/vr/ - Retro Games

yo is that lawnmower man?????

The late 90s were a weird time, it had the grit and edge of the 00s, but the colorfulness and soul of the 80s and early 90s.

>>9020805
This
It’s peak Gen X regional redesign
>how can we make this cartoony puzzle game look like those hip music videos the teenagers like?
>puzzle bubbles? Wtf is that? How about “Bust a Move”
>put the fucking Doom soul sphere in the cover
>”ship it!”

>>9020816
>also drug reference tagline on box
Good riddance

>>9020801
Do you think Nintendo told them to change the cover or akklaim had a bit of a self reflection moment?

>>9020816
Like that British Wipeout ad

>>9020801
Lynchian

>>9022137
Pissy pants? I think there was one with bloody noses as well
What a strange time lol

>1996
>Sir, how do we market this adorable puzzle game to compete with Mario 64, Resident Evil, and Tomb Raider?

>>9022143

>>9022237
>Totally killer graphics

>>9022265
thats nothing

>>9020801
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ

>>9020801
>typical american cover
>thinking
anon. i-

>>9022295
that's the PAL cover too

>>9022270
Most aggressive piece of advertising I've ever seen.

>>9022137
Image please?

>>9022303
I had this one. My mother wouldn't have bought the other one.

>usa box art
yikes

>they also had these gay plastic box abominations that no other country had
literally shit taste, mutts

kek

>>9022327
Sometimes with yank boxart the planets align and their horrible taste in boxart somehow makes for something wonderful.

>>9022328
>chinese character
>french character
Why didn't they have big Wolf Hawkfield up front and centre? Or the Bryants?

>>9022339
this looks like the worst shit ever, lol.
but keep defending your shit taste
here's more lolol

>>9022351
Nah, burger boxart is normally fucking awful but Phalanx gets special consideration for being so bizarre, eyecatching and genuinely likeable.

>>9022353
bullshit! it's literally the first when you search for "awful us game boxart"-
alongside with THIS,

>>9022351
soulful

which is weird because in the early 70s and 80s they had original, good stuff but completely dropped to ball from the mid 80s up to 2005 or so

>>9022368
that's literally 30 years of no boxart.
it's also the time games were usually coming from japan. might be no coincidence

HAIII-YYYA

>>9022358
Anon, I think your google is broken.

they never recovered, kek
europe usually got the jap boxart

only mutts meddle in other countries things and it shows

>>9022384
>jewgle
ok, muttoid....kek

>>9022390
I'm British and think that most burger boxart is godawful. But Phalanx is brilliant and I won't accept any opinions to the contrary.

nips even fix the ugly euro/us designs for their covers...

In other countries, the art directory is the main force in package design, with technical guidance from marketing and management on credits, ratings and such.

In big US studios, the AD is only one creative among a committee of artless individuals, from sales, marketing, PR, BD, 3rd party partners, accounting and craft services or manufacturing.

yikes!

>>9022397
>big cat in the background because there weren't any dogs to sate the american fetish for hecking woofers

proof that mutts always hated wimmen, even before they went full woke

>>9022265
it's still positively poppin

>that cheap ps halo

>>9022353

Have they ever said if that cover was a success? Were the sales of the game satisfactory?

>>9022237
based sarah cox

>We have to go back

>>9022387
I like the right but nothing wrong with the left.
>>9022390
The one of the left is clearly not final, it has RP. They both used the same cover on release. I have to say euros are the dumbest people people on earth.
>>9022393
right is better
>>9022396
right is better
>>9022397
I like left better but I don't see anything wrong about the one on the right.
>>9022403
right is better

>>9022390
>>9022393
>>9022403
Not retro

>>9022417
US is a way better representation of the actual game

>>9022327
this one is adorable and still memorable

>>9022336
no seriously, wtf were they?

>>9022339
Hey it worked, people still remember it.

>>9022474
I was calling it good.
>>9022459
Kek, do they not have the back of the box in the US?

>>9022390
not retro also I think that's the collectors edition on the left, double whammy

>>9022396
i like the indiana jones style one on the right more, but they both look fine

Why was it always Puzzle Bobble that got subjected to this bullshit? Were they really not confident on a cute dragon game not selling that they just turned it into nightmare CG that looks nothing like in game?

>>9022628
Meant to say "not confident on a cute dragon game selling"

>>9020805
>soul

There was very little soul. It was mainly just robotic advertisers and entertainment executives robotically following an ugly and stupid trend in order to keep somebody's money safe. Occasionally something actually good would also be colorfully disgusting, like Ren & Stimpy or South Park, but most of this stuff was just mass-produced garbage.

>>9022397

Grotesquely, needlessly ugly (but still kinda pretty) dragon tower or whatever does beat bug-eyed "humans" in a boring action pose with regal catman behind, but it'd be pretty hard to make ANYTHING positive out of the ugly visual design of this game. It would have been better to just use a solid color with that nice "Chrono Cross" logo stuck atop it.

>>9022487

That's kinda cool though. It's crass, stupid, and pointless, but it's also somewhat fun and clever. I think they should have tried harder to make the X look accidental though. Anyway it doesn't really fit the thread. We can see well enough what they were thinking.

>>9022462
jesus...

>>9020801
>Cute anime dragons and little girls?! That FAGGOT SHIT won't sell! We've gotta sell this as a mature game for mature gamers, Levey.
That. That's what they were thinking.

>>9020816
>put the fucking Doom soul sphere in the cover
i lol'd

>>9022339
It's ingenious, old man just chillin' with his banjo. Happy, warmth inducing boxart. He's also blissfully unaware of all the space shit going on in the background, the universe is at stake with only the Phalanx's pilot to protect it. That's you kiddo, the player. Your parents won't understand it, like the old guy on the cover, but shit's about to get EPIC and (You) will save the universe. Damn. No for real, this boxart is great, fuck the haters.

>>9022770
>be mature gamer in 90s
>see game with surreal cover art
>"Cool" you say
>the game claims to be extremely addictive, that means it's got to be good
>buy game
>go home
>expect really surreal and weird ass game
>pop game in
>turn on console
>It's a cutesy ass puzzle game for little girls
>be very disappointed
>return game because you're afraid you'll become some faggoty ass abdl fucker if you play it too much