have the guardic boxart that I tried to restore
by assembling several versions of the artwork and overpainting it

>>728129
Because the one thing 80's and 90's gaming didn't have was an over abundance of Giger inspired penis art.

My vote goes to the Gunstar Heroes Japanese box art.

I like 90s anime as much as the next guy, but this is a major pain to look at for me.

>>728129
Here, have something better that I found in 2 minutes on google search.

>>728127
LOL, wow, that's a terrible Terry Bogard.

>>728190
Though for comparison, I like the Pal Box better, it's this is the one I made to print and reproduct the box for my cart. The american one was posted on this thread already

>>728198
He looks like a lame truck driver

>>727631

I hope someone makes a hillbilly themed shmup someday.

I wish I had a bigger version of this

>>727328

>>728183

That's not even 90s style, its just "retarded 12 year old weeaboo girl who cant draw" style.

I could just post the box art for this, but the actual game changes are better

Ok, big guy is Arnold, but who is mr duckface?

>>728235
What game is that?

>>727706
>Europe has that whole NINJAS ARE BAD thing

nope, its just idiot marketers thinking Germany's masochistic overcompensation is the norm for the rest of Europe.

>>728240
Totally Rad

>>727504
Horrible???? This old spelling is superior in every way.

>>728245
I thought it was a law in the UK, not Germany.

>>728245
Actually British censors had a thing against Ninjas for a while, that's why the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and Michelangelo wasn't allowed to use his nunchucks

>>728265
>Blades are perfectly fine
>BUT WOODEN STICKS ON A CHAIN ARE DANGEROUS

Fucking bongland. Not that we have room to talk.

>>727709
Oh man, and I thought this looked low budget.

I heard this is supposed to look like Mel Gibson but if you ask me it looks more like Joe Pesci

>>727709
>>728280
Jesus, they look like someone drew up those covers in Paint during lunch break.

>>728280
The Ninja doesn't look all that bad, though you could fill this thread with any of the 1st gen SMS covers

>>727328
>best fucking boxart ever
>bad

>>728297

>>728293
The only thing worse than Master System covers

>>728314
Are Sega Card covers

>>727536
>saving the thumbnail
metroid-on-head-retarded.jpg

>>728313

>>727636
>cellular phone wielding vampire
Damn...

>>727718
>EA published Shaq Fu

>>728318
That's even worse than Konami's box on the boxart bullshit.

>>728332
Does this really surprise you?

Warwick and Kilmer look bored as fuck

>>727762
>Believe it.

>>728235
I liked it. The manual was geniuinely funny as well.

>>728330
THEY COULD HAVE JUST TACKED THAT FUCKING BORDER ON THE ORIGINAL BOX ART
>>728341
How much it doesn't is why it's so amusing.

looks like a porno

>>728269
nah, it was the 80s when it looked like japan would take over everything, St.Maggie and co thought foreign words would corrupt the youth and tried to ban it, just like they tried to ban the gay with section 28.

>>728365
They actually did that on the backside and the spine.

>>728368
But Leo had Katana. I don't understand.

So, my 12 year-old little brother is officially hooked on Street Fighter II. I am proud.

Let's have a thread about our experiences in showing off our hobbies to people who did not grow up with it.

>>728370
Probably because the first thing anyone does with a pair of nunchuks is accidentally hurt themselves. At least if a kid somehow gets a sword they don't immediately stab themselves. It's still incredibly stupid mind you

>>728385
>>728391
Verily.

>>728385
Woops. My newfag is showing.

>>728357
>bad box art
Barbarian's cover is a fucking masterpiece of 80's vidya covers

>>728394
THE PAIN IS WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU NOT FUCK UP NEXT TIME.

