What happened?

[Anonymous No.8625332]

Lol

[Anonymous No.8625365]

american art style

[Anonymous No.8625368]

>>8625332
The cover artist for the box art of Megaman 1 had never played the game WHATSOEVER!

[Anonymous No.8625383]

>>8625332
Don't know what's the story behind first box art but for MM2, artist actually had no idea what is the game looks like and only received some vague description ("a game about blue man, he's mega and fighting robots with gun in his hand", I presume). He was kinda embarassed to see the actual gameplay and realizes it have a very little in common with his work, decades later.

I guess that was common for the industry in 90's. They hire some artist and tell him to "draw cool shit so we can sell this game" and he have like one screenshot or text description for reference. They did what they could.

[Anonymous No.8625390]

>>8625383
>dr light commanding crash man to attack
never trusted that fucker

[Anonymous No.8625397]

most 1980s games are nothing like the box

[Anonymous No.8625432]

>>8625332
This boxart is so bad it didn't get mentioned a single time in the Complete Works book.

[Anonymous No.8625559]

>>8625432
"bad box art mega man" is playable in one of capcom's fighters

[Anonymous No.8625568]

>>8625383
You know the tiger lcd game, which I had, actually had megaman using a pistol like the box art. I think the guy at tiger didn't know what the fuck the game was either and just saw the box art, it was hilarious.

[Anonymous No.8625583]

>>8625332
The worst thing is they could have sold the game for like 50c less a copy f they'd just reused the Japanese art and not paid for new art. With 35 years of inflation, that amounts to a lot of cash.

[Anonymous No.8625591]

>>8625432
>This boxart is so bad it didn't get mentioned a single time in the Complete Works book.

Why would it? It was by Rock Man and Rock Man X officail artists. They wouldn't comment on art that wasn't theres.

[Anonymous No.8625737]

>>8625591
They mention the other US covers in the book to demonstrate regional differences. The only one left out was mm1.

[Anonymous No.8625746]

>>8625737
They also showed European covers, including the one for mm1.

[Anonymous No.8625763]

>>8625746
Such a sick cover.

[Anonymous No.8625818]

>>8625583
back then publishers had an obsession with the idea that Americans would get filtered by manga artwork so they couldn't use it. also imagine how much money could have been saved by retaining the original Famicom design instead of that retarded gray brick and its jiggly cartridge slot.

[Anonymous No.8625834]

>>8625818
The Famicom was probably too cutesy for American sense of aesthetics and they probably had to redo it to comply with FCC regulations.

[Anonymous No.8625841]

>>8625834
>>8625818
they gave you detachable controllers and composite output which was at least worth something

[Anonymous No.8625930]

>>8625834
>Famicom
>cutesy
The Famicom is ugly as fuck desu. But they real reason Nintendo changed it for the American market is because they didn't want it to look anything like a game console. Hence the weird front-loading design. They both aesthetically pale in comparison to the Twin Famicom however.

[Anonymous No.8625965]

>>8625930
I like the way the famicom looks, personally. I even prefer the AV famicom to the sharp twin famicom. I like small consoles.

[Anonymous No.8625986]

>>8625763
That picture just NEEDS him to have an obvious and large erection.

[Anonymous No.8626014]

>>8625930
>The Famicom is ugly as fuck

Says the guy with a blocky grey VHS recorder instead of console and cartrtidges about as big as his mom's ass.

[Anonymous No.8626030]

>>8625763
>soiface Mega
Can't get any more metrosexual Euro.

[Anonymous No.8626035]

>>8626014
>blocky grey VHS recorder
>cartrtidges about as big as his mom's ass.
*brazilian fútbol announcer voice* SOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[Anonymous No.8626041]

>>8625841
Would have been more useful to actually be able to use external cartridge audio.

[Anonymous No.8626130]

>>8625986
>>8626030
why are you both so gay

[Anonymous No.8626370]

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see this?

[Anonymous No.8626407]

>>8625383
The worst thing about it is the actual quality of the art. Up to a point, I'll defend the composition. It's got some interesting things going on with the castle and the palm trees in the backfround. Character inaccuracies are whatever. That's how things were at the time.
The fact that it looks like a teenager drew it is why it's so embarrassing. The off-center helmet. The legs that seem to be bending the wrong way. The weird squat chicken pose that Megaman is doing.

[Anonymous No.8626409]

>>8626370
Heihachi Mishima looks into multiverse and is horrified by bizarre image of Robot Master Council.

[Anonymous No.8626424]

>>8625763
That's a legitimately cool piece of art. Kind of want a poster of this for my wall.

[Anonymous No.8626441]

>>8626370
>Dad discover's son's anime figurine collection

[Anonymous No.8626456]

They really ought to give Megaman a fully chrome suit in one of the never games, now that graphics allow for it. You could even have Chrome Man as a boss.

[Anonymous No.8626526]

>>8625383
What intrigues me is that the thing behind Dr. Light and Crashman looks like a reference to Bombman's stage, and the area where Megaman and Quickman are standing at looks vaguely like Fireman's stage, so you'd think he actually got a look at least one of the games.

[Anonymous No.8626625]

>>8626526
It's also intriguing how an otherwise competent artist can make a mistake as basic as putting a hand on the wrong way, or whatever is going on with that broken leg.

[Anonymous No.8626631]

>>8625568
>yfw this is canonically between Megaman and Megaman 3 on PC

[Anonymous No.8626636]

>>8625332
>>8625368
>What happened
Since nobody has actually explained… the artist got the description for the commission over the phone and finished in an evening. Outside of his suit being yellow and having a squirt gun, it actually isn’t too far removed.

[Anonymous No.8626637]

I bet what probably happened is Megaman was facing away from the camera like this in the initial draft, and the artist was asked to change it so you could see his face, and he hastily made the right arm into a left arm.

[Anonymous No.8626651]

>>8626625
The hand isn't on the wrong way. You're mistaking his thumb for his trigger finger.

[Anonymous No.8626654]

>>8626651
Maybe, but then the handle of the gun just disappears into his hand.

[Anonymous No.8626669]

>>8626370
Holy shit just pick an art style.

[Anonymous No.8627004]

>>8626130
>s-soifaces are straight, bigot. My wife's boyfriend's son learned that from TikTok video I showed him.

[Anonymous No.8627036]

>>8625763
Agreed

[Anonymous No.8628660]

>>8625930
>The Famicom is ugly as fuck desu
You're the kinda guy who buys old issues of Nintendo Power and insists that Mario is from Brooklyn?

[Anonymous No.8628665]

>>8626370
Hes fucking rush up the ass with his mega dick. Do I win?

[Anonymous No.8628669]

>>8625332
>>8625383
I actually really hate the name "Megaman", partly because it breaks the entire musical theme of the series, but also because it's really an artifact of this disaster of an era of localization. I refuse to call the series anything but Rockman.

[Anonymous No.8628857]

>>8625818
The only country then who wouldn't have been filtered by manga artwork would have been France. They even commissioned some animation from Japan in the early 80s.

[Anonymous No.8628930]

>>8625383
the fuck is wrong with his left hand