/vr/ - Retro Games

artstyle on the left looks superior anyway, right looks like an abortion

>>8675973
>Badass vs plain eyecandy

Her tits look better on the left.

This is like the 15th thread you've made about this. Is jerking off to some shittly drawn 12 year old on the cover of a NES game really this important to you?

>>8675973
Left is legitimately a better cover, sorry.

Least Japanese Athena looks better here than she did in Psycho Soldier.

Fairly irrelevant since the game's shit to begin with.

>>8675973
I like both

It's so easy to bait out the contrarian kiddos.

left has a cooler artstyle, but i wish they combined em and did a spin on the birth of venus

Getting mad and debating 80s American "censorship" is honestly so boring. Like wow, sooo crazy, the fundies removed a bikini in a game for kids. Truly an important cultural battleground.

>>8676025
yes people not cooming over a badly drawn, not even shaded, random Moe blob is being a contrarian. how about u think for urself instead of: japanese = good,american = bad

Left art is badass

>>8675973
Can’t sell cute characters to Americans, because they like to take themselves very seriously.

>>8675973
At least post the full original cover.

>>8676032
so boring you're in these threads every time, jej

>>8675997
Based

>>8676047
Super cute

>>8676047
IP count didn't go up for this post, hello OP

>>8676056
>he checks the IP counts
hello schizo

>>8675973
Is this a bait thread? American completely shits on that weeb trash.

>it's another "porn addict is raging because there's less nudity on the cover of a children's toy" episode

>>8675973
Left looks cooler.kkvny

Athena is fat

>>8676082
just hide the thread, bro

>>8676069
>he doesn't have 4chanx to tell you which ip is new
hello psycho

>>8676086
and that’s a good thing

>>8676097
you're only helping him, anon

>>8676047

God what the HELL is wrong with her nose and mouth? But mainly her nose. Be a fat fetishist if you must, but please at least stick to human characters with human faces.

>>8676101
well i guess yeah but helping him with what anyway
i mean either way op just forgot to show the full pic which is okay

>>8676098
I love this soft anime artstyle, reminds me of dragon ball's softness

what a pathetic display of samefagging by OP

>>8676106
forgot image

>>8676110

This character is vastly cuter than the Japanese Athena because she looks like a human adult and not like a child who is suffering from super-early puberty, facial deformity, and delusions of martial competence as a result of severe inbreeding. And also because she isn't quite fat.

The game came with a tape of the Psycho Soldier song, which is super cute

>>8676113

>>8676113
Athena isn't fat wtf are u talking about, have u ever dated a real girl

>>8676113
she's not fat enough actually but the face yeah fair enough
paper bag method it ig

>>8676115
OP bro we get it ur obsessed with this shitty game but nobody else cares. u post this crap all the time

>>8676125
I don't mind it

I need to find a copy of the book this is from

>>8676125
well i think it's fine since he made a thread for it and all.

>>8676113
>>8676086
>>8676098
>>8676120

The NES port was made by Micronics, just so you know.

>>8676164
>Micronics
Shit, they made sonson.
What do you mean by you just know, though?

>>8676157

>>8676164
this is also pretty much the only thing they made that runs faster than 12 fps and doesn't have 5 seconds of blank screen between sections of the game

>>8676190
Has anybody ever interviewed Micronics staff? Do we know why their ports were so bad?

>>8676193
Most of them were programmed by a hack named Kazuo Yagi and apparently he used a really shitty C compiler which is why they run like total garbage. Athena actually runs properly so was likely coded in assembly language, possibly by someone other than him.

>>8676204
I wonder how much better C compilers are for nes dev nowadays

SNK outsourced all their NES ports to Micronics since they considered home video games beneath them and didn't bother doing them in-house.

I’ll allow this

>>8676229
dat body!!!

>>8676229
Europe 1, sharts 0

>>8676118

Real girls are usually even fatter, yes. And that's even worse of course.