>>728365
meh, I thought it was just konami trying to do one of their things, with their crack habit making it sound like a good idea

I can't decide if this is a horrible misrepresentation of the game or just better

>>728419
All non-Nintendo Donkey Kongs are best Donkey Kongs.

masterpiece

>>728370
the cartoon violence (what little there was in TMNT) wasnt the issue, it was them dirty japo words corrupting the kids and helping the enemy.

the other problem is you're expecting censorship to make sense

>>728419
>horrible
No.

>>727428
Wily looks like Heihachi here

>>728448

I'd say this falls under, "awesomely bad"

>>728419

>>728672
Is that a fucking stormtrooper?

>>728367
neat painting, to be fair many covers at that time looked like rad movie posters

>>728686

>>728345
... there was a Willow game?

>>728683
what in the fuck?

>>728767
there was one for Amiga/PC, one for NES, and one for arcades. The arcade version was awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LumZP0rpoDM

>>728767
Yes.

>>727463
>>727469

Early 90's anime covers aren't bad at all what's wrong with you guys?

Castlevania 4 Jap box art

>DBZ with swords

>>729119
>wrong area for the boss
>wrong party for the boss
>ice caster using a fire spell
>Toriyama's awful art-style
Such a horrible cover for such a great game

>>728835
>Thinking that style is "Early 90s anime"

Those are both halfassed western redraws aping the worst (laziest) aspects of superhero comicbook design. Both series had gorgeously detailed fantasy art to begin with and it was tossed out in favor of "they need to look cooler" where "cooler" meant more sneering and lantern jaws at the cost of any kind of style or detail.

There's worse box art but those are definitely downgrades.

>>729136
>Caring so much about misrepresentation

Dude come on

>>729119
>>729136
>hating on some of toriyama's best design work because lol DBZ
You fucking trollish plebians, let's just write off the entirety of Dragon Quest while we're at it.

Again, you complain about "inaccurate" box art in the same breath as saying you wish the art wasn't done by THE ARTIST THAT DESIGNED THE ENTIRE VISUAL LOOK OF THE GAME. Fuck off.

>>729119
Unless you just hate Toriyama's style, that's a rather good cover.
I wish they picked another one of his pieces, though. That one was obviously based on beta screenshots.

>>729119
I like the US one better than the one they used for the Japanese version.

>>729151
The graphics work in-game because Toriyama's complete inability to draw faces don't extend into the actual game beyond the menu pictures. Not to mention pretty much every character is a palette swap of a DBZ character. His artwork is fucking bad, and I hate it here and in Dragon Quest. His monsters and non-humans (Frog, Robo, Gato) are great, but fuck anyone that defends how he draws people, seriously. It's the one flaw I have with this otherwise superb game.

>>729140
>"they need to look cooler"
But that's why it works. Happy anime shit wouldn't have sold as well as badass 90s comic book art. That's not bullshit marketing logic, it's SOUND marketing logic.
Comic books were at an all time height of collecting and popularity. Image Comics had just made a gorillion dollars.

Plus the Jap boxart for BoF looked Dendy as fuck

>>729167
They should have used this picture for both versions.

>>729181
Agreed. Prominently featuring Frog, who looks good, while hiding Crono and Lucca's faces, that picture actually looks halfway decent.

>>729182
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that was the reactor. I always imagined it as some generic giant robot that Cloud was about to fight.
>Square will never give us a good cover for a main-series Final Fantasy

>>729189
>Square had so little faith in FF6 selling in America that they pushed Mog as the most important character of them all for the US related media.

>>729195
>>729189
>>729182
Actually, Final Fantasy I had a decent, if generic cover. I'd rather have had Amano's art, but this is at least composed well

>>728672

>>729195
The commercials sold me on that game. I had no idea what FF III was or where the other two games were but I was excited.

>>729195
>pushing the cute cuddly mascot character in the US instead of in Japan
Huh, that's a bit odd, but al-
>make him completely unlikable for no reason in the advertising
Ugh

>>729189
I rather liked the simplistic covers for the JP/EU versions of FFVII-FFIX, although Amano's FFVI is still the best of them all.

