box art & manuals

It was pretty much perfect, you know? Took the original logo, which was kinda cool, and just made it really foreboding and hype-inducing. this is back when they were still doing this mortal kombat thing right and people cared.

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Monday, 1 December 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

Czn any chance you can tel us what some of those Japanese ones are? They look totally AWESOME

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Monday, 1 December 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

"Inferno" - can't find a webpage with scans, but the instruction manual was also a graphic novel explaining the back story.

― snoball, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

japanese games (apt from the obv ones):
i. zettai zetsumei toshi (raw danger lol)
ii. tsuki no hikari: shizumeru kane no satsujin
iii. hayarigami 2
iv. hayarigami revenge
v. hayarigami portable

― czn (cozwn), Monday, 1 December 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

anata wo yurusanai
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dYyGyP6oL._SS400_.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Monday, 1 December 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

iii. hayarigami 2

looks interesting

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

http://i35.tinypic.com/25rnj93.jpg

there is a hidden third character on this cover (via the neogaf secrets thread)

― abanana, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.megatonnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/super-mario-bros3.jpg

^^^ does it really get better than this? Such confidence, such joy!

http://www.phyton.dk/ultima/ultima72box.jpg

http://www.owo.com/archive/ftp/maps/u72/serpenti.gif

^^^ BAD ASS. God bless the cloth maps.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago)

god, the SMB3 cover is still so great

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.sofos.com/blog/scottpilgrim3.jpg

^^^ it so warms my tired, grouchy old heart when people manage to use videogames in art with sincere love, not just trying to cash in on reference-points.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

http://i.testfreaks.co.uk/images/products/600x400/168/the-legend-of-zelda-phantom-hourglass-ds.441256.jpg

http://219.117.236.243/palet_img/90129a.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago)

Wait...what's this about a hidden third character on the cover? Also, what's this about a neogaf secrets thread?

― Z S, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

this
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232550

― zappi, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/10qao3t.jpg

― abanana, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

WHOA!
SF2T Cover artist was smoking blunts like cigarettes when he threw that in there.

― Z S, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

The best manual is for SMB2 bcz it explains that Birdo is video game land's first trans character:

"Birdo thinks he is a girl and likes to be called Birdetta. He likes to wear a bow on his head and shoot eggs from his mouth."

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/8/8e/Birdolol.gif

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago)

Additionally, in the game's second trailer, Little Mac from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! speaks about Birdo, calling her a "young lady," only to take a short break and ponder. His final verdict is "Depending on one's view point, she is a young lady."

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago)

Re: Scott Pilgrim, it's a shame that didn't actually get used for the book's cover art. I wonder why?

― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 07:09 (sixteen years ago)

http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/bigtiger/cabinet/00693847/img55565793.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

thats nice

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

what is it

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

secret of mana aka seiken densetsu 2

this thread OWNES good job cozen

― cankles, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dYyGyP6oL._SS400_.jpg
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KAHJ2vVrL._SS500_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EDJP2MJTL._SS500_.jpg

covers make me wish i could play these, whatever they are!!!

― cankles, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Box-l-jp.jpg

pretty obvious but w/e, still a klassikk

― cankles, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/TheNostalgiaoftheInfinite.jpg

(based off dis nigga - AWESOME)

― cankles, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/3/563073_23248_front.jpg

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/gba/301to350/0350.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago)

^^super robot taisens R & A

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://saitonetwork.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mega-man-9-cover.jpg

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

hot lincoln not allowed

― cankles, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/59214154_4297f0af02.jpg?v=0

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

sucker for jp gba boxes

for taiko no tatsujins' artwork too
http://www.gamestorrents.com/torrents_img/taikko7.jpg

http://www.speedys-cover.de/Cover_Seiten/PSX-Cover/vib.ribbon-pal-front.jpg

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

super robot taisen A

taiko no tatsujin

― czn (cozwn), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

it so warms my tired, grouchy old heart when people manage to use videogames in art with sincere love, not just trying to cash in on reference-points.

That's my exact problem with the scott pilgrim series, is that it feels so cash-in-y. i've only read the first two but i read them in the same way i ruberneck car crashes.

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

Huh - well, I guess YMMV on that - but it's always felt convincingly loving of, and steeped in, the stuff that it uses. The matter-of-factness of the way videogame stuff shows up reminds me a lot of the way something like Ranma 1/2 works, where of course there are these sex-changing Chinese curses and eighty ex-fiancees of Ranma running around shooting fireballs and stuff.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago)