/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7914665]

Post terrible cover art.

[Anonymous No.7914668]

>>7914665
you start

[Anonymous No.7914682]

>>7914668
He started. Yes, that cover is atrocious. Just because a plenty of ecelebs have made videos about it doesn't mean it's actually some misunderstood underrated masterpiece of graphic design now.

[Anonymous No.7914689]

>>7914665

[Anonymous No.7914691]

[Anonymous No.7914709]

Of course, the cover art looked nothing like the actual game. Another example of American redesigning boxart in favour of their market.

[Anonymous No.7914740]

>>7914709
Nobody wants to see "Chiki Chiki Boys" featuring little boys in skirts. Anyone who does should be kept 2000 feet away from elementary schools.

[Anonymous No.7914745]

>>7914740
As opposed to the people who want to see this >>7914709 who deserve to be in a padded cell?

[Anonymous No.7914750]

[Anonymous No.7914760]

>>7914750
I think the EU got the best designs.

[Anonymous No.7914761]

>>7914682
How the fuck do you make a music video about the box art for a GBA game?

[Anonymous No.7914771]

>>7914760
true

[Anonymous No.7914773]

>>7914750
This actually shows what the game is like though.

[Anonymous No.7914790]

>>7914689
Sigma balls, lol.

[Anonymous No.7914882]

>>7914773
dilate faggot

[Anonymous No.7914889]

>>7914773
That is retarded. It's a fucking resident evil game, you know it'll involve zombies and guns, not a fucking kart racer or a dating sim. You know what you're getting by your (one assumes) ability to read.

[Anonymous No.7914896]

>>7914709
these kids look like future serial killers going to the forest to vivisect squirrels

[Anonymous No.7914904]

>>7914771
Europe often got more 'arty' covers (sometimes just slightly adjusting the JP originals) whilst US just can't help thrusting the main protag front and centre, usually looking badass.

[Anonymous No.7914930]

What did Sega mean by this?

[Anonymous No.7914934]

>>7914682
>doesn't mean it's actually some misunderstood underrated masterpiece of graphic design
"design" is a strong word

but i think its actually pretty good desu
at least for its primary function tricking you into buying a shitty shovelware game
if it was just some dumb looking car on the front, id never pick it up
but me back in 2001 or whatever wouldve seen that, prolly in the discount bin, and idve grabbed it

[Anonymous No.7914936]

>>7914930
aruterdu beestu

[Anonymous No.7914941]

>>7914930
reminds me of cheetahmen

[Anonymous No.7914954]

>>7914709
>Available on C64, Amstrad, Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga
Yet it turns out the 8-bit versions were never released.

[Anonymous No.7914973]

>>7914760
burger graphic art design is and always will be pure marketing
thats why theyre all so formulaic, and predictable
its literally a formula
>put MC front and center
>make him look badass
>explosions/something badass in the back
>fill negative space with company logos, game magazine reviews, and/or a huge version of the game logo
>ship it

[Anonymous No.7914982]

>>7914682
>ecelebs making videos about some random, low effort cover art
>this is the content nu/vr consumes

[Anonymous No.7914987]

>>7914973
America used to make awesome flyers in the 80s but they're boring now. What happened?

[Anonymous No.7914991]

Kid Kool's original cover

[Anonymous No.7915002]

>>7914987
all the dudes making cool flyers in late 80s/early 90s were aging gen x punkrockers that grew up reading western comics and could actually draw
they retired

they got replaced by starry-eyed millenials who depend on computers to make the art for them

[Anonymous No.7915003]

>>7914882
>>7914889
Cope. This >>7914771 is cringe.

[Anonymous No.7915013]

>>7915003
yea id much rather have a close-up of some gay lookin boytoy

[Anonymous No.7915029]

[Anonymous No.7915060]

>>7914889
>>7915013
don't argue with amerifats they are braindead

[Anonymous No.7915065]

[Anonymous No.7915068]

>>7915060
im burger so im used to it

[Anonymous No.7915083]

>>7914689
Literally an incomplete game. It's just as cool as Shantae but by the end of the game you can tell how rushed the development is.

[Anonymous No.7915168]

>>7914740
Red boy is pleased with what he sees.

It’s a fun ass game though.

[Anonymous No.7915171]

>>7914750
>badass action hero up front and center, ready to fucking rock

vs

>>7914771
>some incel standing in the forest

[Anonymous No.7915203]

Game Boy had the worst covers in the West. Just awfully drawn even on good games.

[Anonymous No.7915207]

>>7915002
I don’t think you know how old gen xers were then.

[Anonymous No.7915208]

>>7915203
look at this, literally no background

[Anonymous No.7915221]

>>7915207
yeah
in the late 80s/early 90s, a large amount of Gen X was in their 20s-30s
hell, Gen X didn't end until '85

[Anonymous No.7915234]

[Anonymous No.7915239]

No American game cover is complete without a big disgruntled face, a shot of action, a cringy subtitle and "FROM THE CREATORS OF".