The box art for the US version actually looks better.

>>728448
Love the overturned 57 Chevy Hot Wheels car.

>>729204
There was a planned release for FFII in the US as well, box to the left of FFI in this image.

>>729230
They did want to release FF5 here, apparently some people say it was going to be called Final Fantasy EXTREME" ... but some people just say it was going to be 3.

>>729230
Hm. Hard to tell, but it doesn't look that bad. Logo's fucking obnoxious, but the boxart itself isn't horrible.

>>729246
> Dragon Ballz

>>729246
>Dragon Ballz

>>729252
Unfortunately, that's the only known image of FFII's planned boxart. It might not have been final either.

>>728238

both arnold

>>729195
I never understood what the big purple blob was

Looks like a shadow of something, but what?

>>729246
It was going to be Final Fantasy 3, but then they localized FF6 as 3. After that there were plans to still bring FF5 over as "Final Fantasy Extreme" in the US to avoid numbering mixups since they didn't want to number them out of order on top of skipping shit

>>729315
Shadow of a looming monster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15qmRzn2Pc

>>729315
based on the FF3 US commercial, where Mog was a snarky dick with attitude holding auditions for monsters "bad enough" to be in the totally hardcore extreme RPG, it's probably supposed to be a MagRoader.

Keep in mind this was during Nintendo of America's massive "PLAY IT LOUD" campaign, where they fired back against Sega's attempt to claim the cool-kid vibe by dialing their extreme grungemeter up to 11. This is the same marketing campaign that gave us the Super Metroid commercial where they just had a game cart turning a doberman into a shivering chihuahua to show how "hardcore" it is

>>729338
Which is funny seeing how Super Metroid was less hardcore than the original.

>>727902

Wait, how is this bad? I mean, it obviously embellishes a bit, but still, it kinda looks awesome.

>>729246

The EXTREME thing was going to be a PC port, if I recall.

>>728293
Wheres "My Hero"?

>>728419
Damn, that looks like some weird superhero/Tron mishmash.

>>729214

He's cool, you loser.

>>729349
That was the case for pretty much every series that made the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit, save Contra, Ghosts 'N Goblins, and Castlevania (if you're looking at Bloodlines and Rondo of Blood only).

>>729215

I agree and personally wonder why it is that they think North American audiences always want to see the characters on the cover of games.

Some games that have sold VERY well don't use any characters on their covers at all, they use symbols that are of relevance to the game plot or are a logo for the game series instead.

the earlier Zelda games (only recently they started throwing Link on the cover), The Elder Scrolls III-V, the Quake series, the original Half Life

Very simple box art, very classy, and all sold very well.

I don't get marketing pros sometimes, the cover should intrigue a potential buyer, make a potential buyer who's never heard of the game before want to pick it up and say "what's this?"

>>728767
>>728793
I can vouch for the NES version of Willow being pretty good and the music is awesome, though it is a tad grindy and the towns are boring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP753VhFVc4

>>729338

>dialing their extreme grungemeter up to 11.

I love it.

>>729171

I think his earlier more cartoony stuff is super appealing, but yeah he pretty much went to shit in the 90's.

>>727631
This is a thread about bad video game box art, not awesome box art.

>>729604
There's ton of games on a shelf. It's a contest to catch the kid's eye. Back then even more so since internet hype wasn't a thing. You had to rely on commercials, Nintendo Power and box art

>>729651

It is, but I'll tell you what. Simple box designs catch my eye better.

