/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8278502
Is that quirky/charming/colorful retro vidya material for ANTS?

>>8278530
This one is great

>>8278502
oh wow ur s quirky and interesting. i bet you can't even play games past ps1 because ur 2 hard core retro.

>>8278601
Did your scalper hate thread get bumped off the board sweetheart?

This is one of my favorite threads of all time god damn

>>8280204

>>8278510
Wtf were did you get this picture of literally me?

https://youtu.be/QXVGUs58LVU
Critical levels of SOUL.

>>8280489
cringe

>>8280508
>t. Qwark

It's pretty awesome Technos got a bondage manga artist to do the flyer art for Double Dragon II.

I like this Nintendo Power artwork for Kain from FFIV

>>8278530
Wow i never seen this one. Was this a Japanese flyer or an internal use only document?

>>8278550
>>8280579
Artist is Benimaru Itoh, really talented artist who dud a ton of work for Nintendo. He did several Nintendo Power comics, guide book illustrations, a few pokemon cards, manga, and was even the art director of the N64 version of Mother 3.

Behind the scenes of the George Romero directed commercial for Resident Evil 2.

Chibi Darkstalkers figures from Hobby Japan EX, Summer 1995.

Final Fight fan art from Gamest No. 68, 1992.

Chun-Li plush from Hobby Japan EX, Summer 1993.

A four page comic included with the program for the Street Fighter II film.

>>8280739

>>8280746

>>8280749

Toys made for Ghosts N' Goblins.

Fan art of Lynn Kurosawa from a Gamest magazine, 1995.

>>8280758
SOUL overload. They reminded me of the Monster in my Pocket.
Also the Kinnikuman ones, and there were Fatal Fury 2 ones too.

Various SFII garage kits from Hobby Japan EX, Summer 1993.

>>8278761
No idea what you're talking about. Maybe your meds are affecting your so called brain? I'm just mocking a tryhard attention whore.

>>8280605
This is still one of my favorite Mother 2 artworks

>>8280605
Quite a tezuka like artstyle in that pic.
>was even the art director of the N64 version of Mother 3
Is that why the art character designs were so drastically different from the first two games?
>>8280736
>wwn get an English translation
It sucks so much

>>8280896
The scenery and the background art is great but man the main 4 are ugly as sin

>>8280904
>Is that why the art character designs were so drastically different from the first two games?
Yep, it's not quite as obvious in the models but looking at the concept art it appears he had planned to continue the style he used for the manga adaptation. I can only guess Itoi was impressed by it and decided it will be part of the series' transition to 3d.

>>8281017
To add to this for awhile I thought it was just Itoh's general style but he's actually hugely talented and capable of various styles. I never realized this famous Samus illustration was by him as well, it looks completely like another artist's work.
>>8280912
What don't you like about them? The only thing that bothers me a bit if how he drew Paula's hair, but beside that I love this style for the game. As the other anon said it's more Tezuka-esque and feels more like a nice mix of eastern and western influence, which fits the series perfectly.

>>8281024
Would have been cool as hell if Lucas got into smash with his art style.

>>8280605
>>8280896
I like this more than the traditional clay art used to represent the series. Gives me a saturday morning cartoon vibe

>>8280605
Tezuka-lookin motherfuckers

>>8280758
>>8280765
Aren't these those little rubber wrestling toys that were all over the place in Japan in the 90's? I remember reading about them in an article about Boku no Natsuyasumi 4.

>>8280896
I only played a bit of mother 2, why are they fighting a vagina?

>>8280896
>>8280605
>>8278530
Someone on Twitter pointed that a lot of APE guides employed the same artists that did art for Nintendo Power in the US like Shuji Imai (Howard & Nester) and Charlie Nozawa (Super Mario Adventure).

>>8281713
Manga was made while the game was being developed so various designs are Itoh's own interpretation.

GnG manga(?)

