@wickedcestus even better when you know they changed it for different consoles:
Famicom - FC Genjin: Freakthoropus Computerus
GameBoy - GB Genjin
Breaking the rules of the thread to show not wildly different art, but the same art, but where the game in question has two ridiculously different titles
@captain There was huge backlash against the name Bully which led bored PTA to be convinced the game would be an apology of bullying at school in the same way GTA famously brainwashed an entire generation of kids to steal cars and commit petty crimes.
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Pls remove that feminine goth boy he’s confusingly hot
(Photoshop a stock shot of Mont Saint-Michel instead.)
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I don’t get it, are you playing as a windwmill?
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ま、まさか黒人としてプレーするというわけないよね！？
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Oof, Europe got hosed.
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As I grew up with a Master System, it was a long time before I realised how bad the EU boxes were compared to the Japanese ones. Here’s some Alex Kidd ones to get started.
Miracle World:
Lost Stars:
Bonus Mega Drive Enchanted Castle:
And because Sega loved to changed it up for Europe, here’s some more
Wonder Boy in Monster Land:
Fantasy Zone:
Fantasy Zone 2:
Out Run:
Great Basketball:
Great Football:
Great Golf:
Great Soccer:
Card games were usually someone holding the card for the game in the box. Like…
My Hero:
Transbot/Astro Flash:
Spy Vs. Spy:
(Cartridge box was much better:
)
Back to some cartridge boxes. Space Harrier:
The Ninja:
My personal favourite, Pro Wrestling:
(anyone who can explain this, your input would be much appreciated)
And clearly the most different
Zillion:
Yes, we had to take a chance on buying a game based on the cover having a picture of a microwave!
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Whoever designed the western SMS box art template is video game history’s greatest monster.
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I would defend the My Hero cover, which walked so the God Hand cover could run (the cartridge version just has the picture of the guy getting punched, rather than a picture of a hand holding the card with the picture of the guy getting punched), but it’s amazing how good some of the Japanese boxes are. (Edit: I just noticed the Japanese Wonder Boy in Monster Land cover has a skeleton on it that’s only in the arcade version of the game, not the SMS one, so I must sadly declare the western version to be superior)
Here’s a game gear game:
It also came out on SMS:
And the MSX original:
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Somehow I like almost all of these.
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I was today years old when I found out Psychic World was on SMS, despite the fact that it is one of my fav Game Gear games.
The jpn cover of Guardian Legend is so wildly interpretive I love it so much. It really makes you curious about the game. Funny thing, for a while I thought the art was by Katsuya Terada, but it is actually made by Naoyuki Kato a famed sci fi artist.
Anyway one of my favorite example of boxart differences has to be the home console releases of Athena, three versions that wildly differ in the type of energy they bring:
Famicom:
NES:
Commodore 64:
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Psychic World SMS was PAL-only, so probably less well known than the GG version. I really like it, but I did play it as a kid so my judgement is not to be trusted. I did screenshot Let’s Plays of the three versions of the game if you’re interested, or they’re well worth playing yourself.
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I had Athena when i was a kid. When Tim would write about ropy controls i picture the American cart of that game
pretty Wild how Different these four examples of Box Art are considering the similarity in concept:
not going to make a whole other thread called Wildly the Same Box Art:
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Japanese James Pond is cutie <3
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Taito has Ace Combat at home.
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