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Broseph Brostar posted:I thought they saved the bad dbz fanart for the cheat codes pages Editing the letter art section of a 90s gaming mag must have been the easiest job of all time, all you have to do is pick whether the winner is "Street Fighter only with different characters from pop culture", "Mortal Kombat only with different characters from pop culture", or "Mario and Sonic fighting in Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat" Captain Invictus posted:I like the evolution this thread has made from bad box art to just bad official art/gaming media halfassed art be it covers or otherwise Most video game concept art was also pretty much garbage until two console generations ago.    Deus Ex
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that feeling when you invest all your skill points in swimming
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I dunno if indie games are too low of hanging fruit Sleeveless posted:Editing the letter art section of a 90s gaming mag must have been the easiest job of all time, all you have to do is pick whether the winner is "Street Fighter only with different characters from pop culture", "Mortal Kombat only with different characters from pop culture", or "Mario and Sonic fighting in Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat" Should I go with the 60 abs goku or super sonic drawn in crayons?
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Final Fantasy IV's strategy guide from Nintendo Power had a lot of 'amazing' art for it.
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Rirse posted:Final Fantasy IV's strategy guide from Nintendo Power had a lot of 'amazing' art for it. Old Final Fantasy stuff was "putting angry eyebrows on Kirby" levels of trying their darndest to make cute and cuddly things look edgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15qmRzn2Pc
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Don't forget turning the bad guy into cat food. drat horror queefs posted:Whoever responsible for this should be hanged I wonder how the game's sales would have been if they put Annah or Fall-From-Grace on the box instead. Cuntellectual fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Here's an angry dust mite eating Kirk Cameron.
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Breath of Fire and Breath of Fire 2 got some horrendous ones in the United States. From what I understand, marketers were terrified of scaring people away with anime.  For reference, this is what the blue haired Conan the barbarian fellow actually looks like. 
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A lot was from before or during early stages of the big anime boom in the mid 90's and marketeers still thought that that anything 'foreign looking' would scare off buyers. It wasn't just anime, you got stuff like changing the name of Bitmap Brother's 'The Chaos Engine' to 'Soldiers of Fortune' because it sounded less weird. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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To be fair, though misrepresenting of the ingame art, those BoF covers aren't actually bad for the time though it's funny to me that with BoF2, they did exactly the same as 1 even with the character framing and posing but clearly told the artist to "pump that poo poo to 11." This is hilarious and while it's awful looking, it matches the game title in 
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Sakurazuka posted:calm.jpg loving laughed out loud. In Training posted:A lot of these covers are cool. I'm actually a big fan of the Atari 70s box art which, although kind of bad in the sense of being unrepresentative of the fidelity of the in-game graphics, and often fairly cheesy, has a solid style to it, and usually seems to be a good-faith effort at spurring one's imagination as to what all the blocky things could represent.     Game concept kinda abstract? When In Doubt, Put It In Space [WIDPIIS]
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bloodychill posted:This is hilarious and while it's awful looking, it matches the game title in Sadly, I think that's from a 'design your own game' competition the UK Official PlayStation mag ran and not a real cover or game.
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Sakurazuka posted:Sadly, I think that's from a 'design your own game' competition the UK Official PlayStation mag ran and not a real cover or game. It's a real game loosely based on a Japanese gameshow.
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Huh, nevermind then, it looked exactly like the zero effort style they used for that
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God the Super Breakout one is so loving rad.
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The Taint Reaper posted:I dunno Mass Effect sold millions of copies, I don't think it's a specific subset other than people who play videogames. Nice
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 A cover that promises to answer every Star Wars fan's burning desire to pit classic characters against each other like Luke Skywalker and weirdly rendered red push-upbustier impractical robot arm woman.
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Slugnoid posted:The 90s were a more innocent time.. I played that as a kid. One random event: War in the middle East could disrupt travel to those airports. 
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elf help book posted:Why was everyone so scared of anime? Mostly it was because the anime styles of the times looked very childish and it was popular to market rock hard abs and gritted teeth to the kids. This was back when people still sold Terminator 2 toys directly to children. Our mario clone starring an unrecognizable blob of pixels needs more nip-nips! Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Discount Viscount posted:
Haruharuharuko posted:God the Super Breakout one is so loving rad. The new 2001:A Space Odyssey remake lookin' good.
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Sakurazuka posted:A lot was from before or during early stages of the big anime boom in the mid 90's and marketeers still thought that that anything 'foreign looking' would scare off buyers. It always looked amazingly weird turning Anime to a 80s Action Movie Poster Case in Point: Clash at Demonhead Original Anime style cover:  American cover  The funny thing is the American cover is 100% correct with the monsters/characters in the game. Its just looks like some tried to make a lovely low budget 80s action movie.
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 Spider-man's fortune telling arms are one of his lesser known super-powers.
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Wamdoodle posted:The new 2001:A Space Odyssey remake lookin' good. Yeah, this is definitely what they were going for with it.
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Remember when BioShock 1 and 2 had some unique and interesting boxart, then BioShock Infinite's boxart was Dude With A Gun
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Remember when BioShock 1 and 2 had some unique and interesting boxart, then BioShock Infinite's boxart was Dude With A Gun E: VV sorry should have put em up  
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What did they look like, for comparisons sake.
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Remember when BioShock 1 and 2 had some unique and interesting boxart, then BioShock Infinite's boxart was Dude With A Gun  Because the Doom Guy, the most generic protagonist imaginable (intentionally so, so players could more easily self-insert themselves into his shoes), is what you should sell a game based on. Especially now that his outfit looks like a Spartan from Halo instead of the original design. Okay, okay, it's not as offensively bad as most of the boxart in here, but I still feel miffed about this one.
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Golden Goat posted:I remember this show!  That's disgusting.
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