look I contribute:
Final Zone II
Oh my shit. Talk about the utter encapsulation of what sucked about the TG-16. I know I said that about the Valis game with the tranny barbarian on the cover, but...here it is again. I also have vague memories of this game having the worst dub of all time.
Since I'm not one of those age of post-irony hipster douchebags that can only appreciate something if its a complete failure, I have no admiration, respect, desire, nostalgia whatever for US Final Zone II. Its just plain sucks.
Oh, the man hours that went into making this and other TG-16 titles suck more...what sort of internal denial issues these hacks must have had to develop in order to sleep at night? I mean, US Cosmic Fantasy II. That one is especially baffling because the IIRC the CD art is original Japanese and looks pretty good. The actual cover they used for the outside though is vomit inducing. One theory that has been posited before is that US publishers might not have had access to original art. In the case of CF2 though its obvious that they did, and for some reason paid money (obviously not a lot) to make a garbage cover.
Maybe there is some 80s era NEC style document that says, "When designing covers for TG-16™ games, please refrain from any obviously "manga-influenced" art, as it might not play well in Oklahoma or South Dakota, where it might be interpreted as "some ching chong kong bullshit". Its has to be racism/xenophobia or fear of racism/xenophobia because you have to be aesthetically retarded to the max to prefer some of these US covers.