[Anonymous No.7915241]

>>7915234
Lol those faces

[Anonymous No.7915245]

>>7914773
THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING BACK COVER IS FOR.

Do you expect the title and front cover of books to tell you all about the story, too? Has your intellectual capacity peaked at Goosebumps: The Slime Monster of Slimy Lake with the front cover depicting two teens running away from a slime monster?

[Anonymous No.7915251]

>>7915241
mfs look like the used game covers Gamestop used to have

[Anonymous No.7915254]

>>7915234
>>7915241
>River City Ransom is my favorite early 2000s web comic

[Anonymous No.7915261]

>>7914750
It blew my mind when I learned this is not a render, but actual art by Shinkiro.

[Anonymous No.7915305]

>>7915261
>Not traced
Lol

[Anonymous No.7915332]

>>7915241
>>7915251
looks like The Nutshack

[Anonymous No.7915351]

>>7915239
kino

[Anonymous No.7915363]

>>7915251
Do you think that Gamestop went out of their way to hire a bad illustrator to do a bad job drawing and designing this cover art as a way of discouraging consumers from buying used games? (as opposed to new ones) Like what's the justification for a major company to have something that looks this bad for so many years?

[Anonymous No.7915380]

>>7915363
They made more profit off of used sales so it wasn't that

[Anonymous No.7915402]

>>7914665
>Post terrible cover art.

I almost feel like the bad box art worked to this games advantage. Karnaaj Rally is a clone of Remedy Entertainment's first game from 1996: Death Rally.

https://youtu.be/cN9ah60ftMQ?t=453
https://youtu.be/_4AIvYQuGKU?t=1176

[Anonymous No.7915423]

>>7914665

[Anonymous No.7915437]

[Anonymous No.7915473]

>>7914991
More like Kid Dork lmao

[Anonymous No.7915493]

>>7914740
Anon, Knights also wore "skirts"

[Anonymous No.7915501]

>>7915437
The quality of the boxart matches the Game's.

[Anonymous No.7915513]

I hated Dashin' Desperados long before I ever played it. The box art is plain disgusting. The worst of the worst, in fact. It was so creepy my 18-year-old self was immediately repulsed by it - forever dooming my opinion of this game to negativity.

[Anonymous No.7915532]

[Anonymous No.7915797]

>>7914982
Are you just trying to start shit for no reason?

[Anonymous No.7915828]

[Anonymous No.7915852]

>>7915797
The only reason you would have a problem with his post is if it applies to you.

[Anonymous No.7915853]

>>7915513
Take that back dammit. It’s janky as hell but fun with a friend which, presumably, you don’t have. I’ll admit the single player is ass but that’s not the point.

[Anonymous No.7916136]

>>7915208
Extra minimalism

[Anonymous No.7916423]

>>7915203
do europoors REALLY

[Anonymous No.7916491]

>>7915828
Actually BASED

[Anonymous No.7916513]

>>7914665
Harvest Moon GB had terrific cover art. The sequel had a cartoon drawing over a real life photo of a barn. Kind of lazy.

[Anonymous No.7916516]

>>7916513
By the third game they completely gave up trying, which is funny because they put a good effort into the rest of the game

[Anonymous No.7916542]

Fun fact: the car on this cover isn't even in the game. It's actually a car from the first Carmageddon.

[Anonymous No.7916631]

>>7915208
It doesn't need one.

[Anonymous No.7916643]

>>7914689
slim booba girls... what is terrible about this?

[Anonymous No.7916676]

[Anonymous No.7916684]

>>7914709
U.S. Gold is a British company, you fucking retarded faggot zoomer.

[Anonymous No.7916689]

>>7915208
Always thought that looked stupid, too. At least girl hot though

[Anonymous No.7916770]

>>7915002
Either that or new artists just don't like Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. Which is sad, I barely know anyone less than 40 that likes them.

[Anonymous No.7916784]

>>7916643
>coomer bait
>E 10+

[Anonymous No.7916818]

>>7914689
worth playing?

[Anonymous No.7916897]

>>7914771
good idea sure but I never liked the execution of this one, would just look like a bunch of stripes on a store shelf.

[Anonymous No.7917003]

>>7916784
Coomers will always find a way, anon. Just look at the Pokémon franchise.

[Anonymous No.7917019]

>>7914665
He looks like the type of person to call everybody a "loser" when he is ironically the actual loser

[Anonymous No.7917048]

>>7915065
Why does he have a gun kek

[Anonymous No.7917116]

>>7914991
That kid is not Kool

[Anonymous No.7917140]

>>7914930
Is there any version that actually has the shark?

[Anonymous No.7917149]

>>7915203
This game's existence perplexes me to no end.
>play lots of Game & Watch Gallery on the brick Gameboy and Super Gameboy when I was a kid
>download GB romset years later, open this expecting it to be G&WG under a different name
>instead it's just other G&W games... and no Mario
Why does this exist?! Why didn't the US get it?! Why did Nintendo make this AND Game & Watch Gallery around the same time and did they share development teams?!

