/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8836574

Cool thread, might use some of these for retroarch

>>8836570
>>8836575
>>8836578
>>8836581
Why did you make a thread about cover art then proceed to spam stuff from what I presume is the manual if not something else which is not the cover art? Maybe you should of made a thread about the game itself.

Man this one is so good.

>>8836591
>>8836601
>>8836641
>>8836661
These are so cool. Keep em coming guys.

>>8836653
Fuck off, thread police.

>>8836653
The shit end of the autism spectrum.

I really like some of the Japanese covers for Might and Magic

This one is cool

>>8836641
>>8836942
>>8836947
These are very cool. I've been looking for a high res scan of the PoP cover but no luck so far.

>>8836960
I have this copy, it's weird, X and △ function as they would do normally and all of the menu voice samples are Simon Templeman's but the in-game and FMV dialogue are in Japanese. All the text is still in English too. Soul Reaver 1 was only released on PC in Japan and then SR2 came out on PS2 there.

>>8836979
meanwhile in the west

I can't get over how good this cover is but how shit this game is.

>>8837052
Even the fucking manual sells itself as hard as it can.

>>8836979
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1650627036470.webm

I can't find a high res scan of the actual box for this, if anyone has one.
>>8836653
These pictures are radical fuck off.

>>8836945
There is something so special about japanese high fantasy art that just can not be replicated. For those interested in it i suggest record of lodoss war, both the manga and anime.

>>8836982
I like this, cant say why but i like it.

>>8836564
Kinda wonder what Steve Purcell thinks of these

Mega-Lo-Mania/Tyrants got what looks at least two versions with changed art for the Gods mainly to make Scarlett look much cuter, although the others look pretty cool as well. Not sure if the voice samples were changed

>>8836661
Better than Cyberbug 2076

>>8836809
Box art for western N64

Ok, here's the good one.

>>8837504
>>8837504
>Sega published DAH! in Japan
what a world

>>8836601
Is that a blade coming out of the ankh or a beam of light?

>>8837534
Here's a HQ version if you wanna take a closer look.
>https://files.catbox.moe/xsh8ir.png

>>8836641

>>8837239
The entire game was given a new look, not just the cover

>>8837592

>>8837527
Konami and Sega for Crash Bandicoot too

>>8836606
I'm in love

>>8836809
Not only the cover btw, it changed the character models and even added cute anime cutscenes.

>>8837052
By Hideaki Kodama, who did a bunch of Konami flyer art as well.

>>8837239
>>8837570
FC Maniac Mansion actually predated the NES version. And it has one of the worst password system ever.

>>8836591
But that's the same as the american one.

>>8837738
Both of these covers are quite lame.

>>8837743
It has the katakana. How would a Japanese know it's Doom without the katakana?

>>8836942
Is that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko?

>>8837285
ok dont say why

>>8837758
I appreciate the naked lady in the robot

>>8837052
I had to google what this was... and fuck.
I got the PC version of Perfect Weapon as a christmas gift. Never finished the first level.

>>8836564
Japanese rellay know about putting a good game cover art

>>8837738
>>8837747
Chickens > Random white guy

>>8837760
Because the katakana says Du - Umu

>>8837285
Because they made it look like a proper horror game/movie, it's not of course and that cover tricked at least one person into thinking it was.

>>8837570
Very true, I actually have a copy
>>8837714
It is truly nightmarish. Shame there's hasn't been a simple item translation of it yet — since you don't really need to take a break when the game is beatable in 30 minutes or less.
>>8837567
This is really great

>>8837694
Is it weird that I like the second one better? The first one's technically fantastic, but I don't feel anything looking at it. The second one feels charming and I kinda wanna go there.

>>8836570
>>8836575
>>8836578
>>8836581

kys

>>8836574
Literally Metroid Prime

>>8837761
I thought it was Katsuhiro Otomo actually, look at the guy's face

>>8838556
It is Yasuhiko actually, I found him credited in the instruction booklet along with a bunch of character art. Reminds me of Arion.

>>8836653
>should of
Please anon, PLEASE don’t do this.

>>8837713
It was the only way they were selling this game.

>>8838532
cope seethe dilate

>>8836591
lel get a load of that haircut

I love stuff like this. They always make it look so cute.

>>8839658
This always gets me with that obvious Zelda 2 trace with the middle guy

>>8839409
Twitter is elsewhere.

