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10243117 No.10243117 [Reply] [Original]

if he's such a hero, why is he being punched in the face on the cover of the game ?

What's your favourite SMS box art ?

>> No.10243129

>>10243117
My Hero is my favourite jank em up on the master system.

>> No.10243173
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10243173

>>10243117
The one with the mohawk is not the hero.

>> No.10243175

>>10243173
This is peek story telling. Only Genesis Sonic may have a better story or Altered Beast.

>> No.10243183 [DELETED] 
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10243183

Does fit with the graph paper doodle theme of most Master System box arts but it's rad as fuck

>> No.10243184
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10243184

>>10243117
Doesn't fit with the graph paper doodle theme of most Master System box arts but it's rad as fuck

>> No.10243187
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10243187

>>10243117

>> No.10243191

>>10243173

Suddenly my assessment of the quality of this cover art has rocketed upward enormously. I actually... like it now.

>> No.10243192

>>10243184
>we have Castlevania at home

>> No.10243206

>>10243173
I feel like there's a story behind this. Like the person who wrote the manual had something haircut related happen in his life

>> No.10243220
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>>10243117
I think the hero in this picture is supposed to be the fist. The character is the artist's idea of some ruffian/villain. The fist represents righteous comeuppance. The hero the fist belongs to does this not for glory, hence why it is unseen. "My" hero is not even necessarily "a" particular hero. It could be the hero in us all. The fist of justice does not belong to any "one" hero. In a way, the invisible hand of the hero is one we can all aspire to. It works to leave an indelible mark on the world while keeping their presence minimal. The hero is anywhere you least expect, waiting to abruptly punch the depraved face of evil scum. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and know no creed. Everyone wants a hero. After all, what do people say as they're being helped? My hero.
But it still kinda looks like some annoying door-to-door salesman from Santa Monica got punched in the face for looking like a gaywad.
Anyway mine's this one, good luck.

>> No.10243307

>>10243187
One copy of Microwave Simulator, please.

>> No.10243316

>>10243307
It's a Turing machine.
Why would a kid want that is anybody's guess.

>> No.10243321
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10243321

For me, its The Ninja. The whole game is encompassed in the cover.

>> No.10243326

Who was responsible for the marketing? That shitty box art looks like it's for some shitty Speccy eurojank

>> No.10243338
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>>10243184
>most
The minimalistic "style" is actually in the minority despite its popular meme status, and had been phased out completely by 1988 or so. Even before the final redesign of the layout (with a narrower grid) plenty of games used big illustrations composited with the grid as a background.

>> No.10243371
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10243371

Vigilante, it's both a game I have massive nostalgia and the cover is so dumb with both guys laughing I love it

>> No.10243525

>>10243371
I always liked how he sort of looks like a ripped Bobcat Goldthwait

>> No.10243586
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10243586

Jannybot

>> No.10243589
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10243589

>>10243326

>> No.10243593
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10243593

>> No.10243595

>>10243117
>THERE GOES MY HERO

>> No.10243596

>>10243117
alpha version of godhands cover.

>> No.10243605
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10243605

The Japanese and Western boxes could not be more removed. I'm not sure if there was any fighter in this game, but there was at least action in the Japanese art. The Western art has a magnifying glass as if to say, "where's the action?" Only thing it has in common is a road, and they somehow manage to make it look like a completely different genre. Well done.

>> No.10243704
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>> No.10243743

>>10243173
>woosherino

>> No.10243761
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>>10243191
Is it better than the Japanese art? I would say yes. Brevity is the mother of wit.

>> No.10243768

>>10243704
genius

>> No.10243771
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10243771

>>10243586
That's one of the weirder ones. Like why didn't they just do what's in picrel instead of having some retards hand in the picture

>> No.10243774 [SPOILER] 
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>>10243704
>>10243768
Gedda loada the Japanese original one.

>> No.10243783
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10243783

>>10243220
This is the full picture

>> No.10243824

>>10243175
>This is peek story telling.
Yes, it gives you a peek at what an actual story might be.

>> No.10243827

>>10243321
>THESE ARE NOT FUN TIMES FOR YOU, DOG!

>> No.10243835

>>10243187
>Zillion: Microwave Simulator

>> No.10243883
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>>10243704
>>10243774
But the Japanese version doesn't have this

>> No.10243887
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10243887

>>10243883

>> No.10243987
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10243987

>>10243117

>> No.10244176
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10244176

>>10243704
they didn't even bother to align the leg with the left of the box so it wasn't just cut off in mid air, that's literally like two seconds of work

>> No.10244274

>>10243117
He's actually stopping somebody from punching him with his mind powers.
Thats why he's MY hero.

>> No.10244627

>>10243173

> You're Steve. The good guy with the normal haircut.
> Everyone else is a no good, troublemaking, seedy punk. And Mohikan, the one with the Mohawk, is the worst of them all.

>> No.10244794
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10244794

>>10243883
>KYOKO, your beautiful Japanese girlfriend, has gotten herself into a beautiful Japanese mess.
Why do I get the feeling they're talking about bukkake?