I suppose showing 1 character from the game is alright but showing a cast "action" shot? Kind of a turn off.only times I ever picked up games that featured cover art with cast action shots were when I read about the game in Nintendo Power later and decided that sounds like a cool game after all (Breath of Fire, Lufia, etc)

Final Fantasy II and III had simple enough covers that they stood out, with a cool sounding name, so it intrigued you to pick up the box and look at the back and maybe rent it and then later buy it when you figured there's no way you're beating it after renting it just once and some faggot always deletes the save files on the rentals...

a game I'll never forget seeing for the first time was the original Legend of Zelda. I was about to turn 7 years old, it'd just released. I saw the box, it was GOLD which kind of stood out, it had a somewhat cryptic cover, using a shield with various symbols on it and you could see through a cutout that the cartridge was gold too. To a 6 year old that means this game must be good right? It's a gold cartridge, that makes it special somehow. So instant reaction is to pick that shit up and look at it, and it's describing grand adventures and showing a dude with a sword and shield, it had a great title the LEGEND of Zelda.

I took that box up to my parents and said this is what I want for my birthday, and sure enough that's what I got and I loved the shit out of that game.

That's some good marketing there. That box, title and description and the color gold sold that game to me, without a TV ad, magazine ad, no Nintendo power, no friend recommendations, nothin. Just box art.

>>729181
?
the original logo's colors meshed weird with the pic so I just used this one.

>>729728

know what I would have liked?

a fairly simple box, white with the chrono trigger logo, with a SILHOUETTE of the Epoch flying into the distance either from the backgroud to foreground or foreground to background.

Just the shape. Something that keeps mystery in it until you flip it over to the back.

The cover should at most allude but not reveal too much.

I think revealing half of the party and one of the antagonists (at least for part of the game) spoils some of it.

>>727713
>Strider Willis
>not awesome
go fuck yourself

>>729140
>Both series had gorgeously detailed fantasy art to begin with
Please tell me where's all this "detailed fantasy art" for Lufia & the Fortress of Doom. The closest think to official artwork for Lufia is the Japanese box, and there's nothing detailed or fantastic about it.

When "detailed fantasy art" was available in Rise of the Sinistrals, they did use it. I don't see anything wrong with having their own art for Lufia I. It's a lot better than the Japanese box, which is basically enlarged sprites turning their backs to the player.

>>729906
full retard moment, sorry, confused Lufia II and I in like five different ways

Point stands for Breath of Fire, the original art for 1 and 2 both look better than big burly american grimacing

>>729728

Even without looking at the original this one looks strange because it seems very obviously cropped on the left

>>728048
Weaboo as shit.

>>728012

>oldschool fantasy art
>first one looks like a Filmation or even a French/Japanese hybrid cartoons
>second is straight-up early-90's comics, right down to the same ugly coloring you'd see from Malibu or Image

>>729912
No prob. I didn't defend Breath of Fire's because there was plenty of artwork for both games. I don't think it's BAD, but it's a gross misrepresentation of what the game's like. But I think Lufia did the right thing, the manual and the box gave some artwork that the Japanese version never had.

Pic related is the only thing resembling official artwork for Lufia. It's from the GBC game intro.

>>728672

>Firing M203
>Finger not on trigger

>>730189

>>727709
Superior japan version coming through

>>727718
>that goddamn artifical shine on his earring

>>730253
AARZAK must save the world.

>>727729

>>730263
>10 big brawls for the king of the universe
>even though all americans have seen at this point is the 1986 movie

>>730294
Actually some of the comics were published in 89, but the arc the games were on was wayyyyy later.

>>730294

I'm guessing that had more to do with Sega not wanting to pay license fees on (what was at the time) a niche franchise in America. Fist of the North Star wasn't popular in America in the late 80's. It wasn't until anime exploded in the mid-90's that it found a fanbase here.

Was there a reason all Master System box art is terrible? Did Sega have a deal that developers had to make horribly unappealing cases?

>>730263
I read that as "Azarak"...

>>730360
Was it like that in all regions?

>>730360

Really, I think it's just the early games that look terrible. I think it was mostly they just hired a bunch of retarded marketing who figured kids didn't know or care whether things were shit or not.

Remember, the NES was only just becoming widely available around the time the SMS came out in North America, and they were still doing a lot of the black box/pixel graphics covers.

>>727718
I miss Shaq fever.

>>730263

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

>>727563

Robot waifu.

>>727701

This made me laugh.

>>729337
>>729315
>>729195
Wow. All these years and I never noticed the purple being a shadow.

>>729216
But that really fits the style the Game Boy version went for.

>>728283

It looks like Mel Gibson circa Mad Max and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

>>729140
I dunno, that Lufia one looks just like out of a Tatsunoko anime, just poorly rendered.

Or more like Tekkaman Blade's awful looking animation, if you ever seen that. Not the promotional art where everyone looks actually good, but the show itself.

>>730729
To be fair, when I was 5, I thought this art was awesome.

>>730729
I like how the Evil Clown/Magus/Magician to the very left is for the better here. The original design wasn't very charming in the first place like the other enemies, and actually looks somewhat intimidating/creepy/cool here.

>>730729

Maybe doesn't fit the game as well as it could, but I think this is pretty good except that it seems like they did the characters separately, realized the perspectives didn't match, and had to break up the ground to accommodate them. Also, the girl's pose is a little weak doesn't really look like she's facing the monster in front of her.

>>730590
>Or more like Tekkaman Blade's awful looking animation, if you ever seen that. Not the promotional art where everyone looks actually good, but the show itself.

What the fuck was wrong with the show for Tekkaman Blade?

>>730779
Chock full of QUALITY and bizarrely ugly characters, which can't be really blamed since it was a syndicated cartoon.

The real point is that the cover art for that BoF box is pretty spot on for that style, and the whole "westerners redrew it" is wrong.

I used to think Dracula X for the SNES was redrawn by "pig disgusting westerners" too but then I realized it was done by a Japanese artist too, who did work for Front Mission 3.

>>730428
Never post a video of these mouth breathing hipsters here EVER AGAIN.

>>730801
>BoF box

oops I mean Lufia

I still stand by that it looks like a Tatsunoko design.

>>727631
A while back I got a hold of an extremely high-res scan of this keyart from a Magazine ad. It resulted in me making this DS-case replacement cover for the GBA re-release. I also made a matching label from the SNES label.

>>730729
See you're missing the point. Nothing about that box art is bad. The box isn't supposed to be accurate in to ingame graphics. If that was the point they would just put a screenshot on the front.

Nothing about that art is bad.

>>729119

>>729260
>Only known image
Not really. The guy who owns the mock-up art from that photograph scanned it. Or else I would never have been able to make this (Low-resolution preview of an NES box I designed from it)

>>727631
I read in a magazine, I think EGM, that basically the reason they did that was because there was glut of sidescrolling shooters at the time and they wanted something that would stand out on store shelves.

>>731150
Truth. There's about 10 trillion Genesis shooters released between like 1989 and 1991.

2Tuff4Me

>>728385
Meanwhile Sagat look ready to throw up his cornflakes

>>731156

>>727328
that looks fucking kickass.

>>728385
>>731183
Hating on the SNES Street Fighter covers? Have you never seen the cover to the PC version of Super Turbo?
Just TRY to figure out what they were doing with Akuma's face.

Also it was a pretty shitty port but the music was really good.

>>728345

Well, at least they didn't just copy and paste the image the movie had. At least this gives you an idea of shit possibly going down, while the movie...eh, I'd possibly say generic fantasy pose, but honestly, I'm just not enough of a movie buff to judge rightly. It just doesn't amp me up to watch it, not like the game cover does.

>>728767
>>728793

Yep, and from what I saw of the arcade version, it was awesome. The NES version, having played it myself, isn't nothing to sneeze at either, being sort of a Zelda clone, yet not quite. The dungeons were a bitch, though. Hope you like drawing maps, or at least have a FAQ open.

>>731190
Amazing Genesis games that were buried because of their horrid US covers.

>>731183
Can't unsee Dhalsim teleporting vehind Honda's hands...