>>8836674
Looks like Rayman gained some weight before the Japanese release

>>8838579
Oh nice. I'm a big fan of YAS but didn't even recognize his designs, I feel ashamed

Every time I scroll past this thread too quickly in the catalog, I think this guy is Rocco from Rocco's Modern Life.

>>8836641
Prince got an ASS. I'm gay now.

>>8840346
lmao what

>>8839735
Guy?

>>8839594
The back of the box makes it look like Sonic's shitting out dots, lines and Japanese words.

>>8837098
JP Plok is cute but I greatly prefer the US art.

>>8840707

>>8840756
Getting hassled by the whiteman I see

Fuck it, I give up!
I can't find a proper image of pic related in high quality.

>>8836564
Syndicate Wars

>>8837040
Can't have Japanese Bubsy without Japanese Gex.

>>8836564

>>8842030

>>8842030
>>8842047
>Spintail
BASED

>>8837738
That's the famous Victor "Tokai" Williams, the world's 1# Columns player.

>>8840723
>Japanese words
most of them are about how it's a pinball adventure from AMERICA

>>8841016
>features two sims fighting in a house with no walls

>>8843563
Open floor plans lead to kung fu violence.

>>8842643
Aw. I wanted one to say "Join me or die! Can you do any less?"

>>8838515
>Is it weird that I like the second one better?
Well, no, because you're doing it for attention. That's more of a trend with you.

>>8840696
Can't unsee now

>>8841103
SimPeople? Well, makes sense. As far as I remember Japs loved SimCity, Nintendo even developed the SNES version in-house

>>8842030
>>8842047
The fuck, this is not Gex. Like at all. Especially the second one, look at him, looks like some Spore abomination

>>8837484
>rent free

>>8840403
now thats something

>>8844206
>attention
>anonymously
You're a weird one, anon.

>>8841103
Is a 57MB scan good enough for you?
https://archive.org/download/simpeople-ochanoma-gekijou-slps-20078/SimPeople%20Ochanoma%20Gekijou%20PS2%20JPN%20-%20Scan%20Cover.png

>>8844476
based

>57MB png
OK, that's abit too much.

>>8836564
I really love this cover. Played it on the...what's it? FM Towns and was really impressed by this little machine. I mean it is a PC in a screen and what Apple did many years later with their iMac the Japs already did in the 80s or something. i do not think we had anything like the FM Towns in the West and it is an amazing system and also amazing that a computer that was only released in Japan has English language games.

Also her ass is cute and those tits are pretty fine too. I have always loved Zak. I love the art work, I love the newspaper that comes with it (does the Japanese version also come with the newspaper? I mean I got the newspaper and it was translated in German and I just adored the art work so much).

>>8845614
The Macintosh had a built-in screen in 1984, and it was hardly the first machine with a screen built in. It was (and remainds) a really common form factor.

>>8836564
I played the c64 and FM towns versions of Zak back to back the other day. Apparently if you play the fmtowns version in Japanese it gives the characters anime eyes.

>>8836581
among us

>>8840650
Isn't this game actually Japanese? Still a cool cover though.

>>8847612

Same goes for
>Prince of Persia (Super Famicom)
>Ultima Exodus/Quest of The Avatar (Famicom)
>Wizardry 1-5 (PC-Engine)
>Might & Magic 1-3 (PC-Engine)
>Every FM-Towns and PC-98 port of DOS games

>>8847607
Big Gaspar Noe vibes.

>>8840650
I like that they used the original PC boxart for this one.

>>8847612
Yeah it's a Nintendo joint, but they worked with Will Wright on it. It has a very different vibe from any other release for that reason. The NES prototype is great too.

>>8836956
Use yandex instead of google, google for some reason destroyed their image search engine.

>>8838515
Same.

>>8836942
>>8836945

>>8843563
>Not knowing cutaway wall view in the Sims.

>>8844515
>FUCKIES' ISLAND
What did Japan mean by this?

>>8836920
lol

>>8838095
>THE rally
wow Japan, it's nothing special. Why did your release have to be THE rally?

>>8848173
Pinterest is fucking cancer.

8851989
So is your attitude.

>>8851989
Its only saving grace is that it preserves images that otherwise would have been lost to time

>>8851254

Populous: The beginning

>>8854041
>>8836601
>>8836564
What's the deal with the FM-Towns and its Japanese-localized western games?

