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US box art

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:29 pm
by Marc
Here's the supposed US box art passed around in '96. Some people say they saw it in EB catalogues, etc., but man is that ugly.

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:01 am
by Modnar
Wow, thats pretty shitty...

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:43 am
by Henry Spencer
They are known for changing the box art at the last minute though. So who knows? That may have merely just been used temporarily. Still fugly though.

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 12:55 pm
by Marc
Notice it has the Sega approval seal on it although it probably wasn't even finished yet. This appeared around E3, and the game wasn't due until the end of that year. Maybe it was just a mock-up, then, but was it common to put the console company's seal on mock-ups so early?

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:02 pm
by 87th
The fact that nothing overlaps suggests that the image wasn't professionally created. Some game shops will create their own boxart from promotional art to illustrate the game in catalogues and websites. I'd imagine the art didn't have much to do with Konami.

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:26 pm
by Marc
Yeah, that is indeed a possibility.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:41 pm
by Junker_05
But still, that's some piss-poor cover art.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:02 pm
by OtakupunkX
[hops on the hate bandwagon]