Post the best box art
>>10865793this one is the best
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>>10865864>>10865869Japanese Rockman box art is definitely superior to the US art.>>10865864It's fascinating to me that RT-55J (the green mechaniloid that guards the body parts upgrade) is featured so prominently on the Japanese box, despite just being an optional miniboss. If you knew nothing of the game and were just judging things based on the composition of the artwork, you'd think RT-55J is one of the main characters, alongside X, Zero, and Sigma.
>>10865793There's a lot going on and it was satisfying to look at as a child, but what's even going on in it? All the mavericks are falling down Toxic Seahorse's stage?MMX3 defender btw
>>10866474It seems like the US MMX box artists were convinced that they needed an actual location for a background and to have the characters sized as though they're all located in the same 3D space, which is fine in theory, but in these cases the results wound up looking like characters floating around and kinda-sorta-not-really interacting with eachother and their environment. The stylish voids of the Japanese box arts better sell the whole "it's just the characters striking cool poses" idea.
>>10866270I know MM7 came later, but there's that theory that RT-55J is related to Auto (RT...Rightot?). Who knows what they were thinking, as far as I know it's the only miniboss that guards a capsule and that can have implications.
>>10866557And then the CD-based port of X3 shows Auto just chilling in his own apartment in the catfish's stage intro.
>>10866595Why does this look so fucking good despite being generic
>>10865864Sigma looks pretty inviting and friendly
>>10866635because its badass
that guy is so freakin' hot
>>10866568
This wins.
>>10866557It seems RT-55J, Auto and the intro stage boss from X2 were all based on the porky figure of Yoshihisa Tsuda, an ex-Capcom employee, who worked on X2 as graphic artist and 7 as director. The X2 staff "lovingly" refer to the X2 intro boss as "Tsudarobo".
>>10865793>>10865864>>10865869these are absolute dogshit
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>>10865793>look at boxart >wow, this game looks cool as fuck >buy it, run to your home excited to play it >it's some pixelated shit on a black background with not a single thing recognizable from boxart NES games were especially guilty of this.
>>10865793I wonder, were the colors and green jewel on X's armor there due to the popularity of Gundam Wing?
does anyone have as good a track record as susumu?
>>10865793I always liked the Sonic CD NA artwork. I think it was one of Greg Martin's better Sonic covers.
>>10865864This was also the art for the player's guide, which I had.
japan always wins in cover art.there is no argument about it,even the most awfull game looked cool with japanese cover.
>>10869847they goofed with castlevania 3's box art despite it being the better version of the game. 4's isn't as good either but it's at least okay and doesn't have goofy faces for no reason.
>37 replies thus far>not one mention of pic relatedFor shame /vr
>>10870598You're not funny.
not the greatest game but this box goes hard af
>>10871809also Butage. this pig goes so hard
I really like stuff like this that blends the in-game pixel art with a cool hand drawn background.Anyone have some other box arts like this?
Zero mission fucks.
>>10872395I used to think the cartridge art for this game was so cool when I was younger
>>10870598Came to post this.
>>10872395This one's great
>>10869847this is a troll
>>10870540I never owned a Master System, but I had one in my possession for a while, with a pretty sizable stack of games for it. Along with Zillion and Zillion 2. That Zillion box art is one of my favorites, for just how vague it is. Zillion is some sort of multi-media collab Sega did, where there was also an anime series in Japan. I have only ever seen clips of it online. The show looked neat. But I never got into it. I did like the game with its hacking element. I never really played much of the sequel. But that box art...
>>10872540https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZ8vPWGuxc&gl=JP
>>10870540I have a fondness for minimalist boxart
>>10865793Boris Vallejo.
>>10875156>American """"""humor"""""""