>>8855443
>The operating system used is Windows 3.0/3.1/95 and a graphical OS called Towns OS, based on MS-DOS[3] and the Phar Lap DOS extender (RUN386.EXE). Most games for the system were written in protected mode Assembly and C using the Phar Lap DOS extender. These games usually utilize the Towns OS API (TBIOS) for handling several graphic modes, sprites, sounds, a mouse, gamepads, and CD-audio

Here, it only take less than 10 seconds to research on wiki.

>>8837592
But why? It's not even a translation into an anime-ish style or anything; it's literally just a worse cover.

>>8855493
I mean it’s not the worse box art ever, but it does look bare minimum compare to the original.

I love you all

>>8855167
Populous II box art look kinda cool

>>8847187
Fun fact, they made this version more difficult for Japan but I can't remember what they changed

>>8837592
>>8857586
It's perfectly logical but a little weird seeing the same policy invested in japanese releases of western games as in the opposite scenario: in each case, publishers could sometimes muster zero faith in objectively superior artwork and simply settled for the SORT of artwork their target demographics were accustomed to.

>>8836574
>>8836587

>>8857608
the artist literally commit sudeki

>>8857608
Same artist of this thing, which the only thing I know is the purple-haired girl.

>>8836942
Marle?

>>8855482
Yeah, but why the big marketing push for western games by Fujitsu? They're even numbered by order of release. The PC-9801 and X68000 had western games too, but they weren't push that much.

>>8840323
Sir dan kawaii desu ne

>>8841026
I miss early 00s Japanese styles

>>8857692
Think about it,
The PC userbase back then were mostly consistent around adults even in Japan.
So it’s logical that CRPG, point n click adventure and simulation genres would make a mass appeal towards the older audience.

>>8840346
Aye ye ye ye ye ye

>>8859317
Epic
>>8859323
Meh

>>8859317
Always wondered if that's an artwork that was used for the cover of if they commissioned the artist to that cover.

>>8859323
Love that early 3D.

>>8857594
>Jojo!
>Dio!

>>8859794
No you don't

>>8859541
I guess they might have found an existing painting depicting a wizard wearing a pointy hat in a labyrinthine stone environment with floating platforms and potions and spiky things lying around.

>>8859541
The artist is Naoyuki Katoh, a well known and appreciated artist who worked on lots of vidya-related stuff at the time. Most of his work was for japanese-developed games and magazines though, this >>8859317 might be one of the few pieces he did based on western source material.

>>8836653
Neck yourself you pedantic fuck

>>8846234
Sup Ripto

>>8859317
I love how the level design is interpreted here

>>8860132
But I do.

>>8855443
The FM-Townes pushed for the kind of fancy-pants multimedia stuff that Western developers were keen on. Also made it distinct from the otaku-centered PC-98 and the X68000's emphasis on arcade ports.

>>8859317
pretty good

>>8837285
That's because the cover design works in hand with the overall early 90s horror movie aesthetic.

The Japanese do make some pretty banging horror movie and game covers.

>>8836653
They hated him for speaking the truth.

>>8865414
>the truth
*pointless autism

>>8865517
there's nothing pointless in pointing out that making a thread about one subject, then just using that to image dump random shit is bizarre.

>>8865567
Bizarre, maybe, but it ain't hurting nobody, so why bitch about it?

>>8865317
It's less that Japan makes particularly good covers so much as America makes really shit covers.

>>8848173
That's just an AI upscale of this image.

>>8868368
Here's the full resolution upscale if you're curious. I personally prefer the original over the upscale.

>>8836564
Ah, this is the guy who did Amai Seikatsu. Lotta tits, lingerie and sex in that one.

>>8836960
Excellent cover.
Shit name.

>>8843413
>japan try to copy US boxart styles

>>8868373
Filter-upscales (even AI-based ones, though I don't believe one was used for this) suck at lineart and generally at edge contrast since the the same criteria is applied to every element of the image.

>>8870347
SR was called "Raziel the Ghost".

>>8870383
>I don't believe one was used for this
https://twitter.com/b4dc0ffee/status/1285702542316494849

>>8868529
For some reason it looked very familiar.I knew it was by a mangaka, but couldn't place my finger on whom.

>>8870673
Well that's actually an absolutely brilliant name.

>>8871421
Well raise my rent. Still looks terrible though.