>>731291

FUCK. I never noticed that before!

>>727737
That suddenly makes sense. Their outfit looks like some kind of blast protection suit.

>>731497
comparing video games to hard narcotics.
>if only we had listened!

>>732198

Whatever man, I can quit whenever I want.

...Just one more game. One more is all I need.

>>731091
To be totally accurate, that text on the back should say Palakia instead of Palamecia. If it did, that'd be sweet.

>>731497
What the actual hell.

What was with America changing the box art? Some of the Japanese covers don't look bad at all. The Sonic the hedgehog games on the Mega drive comes to mind.

Obligatory maybe, but might as well repost it.

UK mag Saturn Magazine even devoted an editorial article (almost a full page one) on how bloody awful it was. (no idea which issue, or I'd look it up)

>>728313
Sup /woo/

>>732634

Charlie and Chun-Li look bad, but Ryu, Ken and Rose are fine

>>731497
Oh wow is this an actual thing.

Oh fuck it IS.

>>728419

This is everything Miyamoto wanted NOT to do when he created the Mario character.

>>729136

This is the only one of these GAMING FACTS bullshit pictures I want everyone to see.

>>732639

Wow this is just fucking insulting.

>>732717
I like this one only because of what could have been, and HOLY SHIT DAT 80s SPACE ANIMU ZELDA HNNGGGG

>>732727
I may be wrong but wasn't that concept art from Zelda II not Link to the Past

>>727361
Eh, I'm gonna put that into a "bad" category, have it myself. Its not -bad art-, but its completely unfaithful to the game, more so than the breath of fire 2 cover, which is just overly western-superheroed. PSIV's box art is downright misleading.
>>727463
>>727469
both of these are awesome, OP is a faggot.
>>727713
Strider had terrible box art, bruce willis inspired or not.
>>728007
One of the worst VG box arts of all time
>>728127
I think thats supposed to be Andy hitting Terry, I could be wrong. However most western releases did actually get Sadamoto's art.
>>729136
>wrong area for the boss/spells
Its all officially based off a screen Toriyama saw which had that very image
>>729181
thank god you're not in control of any marketing, that's a terrible design for a cover.
>>729182
>not AAA game cover quality
you're doing it wrong.
>>732634
I never noticed the bison till now, what the hell.

>>732732
I just checked my copy of the Hyrule historia and you're correct, it was for Zelda II.

>>732732
>>732727
Eh, typos will happen

>>732726
Yeah, at least they got it right for the euro Megadrive version

>>733443
>>732639
Which version is better gameplay-wise?

>>733443
Then the screwed it right back up again with the American version

>>733557
Well, to the Genesis one credit, it's more faithful to the game style and content. It does not compare to the original cover, but it's decent.

>>733460
I'm only familiar with the MD and DOS versions. The MD one is more challenging, but the DOS one is better looking. Don't know about the SNES ver or the recent remakes, though.

>>733460
The SNES cart had loading screens. I don't think much more needs to be said.

>>733723
Nope, that sums up perfectly that you're a petty dumbass

>>728758
The new king of /vr/.

>>733460
The anniversary version. If you want to play it as it came out, get PC and if for some unearthly reason you can't get Sega CD.

>>733746
Wow, I've seen people on this board shit over another SNES game only for the fact that it had loading times.
Don't let your fanboyism cloud your judgement.

>>733789
Never even played the game.
>dat dere Argumentum ad Populum

Early T-Rex huffed copious amounts of paint fumes.

>>733796
I own it on Megadrive, what now?
>green text troll rhetoric

>>733979
What does the SNES version?
>it's greentext so it's invalid

>>727328
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>>727361

These aren't really that bad on their own but they seem to somewhat misrepresent the game and should've stuck with the originals imo.

>>727463

I actually kinda like this one. It screams "Random Japanese artist trying to ape generic western styles." Has a weird charm to it. If you watched many old late 80's & early 90's action cartoons animated by Japanese studios, you'll see the resemblance.