>HURR MUST COOM WHY WON'T YOU LET ME COOM

ATHENA IS CUTE

>>8676240
yuro art will only get you so far

>>8675973
It was a different time.

>>8676308
modern Nintendo really doesn't gaf about smut while Sony have become sharia law-tier

>>8676182
That nose bridge...an attempt was made indeed.

>>8675973
>see at a beach or pool

No, animecel, that’s not what an actual woman looks like. Based Nintendo keeping kids from becoming weeb coomers.

>>8676342
That's actually a relatively realistic body for anime standards. In fact, plenty of women look like that irl minus that artist's horrible attempt at a cute face.

Pretty sure Nintendo didn't censor the cover and it was really SNK's US division, and mostly because Americans in the 80s were filtered by anime artwork.

>>8675973
Extremely cool and dark fantasy novel, or a really boring run-of-the-mill bikini magazine? Hmm....

>>8676356
Americans didn’t really know what anime was in the 80s, and so they would have read the Japanese art as a cartoon. Fantasy was seen as a more acceptable theme for games.

>>8676143
Wasn't there old artwork of Link kneeling, drawing his bow like pic related?

Classic Athena is a god tier design

>>8676356
>>8676384
I think I've only seen two NES games with anime art on the box: Top Secret Episode, based on Golgo 13 (and its sequel didn't use anime art), and Hudson's Starship Hector.

>>8675973
>8675973
Japanese cover is seriously sexy though, can't blame them.

>>8676592
King's Knight as well

>>8676308
look at the size of that fucking rack

>>8676420
>god tier design
It's just a girl in a bikini.

>>8676229
Hope you anons didn't miss out on the official Bob Wakelin Athena Jacket.

>>8676725
>he didn't get the pun

>>8676889
that jacket looks so fucking good, why can't i have it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>8676229
tfw athena is real

>>8677096
Because they don’t make it in 6XL, /vr/etard.

>>8676308
Amazing.

>>8676889
Sadly, yes, I did miss out on the Bob Wakelin Athena Jacket.

>>8675973
>badass Amazon warrior versus generic ecchi porn

>>8677586
I don't like old hags, I don't have mommy issues.

The US art isn’t bad, but the Japanese art is more true to the game.
Americans are used to dealing with that kind of cognitive dissonance because so many Japanese games were releases in the west with cover art that didn’t match the game.

>>8677627
An old hag to you is any female older than 15

>>8675973
I can't find the name of the artist behind Athena and Psycho Soldier. Weird, considering how popular this stuff is.

>>8676106
>>8676110
Aka the best toriyama style or, at least, his first era

>>8677664

Whoever he was, he is making Toriyama look really good in this thread, which is an impressive feat. And I think he might be mentally handicapped in some way?

>>8677635
>The US art isn’t bad, but the Japanese art is more true to the game.

True, since the game even uses the same pignosed monstrosity on its title screen. But being true to that is no favor to anyone.

>>8677804
very bitter

>>8676229
eurochads win again

>>8676308
I worked on an indie RPG that got reviewed by a Christian gaming website. The reviewer docked points because one female character's skirt was supposedly too high. Yet the reviewer overlooked that other male characters in the game are shirtless

I don't want to see burgerstan nuked off the map.......... but I want to see burgerstan nuked off the map

>>8677857
>The reviewer docked points because one female character's skirt was supposedly too high.
it’s good to be reminded that these people exist out there

Weird i remember Athena looking fatter with a bigger tummy but the artwork here doesn't look as chubby as i remember

>>8676725
With purple hair. Don't forget the purple hair.

>>8677964
Lol

>>8675973
How about the Psycho Soldier Cover Art?

>>8677636
Yes, and... ?

>>8677815

I have strong opinions about porn.

>>8676173
>SonSon
Arcade SonSon is amazing, one of my favorite games.
Famicom SonSon as brought to you by MicroDICKS, on the other hand, is poopoo. Way too slow, borders on unplayable if you make it far enough. Not sure if the Famicom were just too weak to handle all the action, or if MicroDICKS were just too incompetent. FC port looks nice, at least.

