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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #165 on: April 15, 2012, 03:52:25 AM »
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #166 on: April 21, 2012, 04:17:48 AM »
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #167 on: April 22, 2012, 08:31:38 AM »
SuperPlay, have you determined if you are missing any US scans?  If so, shoot me a PM and I will get them for you.  I know you're still working on what you have, and I can't remember what I sent you.  LOL
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #168 on: April 23, 2012, 08:11:07 AM »
Thanks henrycsc

Once I have uploaded the remainder that I have left I will drop you a PM with the ones that I am short of.


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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #169 on: April 28, 2012, 08:11:28 AM »
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #170 on: April 28, 2012, 08:25:19 AM »
Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #171 on: April 28, 2012, 12:11:46 PM »
Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?
Believe me, you are not alone. Far, faaaaaar from it!
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Adding PCE console specific layer on top of that, makes for an interesting challenge (no, not a reference to Ys II).

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #172 on: April 28, 2012, 02:48:31 PM »
Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?
Believe me, you are not alone. Far, faaaaaar from it!

Heh-heh! I pulled out my copy to refresh my memory and yeah, at first glance, up close, it does kinda look like a dude with a wig... I think as a teen, when I bought it, my impression was just an ugly, tough chick, but I didn't look too carefully or ever give it a second thought after that.

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #173 on: April 28, 2012, 03:04:47 PM »
She makes Xena Warrior Princess look like Barbie. Upon examining the cover with a magnify glass, there appear to be whiskers growing off her chin.

<<insert Photoshop'd image here, preferably using the magnify glass graphic from Darkwing Duck>>
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Adding PCE console specific layer on top of that, makes for an interesting challenge (no, not a reference to Ys II).

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #174 on: April 29, 2012, 07:13:50 AM »
Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?
Believe me, you are not alone. Far, faaaaaar from it!

I don't understand why they feel the need to do this when A) It looks nothing like the character, B) the game has extensive cutscenes where the character appears exactly like she does on the original box art, thusly making their whole re-design seem futile and utterly pointless and C) they have stills of the game on front of the box anyway !

She makes Xena Warrior Princess look like Barbie. Upon examining the cover with a magnify glass, there appear to be whiskers growing off her chin.

<<insert Photoshop'd image here, preferably using the magnify glass graphic from Darkwing Duck>>

That would indeed be awesome :P

Also Lucy Lawless was pretty hot back in the day.

Honestly, I still don't get it. Were there licensing issues with the original covert art, or were the people in charge just horribly anti-Japanese ? I mean there's one thing if you have say an 8 bit title on the NES, (and even that was capable of some form of cutscenes but whatever), then you can redesign the character on the boss if you like but if the game itself has lengthy cutscenes portraying the character exactly like they were on the cover originaly, then I ask you WHAT IS THE POINT ?
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #175 on: April 29, 2012, 08:24:18 AM »
Anyone else think that whatever it is on the US cover of Valis III, it kinda looks like a man ?
Believe me, you are not alone. Far, faaaaaar from it!

I don't understand why they feel the need to do this when A) It looks nothing like the character, B) the game has extensive cutscenes where the character appears exactly like she does on the original box art, thusly making their whole re-design seem futile and utterly pointless and C) they have stills of the game on front of the box anyway !

Yeah, I know what you mean. Your observations are not new. We've been wondering this for 25+ years, probably since Megaman 1, come to think of it "Why make something horrible that has nothing to do with the game when something great and topical already exists?" There are many answers and excuses and explanations, but honestly I think its just ad men getting out of control. I call this overbearing influence on cover designs by marketing and advertising people the "Mobile Light Force".

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #176 on: April 29, 2012, 02:16:04 PM »
I like Victor Ireland's explanation in that recent interview posted in another thread: the marketing people were not gamers!
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Adding PCE console specific layer on top of that, makes for an interesting challenge (no, not a reference to Ys II).

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #177 on: May 07, 2012, 03:34:54 PM »
...And nothing moved games into teenage boys hands like drag queens with Sandra Bullock hair and armor.

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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #178 on: May 19, 2012, 03:57:36 AM »
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Re: Cover Art PCE vs Turbo Grafx
« Reply #179 on: January 17, 2013, 07:22:41 AM »
This thread is awesome.  I'm posting in it not only to bump it, but so that I can find it later.
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