[Anonymous No.7917225]

oh yeah, forgot this "gem".
i think they always misunderstood how Game Boy boxes aren't really the size of postal stamp and it could have some detailed artwork. they designed the covers like some page in the middle of a manual no one cares about, where they just copypaste some lame art from other assets or draw new shitty art in Corel Draw.

[Anonymous No.7917231]

>>7917225
another example of "lack of detail" and shitty vector art. literally looks like something from a flash game. except it's blown up to fill the whole cover.

[Anonymous No.7917236]

>>7917231
look at this shit. Doug Tennapel would be rolling in his grave (if he was dead).

[Anonymous No.7917252]

virtually all of good Japanese GB artworks were butchered. how do you go from this…

[Anonymous No.7917258]

>>7917252
…to this?

[Anonymous No.7917298]

>>7915065
>>7917048
Pac-ing heat man

[Anonymous No.7917310]

>>7914689
If I owned this as a kid I would have jacked off to it so many times

[Anonymous No.7917525]

[Anonymous No.7917529]

[Anonymous No.7917538]

>>7917525
They look like they belong in rouge trader

[Anonymous No.7917547]

[Anonymous No.7917554]

>>7916423
Shut the fuck up, you hilariously stupid little faggot. This thread is PACKED with Americunt dog shit. All the threads of this kind are.

[Anonymous No.7917557]

>>7916423
And stop calling us poor. Every major Yuro country has a higher life expectancy than you. That isn't a mark of poverty.

[Anonymous No.7917558]

[Anonymous No.7917573]

[Anonymous No.7917625]

>>7915003
copecringeso1jakdilate!!! haha!!!

[Anonymous No.7917667]

>>7914740
I don't want to see Chiki Chiki Boys I want to see Boy's Cheeky Cheeks

[Anonymous No.7917669]

>>7914991
>doesn't even have a dragon humping his leg
>isn't even shaking his fist at a wizard
this kid isn't kool

[Anonymous No.7917718]

>>7915437
What were they thinking!!!

[Anonymous No.7917720]

>>7916513
Looks like instead of hiring an artist they just bought a set of clip art.

[Anonymous No.7917806]

>>7917140
The NES version

[Anonymous No.7917809]

>>7915473
>>7917116
>>7917669
>The game's main character is based on Kenji Sagara (相良 健治, Sagara Kenji), a popular Japanese child actor who was famous in the 1980s for his impersonation of baseball player Masayuki Kakefu.

[Anonymous No.7917994]

>>7915261
Wait, what?!

[Anonymous No.7918032]

[Anonymous No.7918039]

Looks like a well done shitpost drawing.

[Anonymous No.7918043]

>>7918039
I should have made sure there were more than 11 pixels in that one.

[Anonymous No.7918048]

>>7914709
>uk address
>uk phone numbers
"fucking americans"

[Anonymous No.7918056]

>>7918032
Again, nothing wrong with this. The environment shown in the Japanese cover isn’t even in the game.

[Anonymous No.7918083]

>>7918056

[Anonymous No.7918113]

[Anonymous No.7918147]

>>7918113
> March Madness
Oh, the sequel to the famous Mario Madness.

[Anonymous No.7918152]

>>7915261
>Art by Shinkiro
WHAT. I know he's good but what?!

[Anonymous No.7918164]

>>7917225
To add insult to injury, this art is from the concept art from RE 1.5

[Anonymous No.7918168]

>>7915261
Bull, they're all 3d assets

[Anonymous No.7918189]

the whole series has terribly violent cover art, but its a brain dead series of western shooters so what else do you expect?

[Anonymous No.7918250]

>soul covers

[Anonymous No.7918252]

>the whole series has terribly violent cover art, but its a brain dead series of western shooters so what else do you expect?

[Anonymous No.7918274]

>>7914987
That's a bong illustration

[Anonymous No.7918321]

>>7914760
You're right.

[Anonymous No.7918359]

>>7914930
Sega made NES games?

[Anonymous No.7918410]

>>7918359
There are some official and unlicensed Sega ports on Famicom/NES, but none were actually dev'd by Sega iirc

[Anonymous No.7918428]

>>7918359
They ported games to the NES for a while until Genesis hit it big

[Anonymous No.7918447]

>>7918252
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.7918486]

>>7918447
Look 2 posts above

[Anonymous No.7918864]

>>7918486
Don't tell me what to do.

[Anonymous No.7919025]

>>7916491
It's trash and you know it.

[Anonymous No.7919063]

>>7915208
Small indie company, prease undastan

[Anonymous No.7919136]

>>7914750
>The zombies are behind you Chris you dickhead! noooo

[Anonymous No.7919139]

>>7915254
>But how can we find the real gamers at the party?

