/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5931525]

Why was it so common to lie / misrepresent the game entirely on the cover in the retro era?

[Anonymous No.5931534]

>>5931525
Specifically to piss you off.

[Anonymous No.5931552]

>>5931525
Because kids are gullible and back then you had to use your imagination because the visuals just weren’t there yet.

[Funcoland Clown No.5931564]

>I bought this novel and the inside is just full of fucking WORDS. They want me to use my imagination and shit? Screw that!

[Anonymous No.5931595]

>>5931525
>Why is it so common to lie / misrepresent the age eligibility entirely on the fourth channel in the retro game board?

[Anonymous No.5931682]

>>5931525
Because when you're 8 years old and playing Bomberman, your imagination might think up something like the box art when you self-insert.

It's called an "imagination" and companies took advantage of that to sell products.
If you think this is wrong for some reason or you can't understand it, it means you're either a communist fuck or you're retarded

[Anonymous No.5931687]

Am I the only person who, even as a small child, implicitly understood that cover art on anything is abstract?

[Anonymous No.5931690]

>>5931687
No. There's plenty of us who weren't retards.

[Anonymous No.5931860]

>>5931690
dozens!

[Anonymous No.5931865]

>>5931525
It's not a lie, you fucking moron. Bomberman's sprite in that game and in the rest of the series is a chibi version of the guy on that cover. That's why the HYPER REALISTIC Act Zero made him look the way he did in that game.

[Anonymous No.5931870]

>>5931865
This is even more obvious when looking at the Japanese cover.

[Anonymous No.5931886]

I always knew the covers didn't reflect the game.

However if a cover was complete shit, like Mega Man 1, I wouldn't get the game out of fear of the quality of the game was similar.

[Anonymous No.5931889]

>>5931525
Because artists were crunched for time and rarely even seen the games in action, let alone original artwork. Imagine if you had no fucking clue who Megaman is, you were provided with literally no material about the game and given a few days worth of time? That's exactly how Megaman's box art was born.
>>5931870
I don't think Bomberman had a "design" prior to Bomberman 2. The original Bomber Man on the MSX was a dude in overalls running away from balloons, and that game was retooled for the Famicom with a few sprite changes. None of the cover art actually looks like Bomberman from the first game, not even close. So I doubt anyone actually bothered to draw a model sheet of him, or anything like that.

[Anonymous No.5931945]

>>5931889
I'm telling you, the "classic Bomberman" design is based on the sprite of the first NES game, which is a chibi rendering of the cover art Bomberman (hence the grimdark narrative in the instruction booklet). This was pretty common for Japanese games back then. Example 2: Link's sprite in Link's Awakening is a chibi version of his cutscene design.

[Anonymous No.5931991]

>>5931682
>to sell products
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[Anonymous No.5932050]

>>5931865
>>5931525
and that US cover design is Bomber King which is known as RoboWarrior here

[Anonymous No.5932254]

>>5931525
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising

[Anonymous No.5932412]

[Anonymous No.5932460]

>>5931889
>Imagine if you had no fucking clue who Megaman is, you were provided with literally no material about the game and given a few days worth of time?

You get a MegaMutt.

[Anonymous No.5932495]

>>5932460
My favorite touch to both this and MM2 is that the artists made big ol' anime eyes into a visor.

[Anonymous No.5933539]

oh look its metroidman!
sold 1 million copies!
Thats the power bomb and blaster
and power armor
and he is on a desolate rock planet

[Anonymous No.5933541]

>>5933539
sorry did I say metroidman?
this is actually megaman
thats his blue armor and blaster
and in his arm is the bomb man weapon!