Odd retro video game titles/boxart thread

[Anonymous No.1830118]

And yes this is a real game

[Anonymous No.1830126]

>James rolfe will never review this.

[Anonymous No.1830130]

>>1830118
And here's the Japanese version

[Anonymous No.1830138]

[Anonymous No.1830141]

mandatory

[Anonymous No.1830147]

[Anonymous No.1830149]

>>1830141
That is amazing.
Donkey kong is a scary motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.1830152]

>>1830118
>>1830130

So what is this game actually about?

[Anonymous No.1830156]

>>1830152
It's a carbon Copy of Pacman but it makes an "OH SHIT!" sound when you die

[Anonymous No.1830159]

>>1830156
Living on the edge'

[Anonymous No.1830171]

>>1830141
For a split second my mind went to "Based on the real story" instead of "based on the real arcade game". That would have been some shit.

[Anonymous No.1830173]

>>1830171
>he's never seen King Kong

[Anonymous No.1830180]

>>1830173
I'm pretty sure King Kong wasn't a real thing that happened.

[Anonymous No.1830182]

>>1830180
My grandfather was there when it happened

[Anonymous No.1830185]

>>1830180
Harry potter is a real story.
"Based on a real story" Does not mean "Based on real life events"

[Anonymous No.1830191]

>>1830185
You're right. I think I combined "true story" and "real events"

[Anonymous No.1830227]

>>1830118
>this is a real game
No it's fucking not.
The hell is wrong with you?

[Anonymous No.1830237]

>>1830227
lol.


It's possible some cheeky fucks stole the artwork isnt it?

[Anonymous No.1830240]

>>1830227
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge03.htm

[Anonymous No.1830241]

>>1830185
That's not how "real story" works, you kumquat. It's implied by default it's a story that exists because you can't possibly base something on a story that DOESN'T exist. Real story means it actually happened, that it's not fiction.

[Anonymous No.1830242]

>>1830227
http://learntobabble.tumblr.com/post/64381059796/oh-shit-or-simply-shit-was-a-pacman-clone-for

Educate yourself, bro.

[Anonymous No.1830250]

>>1830141
Mexican Mario is the best Mario.

[Anonymous No.1830451]

>>1830141
Wow, it's like a fever dream I once had while watching Demolition Man. Wesley Snipes was a beast a in that movie but I don't remember Stalone looking so...Cuban.

[Anonymous No.1830517]

>>1830126
So? He's a fucking idiot.

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[Anonymous No.1830817]

>>1830451
you made my day with this post

[Anonymous No.1830893]

>>1830227
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing.htm

cool

[Anonymous No.1830930]

>>1830517
but screaming "sucks donkey diarrhea through a straw" is the height of comedy

[Anonymous No.1831006]

>>1830141
>Tom Selleck vs Sasquatch

[Anonymous No.1831010]

>>1830517
>>1830930

I bet you two are fun guys that all the babes love being around :^). If it's one thing people love, it's whiney fat slobs that can't enjoy themselves.

[Anonymous No.1831019]

>>1830138
Not that weird, most Master System boxes are way more minimalistic than that.

[Anonymous No.1831045]

>>1830118
I always think the publisher logo in the bottom left says "from EUROSHIT" from the thumbnail

[Anonymous No.1831056]

>>1830451
My sides.

[Anonymous No.1831064]

>>1831045
Someone should edit that

[Anonymous No.1831065]

>>1830517
>>1830126
It's just pac-man with the main difference is that when you die the character screams "oh shit!"

It was also called oh shit originally

[Anonymous No.1831416]

>>1830893
That's a hell of a thing. All that 80's action!

>>1830817
YOU GOT IT!!

[Anonymous No.1831776]

[Anonymous No.1831801]

>>1831019
Am i the only one who genuinely like those box covers?

[Anonymous No.1831814]

>>1830147
You beat me to it.

[Anonymous No.1831951]

>>1831019
yup

[Anonymous No.1832628]

I don't know what's better in this art, the disembodied Arnie head or the little Ainsley

[Anonymous No.1832731]

Obligatory, with the way this thread's going.

[Anonymous No.1832769]

>>1831019
>>1831951
Stand back.

[Anonymous No.1832934]

>>1831801
As a kid seeing them in the video stores I always thought they looked like graph paper, which reminded me of math, and homework, and school, so it was sort of a turn off. Now I can see they were kinda cool.