>>727428

Bretty gud. Sticks very close to the original designs while doing it's own thing.

>>727713

>Dat right

Just WHY

>>727737
>The Turbografx-16 had a penchant for bad box art.

Indeed. It's right up there with most of the awful US Master System artwork.

>>727902
>>728027
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>>728419
>>729195
>>729209
>>730276
>>730263

Absolutely_Disgusting.jpg

>>728183

Not that great, but I prefer it to the US cover.

>>728235
>I could just post the box art for this, but the actual game changes are better

Ehh..I disagree. Even though this it's a complete turd of a game, the original characters fit better.

>>728330

>Not posting the GIF

>>728367

Is that Darth Vader behind her!?

>>728439

Not bad.

>>729032

Probably one of the rare occasions where the overseas artwork is better.

>>729119

>Dissing based Toriyama

>>729181

Completely agreed.

>>729216

I like both versions actually. Wonder if Inafune drew this.

>>730294

Now THIS is how you do it! Too bad the game sucks balls.

>>728540

IT'S DR. WILY!!!!

>>727364
>no stairway to heaven

>>727742
>feet obscured
>can't see hands
>sword grip looks all fucked
>sweet mullet
>ridiculous proportions
hmmm

>>728678
just like I always pictured it in my mind

>>728709
I am just a mouth and I must ice cream

>>731175
more game covers should outright call out your manhood

>>733895
Is that volcano fighting that lighting storm? that's pretty badassed right there.

>>729216
Why the hell does the Japanese Text says "BioMic Commando"?

>>736182

They made a second one?

>>736190
Several more.

>>736190
what could possibly go wrong

>>728672

>>736217
>what could possibly go wrong
Game of the year.

>>736254
this game is pure nightmares

I'm almost scared of Ulililia after seeing it in action

>>736221

Is his gun a flamethrower?

>>736328
with a secondary flamethrower underneath, just for good measure

>>736221

That face makes a great reaction image.

>>728127

Keifer Sutherland punches Adam Sandler off a park bench above a circus. Makes perfect sense to me.

actually awesome cover

this one makes me laugh no matter how many times i see it

et go come

fucking american covers

>>728672
How the hell did I miss this growing up, jesus christ that's 5 kinds of fucked-up-so-much-it's-badass. SHOOT GUNS WITH THE POWER OF SATAN AND/OR BAPHOMET!

>>728329

WHERE THE HELL IS THIS PHONE YOU SPEAK OF? IVE BEEN FUCKING STARING AT THIS SHIT FOR LITERALY 30 MINUTES

>>728367
Man, the fucked up, knock-off nature of the game is thrust straight fucking forward with the box art itself, you have NOT-DARTH VADER in the corner, the woman in center is giving me a from some oracle on an old movie poster, and the fucking thing in the bottom right is goddamn generic-ass-generic robot from the 70's.

Goddamn The Krion Conquest felt bootleg as all hell.

>>728007
Is that guy with the fucking six-head Bill Paxton? And that guy in the upper right looks like Bruce Campbell.

>>737027
Can you read?

>>736957

That's actually a strategy guide.

>>727902
Ah, ok, so that's what spawned THIS

>>727902

Ironically enough, Dogi actually got SMALLER.

>>727902
those eyebrows mean business

>>727563
European one is still top tier.

>>729246
>Dragon Ballz

none of them are really bad, but they have nothing to do with the actual game which is an isometric puzzle/platformer dungeon crawl

atleast NA has a regular enemy and a boss hidden in the art, EU doesn't even fit the artstyle which has an arabian themed turban wearing protagonist, i dont even know whats going on with Japan

>>728226
dat rapeface milon

>>737705
He looks real Elfquest-ish

>>727902
FUCK! A BEE!!
>dude behind him is fighting a pterodactyl

>>727902
Is that a dragon dildo at the bottom?