>> No.10244853

>>10243704
way of the exploding feet

>> No.10244862

>>10243173
it's like it was written by a Christian parent group to try and "resonate with the kids", especially because the prose is like that of someone homeschooled by a moron. Even Microsoft execs could pull off being cooler than this.

>> No.10244865

>>10243192
on the contrary, master of darkness is still fuckin radical as a game too

>> No.10244881

>>10243605
right box says "nice clipart fucking nerd"

>> No.10244890
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10244890

>>10243173
but, isn't Remy a boy's name?

>> No.10244909

>>10243783
I admire your effort anon
>>10243827
fuckin hell i haven't seen that in so long
>>10243887
riki's remaining what?

>> No.10244943

>>10244890
Unisex.

>> No.10245360
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10245360

Check out this action. Crazy amount of action going on here

>> No.10245458

>>10245360
I swear to god Master System games have the worst marketing I've ever seen in video game history

>> No.10245470

>>10245458
lmao "action fighter" a view of an empty stretch of road through a magnifying glass, looks absolutely thrilling

>> No.10245512

>>10245470
it's just trying to say that if you use a magnifying glass you may be able to detect some trace amounts of action within the game, but using the naked eye alone you are unlikely to come across any action. It's like a disclaimer

>> No.10245605
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10245605

>>10245512
It's a call to action. There is action there, but the magnifying glass isn't showing it to you. You need to play the game to experience the action. It's there to entice you, to make you crave the action even more. Very subtle, very clever.

>> No.10245875

>>10243783
kek

>> No.10246536
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10246536

>>10243783
A-HA! Now we're getting somewhere. This changes everything. Why didn't you say so in the first place?
You see, "My Hero" isn't really about an external force, but rather, the inner conflict in us all. It is the neverending battle between the forces of good and evil within ourselves. Every being has a little bit of lightness and a little bit of darkness inside, which can manifest in manifold ways. One can view this piece of art as the cycle of violence that we all know only too well. This poor individual is giving a maximum effort to stop it, but is hoist by his own petard and just begets more violence, in ways unforeseen and unexpected. At the same time, another way to see this artpiece is through the lens of mental illness. Why is this mohawked man hitting himself, and why couldn't he stop it? It so perfectly encapsulates the idealized symbolic form of the ever-so time-tested classic addage, "what goes around, comes around." But then the beholder must be thinking, "wait a second there! Why does this person have to look like a mohawked thug! Couldn't it be someone else, like a suited kung fu practitioner named Steve or even an unassuming skirted Japanese girl named Remy? And that, my friends, is where the true beauty of this work lies. Therein lies the special component of the whole that underpins everything together. You see, it is not the middle class that suffers the most, but the lower class. This man is clearly of the lower class persuasion, putting up the facade of a "tough-guy" exterior just to get by in the world. He is the truest victim of society. Was it not James Fenimore Cooper who once wrote, "Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them?" Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson. We see that, quite vividly now. A victim of circumstance and rough upbringing, doing unto others only what he knows, and getting quite an uppance in return. Pitiable.
In other words, he was, indeed, the last of the Mohikans.

>> No.10246901

>>10246536
it's true

>> No.10246928

>>10243761
kind of looks like the "hero" is going
>I'm gonna fart on your face you evil man !
and the mohawk guy is like
>Fuck that fuckin stinks, bruh ! Faarrrkk !

>> No.10246980

>>10243117
this game is already pretty shit, but the master system version is like icing on a shit cake, because it only has 1 of the 3 levels

>> No.10247294

>>10243117
Maybe the man on the cover is meeting his hero and then his hero just knocks him out

>> No.10247387

>>10243117
he's a 21st century hero, the kind that gets punched, then uses the court to beat up the attacker.

>> No.10247683

>>10243187
So much of my childhood was spent on Zillion and Zillion 2.

>> No.10247710
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10247710

The best game for the Master System.

>> No.10247742

>>10247710
nah

>> No.10248710
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10248710

i like this one

>> No.10248713

>>10243173
I used to hang out with Mohikan back in 10th grade.

>> No.10248865

>>10243605
I know it's meant to be a side mirror, but it really does look like a magnifying glass.

>> No.10248881
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10248881

>>10248865
WHAT
THE
FUCK
mY ENTIRE LIFE i'D THOUGHT THAT IT WAS INDEED A MAGNYFYING JIGAMAHOOTS

>> No.10248916 [DELETED] 

>>10248881
It does look like a magnifying glass. But it's a side-mirror, and there was so little action in front of the car that they show the action behind the car via the mirror, although there is also essential zero action behind the car, but more than in front of the car

>> No.10248918

>>10248881
It does look like a magnifying glass. But it's a side-mirror, and there was so little action in front of the car that they show the action behind the car via the mirror, although there is also essentially zero action behind the car, but more than in front of the car

>> No.10248984

>>10243883
Your beautiful Japanese girlfriend has gotten herself into a beautiful Japanese mess. In order to rescue her you must first get through a tireless army of beautiful Japanese enemies.