>>8678057
That's a gigantic ass, too bad about the typical "80s fantasy woman with a borderline manface" thing.

>>8678276
>Not sure if the Famicom were just too weak to handle all the action, or if MicroDICKS were just too incompetent
Definitely the latter.

>>8675973
>JP: Original art
>EU: Different art made with care and attention to source material
>US: Bat shit crazy and ugly cover that has nothing to do with source material, probably made by an intern

Many such cases

>>8678593
>hey, let’s put the main character in the cover!
>no, boys don’t want to play as girls, let’s put Tim Curry from Legend on the cover, he looks cool and scary

>>8678593
>>8678595
We might have almost had this

>>8678593
US is just straight up stolen from a movie poster

>>8678593
Those all look amazing, anon.
>>8678609
Oh my fuck I'm terrified.

>>8678593
The US Box Art is still really cool. My Box is a little fucked but I'm still glad I have a copy CIB.

>>8678173
>I might be a pedophile but at least I'm not into older women
Interesting logic

>>8677636
>he jerks to grannys
Why admit this?

>>8675973
While I think the US art is cool, I prefer that the makers of the game get to release it however they see fit. That's all

>>8675973
The burger cover is way too badass for how the game actually looks.

>>8678876
Yeah I prefer women aged 20-35 over children. How embarrassing.

I'm tired of even selecting all the contrarian americopes to greentext. You all know who you are. It's more of an issue of art style than censorship, though. Wrong time and place for uhooohhhh box art.

>>8678593
It's a shame all games converted from NTSC to PAL have fucked up the ass timing and are instantly disqualified.

>>8679247

Just say it simply and clearly dude, you are in favor of pignose or you're against pignose.

>>8676725
>autism speaks
I know this may be hard for you to understand but let me try to break it down for you: There are these things called "art styles" and what you described can be rendered in several different ways. Detail, color, proportions, and even tone can vary wildly between them! That might help you understand the design.

>>8676087
Why? This is /vr/ not fucking /v/. Which ia ready 75% porn dumps right this second
How about you fucks go back to your shithole and stop trying to ruin the entire site for the rest of us.

>>8677857
Let's be honest anon, if they complained about the shirtless dudes you'd say they're gay priests or something.

>>8679296
>a girl in a bikini on the cover of a Famicom game is porn
fundies are insufferable

The fuck is "fundies"?
Is this some /ic/ rejected meme outside of /ic/?

>>8679312
Can you read? No one said op was porn, it was stated /v/ was porn at this point and your kind is just trying to shit up this board as well with your normification

>>8679319
I don’t know who told you blue boards were Christian, but they were lying.

>>8679326
Well, before the gamergate era of trump, it wasn't christian, but not porndump either.

>>8679295
Cool, it's still just a girl in a basic red bikini. Nothing truly outstanding about it, she easily blends in with any other 90's anime chick.

>>8675973
The animephobia in the 80s and first half of the 90s in the west sucked. Robbed us of a lot of cool anime boxarts like the Megaman ones.

>>8679315
OP is a pedo and very likely a tranny as well, and as such, it uses its own degenerate incomprehensible lingo

>>8678593
The EU cover looks more japanese and more appealing than the pretentious geiger shit.

Man, the NES game sucks ass. It’s too bad, the graphics are cute. But it’s just a mess.

>>8676305
Ew
>>8676889
Any JP one?

>>8677096
>>8677250
>>8679631
https://shop.buyee.jp/snk-onlineshop

Try this, bros. There is also a neat Art of Fighting one.
They cost a lotta yen, though.

>>8676592
the fist of the north star game innthe us used a cell of ken and toki as its cover

>>8676125
Everybody loves old SNK games

>>8679724
What book is this from?

>>8677664
This is some bootleg shit. Legitimately looks like what you'd find on a game from Sachen or some Korean MSX/Zemmix developer.

>>8679341
unhinged

>>8675973
not only nintendo, many play station videogames too.