[Anonymous No.7919143]

>>7915423
>open your son's bedroom door
>"Do you boys need anyt-"
>See this

[Anonymous No.7919164]

>>7916676
>Yeti-mum said it's my turn on the mega drive

[Anonymous No.7919172]

>>7916784
bait? In what way? This isnt about fishing.

[Anonymous No.7919435]

>>7914709
>U.S. Gold
>8-bit HomeComp port
Obvious warning sign is obvious

[Anonymous No.7919439]

>>7919143
>Belt comes off.
>Tie a padlock to the end of it, chain gang style
>Beat the gay away.

[Anonymous No.7919470]

>>7915234
>IT'S THE NUTSHACK

[Anonymous No.7919482]

>>7916516
I assumed they went this route to tie it to Back to Nature which had the same grass thing going on

[Anonymous No.7919493]

>>7916784
The quintessential American post.

[Anonymous No.7919712]

>>7916491
WTF this is pacman

[Anonymous No.7919748]

>>7917547
`Look at those loosers lol`

[Anonymous No.7920089]

>>7914761
Misread but 8/10

[Anonymous No.7920091]

>>7917554
>>7917557
t. upset cunt living in government housing

[Anonymous No.7920112]

[Anonymous No.7920364]

>>7919139
Fuck, got me

[Anonymous No.7920365]

>>7916643
the art quality
get some standards

[Anonymous No.7920367]

>>7917625
you didn't have a problem when >>7914882 said it

[Anonymous No.7920371]

>>7915251
I still wonder what the fuck the intent here was

[Anonymous No.7920373]

[Anonymous No.7920603]

>>7915513

[Anonymous No.7920685]

>>791818 gtfo

[Anonymous No.7920716]

[Anonymous No.7920719]

[Anonymous No.7920721]

>>7920112
where is that character model from? It doesnt look like it belongs in the game, did they make it specifically for the cover?

[Anonymous No.7920723]

[Anonymous No.7920730]

>>7920716
that face is so unnatural, why the fuck didn't they just use a real photo?
this truly is garbage.

[Anonymous No.7920734]

>>7917529
>when you regret that last redpill you took

[Anonymous No.7920738]

>>7916676
this is what they call black people in nepal

[Anonymous No.7920759]

>>7920091
>government housing
Not on what I'm earning, poorfag. Picrel is three weeks wages. Seethe and cope, peasant. Oh, and what lie did I tell, you little piss ant?

[Anonymous No.7920763]

>>7920759
that could get you a few of these in monopoly, get the fuck out of here with that clown money europoor

[Anonymous No.7920765]

>>7920719
>filename
>not where_white_women_at.jpg

[Anonymous No.7920768]

>>7920763
It's literally worth more than yours, you dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.7920779]

>>7920768
buy a little red plastic hotel with your faggot money

[Look, another laughable poorfa(...) No.7920830]

>>7920779
So much cope here. Get a fucking job, you worthless disgusting sack of sub human shit. Do something with your pitiful meaningless life.

[Anonymous No.7920939]

>>7920765
Not all of us are that indoctrinated anon

[Anonymous No.7921027]

>>7917558
This is for a pinball table of all things

[Anonymous No.7921082]

The localized covers for Turbografx-16 titles are a personal favourite when it comes to bad covers. Look what they did to my boi Veigues!

[Anonymous No.7921086]

from the other thread
what the fuck is just wrong with amerifats

[Anonymous No.7921112]

[Anonymous No.7921136]

>>7921086
I think Jaleco simply had retarded covers in the West in general

[Anonymous No.7921139]

>>7917558
>>7921027
So bad it's good

[Anonymous No.7921152]

>>7920830
buy a little red plastic hotel with your monopoly bucks nigel

[Anonymous No.7921153]

>>7920719
The game was kind of shit, too

[Anonymous No.7921154]

[Anonymous No.7921163]

>>7921086
US cover is 10,000 times more alpha, euroqueer. once again euros prefer the gayest option.
video games used to be for boys, ergo, the market the game with a gangster shooting a tommy gun
hell yeah

[Anonymous No.7921164]

[Anonymous No.7921234]

>>7916676
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWl-QC78Qk8
the ad is amazing

[Anonymous No.7921329]

>>7917048
it has 2 guns.

[Anonymous No.7921337]

>>7915251
HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU LOSE COVER ARTWORK??
or did just a nigger sell a lose stolen ngc disc at a local gamestop

[Anonymous No.7921345]

>>7917547

[Anonymous No.7921349]

>>7921345
living example that you can be filmed by your daughter while you lie shitfaced on the floor, looking through your burger like a bum through trash bins and STILL appear in media again.

[Anonymous No.7921354]

>>7915065

[Anonymous No.7921369]

>>7921337
Yes, those cases were for loose disks.

[Anonymous No.7921701]

>>7915513
>Japanese game with western-inspired cover art
>Japanese can make better western art than westerners themselves

Lel

[Anonymous No.7921724]

>>7916897
it looked good on the shelf trust me

t.britbong

[Anonymous No.7921728]

>>7918189
>brain dead series of western shooters
not like jrpgs where you have to have genius level intellect in order to select the attack option until your health gets low, then select the heal option, and repeat for the duration of the game

[Anonymous No.7921735]

>>7921728
you fell for the bait hard bro

[Anonymous No.7921736]

>>7921728
Jrpgs have been the most misrepresented genre in 4chan history.