[Anonymous No.1832967]

>>1832731
Holy cow I've seen this box-art hundreds of times and this is the first time I've noticed that the starfighter is literally an x-wing with the guns photoshopped off the wings.

You can even see R2-D2.

[Anonymous No.1835093]

[Anonymous No.1835152]

>>1832731
why an old man with a banjo wtf were they thinking i need to know there reasoning

[Anonymous No.1835158]

>>1832628
Someone photoshop it so they all have different Knuckles faces.

[Anonymous No.1835326]

>>1835152
According to wikipedia the localization team did it on purpose to make it stand out from all the other generic space shooters at the time.

[Anonymous No.1835459]

>>1832731
fuck i still remember that cover
>going to the flea market
>see this old lady with a bunch of snes boxes and snes sport cassettes
>see this in the box in pretty good condition
>wtf a old man and a banjo?
>put it back next to the other sports cassettes
why i was so stupid

[Anonymous No.1835514]

>>1830118
Yeah alright

[Anonymous No.1835523]

anal rapist robot uprising.

[Anonymous No.1835537]

[Anonymous No.1835539]

>>1832731
i-is that the Caretaker?

[Anonymous No.1835560]

Step up your game

[Anonymous No.1835632]

[Anonymous No.1835650]

>>1835514
This cover is fucking amazing. If anything it's too indicative of the gameplay. Nobody actually likes that novelty game where you wave a metal rod through a maze

[Anonymous No.1835651]

[Anonymous No.1835737]

>"So, this is the cover art I was thinking of using for the home console game."
>"Perfect."
-Conversation that never happened

[Anonymous No.1835761]

>>1831006
fucking shit

[Anonymous No.1835775]

>>1835514
I still have the copy of Playstation Underground (ass end of '98, I believe) that has this game in it's imports.

[Anonymous No.1835871]

>>1831951
>>1831801
I liked the grid and the white background, and the cases, which were wonderful. In some cases the minimalist style works, such as with the underrated classic Penguin Land. But I prefer the later covers, such as the glorious Thunderblade, Kenseiden, Space Harrier 3D, and Phantasy Star.

[Anonymous No.1835873]

>>1835871

[Anonymous No.1835902]

>>1835873

[Anonymous No.1835907]

>>1835902

[Anonymous No.1835928]

>>1835326
I'm kind of glad the whole "let's just throw something out from left field and see if it sticks" thing went away in the 90's. It was like trying to manufacture a black swan event.

[Anonymous No.1835942]

>>1835632
Reminds me of Dizzy Fast Food.

[Anonymous No.1835946]

[Anonymous No.1838068]

>>1835946
That professor is pretty alpha with those swirly glasses

[Anonymous No.1838383]

>>1835632
>>1835942
What's with box artists and making chefs look sinister?

[Anonymous No.1839846]

>>1838383
To appeal to the kids who like violent shit I guess

[Anonymous No.1839913]

>>1831951
What does a guy pulling his own head off and attempting to breastfeed it have to do with wrestling...?

[Anonymous No.1840263]

>>1838383

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[Anonymous No.1842284]

[Anonymous No.1842285]

[Anonymous No.1842289]

[Anonymous No.1842291]

[Anonymous No.1842295]

[Anonymous No.1842297]

the apex of awesome boxart

[Anonymous No.1842716]

>>1842291
Looks like the turrican guy turned into some crazy muscle mech

[Anonymous No.1842734]

>>1842295

>ninja
>motorcycle
>panthers
>explosions

HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS THE GOAT OF ALL TIMES

[Anonymous No.1842749]

>>1842297
is that Jack Nicholson?

[Anonymous No.1842809]

>>1831065
you can shoot at guys too

[Anonymous No.1842869]

>>1842284
well anyone earth expecting roy and snake got satisfied with frying pan

[Anonymous No.1843667]

>>1842734
And then you rush home, boot it up on your old IBM, wait for it to load and it's not amazing

[Anonymous No.1843723]

[Anonymous No.1843783]

>>1835459
>other sports cassettes

[Anonymous No.1843830]

>>1842285
>tax avoision

[Anonymous No.1844602]

[Anonymous No.1844604]

[Anonymous No.1844608]

[Anonymous No.1844630]

>>1843723
is this a panel de pon clone?