>>8680002
Love me some ps1 butts. Surprised it looks that round, what game is this?

>>8676182
That is absolute down syndrome face

>>8680252
No brain, only porridge.

>>8680002
Evil Zone

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>>8678057
basically elvira

>>8679737
A strategy guide for Athena.
>>8679928
It's very much real. They're still selling official stickers.

>>8680993
I think it looks very cute

>>8680252
failing hard into the old Toriyama style

>>8680993
>They're still selling official stickers
Where?

>>8681140
https://www.snk-onlineshop.com/category/ITEM/4580015699148.html
Also on amiami and whatnot.

>>8681142
Thank you. I'm not into sticker bombing otherwise, but my Surface laptop's aluminium lid has a couple nasty dents in it so I might as well cover them with something classy like that.

Why are people so horny for weeb characters and animu faces

What is it about those literal five lines and dot nose that appeal to the autistic mind

>>8681502

>>8680252
Sorry it's not shiny moe blob shit that all looks the same, that you're so used to.
Pleb.

>>8676384
>Americans didn’t really know what anime was in the 80s, and so they would have read the Japanese art as a cartoon
"Anime" and "cartoons" are the same thing.
I guess you could say rather that Americans didn't yet realize that cartoons aren't just for little kids.

>>8675973
The Japanese cover makes more sense as far as the plot of the game (she loses her armor and has to gradually retrieve it).

>>8681736
Both are terrible? One is ugly as shit and the other is fucking boring.

>>8682067
if this was a PC-98 or X68000 game she'd just start completely nude and the bikini is the first item of clothing you have to retrieve

>>8679724
goddamn are the Japanese ever shameless

>>8680002
name of the videogame?

>>8676047
>those dwarf proportions
WTF JAPAN

>>8682094
0 taste my fren

>>8682853
Cope

>>8681736
Bro the only anime ive watched is fist of the north star. That is 100% re-re face. If i wasnt so lazy id side by side it with a downie

>>8682853
You think >>8676182 unironically looks good. I don't need your approval on taste.

>>8679326
here is a 2014 post from /v/. this post would suggest that /v/ was not known to have an abundance of lewd materials

>>8675973
Rare example of the US cover art being way better than the original. Replaced with super badass in intricate art instead of blatantly trying to sell with sex.

>>8679341
1. Trump was like 3 years after gamergate
2. People have posted ecchi on blue boards since the dawn of time
3. Shut up and talk about video games.

>>8683405
>this post would suggest that /v/ was not known to have an abundance of lewd materials
That assumption is very wrong.

>>8683405
You clearly werent there, if anything there was even more lewds because the jannies used to be more lenient, people would dump straight up porn and they wouldnt care. Fucking Monster Girl Quest won 2nd place in /v/'s GOTY 2011 and there were tons of threads.

>>8682818

>>8683417
he screams out begging for lewd materials as though there were none

>>8683414
>Shut up and talk about video games.
>He said after replying offtopically to a post over 2 days ago

>>8675973
certain groups of people who claim to hate the conservatives are sctuallt the new conservatives: they are the ones who now censor everything. They ruined the dark queen, for example.

>>8683170
Sounds like you need too
>>8683350
80's animation and art is pure soul. I'm sorry you can't appreciate it.

>>8683931

>>8683762
back to /pmg/ marniepsycho

>>8676308
>basedstation encourages ripped shirtless men and fully clothed women
they're really trying to turn everyone gay

>>8677857
Funny how the Christian fundies and leftwing Feminist Frequency types are pretty much walking hand in hand when it comes to media depictions of women.

>>8684225
there's shirtless guys on the switch one too
and historically that had nothing to do with being gay

>>8684318
all those he-man dolls say otherwise

>>8684083
>80's animation and art is pure soul. I'm sorry you can't appreciate it.
GOOD 80's animation and art. Not the garbage being posted in this thread. Picrel is good art for reference.

>>8684121
ILL MONSTRO! UCCIDERLO CON L'ACIDO!!