[Anonymous No.7921746]

>>7921736
prove him wrong.

[Anonymous No.7921761]

>>7915251
they still use those
IT'S THE NUTSHACK

[Anonymous No.7922092]

>>7921152
- I earn almost $6k a week
- I own my own home
- I haven't owed a penny for 17 years
You'll never do as well as me, even if you were given ten lifetimes to get things right. Don't care if I'm not loaded. Just care about stability and comfort. I have both. You have neither, and you will always struggle. Cope.

[Anonymous No.7922102]

>>7915513
>>7915853

I hated it too but know that I look at it, it has a neat surreal early-90s music video vibe to it.

[Anonymous No.7922117]

>>7920723

Game: "Do you like Claire and Chris?" I own the DC game, and like it.

>>7921112

The version that most of us own.

[Anonymous No.7922140]

>buy the shovelware goyim

[Anonymous No.7922146]

>>7914689
looks cool and soulful

[Anonymous No.7922151]

>>7915002
they look more inspired by old movie posters to me. or frank frazetta like another anon said.

[Anonymous No.7922154]

>>7918032
This one is truly terrible and probably sony's fault. back in the early 2000s SCEA was notorious for refusing to bring over games with 2D pixel art, they probably really wanted to push 3D models on cover art as well. I believe falcom added 3D models to the western version of ys VI strictly for this reason.

they haven't learned much judging by demons souls remake.

[Anonymous No.7922175]

>>7915002

This

It was the same with movie poster/ vhs cover art too. Sometimes I just wanted to play a vidya or watch a movie based on the promo/cover art alone.

[Anonymous No.7922301]

[Anonymous No.7922313]

>>7922301
"Carlos Valderrama going super saiyan and kicking a soccerball" sounds a lot more exciting then what was actually produced

[Anonymous No.7922354]

>>7914987
99% sure thats a direct trace of baphomet from hammer horror's 'the devil rides out'

[Anonymous No.7922552]

>>7914689
Sigma Balls

[Anonymous No.7922565]

>>7915203
I dont think this one was even ever released in Japan, it was pal region exclusive so this is the only cover art for it.

[Anonymous No.7922568]

>>7915251
i am range banned from posting images, but somebody for the love of god crop the bottom right face. Seriously, it looks like that shit in hentai when they suck a mean dick and go all vacuum mode like da fuck

[Anonymous No.7922569]

>>7916491
Where have I seen that cover before (of the screaming guy)? It's from an album isn't it?

[Anonymous No.7922601]

>>7916491

[Anonymous No.7923009]

>>7922569
Cover to the third book in The Howling series.

[Anonymous No.7923058]

Why doesn't anyone ever mention how bad Shadow Dancer's American cover is? It looks like some crazy guy is assaulting a middle aged couple in the middle of the street.

[Anonymous No.7923119]

not a GBC cover, but similar shitty vibe

[Anonymous No.7923142]

>>7922301
Is that Jack Black with a mop on his head

[Anonymous No.7923153]

[Anonymous No.7923203]

Gonna just mention Megaman without posting it, because I saw someone say that it's a meme that it's bad, which is such an absolute bullshit take I can't stand it.

>>7914689
>>7920365
Plain composition, and hardly the greatest art in the world, but it's not bad either. It's adequate.

[Anonymous No.7923210]

>>7914709
>Another example of American redesigning boxart in favour of their market.
Wow, imagine that, publishers and retailers are interested in their game selling well.

>>7914740
Basically. Trying to sell it with that cover in the US (or even most of Europe) at the time wouldn't have flied.

[Anonymous No.7923213]

>>7916897
It looks good on my shelf.

>>7914973
Doom and Doom 2 did this extremely well, and there's nothing wrong with it as long as you don't stick a bunch review quotes and scores and shit like publishers started doing later.

[Anonymous No.7923215]

>>7922354
Yes, and that's Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo on the left, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Alan 'Dutch' Schaefer on the right. The Japs copied/traced action movie stills and promotional art as well, but they did it a lot better than U.S "Gold" ever did.

[Anonymous No.7923219]

>>7916770
There's lots of people in their late 20s and in their 30s loving art like by Brom, Vallejo, Bell, Punchatz, Kukalis, Motzkus, etc.

[Anonymous No.7923223]

>>7915002
>who depend on computers to make the art for them
Do you think people just push a button and the computer paints a picture for them automatically? The tools are a lot easier and accessible sure, but what it comes down to is still style and talent.
You can do Vallejo tier art with a computer if you just put in the effort to really learn the fundaments and techniques of his kind of art.

