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Konami's boxart game was really heads and shoulders above the rest, wasn't it?
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I absolutely love the cohesive NES box art designs from Konami. Recently made a little personal art project based off a favorite:
12" x 18" on brushed metal, the shine looks so good on the eyes and teeth!
great game. great cover
The 16-bit ones are some of the few cases where the US art is superior to the Japanese art.
Not completely and little by little they are stating to make more console games. Most of it stays in Japan but they are still here. Hopefully one day they will revive the series we care about.
As for the second part of your question apparently they are switching to UE4 for PES instead of the engine from MGS V.
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Well, not completely. They still make some stuff like the new Bomberman games, Contra Rogue Corps and that Momotaro game that became a huge hit in Japan. This year's PES was just an update to PES 2020 iirc tho.
Damn, might be an unpopular opinion but something about this cover art always stood out to me and really drew me in for some reason!
Totally!
Shitty cover aside. They did have some nice ones.
I absolutely love the cohesive NES box art designs from Konami. Recently made a little personal art project based off a favorite:
12" x 18" on brushed metal, the shine looks so good on the eyes and teeth!
OK yeah this is hot. How can I get one
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This being the only game in Konami's Best lineup only makes it funnier. What were they thinking.
Art so nice it's got Konamitwicethrice!
I had no idea this awesome feature exists.
Thanks so much for posting!
Even their sports games had sass.
PES3 had the sheer audacity to put the referee on the cover. The fucking referee!! Has that ever happened before or since?
In fairness, that's about the only one; the majority of PES covers (even to this day) are downright ugly.
I suspect this is a Hideo Kojima thing, as he's done the exact same with Phantom Pain and Death Stranding.
I honestly hate it, and I can't help thinking that it'll age even worse, being an extreme closeup of a 3D character render.
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You know, thinking on it the SH2 EU cover art is really amazing.
Laura is the only one not lost in darkness. The other characters are all on that boxart.
I absolutely love the cohesive NES box art designs from Konami. Recently made a little personal art project based off a favorite:
12" x 18" on brushed metal, the shine looks so good on the eyes and teeth!
Yooooo! That's pretty sick! Was that sublimated? or Screen printed?
I played this game, but don't remember this amazing box art. It seems some Iranian video game sellers changed this box art with a player for better sales! lolEven their sports games had sass.
PES3 had the sheer audacity to put the referee on the cover. The fucking referee!! Has that ever happened before or since?
My earliest memory of video games is the cartridge of The Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
Drastically different art style aside, it shows you exactly what to expect from the game, even though you wouldn't believe it until you saw it in-game.
That's one of my favourite boxarts ever. I remember the first time I saw it was in a double-page spread in EGM around '91 I think. I ended up importing the game with one of those HoneyBee NTSC>PAL converters because it was never officially released in Australia.
That might have been a regional thing? I know for PES 6 the European(UK?) version had John Terry and Adriano on the cover, but the Australian version had the photo of John Aloisi after he'd just scored the penalty against Uruguay to get us to the 2006 World Cup. So good.
My earliest memory of video games is the cartridge of The Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
Drastically different art style aside, it shows you exactly what to expect from the game, even though you wouldn't believe it until you saw it in-game.
The memories. <3
Tom duBois is a treasure.
I just noticed that the fucking rifle was removed from the PAL Misson Impossible cover. LOL!
Wow... never stood out to me as a kid how dumb that looks.
I just noticed that the fucking rifle was removed from the PAL Misson Impossible cover. LOL!
Wow... never stood out to me as a kid how dumb that looks.
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I thought that at first, but it seems the game had only one box art!
Even their sports games had sass.
PES3 had the sheer audacity to put the referee on the cover. The fucking referee!! Has that ever happened before or since?
Don't think so. But there wasn't a referee like Pierluigi Collina before or since either, so it checks out. Great cover.
This is the first video game I remember ever getting. It must have just been some last minute thing my dad saw on sale somewhere, cause after I finished opening all my presents, he pulled it out of a closet. Wasn't wrapped or anything. I'm sure everything else I got was stuff I asked for. So, funny the only gift I remember was the unwrapped last second extra.
Gotta throw this gem in there
This deserves a high res embed.
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I agree.Was just confused.RE 4's cover is one of my favorite covers of all time.
Not really. Tom Dubois only did some, he did not do the majority.
Tom Dubois box art artist page| BOX=ART
The history behind US illustrator Tom Dubois' box art/cover arts.
The majority of Konami's iconic high quality Frazetta knockoff art was done in Japan. Castlevania 1, CV2, CV Adventure, Gradius, Salamander Life Force, Metal Gear, Goonies II etc
Typically NOA only called Dubois and others (eg using the European Gryzor art for US Contra) in if they wanted something more edgy because the Japanese art was too cartoony, too 'arty', or wasn't that great, eg Castlevania III/IV, Sunset Riders, Turtles in Time, Goemon. Or if the game wasn't released in Japan, eg Bad n' Rad, Rollergames, Snake's Revenge, Laser Invasion etc.
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Totally. We've seen some parodies of bad box art (hello Mega Man), but I'd like to see callbacks to this style of cover art for modern releases.