>>8282489

>>8281024
I think because they are so drastically different from their original designs, which I thought are very charming while also simple. It's incredibly off putting for me to see ness without his usual eyes and overall simplistic look. It looks like someone mashed tezuka's and the Beano's character designs together and it just rubs me the wrong way

>>8283019
*Drastically different facial feature wise

>>8281024
I wonder if Itoh has any idea what this single illustration did to me and countless others

>>8283037
Was there any reason why he drew Samus with purple hair on the Nintendo Power comic, when he drew her as a blonde on the official Japanese guide by APE?

>>8283153
Maybe it was meant to be shading?

>>8283153
yeah, that's shading. you can see the same purple shading on her face

>>8282138
Was the manga that itoh illustrated based on the games story or was it a gag manga? Because the only other published EB manga I've seen are just gag 4komas. An anime or manga adapting the games plot (or the whole mother series in general) would be a great idea when it comes to expanding upon the plot and giving character development, but I guess people like sitting on great potential

>>8284072
It's based on the actual plot of Mother 2 for the most part. It follows the game pretty closely up to about Threed and from there is starts to sort of become it's own thing with elements of the final game. You can find it online in English easily if you want to read it. The art is fun to look at and while not amazing it's still a fun read if you're a fan. It's at least nowhere near as batshit insane as the novel.

>>8284174
Wait there was a novel too? I only recently got into the series so most of the extra content outside of the games is all new for me

>>8284180
There were novels made for the first two games. They were written by Kumi Saori, an author who specialized in adaptations of video games. Most recently her name became a bit relevant again as the recent DQV film based its characterization of the main protagonist on the version in her novel while unpredicting her. It's rather strange, they have a darker tone with some really surreal moments like Ninten and the party almost dying in the M1 novel from being pelted by acorns raining down on them. Sadly there is little info on them in English, not sure if they're regarded as good in Japan or not.

>>8284201
Man think of all the extra content the japs got but we didn't because earthbound sold like dogshit over here. I swear to God I wish I could go back in time to NoA's headquarters and whack the guy who thought "duuur this gaem STINKS" was a good idea over the head with a lead pipe

>>8286118
Peach looks like she's into it.

>>8284201
Wasn't ninten's name changed to ken in the novel? I could've sworn it was and I've seen art on pixiv of him being called ken

>>8286840
Yes. The novel is actually quite weird in that Ana is the main character of the story and the story is told through her perspective. The start of the novel is her meeting Ken (Ninten was not his canon name yet, that wouldn't be until the Banpresto figure used it as his name) and Lloyd. Ken is kind of an asshole and I guess there's a bit of a love triangle with the three of them since Ana and Lloyd initially strike a friendship while Ken just kind of sees her as dead weight. Also Teddy is in his 40s in the novel for some reason, he's never been given a canon age but based on his model I feel it's safe to assume they intended him to be in his upper teens or possible early twenties at most. Giygas is described as being "insect like" but I'm not sure exactly what that means, that's all I have ever heard regarding his appearance in the novel.

There's sadly even less known about the Mother 2 novel, there was a video of Tomato reading a really fucking bizarre chapter involving the Summers section and meeting Poo but I could never find it again. I know that Jeff becomes a wheelchair bound cyborg apparently.

>>8280714
>>8280204
>>8280207
SOVL OVERLOAD

>>8287554
What's with this writing soul with an v meme? Way to make an already annoying thing into something worse.
Fuck off.

>>8278601
>>8280881
eat shit idiot

>>8287580
Why you are triggered and annoyed from non-offensive but positive-directed word? Maybe you are the one who needs to fuck off?

>>8287987
>why are you
fixed

>>8287939

Took them fucking long enough to make a plush of him
>>8287053
> I know that Jeff becomes a wheelchair bound cyborg apparently
That sounds like something you'd find in a 2010s deviantart crackfic

>>8287987
What do you mean why, I just explained why, it's a shitty buzzword. Maybe you need a new brain because apparently you're not capable of writing or reading properly.

Capcom crossover with their most /m/iscellaneous arcade games.

>>8286118

>>8288161
buzzwords are offensive

>>8289183
>entitled zoomie: the post

>>8278513

>>8280758
DKC keshi figurines

KOF 95

>>8290013
you are offensive
you are a buzzword
sage'n'hide

Super Famicom Dude and Lady mascots from Marukatsu Super Famicom magazine