[Anonymous No.1844743]

I always liked this one

[Anonymous No.1844854]

PS4 port when

[Anonymous No.1844857]

>>1844743
It's surprisingly a really fun game. Easily one of the best on the 7800...not that that's saying much.

[Anonymous No.1844860]

>>1835946
I don't know whether to make a Dr. Wily joke or a Heihachi joke.

[Anonymous No.1844881]

>>1844854
That scooter is some Escher-esque shit.

[Anonymous No.1844898]

>>1830893
>that Kindergarten Cop/Silent Hill connection

What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.1844923]

I've got a few. Here is a little sample.

[Anonymous No.1844927]

>>1844923
Another one.

[Anonymous No.1844937]

>>1844927
>Root out and destroy Planetary Insanity with The Extirpator.
?Syntax Error

[Anonymous No.1846895]

>>1844630
Megapanel predates Panel de Pon by half a decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VOT-jMJyU

[Anonymous No.1846942]

>>1844898
It was the only movie the team had that showed contemporary rural american architecture

[Anonymous No.1848509]

>>1831064
>edit that
Alright.

[Anonymous No.1848597]

>>1846895

I hate sliding puzzles. This video just made me sick to the stomach.

[Anonymous No.1848913]

>>1835093
is the cover calling the sega card its hero? is this the cover for a book report?

[Anonymous No.1848919]

>>1842284
i always read that as snake boy and get surprised to find out it's called snake roy everytime

[Anonymous No.1848929]

>>1844923
bluhh, looks like garb
age pail kids

[Anonymous No.1849458]

I'm sorry, I learned that there was a duplicate file
https://i.4cdn.org/vr/1407528596458.jpg
>Greetings anon, care to come into the hot tub and play a little game?

[Anonymous No.1850028]

>90's: The Game

[Anonymous No.1851085]

[Anonymous No.1854095]

boomp

[Anonymous No.1856830]

>>1830141

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[Anonymous No.1857271]

>>1842291
mirin dem robogains

[Anonymous No.1857712]

>>1850028
That giant iguana has People teeth.

[Anonymous No.1858112]

>>1848509
now post this in every boxart thread ever and see who notices

[Anonymous No.1858148]

>>1850028
That's pretty fucking radical dude

[Anonymous No.1858179]

>>1830227
>>1830118
That's some fantastic artwork

[Anonymous No.1858183]

>>1831776
Woah, Donkey Kong on another cover?

[Anonymous No.1858195]

>>1848597
>otherwise solid game with good graphics and music
>you have to disarm nukes
>fucking sliding puzzles

I hate them. I hate them so much.

[Anonymous No.1858201]

Mystery of Convoy

Spelled wrong on the box and does not even have Convoy/Optimus Prime on the box, or heck in the game.

Heck most of the game is not Transformers characters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZUskwHB5s&list=PLlUGmicQ2Ka3C_ZJ2D_zOUOTXlvyk_f8X

[Anonymous No.1858205]

>>1858201
Forgot the image, sorry chums

[Anonymous No.1858206]

I must be the only person who knows it exists. Yet another wacky Game Boy game by a defunct publisher, programmed by a Japanese company that only made a few games to begin with.

[Anonymous No.1858494]

Anything the UK had
/Thread

[Anonymous No.1858516]

>>1858201
>does not even have Convoy/Optimus Prime on the box, or heck in the game

It isn't supposed to, it's called Mystery of Convoy because you're supposed to find out where the fuck Optimus/Convoy went.

This is all wiki stuff, so it may not be totally accurate, but it's said the game bridged the end of Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers' season 2 with the start of season 3, as in Japan the movie wasn't released over there yet.

Still, that misspelling is pretty terrible.

[Anonymous No.1858526]

>>1844608
the sequels boxart was pretty out there too

[Anonymous No.1858553]

>>1858206
Nope I had this one since I was a kid. This actually was a pretty original concept, but the gameplay is just tedious and not very rewarding.

[Anonymous No.1858885]

>>1831019
>>1831951
>>1832769
I like them now, but if Sega thought this was how you market to kids, they were retarded... Obviously.

[Anonymous No.1858887]

>>1848913
Ok. I laughed audibly

[Anonymous No.1859080]

I guess it's up to me, then

[Anonymous No.1859085]

>>1858885
Tonka, actually.