[Anonymous No.7923234]

>>7923009
Reminds me of twin peaks, when Josie gets trapped in the wood dimension
https://youtu.be/dOLb1nThRds

[Anonymous No.7923235]

Kill yourselves zoomzooms

[Anonymous No.7923241]

>>7922175
You can't just go and post a sick cover like that in the Bad Cover thread.

[Anonymous No.7923262]

>>7915828
Filtered.

[Anonymous No.7923265]

>>7915002
>they got replaced by starry-eyed millenials who depend on computers to make the art for them

most classic illustrations were knocked out in a couple days and used traced or heavily referenced photos copied almost 1:1 lol. the only truly thing they really did more impressive then were use of airbrushing and hand-drawn logos

[Anonymous No.7923281]

>>7923265
Sure, there was that, but still it takes a lot of talent and technique to make something that looks like pic related, versus the rather blatant (and somewhat crude) tracing as seen in >>7914987
The heads are changed out, but it's no mistaking where those bodies are from.

[Anonymous No.7923369]

>>7915065
>Me on the right

[Anonymous No.7923382]

>>7915065
>>7921354
>>7923369
I wanna join you guys in some Ghost R- Chasing. I think if we work together, we can easily corner them and have our way with them, we can use Dingo tactics where one of us chases the ghost towards the rest of the group, waiting to ambush him.

[Anonymous No.7923397]

it's not outright "bad" but that guy's face is creepy

[Anonymous No.7923459]

>>7923397
The art used for the magazine ads was really fucking good actually.

[Anonymous No.7923473]

>>7923210
except that it *was* released in the US with a cover similar to what >>7914740 showed.
>>7917525
>>7921082
holy shit what was NEC thinking?!

[Anonymous No.7923479]

>>7923459
and one of my favorite /vr/ reaction images

[Anonymous No.7923515]

>>7917538
You can just rip the entire soundtracks off of jewtube for free and play these for free on emulators. Although the graphics look better, people are so dumb to pay THIS much for these games. Square loves to rip people off jesus

[Anonymous No.7923517]

>>7918056
I remember when this came out and the gameplay looked cooler than this shitty box art. I have to agree that this cover is bad, and doesn't do such a cool game justice.

[Anonymous No.7923528]

>>7920719
Never heard of this game but the cover doesn't look bad

[Anonymous No.7923537]

>>7921082
>left cover as a kid I would want
>right cover as a kid I would put down immediately

[Anonymous No.7923542]

>>7923459
totally fucked up the GB box >>7923397 gave him a crocodile nose

[Anonymous No.7923561]

>>7923397
>>7923459

[Anonymous No.7923578]

>>7921139
This looks like a blm rally

[Anonymous No.7923585]

>>7914665
That's actually a pretty good game despite the awful art

[Anonymous No.7923984]

[Anonymous No.7924427]

[Anonymous No.7924429]

>>7924427
i couldn't believe it was real at first

[Anonymous No.7925828]

>>7922140
>Shem Phillips
hukhukhuk

[Anonymous No.7925885]

>>7924427
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.7925902]

>>7918113
AAAA

[Anonymous No.7925910]

[Anonymous No.7925917]

[Anonymous No.7925964]

>>7924427
Is this fucking real?

>>7925910
I laughed like fuck remembering this when I found out how Soldier Of Fortune was censored in Germany.

[Anonymous No.7925969]

>>7916897
Nah it looks great

[Anonymous No.7925976]

>>7925964
I mean Half Life and C&C Generals had the same type of censorship, but most importantly was that it gave us the Probotector series instead of the Contra series.

[Anonymous No.7925983]

>>7914665
Time to get Cock'in!!!

[Anonymous No.7926002]

>>7925983
Funny how the girl would pass for your average 2021 art hoe

[Anonymous No.7926051]

>>7915437
Surreal. I like it. Very jounrey to the minds eye.

[Anonymous No.7926052]

>>7917558
looks like a hard rock album from 1973

[Anonymous No.7926065]

>>7926052
this guy knows

[Anonymous No.7926079]

>"PAL art is far more sophisticated and artsy"

I think we all know it's a coin toss

[Anonymous No.7926081]

Every PAL PS2 game has white spines with black text so they're automatically btfo.

[Anonymous No.7926160]

>>7926079
you have to go beyond

[Anonymous No.7926230]

>>7926160
I'm really glad that this is something people stopped doing.

[Anonymous No.7926291]

>>7916676
Suburban sasquatch?

[Anonymous No.7926375]

>>7923241
I know I was just thinking about that. My bad.

A lot of sites think this cover of an Atari Pac-Man port is bad but I think it looks neat.

[Anonymous No.7926383]

>>7926375
It's "bad" as in it feels more like a caricature of Pac-Man. Otherwise, it's drawn well and had pretty nice color, shading/lighting and composition.

[Kekyoin No.7926416]

[Anonymous No.7926424]

[Anonymous No.7926456]

>>7925976
At least when Half-Life did it, they had entirely different models for the military grunts which clearly looked like robots, in Soldier Of Fortune they just colored people gray, gave them red eyes, and drew a seam with bolts running down the center of their body, it looks completely comical.

