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One of the most repulsive pieces of artwork I've seen in my life

>> No.10529516

im also a homosexual.

>> No.10529519

>>10529504
Would you care to elaborate so that this bait thread of yours might have a bit more substance than the garbage you see on /v/?

>> No.10529583
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>> No.10530108

>>10529519
what is with wednesday having an influx of spam threads? like 20 decent threads died for all this cluttered garbage

>> No.10530175
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This game was based on the adventures of Athena as she went on a quest to cure her boredom. She attempts this by walking sideways for a few hundred screens fighting potato bugs and guys that look like giraffes and pigs. You travel from "World of X" to "World of something else" until you can finally get it into Athena's head that she's never going to cure her boredom as long as she's stuck in this damn game. My fellow appreciator of garbage Nintendo games, Big Red, had this to say about Athena:

>"The point of the whole game is pantently ridiculous (Athena is bored and looking for adventure! Keep her alive in the dangerous land of X!...does this sound like one of those bad D&D adventures we all had as kids, where the DM starts off the story with, 'You happen to be standing at the entrance to a dungeon. What do you do?'), and the extra stuff they tried to add in (catch the magic shell necklace and you can turn into a mermaid!) seemed designed to interest little girls who don't like Nintendo."

If you take the time to look for the nonhelpful secret items, you can unlock Athena's secret subgame I call "Dress up!" This is a very exciting sequence where you make Athena's clothes clash by putting a flourescent green helmet on with her pink gogo dress. After this, I usually point at the screen and laugh at her lack of fashion sense until I am killed by a giraffe-headed man with a club. Then I curse myself for dirtying my Nintendo with the Athena cartridge.

>> No.10530201

The damage the NES port did to Athena can never be understated.

The arcade game is actually pretty neat.

>> No.10530209

>>10530175
God, I just imagine this whole post was written by a 35 year old man wearing an adventure time shirt and thick rimmed glasses. If this was going for some redditor satire type of thing, mission accomplished.

>> No.10530217

>>10529504
I am neither a bot nor a fed. I am a human just like you. Our programming is the very same.

>> No.10530235
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>>10529504
The face reminds me of the flukeman from X-Files.

>> No.10530239

>>10530217
Looks like the spambot misfired. It really sucks to see /vr/ get this type of mistreatment by third world “hackerz.”

>> No.10530252

>>10530209
This was actual by Seanbaby and it was written back in the mid-2000s. No adventure time, but I believe Seanbaby was already an aged gen X scold at that point.

>> No.10530280
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>> No.10530458

>>10530280
The real Athena port

>> No.10530531

>>10529504
Ugh gross
Post more so we can mock her further

>> No.10530589

>>10530280
2/5

>> No.10530602
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The game came with a tape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koGCAIlGMbE

>> No.10530672

>>10529504
cute.

>> No.10530729

>>10530602
US/PAL?

>> No.10530751

>>10530209
Ironically pretty accurate considering the source of the copypasta

>> No.10530758

>>10530602
I thought you were doing the cartridge = tape meme, but I stand corrected

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>>10530729
Of course not
>>10530758
No, it's literally an audio tape that came with the game

>> No.10530778

>>10530770
is it music?
It's got some lady's face so is it commentary or maybe some kinda audio drama?

>> No.10530804

>>10530778
The tape's content is literally a few posts up Anon >>10530602

>> No.10530805

>>10530778
It's a fucking song, retard. They sold the game with a single by the VA of Athena
https://youtu.be/UjWgSo3J8rQ?si=30QF2Ffd6CiYlFNq

>> No.10530809

>>10530805
That's not the whole tape. The link posted earlier is the complete tape

>> No.10530815

Some scientists believe they've found evidence that there might be multiples universes, and OP must be a huge faggot in all of them.

>> No.10530821

>>10530201
I've just skipped over arcade version because of how shitty NES one was. Guess I'll give it a try

>> No.10530895

>>10529504
I think the artist choice to give her 5 fingers but only 4 toes was a bad one.