>> No.10249374

>>10243371
>Andrew Dice Clay doing prop comedy

>> No.10249529

>>10243774
>>10243704
You mean that's the same game? I am sure Kenshiro doesn't fight with feet.
>>10243887
And I don't remember him kicking black women.

>> No.10249530 [DELETED] 

So unironically why did games on the SEGA System have such lame box art? The company was otherwise great with marketing. Also don’t the publishers choose the box art usually?
Like there is no point in time where this is compelling box art.

>> No.10249554

>>10244176
it looks cooler like this, disembodied leg flying in with a swift kick. would make a cool game, heroic leg flying around ready to KICK ass.

>> No.10249562

>>10244890
all beat em ups have trannies.

>> No.10249681 [DELETED] 

>>10249530
It's charming and makes Master System games immediately recognizable.

>> No.10249792

>>10243117
My FWARKING hero...

>> No.10250261 [DELETED] 
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>>10249530
As the other anon said earlier, this wasn't the norm, many MS games had more elaborate art. We just remember the really minimal and strange ones.
ALSO, i think in another time it might have worked. Don't forget how Apple built their brand on being extremely minimal with packaging.

>> No.10250535 [DELETED] 
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10250535

>>10249530
>the SEGA System

>> No.10250660
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10250660

>GET ON THE COVER OF THE SEGA BOX, SOLDIER !!
>b-b-but i don't w-want to, sir
>I SAID GET ON THE BOX, SOLDIER !!
>s-sir yes sir

>> No.10250838

>>10243771
It was probably to advertise that it was a Sega Card game and not a normal cartridge game.

>> No.10250881
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10250881

>>10243586
>>10243771
Not sure why, but that hand holding the card looks better against the 'graph paper' background than anything on the other covers in this thread.

>>10244890
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Ryan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Zaken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_LaCroix

>> No.10250952
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10250952

Anyone got the shoop of the card in the card?

>> No.10250960 [DELETED] 

https://db.bepis.moe/
Add me Mika

>> No.10250969 [DELETED] 
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10250969

>>10250960

>> No.10251349
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10251349

>PEAK GAMING

>> No.10251382
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10251382

>>10250952
i have this one

>> No.10251917

I could take'im

>> No.10252091
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10252091

>MEGA TYPE: Two-Mega

>> No.10252238

>>10243220
Man, Bryan Danielson had it rough.

>> No.10253553
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10253553

>>10243704
>>10244176
>>10249554
here's another disembodied leg. Maybe disembodied legs were a popular marketing strategy at the time

>> No.10253645

>>10253553
Well, it's a classic.

>> No.10253665

>>10243586
>>10243525
>>10249374
>>10244853
kek

>> No.10253669

>>10244274
my hero.. i kneel

>> No.10253965
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10253965

>>10243887
>black women

>> No.10255005
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10255005

this guy looks familiar

>> No.10256868

>>10248710
kek filename

>> No.10256927

>>10256868
really?

>> No.10256935

>>10256927
fuck i'm a retard. just kek then

>> No.10257557
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10257557

chad has ruined this cover for me

>> No.10258007

>>10257557
who is this "chad" you speak of ?

>> No.10258052

>>10258007
some newfag meme, best ignore it

>> No.10259364
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10259364

looks great

>> No.10259391

>>10243206
Someone with a mohawk fucking his childhood crush.

>> No.10260176

>>10249562
Even Double Dragon?

>> No.10260564

>>10260176
it was originally called Double Dragin' and was about two violent vigilante drag queens, but then they changed Dragin' to Dragon

>> No.10261909
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10261909

>>10260564
ok

>> No.10263072
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10263072

>>10243117
I love the art here because it reminds me of Todd McFarlene's art in the 1990's... too bad this title's absolute garbage to play.

ONE GUY? NO CONTINUES?

>> No.10263158

>>10263072
One of the rare occasions where the graph paper background fits the style

>> No.10263574

>>10243175
>This is peek story telling.
That's how every 80s magazine ad copy was written.

>> No.10263580
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10263580

>>10252091
>Your name is Landau

>> No.10264264
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10264264

>>10243117
One of the very few disadvantages of Tec Toy's Master System evolution is not having a slot for cartridges so I can play all of these beauties with their iconic box arts... still a fine looking console though, Master System deserves a lot more love.

>> No.10264506

>>10243371
>smell my knuckles
>hee hee cheesy smelly wow

>> No.10264513

>>10243987
sex vagina

>> No.10264859
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10264859

>>10264513
yes

>> No.10264861

>>10243117
THERE
GOES
MY
HERO
WATCH HIM AS HE GOES

>> No.10264910
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10264910

>>10264264
I personally prefer the white and orange Master System from Tec Toy for that reason, it looks so unique, but keeps the slot.

Tec Toy's variants of SEGA consoles are just so awesome to me, these classic consoles in these unique colors and styles.

>> No.10264994

>>10264264
>>10264910
was there any 6 button master system games ?

>> No.10265012

>>10264994
Not that I know of, it's mostly a matter of Tec Toy using the same controllers between their Mega Drive and Master System lineups, probably to save costs.