[Anonymous No.7926459]

>>7926383

IKR a lot of "bad" vidya cover got some shit rep because of inaccuracy but had some super-badass art like pic-related

[Anonymous No.7926461]

>>7926375
The quality of the art is great, it's a high quality cartoon image, it's just that it feels like a very odd interpretation of Pac-Man

[Anonymous No.7926469]

>>7926459

shit forgot pic

[Anonymous No.7926496]

>>7926469
I wouldn't call that bad, because it's certainly not, though it's an odd choice making such realistic cover art for such a cartoony game.

[Anonymous No.7926497]

>>7920112
looks like a fucking wedding cake topper

[Anonymous No.7926502]

>>7926456
J U S T

[Anonymous No.7926527]

>>7926502
Could be worse.

[Anonymous No.7926542]

>>7921701
looks like shit

[Anonymous No.7926550]

>>7922568

[Anonymous No.7926568]

[Anonymous No.7926571]

>>7926079
>I showed you my T-virus now answer me

[Anonymous No.7926572]

>>7926542

I know the cover sucks but the actual game sprites look pretty soulful af which is why I found it interesting because this and Joe & Mac featured "western" 1940s Disney/WB character designs instead of the usual manga/anime style you'd expect from a Japanese game. Even funnier when you consider western game art of that time was mostly sub-par and 2edgy4u comic-booky shit compared to Japanese art hence so many shitty cover art for localized Japanese games

Looks almost like Susumu Matsushita's i.e. the guy who drew covers for Famitsu magazine back in the 80s-90s

[Anonymous No.7926654]

[Anonymous No.7926709]

>>7926568
this one isn't bad, it's actually awesome, just weird art style that filters people

[Anonymous No.7926723]

>>7926709

It's pretty fitting if you ever actually played Bokosuka Wars

[Anonymous No.7926739]

>>7916491

[Anonymous No.7926751]

>>7926654
you open the case and there's just a very small case for dawn of sorrow inside, the size of a ds cart. inside is a ds cart so small you immediately inhale it and it goes down your wind pipe and you choke and die the end

[Anonymous No.7926802]

>>7926739
This cover is based as fuck though. Also this is a really good game.

[Anonymous No.7927865]

Bump

[Anonymous No.7928323]

Any art that Amerifats changed from the original Japanese art.

[Anonymous No.7928390]

>>7923479
just for you

[Anonymous No.7928471]

Hmm, something feels off about this box art....

[Anonymous No.7928489]

>>7915203
I bought this as a kid because it was the cheapest game in the store. It sucked.

[Anonymous No.7928669]

>>7920112
Yup, that's the abomination we got in PAL territory. Compare that to the versions in pic related. The top is the US cover, which isn't great but at least somewhat better. But both pale in comparison to the gorgeous Japanese original at the bottom. I honestly don't get how anyone sees that artwork and thinks "You know what this needs for a western release? A generic sword over a flaming background / some 3D render of this Nina chick".

[Anonymous No.7928715]

>>7928390
I want you to know that I appreciate this a lot.

[Anonymous No.7928781]

>>7915828
Get filtered homo.

[Anonymous No.7928798]

>>7926739
I always thought this cover was based. I love the Joe Dirt looking choice for our hero, Arnold. I think they also made Shatter Hand, a personal fav.

[Anonymous No.7928826]

>>7926739
>>7928798
>>7926802
Yeah, the name is shitty, but the cover is cool as balls, and it's a really good shmup with some sick music.

[Anonymous No.7928827]

>>7928826
I had to go check out some youtubes after the nostalgia bug got me, and there are also some of the only intelligible English NES voice overs in this game.

[Anonymous No.7928861]

>>7920716

[Anonymous No.7929650]

>>7914709
>American
Zoomers on this board have no idea that US Gold was a UK company.

[Anonymous No.7930274]

[Anonymous No.7930389]

>>7916542

he killed Shaggy from Scooby Doo. The OG box art is still classic to me.

[Anonymous No.7930393]

>>7925917
fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.7930419]

>>7925910

I made my own for Canada.

[Anonymous No.7930431]

>>7923479

[Anonymous No.7930557]

>>7928669
The US version is sort of generic, but it's way better than the PAL.

I feel like if you went up to people and switched them around, saying that the PAL one was for the US and vice-versa, everyone would talk about how "intriguing" and minimalist the cover with the sword is.

[Anonymous No.7930594]

>>7930557
Absolutely true. I have the ugly PAL version and never would have picked it off a shelf, the reason I got the game is because I saw a review in a mag and it looked rad. I might have passed by the sword one as well but at least there's a chance I'd have checked the screenshots on the back and gotten interested. The PAL cover would have instantly registered as some throwaway lazy platformer. I sort of understand the shitty covers for 8-bit and 16-bit games because everything was marketed to kids and publishes figured it had to look like crappy western cartoons, but by the PS1 era there was no excuse for this garbage.