>> No.10531015

so what's the connection between bikini Athena, KOF Athena and PSX 3D Athena?

>> No.10531018

>>10529504
You can just say you're gay it's fine this is an anonymous website nobody can actually bully you for not liking women.

>> No.10531212

>>10530235
that's surprisingly apt

>> No.10531214

>>10531018
there's nothing gay about liking actual noses and mouths
there's certainly something Japanese about hating them

>> No.10531360

>>10530821
It's an alright time. Won't blow you away but it's enjoyable. Way better than NES for sure.

I think it's notable for being an arcade game designed for longer play sessions than most arcade games were. Most were meant to last less than five minutes unless you really got good at them. I could see a kid putting in a quarter with this one and really feeling like they've gotten their money's worth with a longer play session.

Like I said, it wont blow you away but it's solid, and very unique for an arcade game. Even if it isn't amazing it's a shame the awful NES game overshadows it so much.

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>>10531015
Bikini Athena is the Greek goddess. Other Athenas are kinda like reincarnations of her in different universes. Or you could say that she is like an SNK's take on characters from Osamu Tezuka's manga, where he reuses character designs outright and treats them as real actors in different roles.

>> No.10531434

I'll never stop liking NES Athena. That art is disgusting trash but the game is weirdly fun trash

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>>10531434
>>10529504
B-But Anon I like the art
I-I think she's c-cute

>> No.10531495

>>10529504
>Classic mid-late-1980s hentai style
>Rando: "Ugh, so ugly!"
Wow, anon, I'm genuinely impressed. People usually have to put in serious effort to be as wrong as you naturally are.

>> No.10531513

>>10531495
it's entirely possible he's referring to the rather dopey faces, which would look like a lesser entry even in a copy of Lemon People or Comic Lolipop.

betting on no though, and is probably a gaylord

>> No.10531515

>>10531015
>bikini Athena
The goddess Pallas Athena, sometimes known as Palutena.
>KOF Athena
Psycho Soldier Athena before the alien invasion, bikini Athena's reinarnation.
>and PSX 3D Athena
Based on the tv show.

>> No.10531616

>>10530602
Cooooool

>> No.10531674

>>10531515
>tv show
Did anyone watch that? Seems to be very little info on it, not on imdb, even Japanese wikipedia barely has anything

>> No.10531757

>>10531674
It used to be on Youtube.

>> No.10531761

>>10529504
Why is she nekked though?

>> No.10531824

>>10531761
She's greek

>> No.10531836

>>10531824
This. Check some pictures of ancient Minoan dresses. Athena is pretty covered by comparison.

>> No.10531989

>>10530235
That's because you're autistic.

>> No.10531994

>>10530770
why did they change her hair color

>> No.10531996

>>10531836
I just did. She's nekkid in comparison.

>> No.10532535

>>10531495

Why are there SO MANY people who defend bad drawings here as long as they're in an anime style?

>> No.10532697

>>10529504
Now I get why you prefer retro games.

>> No.10533108

Is it just me or is the C64 version actually broken? I literally can't get past the tree stump at the start of the first level.

>> No.10533209

>>10532535
>>>10529504 (OP)
NTA but I dont think the art is bad at all. Not because it's in anime style, but because it's just generic and overall fine.

It's certainly not:
>One of the most repulsive pieces of artwork I've seen in my life

That's just hyperbole

>> No.10533219

>>10533209
Agreed on OP's hyperbole but check out the feet on this one: >>10531483

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>>10530531

>> No.10534027

>>10529583
Nice shitty comic faggot.

>> No.10534586

>>10529504
Sorry to hear about your gay.

>> No.10534736

>>10533265
Mama mia!

>> No.10535093

>>10529504
>errrm this game is bad because it errm objectifies women
kill yourself, jeremy basedrish

>> No.10535612

>>10529504
I bet the trannies defending this hideous pigfaced slop are the same ones who always seethe about Toriyama

>> No.10536301

>>10529504
the head doesn't look like it belongs on that body