[Anonymous No.1860260]

>>1830171
>Doesn't know that Shiggy got the inspiration to Donkey Kong from the incident where his wife was kidnapped and beaten to death by a gorilla during one of their trips to the local zoo

[Anonymous No.1860264]

>>1851085
Slider? I hardly knew her!

[Anonymous No.1860319]

>>1859080

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[Anonymous No.1863831]

>>1830130
It's the other way around. OP is the Japanese boxart.

[Anonymous No.1863836]

>>1863831
no it's not, the original is just SHIT and they renamed it to oh shit in japan

[Anonymous No.1863843]

[Anonymous No.1863846]

>>1863843
both of those are great, the realistic one is pretty badass looking but the QT japanese one gives me a boner.

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[Anonymous No.1864403]

>>1835737
>Only I have the brains to rule Lylat

[Anonymous No.1864439]

[Anonymous No.1864447]

>>1835158
Not
>the enchilada

Photoshopper had ONE fucking job.

[Anonymous No.1864450]

>>1848509
Eleven out of fucking ten. Outstanding.

[Anonymous No.1864454]

>>1858148
That fucking kid is so swag.

[Anonymous No.1864461]

[Anonymous No.1864471]

>>1863843
>the Famicom cartridge has a face on it

[Anonymous No.1864474]

Somewhat relevant, I remember seeing this on /co/ a few months, maybe a year, back.

[Anonymous No.1864480]

>>1864474
It's a "two-knee" fish

[Anonymous No.1864495]

>>1864471
What's so interesting about that?

[Anonymous No.1864503]

>>1864471
That's not a Famicom cart. It's a cassette tape, something that came with the game.

[Anonymous No.1864509]

>>1864503
It's a shame that the Famicom version is so fucking awful...and expensive 'cause I'd totally buy it just to get a hold of the cassette.

[Anonymous No.1864536]

>>1857060

[Anonymous No.1864684]

>>1864509
>It's a shame that the Famicom version is so fucking awful

You can thank Micronics for that. Then again, Micronics' SNK ports were unusually bad, at least compared to their Capcom ports. SNK then made some of the better games for the console, barring Alpha Mission.

[Anonymous No.1864703]

>>1864503

PSYCHO BARU GAAAA
HIKARI
HANACHI

[Anonymous No.1864714]

>>1864439
>that Grim Reaper in the background driving a tractor with scythes for mower blades...

[Anonymous No.1864957]

>>1863843
It's weird how every game with a clearly Anime as fuck girl in it always gets their boxart changed to generic "Warrior girl!" art.

[Anonymous No.1866829]

bump

[Anonymous No.1866853]

>>1835459
>cassettes
shit that's worse than "nintendo tapes."

[Anonymous No.1866868]

>>1864536
Thank you. I worried I was to do this myself.

[Anonymous No.1866885]

>>1863843
At least they kept the outfit and hairstyle pretty much the same.

[Anonymous No.1866894]

>>1858148
Today's teenagers dress this way again. Oh dear.

pic unrelated.

[Anonymous No.1866939]

>>1831776

The Japanese devs must've thought it was hilarious since they put it their later game, Game Tengoku:

http://youtu.be/EBan-SqnzwE?t=2m49s

[Anonymous No.1866948]

>>1835651

Bad Rats prequel?

[Anonymous No.1867025]

>>1835537
What in the name of all that's holy...?

[Anonymous No.1867131]

>>1858526
It's like George Grosz for the Thatcher years

[Anonymous No.1867134]

I can't believe no one has posted this yet. I really like the box art for it though, but it seems to be hit and miss

[Anonymous No.1867189]

Glad I played this on Virtual Console before seeing the box art.

[Anonymous No.1867261]

>>1830141
I need this in poster size.

[Anonymous No.1867329]

>>1863843
>>1864503
Does anyone have the modern, moe-style drawing of Athena? I need it to murder half a billion people I will never know.

[Anonymous No.1868572]

>>1867329
You mean this?

[Anonymous No.1869365]

>>1868572
That's it, shame there aren't any bigger scans. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.1869431]

>>1864461

[WKZworks No.1870184]

>>1830156
>>1830152
>>1830118
>>1830130
>>1830227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nlcrh4reWc
http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/eurosoft/shit/3000/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aackosoft