[Anonymous No.7930609]

>>7917529
>company is called oem inc
>releases a knockoff

[Anonymous No.7930615]

>>7926739

[Anonymous No.7930686]

>>7923234
hot

[Anonymous No.7932428]

>>7922154
I'm not surprised, but that also makes me wonder how the hell stuff like Disgaea got localized then

[Anonymous No.7932431]

>>7932428
idk, dude

[Anonymous No.7932451]

>>7917667
based

[Anonymous No.7932456]

>>7930389
When it comes to European versions of games having much better covers than the American versions, Carmageddon is the first to come to my mind.

[Anonymous No.7932990]

>>7914930
if i was 12 that would be the coolest thing ive ever seen

[Anonymous No.7933165]

>>7924427
Am i insane if i actually like that one

[Anonymous No.7933247]

>>7932428
2000 Anime boom

[Anonymous No.7933451]

[Anonymous No.7933457]

>>7915065
>69 69 69 69

[Anonymous No.7933649]

>>7926416
could you don't

[Anonymous No.7934195]

>>7933451
What they did with Turbografx coverts is abhorrent, they are all consistently worse than the original Japanese covers. And that's not even mentioning the manuals, the full color ones from the Japanese editions full of awesome artwork were all replaced by a BW text-only aberration.

[Anonymous No.7934196]

>>7921163
You sound like a stereotypical American closet homo

[Anonymous No.7934293]

>>7917252
>>7917258
the american cover is more realistic
no matter how much japanese dorks want to make sumo wrestlers look based theyre still fatasses

[Anonymous No.7935185]

>>7934293
being a fatass is based.

[Anonymous No.7935189]

>>7914665
AHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.7935193]

>>7933451
This one reminds of of those childrens magazine. Highlights.

[Anonymous No.7935198]

>>7924427
Four Arnies varying height and physical properties

[Anonymous No.7935209]

>>7926160
This physically hurts to see. Whoever designed this kind of boxart should be beaten to death.

[Anonymous No.7936161]

>>7928861
> tfw no-one noticed my fresh OC

[Anonymous No.7936173]

>>7916818
Yes but falls a bit apart in the end
Also, IIRC, the last dungeon has a stupid glitch where a single enemy is actually worth 2 enemies in the shmup section and finishing the stage by shooting down the enemy when you had 1 enemy left to shoot softlocks the game

[Anonymous No.7936178]

>>7936161
It's shit

[Anonymous No.7936194]

>>7915402
>Race against Duke Nukem!
I feel like this is terribly missing from those boxart parody with all these shitty logos

[Anonymous No.7936197]

>>7936161
I like it.

[Anonymous No.7936214]

>>7936194
I think because this game is obscure and forgotten...
>Featuring Dante, from the Devil May Cry(tm) series
... sticks with people more, because Lucifer's Call is remembered still and part of an ongoing franchise.

[Anonymous No.7936221]

>>7934293
True, a sumo wrestler would be considered just a regular citizen in america

[Anonymous No.7936349]

>>7917236
he's a racist pos, he should be dead

[Anonymous No.7936519]

>>7926751
kek

[Anonymous No.7936524]

>>7936161
don't worry fren, I saved it

[Anonymous No.7936586]

>>7914709

[Anonymous No.7937343]

>>7915828
Is there a backstory behind this boxart?

[Anonymous No.7937353]

>>7915828
filtered

[Anonymous No.7937354]

>>7917558
I like this one

[Anonymous No.7937356]

>>7918032
Why would the put work and money into making something look worse?

[Anonymous No.7937358]

>>7937343
It seems self explanatory.

[Anonymous No.7937360]

>>7921136
I swear he looks like the same guy from the Shatterhand boxart. Given they're both Jaleco games, it wouldn't surprise me.

[Anonymous No.7937365]

>>7937343
Less people would buy it if was just a picture of a spaceship, it being a space game with an old man playing the banjo is infinitely more eyecatching even though from my knowledge it has nothing to do with the game itself

[Anonymous No.7937385]

>>7930615
John Oates ain't lookin so hot

[Anonymous No.7937401]

>>7915437
I read that as "Snow white and the 7 Eleven boys"

[Anonymous No.7937406]

[Anonymous No.7937629]

>>7915239
the fuck is that title seriously

[Anonymous No.7937639]

>>7916491
>pacman is shit

[Anonymous No.7937775]

>>7918032
The American ICO cover is a fucking travesty. The original is interesting and intriguing. This just looks bland and boring.

>>7914771
That one is not that bad. The 4 is out of place, but overall its pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.7938575]

>>7937343
iirc it's sorta what this >>7937365 anon said, basically clickbait strategies combined with the feeling that all space shooters look the fucking same, which ended up accidentally creating art.

[Anonymous No.7938613]

>>7915239

[Anonymous No.7938727]

>>7916491
THIS IS JOEY, PAUL, WILLY, AND FRANKIE !