>>8679270
Some Pal games werent properly converted which make them play slow as shit in PAL bit play at the original speed at NTSC, i have both Pal Kickle Cubicke and Quantum Fighter and both play fine in my US console.

>>8684454
Conversely the Genesis port of Shadow of the Beast didn't compensate for faster NTSC speeds and runs way too fast on North American consoles.

>>8684593
I think the majority of US releases of Euro games ended up this way.

>>8683931
>certain groups of people who claim to hate the conservatives are sctuallt the new conservatives
Minus the actual conservatives that still exist and want other things censored

>>8677131
80's cover art copied everything, it's kinda kino at times

There's nothing wrong with the American cover either, it looks like a prog rock album cover

>>8684408
Matter of taste i suppose.

>>8684765
Those faces already look much better than the Athena artwork in this thread

>>8676038
Right art is badass

>>8684774
because are professionals animators and not small game company

>>8684668
in the the end the only difference is age ,religion and politics, boomers follow what they were taught, sjw are just bitter and jealous of drawings

>>8683931
that why old f videogames were better: they had fanservice that you will never see in modern videogames(at least in the ones made in USA and Europe).

>>8685102
>in the the end the only difference is age
And the actual presence, boomers have a bigger say in law in this country, you can literally get fired for criticizing Israel in Texas

>>8684225
>they're really trying to turn everyone gay

there are lgbt indoctrination agenda in every modern videogame like the last of us 2, you noticed they want to turn everyone into homosexual until now?

>>8685093
An artist can have talent regardless of their paycheck. Anyway, here's more good art.

>>8685537
source of that game?

>>8675980
One good thing of the western boxarts is that they ooze aesthetic. Some are horrible, but a number are pretty damned cool and demonstrate how creative people were back then.

>>8683931
Left has quality art compared to the right, it isn't even about the tits and ass at this point, one on the right has little to no effort in it.

>>8686536
>Left has quality art compared to the right, it isn't even about the tits and ass at this point, one on the right has little to no effort in it.

The left one was bring to you by heterosexual men. The right one was bring to you by feminists and social justice warriors.

>>8683931
jesus, why not just make a new character at that point? it's not even the same color
people will remember the old one and the new one is already forgotten.

>>8685598
and sjw can get your fired from critizing them everywhere not just teXXXas

>>8686553
as i said earlier, is bitterness towards what a sexy drawing represent, you cant cancel a fictional person but you can draw it like shit

I think the general VG audience in NA wasn't ready for Manga-like illustrations in the 80s(and maybe early 90s)

>>8681502
autists are usually face blind so they probably like that everyone looks the exact same. they like the overdone mannerisms and super bright colors for the same reason.
spergs aren't that hard to understand, you just need to realize their brains mentally lock at the level of a 8-12 year old.

>>8681502
sexy anime girls with nice tetas are fun to look at

>>8686536
>>8686542
>>8683931
Art quality on both of those is dogshit. Left is a woman with a massively compressed spine and back. Her shoulder blades are popping out almost as far as her ass and tits are because the artist doesn't actually know how to draw anatomy while still accentuating sexual aspects of it.
Right is a 0 effort generic nicktoon that some chink made in 30 seconds

>>8687184
I'm not 13 anymore

>>8687206
Sorry to hear that you outed yourself as a massive faggot. :(

"Here lies anon's heterosexuality. He fucks man ass."

>>8687212
cool rebuttal dude you really showed me.

>>8687208
your loss

>>8687218
Sorry, I don't talk to fags

>>8683931
>goes from evil bitch to angry daria

>>8687208
so you came to terms with your sexuality? good for you, now go back to /v/

>ITT kiss-less perma virgins

>>8676305
That's why you need Franzetta.

>>8687184
based, anime tetas are always nice

>>8687041
>and sjw can get your fired from critizing
Just don't say you're going to kill niggers on twitter

>>8685537
name of the game?

>>8687368
I painted in oil and acrylics for years but this man is on another level. I would never do anything else if I were as good as Franzetta.